Sentences with phrase «risk of catastrophic climate change»

And even though models are inherently imprecise, their combined evidence is strong that firm action to control pollution will head off the greatest risks of catastrophic climate change.

Most importantly, a 100 % renewable energy future would see CO2 emissions from the world's energy supply sector reduced by over 80 per cent by 2050 worldwide - providing a high level of confidence that the average global temperature rise will be kept to well below two degrees Celsius, the threshold identified as presenting unacceptable risks of catastrophic climate change.

We don't know much about tipping points, but, as Howarth observes, «'' the world runs a high risk of catastrophic climate change in the period of 15 to 35 years from now.

As humans warm the planet by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, some researchers believe that capturing CO2 and trapping it in buried rocks could lower the risk of catastrophic climate change.

The risk of catastrophic climate change is getting worse, according to a new study from scientists involved with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

2) The second one says these scientists are not convinced by the I.P.C.C. or anything else that building greenhouse gases pose a risk of catastrophic climate change.

If a carbon tax makes sense as a precautionary measure to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change, then we need not go any further in the analysis.

I have a piece in The Economist climate blog, making the point that the risk of catastrophic climate change has been ignored by «lukewarmists» like Bjorn Lomborg and Jim Manzi.

The right insurance policy against the risk of catastrophic climate change involves either a significant tax on carbon or a cap - and - trade system.

This needs to be rational calculation: if the risk of catastrophic climate change is exaggerated, then we are paying too much.

It is likely that the risk of catastrophic climate change is already as much as one in five.