Sentences with phrase «safe climate scenario»

The research underlying that concept showed that the carbon embedded in proven fossil fuel reserves on the books of fossil fuel companies is many times greater than what climate scientists have determined the atmosphere can withstand in a safe climate scenario.

«The World Bank itself has laid out a stark picture of what a world with four degrees of warming looks like, yet it continues to pump billions into projects exploring for new fossil fuel resources that must not be burned in any reasonably safe climate scenario,» said Elizabeth Bast, Managing Director of Oil Change International and co-author of today's analysis.

This is also clear in Figure 2 below (from The Sky's Limit), which shows a good deal of carbon in already - producing reserves that we can't afford to extract and burn in safer climate scenarios.

Not exact matches

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean, the arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.

However, not all of these future scenarios are compatible with a safe climate.

The starting point for applying such a test should be assessing what America's energy landscape would look like in a climate «safe» scenario.

If you get beyond the hard core of near religious believers in the massive warming scenarios, the average global warming supporter would answer this paper by saying: «Yes there is a lot of uncertainty, but though the doomsday warming scenarios via runaway positive feedback in the climate can't be proven, they are so bad that we need to cut back on CO2 production just to be on the safe side.»