Sentences with phrase «stabilise climate»

Our starting point is to recognise that we won't stabilise the climate until we base global climate policy on a binding, global «emissions budget», which covers all countries and declines over time to keep the world on course for warming of less than two degrees» celsius.

There are good reasons to think that geo - engineering can not stabilise the climate either.

The report — the most comprehensive climate science review ever produced — emphasises how current climate action is dangerously inadequate, and will fail to stabilise climate pollution or avoid the worst climate impacts.

Scientists have calculated that in order to stabilise climate change − not avoid it, but stabilise it − emissions will need to be cut by 60 or 70 %.

Which approach gives the best chance for Australia to contribute to a global agreement that will actually stabilise the climate.

He goes on to cite a paper by climate change denier Bjorn Lomborg that had concluded policies to combat climate change would «do little to stabilise the climate.»

Only strong preventative action now and in the coming years can stabilise the climate and halt the trend of increasing extreme weather for our children and grandchildren.»

So, I guess your next comment will be a statement that, given the success of the models, you now accept them, recognise the reality of AGW and support action to stabilise the climate before it's too late.

The second point to make, perhaps, is that if we want to stabilise climate at any level we need net - zero emissions.

Ian Rutherford, CMOS executive director, told Leahy that «the CMOS membership representing more than 800 public and private scientists» made a public statement that the «scientific evidence dictates that in order to stabilise the climate, global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions need to go far beyond those mandated under this Kyoto Protocol.»

That'll stabilise your climate, no worries.

We look at the consequences of an agreement to stabilise climate change at 2 degrees Celsius; with convergence to equal per capita allocations of emissions by 2030; and to allow global emissions trading.

What particularly interested me was the number of scientists who had been pushed out of CSIRO, or had left of their own volition, after being tightly censored in what they could say about global warming, and the emissions reductions that would be needed to stabilise the climate (the latter point is particularly sensitive since any actual number implies a target and government policy is opposed to targets).

Would plants allow us to still stabilise climate in emergency mode?

«Projecting to the future, to stabilise the climate system at a warming level that is not dangerous does require large cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and soon.

It might be also be argued that almost all geoengineering options — from putting parasols into space, to making clouds or seeding the air with sulphur to shade the Earth — would benefit biodiversity by stabilising the climate.

The study suggests that permafrost is more susceptible to global warming that previously thought, as stabilising the climate at 2ºC above pre-industrial levels would lead to thawing of more than 40 % of today's permafrost areas.

'' Stabilising the climate is like turning around a battleship — it can not be done immediately given its momentum,» its report states.

Energy efficiency is a good thing, reforestation is nice, stabilising the climate / playing God would be wonderful, but seriously, pre-industrial levels?

Not exact matches

How can Australian research and industry work together to help developing regions improve their resilience to an increasingly volatile world (geopolitical instability, warzones, and climate change) by helping them produce more food domestically, stabilising their markets and ultimately creating a new customer base?

What current atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration tells us about the need to stabilise the global climate and the need for a step change in government, city and business action.

As thousands of people from across the UK prepare to march in London this Saturday for jobs, justice and climate as part of a global «Put People First» campaign, PCS and War on Want are drawing attention to the tax gap and the missing billions of pounds which would help to fund public services and stabilise the economy.

The signatories to the convention have agreed to stabilise greenhouse gases at concentrations «that would avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system».

«There must have been regional climate and chemical conditions that varied in time and space,» he says, adding that this would occur as the tilt of Mars's spin axis changed over tens of thousands of years, a wobble caused by the lack of a massive moon to stabilise the planet.

The full effects on the global climate will come later, and even if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere stabilises at double today's levels the International Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC) estimates that by end of the 21st century the global temperature will have increased by between 1.5 °C and 4.5 °C.

Stabilising at 550 ppm would mean ensuring global emissions peak no later than 2025, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

They would need stable, warm climates for complex life to evolve, but without complex life their climates may never stabilise.

What they do know is that the Climate Change Convention will probably not stabilise global emissions and certainly will not halt the growth of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Even if the global community surmounted these barriers of gross inequity, and then shrugged off the albatross of rising populations, stabilising global emissions would not prevent disruption of the climate.

Molecular signatures in ancient rocks show the microorganisms may have existed on Earth around 3.5 billion years ago, producing some of the greenhouse gases needed to stabilise the early Earth's climate.

It has rubber dampers to mitigate vibrations, and climate control to stabilise the temperature.

«Once you are in this very warm climate then you stabilise again,» Popp says.

Those scientists aspiring to stabilise global emissions growth before 2020 to prevent what they believe may be irreversible damage to the climate may be wondering how this can possibly be achieved.

NEWS: Scientists say many glaciers are melting faster than ever − and many will continue to do so even if climate change can be stabilised

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We frequently shared public platforms to advocate for urgent action to stabilise our planet's climate, and for measures to protect vulnerable people from the damage caused by the destruction of the world's priceless environment, in particular its forests.

Thus, the concept of an emissions budget is very useful to get the message across that the amount of CO2 that we can still emit in total (not per year) is limited if we want to stabilise global temperature at a given level, so any delay in reducing emissions can be detrimental — especially if we cross tipping points in the climate system, e.g trigger the complete loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

I have long suspected that efforts to «reconcile», «build bridges» or «stabilise» climate science may be not merely futile, but rather pernicious as well.

I said above that the cost of stabilising GHGs under a particular «no climate policy» scenario IS nil.

But the ACF says the Government announcement of «a target of reducing Australia's emissions by 25 per cent by 2020 in the context of a Copenhagen agreement that has the effect of stabilising emissions at 450ppm or lower» is a «significant step forward on climate change».

Climate Commissioner Will Steffen said an orderly transition had to be made from most fossil fuel use such as coal if the climate was to be stabilised this cClimate Commissioner Will Steffen said an orderly transition had to be made from most fossil fuel use such as coal if the climate was to be stabilised this cclimate was to be stabilised this century.

«The paleoclimate record shouts out to us that, far from being self - stabilising, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts to even small nudges.»

We can't stabilise the U.S. climate without the cooperation of countries throughout the world.

It has as an «ultimate objective» the stabilising of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere «at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human - induced) interference with the climate system.»

As eight millennia of experience and the unfolding disaster of agrofuel clearly demonstrate, expansion of land - conversion by industrial agriculture strongly threatens biodiversity and ecosystems that play an essential role in stabilising and regulating the climate, and are necessary to ensure food and water security.

Plotting a more sustainable course for the international shipping sector Greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping need to stabilise as soon as possible — and decline soon after — to achieve a well below 2 degrees climate goal 3 October 2017

The ultimate goal of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

Mr Porritt highlighted that the bad news about climate change is that we have no chance at stabilising under two degrees Celsius, it is an existential threat to humankind.

The presence of feedback effects and tipping points calls into question some of the most fundamental assumptions of climate change negotiations, including the belief that we can «overshoot» to, say, 550 ppm and then work back to 450 ppm (the path advocated in the Stern and Garnaut reports), that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere can be stabilised at some level, and the belief that we can adapt to some given degree of warming.

The tragedy of the situation, if we do not wake up in time, is that the changes that must be made to stabilise the atmosphere and climate make sense for other reasons.