Sentences with phrase «stabilise global»

They have always been necessary if we wish to stabilise global temperature at any level, he notes.

Even under optimistic assumptions about global carbon abatement, the Earth is expected to warm by 4oC or more by the end of the century, making it hotter than it has been for 15 million years, and crossing several tipping points along the way that will make it impossible to stabilise the global temperature at any level.

So you might expect those same environmentalists to be rather excited by a project that claims to be able to stabilise global temperatures at the push of a button, and keep them stable while the world makes the transition to energy sources of the future.

Indeed, it's almost certain we will exceed 450ppmv before we stabilise global concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and it's virtually certain that this continuing upward trend will be reflected in serious costs to the human comnunities who encounter it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CSIRO scientist Barrie Pittock presented a paper showing that stabilising the global level of carbon dioxide at three times the pre-industrial level will require reducing emissions below half the present level.

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.

Discussion so far has focused on stabilising global CO2 concentrations at 450 ppm by 2050.

That's a necessary but not sufficient condition for stabilising global climate, so I don't agree with your comment.

The huge scientific uncertainty about the cost of inaction has obscured a surprisingly strong economic consensus about the economic cost of stabilising global CO2 concentrations at the levels currently being debated by national governments, that is, in the range 450 - 550 ppm.

The cost of stabilising the global climate is likely to be between 1 and 3 per cent of global income.

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POOR global market conditions for high - quality diamonds has forced the De Beers controlled Central Selling Organisation to cut back sales in an attempt to stabilise the market.

Domestic corporate goods prices, a measure of wholesale and producer prices, have also stabilised in recent months largely due to the run - up in global commodity prices.

Mubasher: Economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is expected to rebound in 2018 on the back of positive global outlook and oil prices stabilising at relatively higher levels, according to the World Bank's recent report entitled...

In its Australian 2018 Beef Cattle Seasonal Outlook, agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank said a combination of increased supply, reduced producer demand and weaker global prices will see domestic cattle prices ease from the highs of 2017 to stabilise at just above five - year averages.

Global food prices fell by 1.4 % in the last month but seem to have stabilised at a relatively high level, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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.

By the time Monday comes around the global markets are in freefall after US and European attempts to stabilise them fail to make any appreciable difference.

This means that even if global emissions were cut by 60 per cent now, which is what it would take to stabilise CO2 levels, we would still hit 1.6 °C of warming.

«Should we overshoot the 1.5 °C limit, we must still aim to bring global temperatures back down and stabilise them at that level or lower.»

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.

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.

Sir Stern speaks of having to spend 1 - 2 % of global GDP in the near term in order to stabilise CO2 levels at whichever point he chose.

That will make it more difficult to stabilise carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere and to reduce the risks of extreme forms of global warming.

Global sea level rose by about 120 m during the several millennia that followed the end of the last ice age (approximately 21,000 years ago), and stabilised between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago.

And second, direct further use of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI)-- but in the opposite hemisphere, so as to partially stabilise impacts on precipitation (while possibly further forcing down global temperature).

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).

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.

This 10 per cent cut, Garnaut said, would represent a fair shake of the sauce bottle from Australia as part of a global effort to stabilise emissions at 550 parts per million in the atmosphere.

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.»

United Nations negotiators struggle to get a global agreement for reducing the world's CO2 emissions, which would stabilise atmospheric CO2 level and keep the temperature rise below 2 °C.

In order for this to be achieved, the global GHG emissions must be stabilised and then reduced.

Circles correspond to years when the warming threshold is first exceeded and squares correspond to years when the global mean temperature has stabilised.

The magazine's editorial policy is unchanged: we want to see aggressive action to reduce carbon emissions, and support global calls for planetary temperatures to be stabilised at under two degrees above pre-industrial levels.

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

After global mean temperatures stabilise, the faster warming in the eastern equatorial Pacific persists.»

«Surprisingly, the frequency of extreme El Niño continues to increase for another century and by at least 40 % after global mean temperature stabilises.»

I think it is unlikely that developing countries will accept emission reductions for Australia of 25 % by 2020 as part of a global agreement that stabilises at 450 ppm.

«Should we overshoot the 1.5 °C limit, we must still aim to bring global temperatures back down and stabilise them at that level or lower.»

It is the «peaking year» for CO2 emissions in one of several categories of scenarios, where CO2 is stabilised at various concentrations or less, thereby stabilising average global temperature at an amount above the «preindustrial average».

How could a new international accord on stabilising greenhouse - gas emissions affect global energy markets?

Geoff Lawton is a much better example of what can be done, both local and global, to produce more food and stabilise local growing conditions, water and carbon retention, and microclimates.

by the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even stabilise the situation.

If radiative forcing were to be stabilised, keeping all the radiative forcing agents constant at B1 or A1B levels in 2100, model experiments show that a further increase in global average temperature of about 0.5 °C would still be expected by 2200.

at RealClimate), with a 2 % to 20 % chance of a temperature increase of 5 degrees centigrade (Meinhausen 2006, cited in the Stern Review, page 9) if global greenhouse - gas concentrations were stabilised at the equivalent of 430ppm CO2.

«On our current path, we will find it extremely difficult to rein in carbon emissions enough to stabilise the atmospheric CO2 concentration at 450 parts per million and even 550 ppm will be a challenge,» says Josep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project.