Sentences with phrase «still limit warming»

As a result, CO2 emission reduction rates are more severe than other scenarios that would still limit warming to within 2 °C and also include reductions in other gases.

«We can still limit warming to 2C, or even 1.5 C or less even, [but] we need to phase out emissions,» she said.

Not exact matches

That leaves scientists still asking the question — how much is global warming limiting oxygen availability worldwide?

It has been suggested that climate engineering could be used to postpone cuts to greenhouse gas emissions while still achieving the objectives of limiting global warming to under 2 degrees, as set in the Paris Climate Agreement.

It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

«Even if we used a scenario similar to what the Paris accords have agreed upon — so limiting global warming to 2 degrees — we still saw widespread die - off.

A spate of studies has shown over the past year that even if countries honored the pledges they made in the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009, warming would still blow past the agreed limit of two degrees.

«The paper reports that even if humans limit the Earth's warming to 2 degrees C (3.8 degrees F), many marine ecosystems, including coral reefs, are still going to suffer,» Mark Eakin, NOAA Coral Reef Watch coordinator and a study coauthor, said.

Even if world manages to limit global warming to 2 °C — the target number for current climate negotiations — sea levels may still rise at least 6 meters (20 feet) above their current heights, radically reshaping the world's coastline and affecting millions in the process.

Still, if we can't limit global warming to something close to the 2 degree goal of the Paris climate agreement, all bets are off for the Great Barrier Reef's future.

The GT8's Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres are indisputably designed for the warm, dry conditions, but thankfully they are progressive enough that you can still push them to the limit and beyond when water is filling the limited tread, as it was on our test.

It is a wonderfully warm, funny as well as sad glimpse at the life of someone that has very limited communication skills, but is still able to build a very special relationship with a young boy that is both rewarding and challenging, thereby showing we can always overcome our limitations.

Affected dogs can still live fairly normal lives but they may have to have their participation in trigger activities limited, especially in warm weather.

Still juicily painterly and rendered in a limited palette of warm grisaille, Morgan's newest compositions portray not her physical self, but rather a suite of characters — musicians and writers, by and large, from the current to the canonical — who feed her soul and inform her creative practice.

Because unfortunately, most policy makers, and those in the general public who are informed about the problem, are still behaving as though we have decades in which to gradually reduce emissions if we want to limit warming to 2 °C, and that doing so is sufficient to prevent severe impacts.

If the new forecast of a decade of cooler temperatures in North America and Europe pans out, it will pose a substantial challenge to climate campaigners, politicians, and citizens: Can they produce meaningful action to limit the long - term warming that scientists still say is clearly ahead under a building greenhouse blanket even when it's cooling outside?

There has been a bit of excitement and confusion this week about a new paper in Nature Geoscience, claiming that we can still limit global warming to below 1.5 °C above preindustrial temperatures, whilst emitting another ~ 800 Gigatons of carbon dioxide.

Refering to bands where optical thickness is constant over the interval of each band, if the atmospheric LW absorption is limited to some band (that doesn't cover all LW radiation), than increases in OLR in response to surface warming will occur outside that band, so OLR will drop within the band — there will still be some portion of stratospheric or near - TOA cooling that will be transient, but some will remain at full equilibrium.

Escape global warming issue, for limit resource issue, we still should go sustainable economy for our next generations.

If you accept O'Donnell's work, it still sheds very limited light on the question of whether Antarctica is warming.

The water temperature is still extremely warm for this time of year, and the visibility is very limited because of a large amount of biological material (easy to see when you are diving).

Energy giant AGL announced it will close down its coal - fired power stations in 2050 (still too slow but a strong first step from the sector), Shell is stopping drilling for oil in the Artic, and Australia's major banks are also making overarching commitments to limit global warming to 2 ℃.

During periods of limited surface warming like now the OHC still increases if GHG forcing increases.

The amount of carbon emissions we can emit while still having a likely chance of limiting warming to 2 degrees is known as the «carbon budget.»

He said his study showed the 2C target set in Paris was «still just about achievable» but limiting warming to 1.5 C in the long term could only be achieved by «overshooting» and then somehow reducing the temperature using futuristic technology, such as artificial trees which suck CO2 out of the atmosphere.

The climate change limit set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at 1.5 C is near to be being broken as temperatures still continue to soar high causing global warming.

In the last few weeks major reports by the International Energy Agency and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have concluded that we can still meet the UN's target of limiting warming to 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

Countries» new climate plans will substantially bend the global emissions trajectory, but they still don't go far enough to limit warming to 2 degrees C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

AP debunks Obama on climate claims: THE FACTS: «Obama failed to get a global warming bill through Congress when both Houses were controlled by Democrats in 2010» — AP: «With Republicans in control of the House, the chances of a bill to limit the gases blamed for global warming and to create a market for businesses to trade pollution credits are close to zero... And while there are still other ways to address climate change without Congress, it's questionable regulation alone can achieve the reductions needed to start curbing global warming»

Collectively, the studies make it clear that the INDCs will substantially bend the global emissions trajectory below our current path, but still don't go far enough to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

However, the majority of these greenhouse gas reduction targets are still not ambitious enough to align with the global effort to keep warming below 2 °C, the temperature limit scientists say is necessary to prevent some of the most disastrous consequences of climate change.

And yet there is still hope for limiting warming to 2 °C...»

He says that, in terms of climate science research, scientists still need to address the remaining uncertainties in the carbon cycle: where and how fast the carbon released into the atmosphere goes, how much stays in the atmosphere, whether there are limits to some natural sinks for carbon and whether there are important new sources of carbon emissions that may be triggered by warming.

I still wish someone could explain to me how we can be so sure warming within limits won't be beneficial in the main... assuming we even get that.

The International Energy Agency recently estimated that even if you take every nation's current climate pledges seriously, we're still on pace for around 3 °C of warming by 2100 — well above the 2 °C limit that most countries have set as a goal.

Even if it is still geophysically possible to limit warming to 1.5 C, a more important question is whether it is economically, socially and politically feasible?

This is the total amount of CO2 emissions that we can still emit whilst limiting global average warming to 1.5 C.

«The evidence currently available indicates that NH mean temperatures during medieval times (950-1100) were indeed warm in a 2 - kyr context and even warmer in relation to the less sparse but still limited evidence of widespread average cool conditions in the 17th century (Osborn and Briffa, 2006).

It has been argued that a scenario phasing out carbon emissions fast enough to stabilize climate this century, limiting further warming to a maximum of several tenths of a degree Celsius, is still possible, but it would require a rising price on carbon emissions sufficient to spur transition to a clean energy future without burning all fossil fuels (33).

There is, of course, still a yawning gap between current government policies and policies required to limit global warming to about 2 deg C above pre-industrial levels.

At the same time I understand the frustration of Gavin, talking to sceptics all the time and also believers with limited knowledge, but still, nasty talking and arrogance is not doing any good for your cause): «As a former advocate of global warming I must say that your reference to anyone who does not believe as you do as a «crank» offensive to say the least.»

WRI's recent research shows that while 49 countries have peaked their emissions, it is still insufficient to limit warming to 1.5 - 2 degrees C (2.7 - 3.6 degrees F) and prevent the worst effects of climate change.

In its most recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calculated how much carbon we can emit and still keep a decent chance of limiting warming to two degrees above pre-industrial levels.

The upshot of all the latest research, however, is that while limiting warming to 2 degrees is seeming unlikely, and 1.5 degrees nearly impossible, staying within something like 2.5 degrees still seems quite possible if there's concerted action.

Yet we know that the world's «carbon budget» — the amount of CO2 we can still emit if we are to meet the target of limiting warming to 2 degrees — is diminishing every year.