Sentences with phrase «temperature target»

This is a serious problem for tracking progress towards both domestic goals and global temperature targets — and that's at the heart of the matters before us, right?

To put this number into context one can consider how much more CO2 can be released into the atmosphere before the 1.5 °C temperature target is exceeded.

For any given temperature target, there is a finite amount of carbon that can be burned before the chances of staying below that target become minimal.

Meeting an ambitious temperature target will require that countries representing virtually all emissions participate.

They both have no self - consistent fully - integrated plans that incorporate their technologies and stay within temperature targets that will avoid the end - point climate disasters.

My plan, if implemented, will provide the greatest chance of staying near the desired temperature target.

There are a lot of games being played with proposed plans and associated temperature targets, especially when the risk associated with the plans is not stated.

For a given temperature target, conventional mitigation and negative emissions are tightly linked.

Overall, the research «provides another example of why defining «dangerous» climate change in terms of global mean temperature targets does not give the full picture», says

Overall, the research «provides another example of why defining «dangerous» climate change in terms of global mean temperature targets does not give the full picture», says Prof Mat Collins, joint Met Office chair in climate change at the University of Exeter, who wasn't involved in the study.

To achieve long - term emissions reductions consistent with the 2 - degree temperature target in the Paris Agreement, an even faster rate of decarbonization is required.

«I think that arguments over temperature targets are a distraction,» Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution, wrote in an e-mail exchange with The Yale Forum.

If some kind of political change makes governments serious about hitting the 1.5 — 2.0 ËšC temperature targets from the Paris Agreement, it will mean doing everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions, from imposing high carbon prices to mandating the abandonment of especially harmful technologies and practices like burning coal and using exceptionally filthy fuel for international maritime shipping.

Kopp is also a co-author of another study, led by Tufts University researcher Klaus Bittermann and published today in Environmental Research Letters, assessing the sea - level rise benefits of achieving the Paris Agreement's more ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature target rather than its headline 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) target.

What's more, the new BZY cells work best at about 500 °C, the sweet spot temperature targeted by the fuel cell industry.

But in a regime of bottom - up climate policy that still aims to achieve top - down temperature targets, other governments would need to step up and declare that they increase their mitigation pledges — and act accordingly.

(Learn more about that seemingly simple, but very complicated, temperature target here and here.)

A more forgiving temperature target, like those implied by the EU's 20 % and even its 30 % aggregate emissions reduction goal, would not yield such daunting numbers.

They emphasise that it was the Chinese delegate who insisted on tinkering with the 1.5 degrees Celcius temperature target — crucial to the survival of small - island states — until it was largely meaningless.

Drawdown, in response, runs multiple scenarios, with a mid-range run that shows a drawdown of 1,442 gigatons by 2050 — which would be enough, in the all - important terms of the global carbon budget, to hold the Paris temperature targets.

The B2DS falls within the Paris Agreement range of ambition, but does not purport to define a specific temperature target for «well below 2 °C».

A review of whether to adopt this tougher temperature target is expected to conclude at UN climate talks in Bonn this week.

How effective do you think the concept is for communicating the challenge of staying within a particular temperature target — 2C, for example.

To underscore that point, in separate new reports also published Monday, scientists emphasized that the world is running out of time to hit temperature targets that global leaders are currently being debated at the climate talks in Paris.

Nevertheless, increasing political demand to define and justify binding temperature targets, as well as wider societal interest in nonlinear climate changes, makes it timely to review potential tipping elements in the climate system under anthropogenic forcing (5)(Fig. 1).

A domestic temperature target would be absurd.

I think such action is inevitable if we pursue the 2 degree temperature target governments have already adopted.

Here are some of those: Small Island States Demand 1.5 °C Temperature Target Leaders from the Alliance of Small Island States issued a statement, calling upon world leaders to go beyond the conventional global average temperature rise target of 2 °C, instead saying that 1.5 °C ought to be the target.

Concerned about appropriate temperature targets to avoid the impending climate Apocalypse; well, we'll just post an article by Knopf stating «many of these issues can not be answered solely by science, such as the question of a temperature level that avoids dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system».

Seed topics: The genealogy of climate models, how to compare different greenhouse gases, whether a 2 deg C temperature target makes sense (Stoat has already weighed in), or reflections on the Nenana Ice classic (which has just concluded for this year).

«There is a strong incentive to stick to that lower temperature target.»

By way of context, it then compares this 350 pathway to an emission pathway consistent with a 2 °C temperature target, and to other, supposedly 2 °C - compliant pathways that have significantly lower odds of actually satisfying their target.

They see a complete bitumen sands phase out by 2030 as necessary to meet the targets, alongside major action in sectors like energy generation, and emphasize how meeting the more ambitious temperature targets of the Paris Agreement would require much more aggressive action.

So long as the focus of negotiations was long - term temperature targets, the disconnect between what anyone was actually doing and what they were saying about long - term emissions was easily overlooked.

By way of context, it then compares this 350 pathway to an emission pathway consistent with a 2C temperature target, and to other, supposedly 2C - compliant pathways that have significantly lower odds of actually satisfying their target.

The massive reforestation is not a nice - to - have; it is the major difference between what he proposes and Kevin Anderson proposes (along with the different temperature targets), and is a must - have if he wants to keep the demand reduction below ten percent.

Thus, the allowed emissions for a given temperature target are uncertain (see Figure 12.45)(Matthews et al., 2009; Zickfeld et al., 2009; Knutti and Plattner, 2012).

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

«Global temperature targets will be missed within decades unless carbon emissions reversed.»

«What has to be done over the next 20 to 30 years or so does not change even if one relaxes the temperature target,» Edenhofer said.