Sentences with phrase «unabated climate»

[10] While many companies appear to believe that climate targets will not be met, we are unaware of any company (save Statoil) that endeavors to incorporate the physical and economic impacts of largely unabated climate change on the macroeconomic forecasts that drive their modeling, though that flows, ipso facto, from the suggestion that the world is likely to use far more fossil fuels than could safely be combusted whilst still achieving those targets.

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (2006) estimates that the international costs of unabated climate change is already at least five percent of global per capita GDP and will continue at this rate into the future, with estimates rising to 20 percent of GDP or more when accounting for a wider range of impacts.

«Unabated climate change will make it much harder to eradicate poverty and beyond a certain threshold will make it impossible,» said John Ashton of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office.

, he already reproduces the most sticky frames: that unabated climate change is a huge (even catastrophic) problem; that political approaches to resolving the challenge have largely failed (and can not now be expected to work); and that novel technological responses are the most likely possibilities now — as ways to ameliorate climate impacts without deep changes in society.

Such temperatures will be more frequent under unabated climate change and can severely harm agricultural productivity.

As the slightest of albedo changes can have quite a temperature impact, how do all these agricultural changes — either under unabated climate change or in a stratospheric SRM world — in turn affect the atmosphere?

The study concludes SRM geoengineering is unlikely to negatively impact agricultural food productivity, especially since it compensates part of the damaging effects of unabated climate change to this food production.

For unabated climate change, we find that land that is home to more than 20 million people is implicated and is widely distributed among different states and coasts.

For example, if unabated climate change results in a famine in Kenya, or the Maldives is lost to rising sea levels, the loss of life and culture won't have much impact on the global economy, but I think we can all agree that there is a significant non-economic loss associated with these types of events.

It's not even about the Amazon specifically, but rather the entire world, titled «Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change», but it's this study that led to headlines, shortly before the big UN climate conference in Copenhagen that same year, of how unabated climate change could wipe out most of the world's largest remaining rainforest.

«Unabated climate change will probably further weaken summer circulation patterns which could thus aggravate the risk of heat waves,» says co-author Jascha Lehmann «Remarkably, climate simulations for the next decades, the CMIP5, show the same link that we found in observations.

A.G. Schneiderman: New Yorkers Have Experienced First - Hand The Devastation That Will Only Worsen With Unabated Climate Change — We Deserve Better

The U.S. economy faces significant risks from unabated climate change.

Not exact matches

Check out below which tech companies could have their offices flooded if climate change continues unabated.

As the world negotiates in Durban, climate change continues unabated — and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise

Left unabated, they can be expected to contribute very significantly to climate change in the next decades.

Future projections for the same cities are drawn from climate models that estimate temperature and humidity assuming global greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

The climate scientists calculated various scenarios with the models, including a very high - warming scenario in which no measures were taken to reduce CO2 emissions, so that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere rise unabated to 2100.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unClimate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unclimate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unabated.

But they believe that the UK «is bucking these positive trends» and they call on the government to phase out unabated use of coal by 2023 to «improve air quality, protect the health of our population, and reclaim the UK's leadership position in tackling climate change.»

For example, under the «business - as - usual» climate scenario (called RCP8.5 by the UN IPCC, which assumes that emissions continue to grow unabated), there is a 50 per cent chance that local sea - level rise will exceed 22 centimeters at Oslo.

The WMO also says long - term signs of climate change, such as growing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification, continue unabated.

Projections based on 29 climate models suggest that the number of high wildfire potential days each year could increase by nearly 50 percent by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

The red and blue future scenarios correspond (to good approximation) to the two climate scenarios on which we surveyed the experts: blue a scenario with effective climate mitigation, red a scenario with a further unabated growth of emissions into the 22nd Century.

The study, «Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006,» was published today in Nature Climate Change.

-- An unabated rise in concentrations of greenhouse gases boosts chances of disruptive shifts in climate and other systems that matter to people and other species.

So it's utterly unremarkable to find 49 people, including astronauts and engineers, who would publicly reject James Hansen's view of the dangers posed by unabated emissions of carbon dioxide, or the Obama administration's approach to the space agency's research programs, news releases and other forms of public output on climate, which is markedly different than that of the last Bush administration.

But centuries of rising temperatures and seas lie ahead if the untrammeled burning of fossil fuels and deforestation continue unabated, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two - hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of climate science pointing to dangers from the unabated release of greenhouse gases.

So far, global warming / climate change has been relatively benign for many people (while anything but benign for others), but keep in mind that it is not yet as warm as it will be based on only the increase in CO2 so far, never mind that the increase continues unabated.

The U.N. report gets two things right: 1) there is a risk of serious damages from climate change if left unabated for a century and 2) poor countries in the low latitudes are likely to bear the greatest share of that risk.

Pierrehumbert's prime concern (there are plenty more, all legitimate) is that any sun - blocking intervention done at climate scale would have to continue unabated for millenniums, or until CO2 removal was in high gear — or risk climatic whiplash if veils of reflective materials dissipated.

But many climate scientists, seeing unabated emissions, say exploration of such options is a must, at least as a backstop strategy if things really get out of control.

As the tit - for - tat attacks from the tail ends of the spectrum on climate change continue unabated, what was once presumed influence on the part of these scientists will likely become real influence on public opinion and political decision - making, and these scientists will be partly responsible.

Now a suite of simulations, run by an international team of ocean and climate scientists, shows this is a likely outcome should the flow remain unabated this summer.

Now he has just co-authored two related articles on scientific uncertainty and climate change — «Part I. Uncertainty and unabated emissions» and «Part II.

The «Feynman» type of «physics» is telling us that it hasn't warmed in 15 years, despite unabated human GHG emissions, suggesting that maybe those GHGs really aren't the «climate control knob» that the models using the «agenda driven physics» were predicting.

The polls indicate that the fraction of informed opinion in climate science that believes that climate is warming; that humans are contributing; that unabated the warming is dangerous is much closer to 1 than to 0.5.

They have survived previous Arctic warming periods, including the last warm stretch between ice ages some 130,000 years ago, but some climate experts project that nothing in the species» history is likely to match the pace and extent of warming and ice retreats projected in this century and beyond, should emissions of heat - trapping gases continue unabated.

The number of days above 95 °F (35 °C) will rise dramatically in many parts of the United States if climate change continues unabated

«If human - driven climate change continues unabated, the last ice areas will ultimately disappear, and the remaining wild bears with them,» he says.

The previous Real Climate post has a nauseatingly smug description of how there is no pause — warming continues unabated since 1998!

Ocean warming: «Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface temperature records» «Tracking ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus» «A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change» «Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006»

Further climate change is expected to intensify these effects on North Sea plankton, cod, and marine ecosystems.7 By 2100, scientists estimate that average world sea surface temperatures could rise as much as 5.4 ° F (3 ° C) if our heat - trapping emissions continue unabated.13, 14

The paper says a warming of 5ºC − likely to happen in the next century if climate change goes on unabated − would put nearly all terrestrial natural ecosystems at risk of severe change.

For example, many have claimed that, at some point in the future, deploying geoengineering might be better than allowing emissions - driven climate change to occur unabated — perhaps because geoengineering could avert some climate emergency — and so geoengineering techniques should be researched now in order to be ready for that possible scenario.

I believe the key question is, «how many years does it have to last despite unabated human GHG emissions in order to falsify the IPCC model - base climate sensitivity (mean 3.2 C) and the IPCC «CAGW» premise as outlined in AR4?»

Worldwide, from 1980 to 2009, floods caused more than 500,000 deaths and affected more than 2.8 billion people.18 In the United States, floods caused 4,586 deaths from 1959 to 200519 while property and crop damage averaged nearly 8 billion dollars per year (in 2011 dollars) over 1981 through 2011.17 The risks from future floods are significant, given expanded development in coastal areas and floodplains, unabated urbanization, land - use changes, and human - induced climate change.18

To illustrate that the above map of North Africa serves to show a dramatic trend under continued (unabated) climate change — but that perhaps we shouldn't focus too much on the numbers in it.

How many years of «no warming» despite unabated CO2 emissions would it take to falsify the 3.2 degC climate sensitivity (and, hence, the CAGW premise of IPCC)?