Sentences with phrase «unabated emissions»

Why does «same as it ever was» keep coming to mind when examining the responses of America's elected «leaders» to durable challenges — whether confronting deficits and the debt, the glaring lack of alternatives to oil and the risks posed by unabated emissions of greenhouse gases.

This choice, they say, is the sea level rise «locked in» by the two warming scenarios: the target of two degrees Celsius vs. the sea level rise associated with unabated emissions and four degrees warming by the end of the century.

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.

As the science blogger James Hrynyshyn put it last year (responding to a similar Wall Street Journal piece), there's little merit in the argument that scientific disagreement (a normal part of the scientific process) undermines the basic findings pointing to substantial risks from unabated emissions of greenhouse gases.

(One un-submitted version of the paper that circulated early last week had a section saying unabated emissions of greenhouse gases «will make multi-meter sea level rise practically unavoidable and likely to occur this century.»

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.

(A companion piece by Karl Braganza, manager of climate monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology, adds detail on the functioning of greenhouse gases, the lines of evidence relating warming to the buildup of these gases and prospects for future warming with unabated emissions.)

Many efforts to gauge why most Republicans reject or doubt the science pointing to risks from unabated emissions of greenhouse gases are issue - centric.

Only if this is wrong, and the true value is lower, can we escape the fact that unabated emissions of greenhouse gases will lead to the warming projected by the IPCC.

The record does not come as a surprise as it's another marker of the sustained accumulation of heat in the atmosphere thanks to the unabated emissions of greenhouses gases such as carbon dioxide.

Last month, I noted a post in which he described the scientific case posed by the unabated emissions of greenhouse gases.

Unabated emissions of greenhouse gases will guarantee civilization will have no set coastline to develop for centuries, if not millenniums, to come.

Her conclusion is that the risks of unwelcome surprises rise with unabated emissions and warming.

Unabated emissions of greenhouse gases are bound to cause trouble in an era of peak human populations and appetites, so efforts to shift from energy menus dominated by fossil fuels are a very good idea.

With unabated emissions (and not only for the highest scenario), the IPCC estimates that by the year 2300 global sea levels will rise by 1 — 3 meters.

And the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change predicts that unabated emissions will cost the world between five and 20 percent of gross domestic product annually, or between $ 1.5 and $ 6 trillion.

«It's only prudent to acknowledge that the continued, unabated emission of greenhouse gases poses a risk for current and especially future generations.»