Sentences with phrase «unabated greenhouse»

Another recent study projects that with unabated greenhouse gas emissions, oxygen lows will fall below their current range by midcentury.

A recording of a phone conference call July 20, 2015, in which James E. Hansen of Columbia University (and formerly NASA's lead climate scientist) discussed a new discussion paper positing that abrupt sea level rise is a significant prospect with unabated greenhouse gas emissions.

And there's been plenty of fine reporting for decades on the growing risks posed by unabated greenhouse gas emissions.

Updates appended A new analysis of Antarctica's vast ice sheet in a world heated by unabated greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning comes to a stark, if unsurprising, conclusion: Burn it all, lose it all.

But his statements pose a particularly tough challenge for those who embrace his take on the dangers attending an unabated greenhouse - gas buildup but see a fast transition to solar, wind and other renewable energy sources as the solution.

The record - setting temperatures of 2016 have seen a small push from an exceptionally strong El Niño, but they are largely the result of the heat that has built up in the atmosphere over decades of unabated greenhouse gas emissions — as the spiral graphic makes clear.

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It also found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, aircraft fuel capacities and payload weights will need to be reduced on the hottest days for some planes.

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

Global warming due to mankind's greenhouse - gas emissions from burning fossil fuels already affects the Indian monsoon and — if unabated — is expected to do even more so in the future.

Published online August 2 in Science Advances, the simulations show fairly specifically where future heat waves will be most dangerous if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated: densely populated agricultural areas in South Asia, particularly in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

But as long as greenhouse gases continue to build up in the atmosphere unabated, the scales are heavily weighted toward more record heat, ever lower sea ice levels and ever higher seas.

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

Yet despite all the complexities, a firm and ever - growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and if emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with increasingly serious consequences.

The strongest change of 13 to 50 percent is found in a scenario in which greenhouse gases continue to be emitted unabated.

Both had been created by running the NCAR - based Community Earth System Model 15 times, with one assuming that greenhouse gas emissions remain unabated and the other assuming that society reduces emissions.

The new results hinge on greenhouse gas emissions increasing at an unabated pace, «which I hope is not a reasonable presumption,» Howat wrote in an email.

If global greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, said the UN panel, «a nearly ice - free Arctic Ocean in September before mid-century is likely.»

This assumes that greenhouse gas emissions 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.

A fresh analysis of thousands of temperature measurements from deep - diving Argo ocean probes shows (yet again) that Earth is experiencing «unabated planetary warming» when you factor in the vast amount of greenhouse - trapped heat that ends up in the sea.

The research team, using computer simulations, projects that warm records will increasingly dominate should emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated.

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.

Global warming from an unabated buildup of greenhouse gases could drive conditions in the drier direction.

-- 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.

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.

But it's also important to note that some environmental perils, particularly drifting plastic pollution the consequences of an unabated buildup of greenhouse gases, can't be addressed with new lines on a chart.

There are big changes afoot, with more to come should greenhouse gases continue to build unabated in the atmosphere.

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.

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

There has been an intense rush to use Hurricane Sandy as a teachable moment to focus the public (and politicians) on the risks of an unabated buildup of greenhouse gases and resulting global warming.

And of course there's the hard reality that the risks posed by an unabated rise in greenhouse - gas emissions are still mainly somewhere and someday while our attention, as individuals and communities, is mostly on the here and now.

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.

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

As oil flowed unabated from the Gulf of Mexico seabed, Senator John Kerry used a speech today at a green jobs conference in Washington, D.C., to press the case for an energy bill that speeds the country's journey to a post-fossil future and constrains emissions of greenhouse gases.

At the same time, the political turmoil over high energy prices has created a new hurdle facing those — including both presidential candidates — who say they want to blunt the unabated climb in emissions of greenhouse gases with a cap or tax.

By 2100, models project that many regions — including, the Mediterranean, Southwest US and southern Africa — are likely to get drier should greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

Our analysis found that the number of days with KBDI above 600 (a level at which the potential for wildfire is high) would increase significantly between now and 2050 in 10 of the western states if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

To suggest that because near surface temperatures have flattened at or near the highest on record requires «abandoning» a sinking ship is to be grossly underinformed about the full scope and scale of the multiple changes going on and the confidence that anthropogenic climate continues unabated as it will so long as humans continue to increase greenhouse gas concentrations.

We hope to hear a strong message from the President about the potentially disastrous consequences we face if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated and if we fail to prepare for changes that are already underway and projected to intensify.

Yet despite all the complexities, a firm and ever - growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and if emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with increasingly serious consequences.

Greenhouse gases continued to rise unabated, BUT instead of a warming there was a net cooling of the globally averaged land and sea surface temperature anomaly (HadCRUT3).

Many scientists estimate that if greenhouse - gas emissions continue unabated, the average temperature could increase by four degrees Celsius or more by the end of the century — a scenario that might, as Elizabeth Kolbert wrote recently in The New Yorker, «transform the globe into a patchwork of drowned cities, desertifying croplands, and collapsing ecosystems.»

The first scenario assumes greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise unabated through the 21st century.

Though the EPA is correct, thought the details I am unsure, It is very likely that if in the future that is Emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise unabated, and climate changes effects more dramatic, I would not put it past a nation like America taking unilatreal action and even sucombing to using geo - engineering projects.

The record 2014 temperatures underscore the fact that global warming and associated climate changes continue unabated as we continue to raise the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»

In 2006, California passed its groundbreaking climate legislation AB 32, which put in place a target for greenhouse gas reductions and set in motion a cascade of regulations, subsidies, and performance standards that has continued unabated ever since.

The new study found that if humankind's emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated, permafrost in the coldest Arctic areas will experience widespread melting during this century — not centuries hence, as previously thought.

As we continue to emit more heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the warming continues unabated.

The authors recognize that there «remains a range of estimates on the magnitude and regional expression of future change» but state with certainty that «[f] urther climate change is inevitable» and «if emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated, future changes will substantially exceed those that have occurred so far.»

Modeling shows that if emissions of climate - warming greenhouse gases continue unabated, temperatures could rise 4 degrees C above preindustrial levels by the end of the century.