Sentences with phrase «unabated greenhouse gas emissions scenarios»
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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.»
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Researchers for the first time have calculated the highest tolerable «wet - bulb» temperature and found that this temperature could be exceeded for the first time in human history in future climate scenarios if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.