Sentences with phrase «under a global warming of»

For DJF (figure 4a), the spatial extent of the maximum and minimum areas projected to experience the highest climate changes under a global warming of 4 °C is very different, highlighting the uncertainty that mostly originates from the different temperature changes projected by the models.

Not exact matches

The United States, under former President Barack Obama, had pledged as part of the Paris accord to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025 to help slow global warming.

Under current policies, the IEA puts the chances of holding global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees — the threshold at which global warming tips us into the danger zone — at a scant 2 percent.

Under pressure from a dissident group of Fellows, the Royal Society moved to meaningfully moderate its former radically alarmist position on global warming.

Under this sort of rule, environmentalist groups would have to accept global warming deniers as members / officers, and African - American groups would have to accept neo-nazis, etc..

Earlier this year, a group of leading evangelicals released a proclamation of sorts, saying global warming is real, is caused by humans and needs to be brought under control.

When civil liberties are under attack, global warming remains one of the great issues of our age, Heathrow is a battle about to get louder, migrants need defenders and Cameron restraints to stop him repeating the mistake of Libya by bombing in Syria after the slaughter on Syria's sunbeds, this could be a Lib Dem moment.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The gap between what has been emitted and what can be emitted to give global warming a chance of remaining under 2 degrees C widens by another gigaton of CO2

The very well - being of the northern food chain is coming under threat from global warming, land development, and industrial pollutants in the marine environment.

It has been suggested that climate engineering could be used to postpone cuts to greenhouse gas emissions while still achieving the objectives of limiting global warming to under 2 degrees, as set in the Paris Climate Agreement.

IF YOU have been reading the papers of late, you may be under the impression that global warming isn't proceeding as expected.

Even if those and other nations» promises under the Paris agreement are kept, global temperatures may yet soar well above 2 °C (3.6 °F) compared with pre-industrial times — roughly twice the amount of warming recorded so far.

Under an international program begun in 2000, and that started producing useful global data in 2005, the world's warming and acidifying seas have been invisibly filled with thousands of these bobbing instruments.

Coral reefs can't find a strong purchase in the eastern tropical Pacific thanks to more acidic waters — a potential precursor of what the ocean will be like under global warming

None of this proves that global warming is under way, said the IPCC.

One of the sturdiest pillars of the argument against global warming has crumbled under the weight of some 10 million newly compiled measurements of ocean temperature.

Modelling flood risk in Europe — global warming the biggest influence In the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomes.

It's an attempt to peel back the smothering blanket of global warming by giving people a financial incentive to reduce emissions under an economic concept known as cap and trade.

For example, contrary to their assertion, current conditions in the eastern Pacific are almost the antithesis of projected conditions for most reef systems under global warming and ocean acidification.

The predictable retreat of Arctic sea ice under global warming presents one last opportunity to adopt effective marine management practices before, rather than after, an ocean is opened up to development, says Lisa Speer of NRDC in New York City, who co-authored the workshop report.

Delegates were split over a deal under which rich nations would pay when poor ones suffered the consequences of global warming.

Scientists have long explained that winter and record cold snaps will not disappear as a result of climate change, and that cold spikes may get worse as a result of shifting weather patterns under global warming.

Understanding the response of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to global warming requires quantitative data on ENSO under different climate regimes.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

It can be seen in the following images, captured largely by photographer Gary Braasch and published in his book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World (University of California Press, 2007), which chronicles some of the impacts of climate change around the world:

And global warming is so rapid — as fast as any warming in the past 65 million years — that species already under pressure from habitat loss and overexploitation are at greater risk of extinction.

The news organization, which operates hundreds of bureaus around the world and serves thousands of media outlets, is adding new text to its widely used AP Stylebook under its entry on global warming, said AP spokesman Paul Colford.

Boulder, Colo., USA: Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant methane release from the seafloor, indicating potential for similar destabilization of gas hydrates under modern global warming.

«(2) the carbon dioxide equivalent value for purposes of this Act for any greenhouse gas not listed in the table under paragraph (1) shall be the 100 - year Global Warming Potentials provided in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report.

This is what happens right now under the conditions of global warming.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that global warming has any impact on the temperature of the earth's interior — the earth's core has that well under control.

«Science tells us that we can not say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided,» Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for global affairs and the leader of the American delegation, said in her remarks to the conference.»

While the water under the Antarctic ice is not itself related to global warming, the suprisingly large amount of water, the surprising speed with which it moves, and its effect of «lubricating» the movement of the Antarctic ice, may affect how the ice sheets respond to warming.

Such justification would then most likely center on whether, under the introductory phrase of GATT Article XX, a US carbon duty, emission credit requirement or other regulation on imports is applied on a variable scale that takes account of local conditions in foreign countries, including their own efforts to fight global warming and the level of economic development in developing countries.

pdf file, «The Threat to the Planet: Dark and Bright Sides of Global Warming», available from Dr. James Hansen's web site, as the first file listed under the heading Files of Interest:

Soil respiration under climate warming: differential response of heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration, Global Change Biology, 20: 3229 - 3237.

Plattner, G. - K., F. Joos, T.F. Stocker, and O. Marchal, 2001: Feedback mechanisms and sensitivities of ocean carbon uptake under global warming.

Here's an interesting paper that is referenced in some of the listed publications: Meraner et al. 2013, Robust increase in equilibrium climate sensitivity under global warming, GRL https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01099395/document

Indeed, if one accepts a very liberal risk level of 50 % for mean global warming of 2 °C (the guiderail widely adopted) since the start of the industrial age, then under midrange IPCC climate sensitivity estimates, then we have around 30 years before the risk level is exceeded.

We know there is one because we know these non-linear phenomena are very sensitively dependent on the exact state of the system and so models still widely disagree on how stable or unstable the Gulf stream system will be under global warming in the future.

To avoid the most dangerous consequences of anthropogenic climate change, the Paris Agreement provides a clear and agreed climate mitigation target of stabilizing global surface warming to under 2.0 °C above preindustrial, and preferably closer to 1.5 °C.

The study examines permafrost carbon emissions in various climate models and under different scenarios, finding that the extra boost to warming from thawing permafrost could be 0.2 - 12 % of the change in global mean temperature.

Current studies include the exploration of Arctic deep - sea life under the ice, and the long - term observation of the effects of global warming on polar ecosystems as well as on hypoxic aquatic ecosystems.

«The polar bear was the first species protected under the Endangered Species Act solely because of threats from global warming,» said Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group.

I was under the impression that there exist some members of the «Global Warming camp» who think that the AMO in the 20th century is a stastical construct and not a real physical phenomena.

«These technologies will be critical to keeping global warming under 2 °C, but we need to remain cognizant of their effects on the environment, such as their higher use of metals like steel and copper in manufacturing.

The real Earth - moving experdiences may yet be to come as the whole premisee of global warming iss under threat again.

Net energy gain is going down (it's more energy intensive to pump oil out of deep water than out of a ground - based well under pressure) coupled with peak oil that is either here or near in time, and global warming mandates reducing carbon emissions.

What I'm confused about is that I'm under the assumption that the rate of global warming is increasing at a faster rate but Jones figures indicate they've been pretty even.