Sentences with phrase «various degrees of warming»

Figure 1 Tipping points associated with various degrees of warming, and probability distribution around estimated warming already committed to (2.4 °C)

Not exact matches

It also eliminates much of the uncertainty surrounding potentially ill effects; whereas various mathematical models may disagree about when and at what concentrations Arctic Ocean sea ice disappears, they all agree that at roughly 3 degrees C of warming, the far north will be ice - free.

Apart from these last concerns, the WAIS is much less worrying than the GIS, because the huge thermal inertia and albedo effect of the EAIS, the antarctic continent itself, and the large amount of antarctic sea ice in the southern winter, all act to reduce the degree of warming for the WAIS (whereas the GIS is the victim of various unfortunate circumstances which amplify warming there).

This lead author famously stated that the various extra degrees of warming bandied about for the coming century are «not predictions, but projections».

The IPCC graph shows that the midpoints of the various models predicted that the world would warm by between about 0.5 degrees Fahrenheit and 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit between 1990 and 2012.

In the area of climate change, the report highlights the findings of its Emissions Gap Report 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenarios.

Mark Lynas's «Six Degrees» is a modern classic, outlining potential effects of various levels of global warming.

The book looks at what science says about the consequences of various levels of climate change, from one degree of warming to the six degrees of the title.