Sentences with phrase «warming mitigation as»
A unprecedented effort to set aside huge swathes of Canada's boreal forest includes — for the first time — global warming mitigation as a key objective
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Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Geoengineering has been proposed as a potential third option for tackling global warming, alongside mitigation and adaptation.
In addition to a business - as - usual scenario, the team ran its simulations under two mitigation scenarios, previously proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in which efforts are made to mitigate global warming to 2 and 3 degrees Celsius, relative to pre-industrial times.
«These results show that the warming signal from strategies that focus only on outdoor water - use reductions can meaningfully offset the cooling effects of a major heat mitigation strategy, such as citywide cool roof deployment,» they write.
One impetus for the study was to investigate how a future warmer climate would affect the demand of water, especially as more cities are seeking out climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.
And since mitigation reduces the rate as well as the magnitude of warming, it also increases the time available for adaptation to a particular level of climate change, potentially by several decades.
As temperatures rise due to global warming, she believes that study findings present health care professionals with an opportunity for targeted interventions and policy makers with the need to develop mitigation strategies to protect those most vulnerable to heat.
As a consequence, mitigation efforts to minimize future greenhouse - gas emissions can successfully restrict future warming to a level that may avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
Yet the authors said today that this 2 °C warming threshold could be crossed as early as 2040 unless significant mitigation measures were taken urgently.
Without significant mitigation, the report says global mean warming could reach as high as 7 degrees Celsius by 2100.
The scheme investigates both renewable and non-renewable resources as well as the causes, effects and mitigation of global warming.
As an analogy, doctors do not explain exercise as a «third way» to diet and lap - band surgery to prevent weight gain, much like climate experts do not explain carbon removal as a «third way» between GHG emission mitigation and solar geoengineering to prevent a warming planeAs an analogy, doctors do not explain exercise as a «third way» to diet and lap - band surgery to prevent weight gain, much like climate experts do not explain carbon removal as a «third way» between GHG emission mitigation and solar geoengineering to prevent a warming planeas a «third way» to diet and lap - band surgery to prevent weight gain, much like climate experts do not explain carbon removal as a «third way» between GHG emission mitigation and solar geoengineering to prevent a warming planeas a «third way» between GHG emission mitigation and solar geoengineering to prevent a warming planet.
The fact that we can't control China, India, and other countries makes all this discussion, the expensive satellites, expensive super-computer models, and money dumped on climate science an exercise in futility as far as mitigation of global warming is concerned.
China's role as a promoter of renewable energy development in Africa can offer it valuable recognition as a contributor to global efforts towards the mitigation of climate change and can serve to reaffirm its position as a lead nation among developing countries, protecting vulnerable countries from the impacts of global warming and fostering their economic growth and development in the process.12
You further presume that it is essential to «mitigate» climate change which by default castigates as «denier» all who accept your anthropogenic majority global warming, yet who find the economics of «mitigation» incredibly bad and the concept morally reprehensible.
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«Such surveys are often cited as demonstrating a near - unanimous scientific consensus in favor of a climate policy, when they never ask any question about whether and to what extent the anthropogenic component in recent warming might be dangerous or about whether a «climate policy» should be adopted in attempted mitigation of future warming.»
Then, at the minimum 5 % market inter-temporal discount rate, the cost of trying to abate this decade's predicted warming of 0.15 Cº by typical CO2 - mitigation schemes as cost - ineffective as Australia's carbon tax would be 48 times greater than the cost of later adaptation.
Rice cultivation regions show reduced warming as they are concentrated where monsoon rainfall is projected to intensify, although projections are influenced by Asian aerosol loading in climate mitigation scenarios.
The link between adverse impacts such as more wildfires, ecosystem changes, extreme weather events etc. and their mitigation by reducing greenhouse gas emissions hinges on detecting unusual events for at least the past century and then actually attributing them to human caused warming.
-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).
Thus the ever - increasing hype of having to act now made no sense, as the warming was coming regardless, mitigation of the damage and adaptation to the changed climate was the only logical course.
The instabilities in the climate system and the movement from global warming to global heating kicks in above 350 ppm, so that as the ppm increase, mitigation opportunities are lost and catastrophic harms on an even grander grand scale (as noted by Mike) will continue to occur to human and other life forms.
In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»
However, the researchers point out that using solar geoengineering to hold global warming to 1.5 C would not have the same environmental effect as reaching the target using mitigation.
-LSB-...] you can accept all the basic tenets of greenhouse physics and still conclude that the threat of a dangerously large warming is so improbable as to be negligible, while the threat of real harm from climate - mitigation policies is already so high as to be worrying, that the cure is proving far worse than the disease is ever likely to be,» Ridley said in the 2011 Angus Millar speech on «Scientific Heresy,» reposted in its entirety at the skeptical blog Watts Up With That.
Indeed, pre-2020 mitigation measures are likely the only way warming can be limited to 1.5 degrees, as most studies suggest that, to limit warming to that degree, carbon emissions have to peak around 2020.
The tool does not take into account either the costs or benefits of a warming climate, or the co-benefits of mitigation action, such as improved air quality.
As Nic Lewis (and others) have shown, the best empirical estimate of sensitivity, based on all observed warming, is low enough that it is impossible to currently justify expensive mitigation policy.
What we should do is identify the most ambitious mitigation scenario in AR5 and, based on this, agree a global budget to 2050, as well as agreed levels of emissions for 2020, 2025 and 2030, all consistent with a reasonable chance of keeping warming below 1.5 C. Subsequently, we should identify a methodology based on historical responsibilities and respective capabilities, and which is adjusted for development needs, to define developed countries» commitments on key issues such as mitigation and finance for 2020, 2025 and 2030.
The IPCC is set to release the second and third installments of its report over the next month, providing a deeper look at the current and projected impacts of a warmer world, as well as mitigation strategies we can implement to limit future warming.
While the press releases around the paper have emphasized the conclusion that climate engineering offers no easy solution and the analysis favors mitigation (i.e. «Cutting Carbon Emissions Our Best Option for Slowing Global Warming Study Finds «-RRB-, I do not see this paper as the end of the conversation or providing an answer.
It stresses that mitigation alone is not enough, as global warming is already underway, and adaptation strategies are now a matter of urgency.
As a tangible example, perhaps someone could explain how this paper which was included as «Mitigation» and rated Level 3 («Implicit endorsement»), makes a case for the majority of warming being anthropogeniAs a tangible example, perhaps someone could explain how this paper which was included as «Mitigation» and rated Level 3 («Implicit endorsement»), makes a case for the majority of warming being anthropogenias «Mitigation» and rated Level 3 («Implicit endorsement»), makes a case for the majority of warming being anthropogenic?
Mitigation plans proposed by governments would slow down the rate of carbon emissions but continuing emissions as well as feedbacks from ice melt, warming oceans, methane release and fires would continue to push temperatures upwards.
Geo - engineering is considered the last resort option if we do nothing to drastically reverse global warming; it is described as «only if mitigation fails.»
Summary of how they got to this finding: They use CMIP models which, if not outright flawed, have not proved their validity in estimated temperature levels in the 2030 to 2070 timeframe, are used as the basis for extrapolations that assert the creation of more and more 3 - sigma «extreme events» of hot weather; this is despite the statistical contradiction and weak support for predicting significant increases in outlier events based on mean increases; then, based on statistical correlations between mortality and extreme heat events (ie heat waves), temperature warming trends are conjured into an enlargement of the risks from heat events; risks increase significantly only by ignoring obvious adjustments and mitigations any reasonable community or person would make to adapt to warmer weather.
As climate scientists constantly remind us, even if the world successfully implemented a substantial mitigation program today, a much warmer world is already built into the physical climate system.
As a consequence, mitigation efforts to minimize future greenhouse - gas emissions can successfully restrict future warming to a level that may avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
What I deny is the catastrophe — the proposition that man - made global warming ** will cause catastrophic climate changes whose adverse affects will outweigh both the benefits of warming as well as the costs of mitigation.
Lastly, even the most aggressive CO2 mitigation steps as envisioned now can only limit further additions to the committed warming, but not reduce the already committed GHGs warming of 2.4 °C.
Because of the long atmospheric lifetime of some of the main greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, there is a mismatch between the payoff from climate change mitigation, which involves reducing emissions of planet warming greenhouse gases to lessen to severity of climate change, and climate change adaptation, which refers to measures to better withstand the impacts of climate change.
The same mitigation factors are in place for oil depletion as for global warming — that is a concerted effort to reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons and to plan for alternative energy sources.
The exact warming resulting from this delay depends on the trajectory of future CO2 emissions but using one business - as usual - projection we estimate an increase of 3/4 °C for every 15 - year delay in CO2 mitigation.
Working Group 3 (WG3), which deals with mitigation options for limiting global warming, as assessed by energy experts, economists, etc..
In his 1992 «Earth in the Balance» book, Al Gore refers to his Harvard professor, oceanographer Dr. Roger Revelle, as an inspiration to pursue global warming mitigation efforts.
Quirke: In one of your posts, you mentioned that your best estimate for warming under a business as usual scenario — which I guess is unsuccessful mitigation and somewhere between the IPCC's RCP 6.5 and 8.5 emissions scenarios — is 3 °C by 2100.