So we now know that Tom «a real human being» Fuller wholeheartedly agrees on the need for global
warming mitigation measures — except those measures that are being concretely proposed.
Not exact matches
«We were interested in providing a
measure of how long people would have to wait until the effect of
mitigation becomes tangible, in terms of avoided
warming,» Tebaldi said.
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.
At 1.5 / 2 °C temperature
warming level, how the global and regional climate will change, is a matter of public concern and relates to the decisions of policies, guidelines and
measures on
mitigation and adaption of future climate change.
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Klimaatzaak is demanding all
mitigation measures necessary to ensure the prevention of a
warming of the earth that is dangerous to humanity.
We must forget the obsession with global anthropogenic greenhouse
warming alone plus the implementation of draconian global
mitigation actions and shift our attention to local and regional climate and weather - related issues and any actionable adaptation
measures that can be planned and implemented in order to avoid potential problems.
This work takes future socio - economic developments based on SSP5 (O'Neill et al. 2014), consistent with high
mitigation challenges due to high - end
warming and willingness to take adaptation
measures against climate impacts.
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.
Mitigation measures are claimed to limit global
warming to less than 2oC.
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.