Sentences with phrase «warming over the next few decades»

If these studies are closer to the true picture, models might be giving us accurate answers for warming over the next few decades, but underestimating warming over the next few centuries and more.

By improving the understanding of how much radiation CO2 absorbs, uncertainties in modelling climate change will be reduced and more accurate predictions can be made about how much Earth is likely to warm over the next few decades.

But reducing emissions of short - lived substances that help heat the planet «could significantly reduce the rate of warming over the next few decades.»

In my view, the most important omission related directly to science and technology aspects of the greenhouse gas issue is the failure to point out the tremendous opportunity that exists to limit warming over the next few decades by imposing strong, mandatory controls of short - lived warming agents (so methane, black carbon, and tropospheric ozone).

James Annan has repeatedly represented the «IPCC consensus» for warming over the next few decades to be 0.1 to 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade.

On what non-anthropogenic basis do the skeptics expect the earth to warm over the next few decades?

[Response: You're wrong, as JA points out, since much of the warming over the next few decades is contrained by commitment and current levels and doesn't much vary by scenario.

And such slight warming over next few decades, will cause animal extinction, and will melt Greenland in some dramatic fashion, and will continue cause increase in crop production and a general increase in global vegetation.

One key element of this latter program will be to try to forge a new coalition between industry and environmental groups for the use of cleanly - produced natural gas as a bridging fuel to slow global warming over the next few decades — with a particular focus on China.

General circulation models predict that global warming over the next few decades will occur mainly in the polar regions.

Until you do, I'm staying focused on the next century or so, when my nephews and neices and their future children will be struggling with the consequences of global warming over the next few decades.

Further, a large ensemble of climate model realizations reveals that additional global warming over the next few decades is very likely to create ∼ 100 % probability that any annual - scale dry period is also extremely warm.

Not exact matches

Yet, there is merit in not completely ignoring other climate forcers, which could affect the rate of warming, particularly over the next few decades,» says Stohl.

There are multiple mitigation pathways to achieve the substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades necessary to limit, with a greater than 66 % chance, the warming to 2 degrees C — the goal set by governments.

I figured if there was anything to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) temperatures would continue to rise over the next few decades and the issue would come to a head in the 2000's.

To be consistent with recent observations, anthropogenic warming is likely to lie in the range 0.1 to 0.2 °C / decade over the next few decades under the IS92a scenario.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

«To be consistent with recent observations, anthropogenic warming is likely to lie in the range 0.1 to 0.2 Â °C / decade over the next few decades under the IS92a scenario.»

To be consistent with recent observations, anthropogenic warming is likely to lie in the range 0.1 to 0.2 °C / decade over the next few decades under the IS92a scenario.

I figured if there was anything to anthropogenic global warming (AGW) temperatures would continue to rise over the next few decades and the issue would come to a head in the 2000's.

Mitigation over the next few decades will be pivotal in determining the amount of long - term warming and associated risks.

Our activities are warming the world's atmosphere at such a rate that most of our agriculture will be seriously dislocated over the next few decades — even if we were to get down to business now and start controlling our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

You seem to have gone to quite some length in creating an impressive straw man, which doesn't really need dealing with in detail, since I can simply jump to the end - point and agree that warming in excess of 0.325 C / decade is indeed unlikely over the next few decades.

Such large variations of the climate likely won't occur every year over the next few decades given the limited global warming to date, but it would seem likely such conditions will occur more and more frequently as global warming continues, disrupting both social systems and ecosystems.

«'' Until we can model this lower - frequency behaviour in the tropical Pacific, one can only speculate on how the warming will play out over the next few decades,» said lead author Dr Michael Griffiths from William Paterson University, in the United States.»

Global warming could increase the number of hungry in the world in 2080 by anywhere between 140 million and 1 billion, depending on how much greenhouse gas is emitted into the air over the next few decades.

A flurry of recent research strongly suggests that recent observations like these are indeed linked to California's long - term warming trend — and that snowpack losses are expected to accelerate further over the next few decades.

As these glaciers retreat due to global warming (see Chapter 1), river flows are increased in the short term, but the contribution of glacier melt will gradually decrease over the next few decades.

No one in his right mind (least of all the ocean dwellers) cares a whit whether or not the ocean is warming by a few thousandths of a degree over the next several decades.

A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.

Reductions in some short - lived human - induced emissions that contribute to warming, such as black carbon (soot) and methane, could reduce some of the projected warming over the next couple of decades, because, unlike carbon dioxide, these gases and particles have relatively short atmospheric lifetimes.The amount of warming projected beyond the next few decades is directly linked to the cumulative global emissions of heat - trapping gases and particles.

AR5 found the world has the means to limit global warming and build a more prosperous and sustainable future, but pathways to limit warming to 2ºC relative to pre-industrial levels would require substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

Now, with the caveat that Latif claims no «skill» in any forecast after 2015 — a caveat the media and deniers never print — as you can see, their model suggests we'll see pretty damn rapid warming in the coming decade, just as the Hadley Center did in a 2007 Science piece and just as the US Naval Research Lab and NASA recently predicted (see «Another major study predicts rapid warming over next few years «'' nearly 0.3 °F by 2014 «-RRB-.