Sentences with phrase «warming threshold set»

But the paper contains a much higher level of comfort than does the IPCC that the world will not exceed the two degrees warming threshold set by the UN.

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Changes in the annual percent of days in North America exceeding the temperature thresholds set by the historical average of warmest 10 % of days, warmest 5 % of days and the warmest 2.5 % of days.

Nor does he have the vaguest understanding of climate science — so it is not surprising that he misses the fact that the 2.6 scenario involves slightly more warming than the threshold set at Copenhagen as that to avoid dangerous warming.

I think we can dispute how much warming per doubling of CO2 the data support, but I think it's a going to be a very difficult task demonstrating a plausible mechanism (by plausible I mean something that isn't completely eliminated by existing observation and well - established theory) that set t the sensitivity to CO2 to «zero» above some threshold CO2 value.

Overall, and at least tentatively, some positive climate science - related news — albeit set in the context of atmospheric CO2 being such that even if emissions were reduced to zero today there's enough warming baked into the system that we will cruise past the critical 2 °C warming threshold.

PARIS (December 8, 2015)-- The Science Based Targets initiative announced today that 114 companies have now committed to set emissions reduction targets in line with what scientists say is necessary to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 2 degrees Celsius.