Sentences with phrase «warming trajectory»

In the natural gas scenario, the study calculated a range of warming trajectories for warming 100 years from now, with temperatures 17 to 25 percent lower than they would be if the world stuck with coal.

More recent data from the Center for Geophysical Research (CIGEFI) that includes information from the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) assesses moderate and worst case scenarios for warming trajectories through 2050.

It notes the vast scale of the carbon reservoir beneath the tundra in the far north and the centuries of greenhouse gas emissions that could escape on even modest warming trajectories.

That puts South Georgian on a faster warming trajectory than the nearby Antarctic Peninsula, which has seen a 1 °C rise over the last half - century.

To answer the questions we plotted the 1.5 °C and 2 °C warming trajectories and found that our long - term, zero - carbon ambition aligns with 1.5 °C.

Recent studies in the world's leading scientific journals indicate that due to the lag time between emissions and the earth's climatic adjustment to them, we have already committed the planet to a certain warming trajectory we can not halt.

But the cut in the warming trajectory was far sharper for a switch to energy sources with near - zero emissions — such as nuclear, wind, or solar energy.