The bottom line is smaller global population is plausible, but not until after 2100 on any realistic assumption, so wont help
with dangerous climate change issues and Paris accord targets of 2050.
It's slow to build and slow to get regulatory approval and has high capital costs, so these things alone mean its hard to see it dealing
with dangerous climate change problem within the time constraints of the next 30 — 40 years.
What I'm interested in mainly is climate science, and how we deal
with dangerous climate change, and reasonably closely related issues.
But right now the priority is to deal
with dangerous climate change, so we want high growth of renewable energy as the most obvious answer.
Not exact matches
«
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, the world took a decisive step toward avoiding the most
dangerous impacts of
climate change,» the page used to read.
I would love to move to a state
with enough land and a warmer
climate for my sons to ride their race bikes, my daughter to have the horse she dreams of and me to finally be at peace, I also believe that there should be someone home
with the kids no matter what their ages are and as a single Mom
with no family support or father involvement being at home for me is even more important, especially now that they are teenagers, There are no more nap times or time outs and the things you worry about during this age are so much more
dangerous than falling down and hitting their heads as toddlers.
This they do confessedly... at the hazard of such changes in the constitution from difference of
climate as to render their return
dangerous, and at the risk of weakening those domestic ties connected
with the parental domicile, which are seldom severed but at the expense of virtue.»
But he took issue
with Labour's Emily Thornberry who contended that that Trump's election as U.S. president was a «hugely
dangerous development for the future of our planet» because he believes that
climate change is a hoax.
A coherent deal
with the United States in would be much more important for the goal (prevent
dangerous climate change) than one without them.
All three of the main political parties are stuck in a
dangerous Cold War time warp, unable to see that the world has changed and that modern security threats such as
climate change and fundamentalism can't be tackled
with nuclear weapons.
Will the Cuomo administration commit to continued dirty,
dangerous,
climate destroying fossil fuel energy, that further endangers communities
with risks of explosion and fire, and provides few jobs?
The signatories to the convention have agreed to stabilise greenhouse gases at concentrations «that would avoid
dangerous anthropogenic interference
with the
climate system».
• GLOBAL WARMING Physicist Richard A. Muller, although convinced that
climate change is real, potentially
dangerous and probably caused in part by humans, has disagreed
with many
climate scientists, asserting that their measurements and analyses are deeply flawed.
The objective of the treaty is to «stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent
dangerous anthropogenic interference
with the
climate system.»
Further to Fred Pearce's editorial on the outcome of the Rio +20 Earth Summit (30 June, p 3), the disarray in international politics that he highlighted
with regard to
climate change is now so potentially
dangerous that no one can affect to be a disinterested observer.
That December, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change reported that greenhouse gases were rising,
with human activity the likely cause and
dangerous changes in the earth's conditions a likely result.
THE phrase «
dangerous climate change» got scarier last week,
with a new analysis suggesting that global warming will bring a rising tide of human violence.
But Trump's announcement sends a strong message that the US would rather be one of only two nations in the world that is not interested in preventing «
dangerous anthropogenic interference
with the
climate system».
Pope Francis is to make history this week
with a call for international cooperation to avert
dangerous global warming — the Vatican's most powerful statement yet on the environment and
climate change.
«On Avoiding
Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference
with the
Climate System: Formidable Challenges Ahead.»
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.
The ultimate objective of all agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent
dangerous human interference
with the
climate system, in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.
With it the countries of the world have recognised that they all have to work together to tackle the shared problem of
dangerous climate change caused by human activities.
And in common
with all other
climate pledges so far, its INDC remains well short of what would be required to meet the agreed 2C target for avoiding
dangerous climate change.
The Southern Company is not only polluting the environment
with carbon and other
dangerous emissions — it's also polluting the debate over
climate policy by funding bad science.
Mann said of the possible record, «hopefully it will also drive home the urgency of reducing carbon emissions if we are to avoid
dangerous interference
with our
climate.»
It's a long paper
with a long title: «Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data,
climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 oC global warming could be
dangerous».
Our analysis shows that a set of actions exists
with a good chance of averting «
dangerous»
climate change, if the actions begin now.
«
Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought:
Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference Learn why the American West could be in trouble
with surface air temperatures rising faster than elsewhere in the coterminous United States.
While Eggsy undergoes the ultra-competitive training program (
with only one recruit earning a spot as a Kingsman), Harry investigates a potential threat involving a tech - genius billionaire named Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) who wants to save the Earth from the
dangerous effects of
climate change by wiping out most of humanity.
The ultimate objective of both treaties is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent
dangerous human interference
with the
climate system.
«
Climate Change, Sea Level, and Western Drought:
Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference Learn why the American West could be in trouble
with surface air temperatures rising faster than elsewhere in the coterminous United States.
We are therefore committed to -LSB-...] stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent
dangerous anthropogenic interference
with the
climate system -LSB-...] we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.
To my mind, the sessions and negotiations, despite the zombie - like quality, do encourage, display and memorialize countries» efforts to live up to their 1992 pledge to avoid
dangerous human interference
with the
climate system.
Climate talks ended in Copenhagen one year ago in raucous, then deflated, division, with the resulting accord noted, but not formally embraced, by the nearly 200 countries aiming to make good on an 18 - year - old pledge under the first climate treaty to limit dangerous human - driven w
Climate talks ended in Copenhagen one year ago in raucous, then deflated, division,
with the resulting accord noted, but not formally embraced, by the nearly 200 countries aiming to make good on an 18 - year - old pledge under the first
climate treaty to limit dangerous human - driven w
climate treaty to limit
dangerous human - driven warming.
2) We are therefore committed to taking strong and early action to tackle
climate change in order to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent
dangerous anthropogenic interference
with the
climate system...
[Andy Revkin — The Article 2 mentioned above is the statement on avoiding «
dangerous» human interference
with climate in the original
climate treaty, which was completed at the Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992.
is actually sufficient to «prevent
dangerous anthropogenic interference
with the
climate system.»
«stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent
dangerous anthropogenic interference
with the
climate system»
One provision of that treaty is that countries pledge to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases at a level avoiding «
dangerous» interference
with the
climate system.
GHG - reducing technologies
with carbon trading and carbon taxes can accelerate decarbonisation, reduce the risks of
dangerous climate change, and contribute to economic development and human well being.
Last week, the White House released a report that found that
climate change is already creating changes in the United States by threatening the Southwest
with heat waves, the Atlantic Coast
with dangerous hurricanes and the middle of the country
with flooding.
Only when that transition occurs, so the notion goes, is there a chance of resolving «commons» issues like limiting chances of
dangerous human - caused disruption of the
climate; trimming the billion - person tail off the curve of deep poverty that (along
with dysfunctional government) holds back progress in the South; conserving the world's eroding biological patrimony.
Richard Lindzen, the meteorology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology best known for his longstanding rejection of research pointing to
dangerous climate disruption from human - generated greenhouse gases, has been bluntly challenged over a popular paper in Geophysical Research Letters last year that he co-wrote
with post-doctoral researcher Yong - Sang Choi.
In 2002, the president said: «I reaffirm America's commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention and its central goal, to stabilize atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that will prevent
dangerous human interference
with the
climate.»
With an 80 % reduction in GHGs by 2050 we have a 50 % chance of
dangerous climate change or runaway global warming.
Researchers continue to find new evidence that
climate change is happening faster and
with more
dangerous consequences than previously predicted.
So wrote Roger A. Pielke Jr. in an op - ed in the Financial Post, a Canadian newspaper
with a doubting stance on
dangerous human - caused
climate change.
On AGW Theory: Here, you're making the mistake I allude to above in discussing Sen. Inhofe — lumping «AGW theory» (which even Michael Crichton did not dispute)
with the range of views (some supported, some not) on whether the case has been made for
dangerous human - driven
climate change.
If the science pointing to a rising risk of
dangerous human interference
with climate is settled, the thinking goes, then why aren't people and the world's nations galvanized?