Under the Paris Agreement, governments have pledged to keep average global warming to "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to try to limit maximum warming to 1.5°C.
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Investors are also warming to gold as the dollar cools.
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This feedback loop causes warming to spiral out of control.
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But Erdogan said some countries were warming to the idea.
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Recent polling, however, has shown voters warming to the law.
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Angela's dad is a veteran and she's warming to me.
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Shay is warming to the subject when Giustinia suddenly interrupts.
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We really should be capping our warming to 1.5 degrees.
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Also, advertisers don't seem to be warming to Snap's platform.
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"That makes sense," Ms. Sanfilippo said, warming to the claim.
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Some countries are warming to another solution: immigrants from poorer neighbours.
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Singapore residents are slowly warming to the concept of therapy dogs.
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Even voters in heavily Republican states are warming to the law.
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Why examine the prospects for limiting global warming to 1.5°C?
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California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm.
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And it's not just liberals who are warming to the idea.
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Some voters in the state seemed to be warming to him.
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Warming to him may take time, but let him serenade you.
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And it is also a cause of more warming to come.
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Even limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius poses a mighty challenge.
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But there are signs that they are warming to more modern methods.
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Russell Wilson is warming to his new role of stepfather quite nicely.
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Happer has also repeatedly compared efforts against global warming to the Holocaust.
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" This should include a "reasonable probability (66%) of limiting warming to 1.5ºC.
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In which case, warming to the South is Mr Kim's best chance.
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But the Western world started warming to the idea of companion animals.
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But lately, some conservative Republicans in Congress are warming to the idea.
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Limiting the planet's warming to Paris climate targets, then, is seriously ambitious.
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Can we shift from unintended global warming to managing climate by design?
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Some Senate Republicans appeared to be warming to this idea last week.
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Women are warming to the harder spirits, too, with bourbon sales zooming.
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The international community considers 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming to be catastrophic.
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Politicians in Japan and South Korea are warming to more powerful weapons.
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Onetime bitcoin skeptic Mark Cuban is warming to the digital currency world.
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There is some hope that institutions are warming to the bitcoin world.
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Weather: Cold and windy in the morning, warming to the mid-215s.
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But Trump had in recent weeks been warming to the embattled official.
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Limiting global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius can and must be done.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. fund investors are warming to the stock market again.
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Some, particularly in fund management and insurance, say they are warming to Dublin.
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Some studies have linked global warming to unrest such as the Arab spring.
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It is responsible for about a quarter of total atmospheric warming to date.
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Scientists expect global warming to cause more extreme heat events like this one.
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Jet Airways, the country's second-largest carrier, is also warming to the idea.
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Deep cuts are needed to hold warming to 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.
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Today, he&aposs surprised that institutions aren&apost more quickly warming to cryptocurrencies.
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But to limit global warming to safer levels, total emissions must go down.
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While initially hostile to the concept, Wall Street is warming to the technology.
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The agreement calls for countries to keep manmade global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 2100, and to try to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Celsius, above preindustrial levels.
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The Paris Agreement on climate change aims to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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The deal also established a goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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The agreement limits average global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.
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At the moment, they are cooling on Mr Trudeau without warming to Mr Scheer.
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That makes it hard for anyone concerned about global warming to gainsay the proposal.
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International negotiations aim to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Americans may well be warming to the idea of a premium non-alcoholic beer.
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Slowly but surely, polls show Republican voters warming to the Trump view of Russia.
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It's earnest and true, and I found myself warming to the game over it.
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Both senators have been highly critical of Trump's warming to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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It sets the important goal of limiting warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius.
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Keeping warming to 2°C was seen by the study's authors as being important.
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So it is heart-warming to see the panda going in the other direction.
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But moves this year show major financial firms are warming to blockchain-related technologies.
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Limiting warming to the higher goal could avoid 70 to 1,980 deaths per city.
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After talking to the senator, the president showed signs of warming to the deal.
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Mattis is warming to the idea, according to a source familiar with his thinking.
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Eight of them eagerly offered their plans to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees.
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Actually, they have: Global warming to date is well in line with past projections.
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But GOP lawmakers have been warming to the proposal recently, particularly the reinsurance funding.
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For example, let's say we wanted to limit global warming to below 2100°C.
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Remember when I discussed scenarios that showed humanity limiting global warming to 50 degrees Celsius?
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The agreement aims to limit global warming to "well below" 2ºC above pre-industrial temperatures.
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"I think there may be a couple of reasons," Clinton said, warming to the theme.
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Dig deeperJet set: Is polar warming to blame for America's and Britain's bad winter weather?
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" Then, perhaps warming to Pope Francis (and jabbing Jeb?): "He's got a lot of energy.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Jack Ma is warming to Hong Kong as a listing venue.
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It was incredible heart warming to witness how well he was taken care of. pic.twitter.
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At the same time, some Democratic donors in Silicon Valley are warming to Warren's bid.
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Wall Street appeared to show signs it may finally be warming to Snap on Tuesday.
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Not all Republicans are warming to what some describe dismissively as a "magical" supply-sider approach.
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The White House may be warming to a key provision of the House Republican tax plan.
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The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming to "well below" 2ºC above pre-industrial temperatures.
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He rages against the Chinese, whom he accuses of inventing global warming to destroy American industry.
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Rachel Notley, the premier of Alberta, said she believed Mr. Trudeau was warming to the idea.
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Japan has taken a cautious stance but has recently shown signs of warming to the initiative.
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Casablancas' voice remains effortless, snarling one moment, warming to the soft clatter behind him the next.
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Just when we were finally warming to Real Madrid, Marcelo's gone and ruined it for everyone.
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During that time, more carbon dioxide emissions would've caused global warming to worsen, with irreversible impacts.
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We're warming to the high 215s, with partly sunny skies preceding a couple of rainy days.
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It was a very solid outcome, one that seemed to signal the academy's warming to Netflix.
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He said "Ronald Reagan would roll over in his grave" at Republican voters' warming to Putin.
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That delay would eliminate any chance of keeping global warming to the 1.5C limit, she said.
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Changed name from GLOBAL WARMING to CLIMATE CHANGE Record setting cold and snow, ice caps massive!
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Republicans are warming to Trump The good news for Trump went beyond the size of his victories.
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They also set an aspirational goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
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It sets the ambitious goal of limiting warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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Warming to the theme, Trump's erratic behaviour and a U.S. recession could spark a political revolution there.
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That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.
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By the end of my demo, I actually felt like Aibo was warming to me a little.
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We need to limit warming to less than 1.5 degrees to give our reefs a fighting chance.
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To limit warming to 2ºC, let alone the 1.5ºC that the IPCC recommends, oil production should decline.
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"Limiting warming to 21.5 degrees is not impossible," IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee said at a press conference.
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"It really looks like sometimes they're doing things to get attention," she continued, warming to the topic.
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It aspires to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but that is practically unachievable by now.
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"Nah, I'll tell her I got some drugs," the TV-less man said, warming to the plan.
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And the opposition Labour Party is warming to the idea, though it would prefer yet another election.
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South Korea is another country where the public is warming to Trump's approach — particularly with North Korea.
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It also sets an aspirational target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Already, he was warming to the idea of having a cameo in a high-stakes F.B.I. investigation.
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Even before this report, however, limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was considered an immensely ambitious goal.
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Much of it has focused on teenagers, more and more of whom are warming to the habit.
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The diplomatic thaw left much of the region warming to Washington for the first time in years.
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Despite those concerns, there have been signs large name investors and companies are warming to the space.
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But there are also growing signs many in the GOP establishment are warming to the presumptive nominee.
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Regardless, Putin has been growing uneasy with the West warming to Lukashenko, president of Belarus since 1994.
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Recently, it seems to be warming to General Hifter, according to foreign diplomats we have spoken with.
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Everything from global warming to a former president's place of birth was up to vigorous and uneducated debate.
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The report goes into quite a bit of detail laying out pathways to limiting warming to 1.5°C.
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A handful of other states have been slowly warming to the idea as a way to generate business.
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It also sets a more ambitious goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
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That may be slowly starting to happen, with financial services giant Fidelity signaling it's warming to the space.
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This tiny refrigerator switches from warming to cooling to keep skincare products the ideal temperature for your face.
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The Black Lives Matter and immigration justice movements are warming to the Greens' consistent support for human rights.
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But the presence at the convention does not mean the industry is warming to the presumptive GOP nominee.
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It says humans have twelve years to implement changes that will limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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There is some evidence that the GOP may be warming to the idea of allowing tourism to Cuba.
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GOP polling in 2002 said climate change was preferred over global warming to illustrate a less scary phenomenon.
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Critics' corner • "Investors are warming to this less highflying but still steady version of Apple," Shira Ovide writes.
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As a result of the Paris Agreement in 2015, most countries agreed to limit global warming to 2oC.
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It is not hard to pity Bunny, but even the narrator seems to balk at warming to her.
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There has been some warming to at least one of the President's ideas among Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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International officials negotiating the deal have enshrined within it a goal of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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The Paris Agreement promises to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.
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Many Democrats have abandoned the idea, just as many businesses and even some Republicans are warming to it.
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They changed the name global warming to climate change because the concept of global warming just wasn't working!
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Americans are warming to the Republican tax law, and becoming more confident in the economy as a whole.
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With the window rapidly closing to limit global warming to a bearable level — scientists warn that the planet has as little as 12 years to halve global emissions to restrict warming to 1.5 degrees this century — it is more critical than ever to find a way to shrink aviation's carbon footprint.
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The annual UN report, which measures how far off-track the world is from meeting its climate goals, concluded that global greenhouse gas emissions must drop 7.5% each year over the next decade to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7% each year to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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Exit polls showed that Republicans appear to be warming to the idea of him as the party's nominee, too.
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It also includes an aspirational goal of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or lower compared to preindustrial levels.
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Earlier this year, the Republican Party appeared to be warming to the idea of a diplomatic thaw with Cuba.
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Worth noting that both chambers seem to be warming to the idea of phasing in that 20% corporate rate.
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The Paris Agreement aims to restrict warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
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They even changed the name of the problem from "global warming" to "climate change" to further muddy those waters.
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And even though Kilauea is emitting lots of carbon dioxide, it won't worsen global warming to any meaningful degree.
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Others think the effort to limit warming to 1.5 degrees is futile no matter the outcome of the election.
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As Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory kicks into production, investors are warming to the potentially massive profit margins it could yield.
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It's truly heart-warming to see this group of people, who have individually been through so much, smiling together.
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Therefore, it wouldn't take much warming to tip the climate outside of the accustomed range, making warming more noticeable.
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A comfortably cool morning warming to a high of 82, with enough sunshine to merit ending the workweek early.
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This is one reason conservative groups in the United States and Western Europe have been steadily warming to Russia.
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World leaders agreed in 2015 an aim of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.
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But Trump's White House had begun sending signals that they were warming to Moore ahead of Monday's outright endorsement.
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"We're definitely warming to the idea," Reed said before the team's franchise debut against the Nebraska Danger on Thursday.
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" Last week, Rubio appeared to be warming to the idea of Trump, saying the businessman's "performance has improved significantly.
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The immediate challenge is to slow down and limit global warming to "well below" 2C above pre-industrial levels.
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Kite's calculations suggest that these wobbles could have triggered enough warming to thaw some of the ice beneath the surface.
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Other than that, the lava planet COROT-7b is the really obvious one, it takes global warming to ludicrous extremes.
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Even though, experts have observed a pattern of red-state Democrats warming to gun control, there are, of course, outliers.
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It also contains an aspirational goal of limiting warming to at or below 220 degrees Celsius, or 2375 degrees Fahrenheit.
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From former primary opponents to elected officials on Capitol Hill, the GOP is broadly warming to its likely standard-bearer.
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But limiting global warming to that level would require the use of resources that might otherwise boost current well-being.
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European companies are "warming to a culture of capex" strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a note.
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The Paris accord seeks to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
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Xi's government had been warming to the Trump administration following a successful visit by Xi to the US in April.
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The deal, negotiated by 187 countries, aims to limit global warming to less than 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures.
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Many of these donors aren't warming to Trump, but believe the third party recruitment is an exercise in pure fantasy.
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By the end of the third episode Charley seems to be warming to a local fellow although she's still married.
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The panel concluded that policymakers must take "unprecedented action" to limit warming to 6900 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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"We work to process vehicle claims as quickly and expeditiously as possible," the statement continued, finally warming to the subject.
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The world's governments only have about twelve years to implement policies that can limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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The deal also contains a more aggressive aspirational goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
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And in races across the nation, voters and candidates are warming to a new sight on the campaign trail: children.
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He often changes his mind on aides, warming to one while cooling on another -- only to do it all again.
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The report finds that all pathways to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C (373 degrees F) rely on carbon removal.
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Investors have been warming to the valuation, with Pure Foods stock roughly doubling since the combination was announced in November.
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An NBC poll conducted in August showed Republicans warming to immigration: Pew, while finding that the partisan gap on immigration has expanded, also finds Republicans warming to immigrants since 2014 or so, just not as rapidly as Democrats: Again, there remain big gaps between the parties on how to handle DREAMers and the border wall.
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The Paris Agreement on climate change sets the international target of limiting warming to 1.5 or at most 2 degrees Celsius.
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We know that to avert the worst of climate change we need to limit warming to at most 22050 degrees Celsius.
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And more investors seem to be warming to areas outside of traditional equities and bonds in light of recent market volatility.
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If countries limited future global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.5 degrees Fahrenheit), what would that mean for Exxon's bottom line?
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Countries committed to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
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The cities guide said limiting global warming to 1.5C would turn, in part, on the feasibility of urban actions and policies.
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Signatories of the landmark accord pledged to limit warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Limiting global warming to less than 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, agreed at UN climate talks last year, appears impossible.
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This is far above the goal enshrined in the 2015 Paris climate agreement which limits warming to well below 2 degrees.
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Warming to the philosophical cast of the discussion, the visitor brought up the waist-level flounce that adorns some women's clothing.
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People tend to be reluctant to make big purchases sight unseen, but they're now warming to the idea more than ever.
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Liz was so glad to see them warming to someone new that for the moment it was all she cared about.
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World leaders made promises to limit global warming to below 2°C in the first legally binding agreement of its kind.
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Nations pledged to limit increases in global warming to 3.6 degrees (2 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels, not below preindustrial levels.
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The Paris climate agreement set out to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, with an additional target of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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The idea that climate scientists changed the name from "global warming" to "climate change" because of cold weather is simply wrong.
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The pathways that lead from warming to tangible harm to the nation's coastlines, crops, military and overseas interests are highly complex.
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Anticipating the possibility that the new conservative majority would block progressive reforms, Democrats are warming to the idea of court-packing.
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Countries pledged to limit increases in global warming to 3.6 degrees (2 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels, not below preindustrial levels.
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Outside experts also say the countries' bare-bones plans are still far from enough to keep global warming to tolerable levels.
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The big picture: 3°C would mean a lot of damaging outcomes, and even warming to date is causing major harms.
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The U.S. and NATO alliance are getting mixed signals from Turkey at a time when Russia is increasingly warming to Ankara.
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Even if the world were doing enough to limit warming to 2°C, there would still be a need for adaptation.
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A report released this week by the United Nations Environment Programme found that by 20300, the world's states will have produced twice the amount of fossil fuels allowable if limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit); the current rate of production is 120 percent over what would be necessary to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Trump's presidency has seen Republicans following their leader and warming to Russia and Vladimir Putin, as Democrats report more strongly negative views.
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Earth's average temperature is warming to catastrophic levels because humans are emitting too many heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide and methane.
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John Kerry, Obama's outgoing secretary of state, negotiated the Paris Agreement, a landmark treaty aimed at limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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Global temperatures are still trending upward, but countries want to limit that warming to 2°C by 1.53 under the Paris agreement.
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In 2012 he had falsely accused the Chinese of inventing the concept of global warming—to make American manufacturing uncompetitive, he said.
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Davis critiqued everything from global warming to issues of the apolitical art world and racism in this country, and, of course, gender.
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What is different this time is that northerners, who used to worry that he would wreck the economy, are warming to him.
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But I found myself warming to it, since, after all, it is the mech and the pilot that is your combat unit.
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Dunkin' Donuts franchisees are warming to such deals in their fight to win breakfast, Chief Executive Nigel Travis told Reuters on Thursday.
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Sanders scored strongly among men (66 percent), an unremarkable outcome given repeated polls showing men warming to him more than to Clinton.
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Secondly, the world's nations agreed in principle to limit global warming to 2℃ — and to strive for an increase of just 1.5℃.
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They agreed to limit warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above pre-industrial times, while pursuing efforts for 1.5C (2.7F).
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A harder target of keeping warming to within 1.5 degrees would mean a further reduction of about 5 billion tonnes of emissions.
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A number of factors play into shrinking cocoa bean production, from global warming to agricultural practices and even Ebola, according to Grubstreet.
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We have 28503 years to limit global warming to 22019°C, beyond which, the impact on human society will become increasingly severe.
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Ironically, even some states are warming to the idea: Regional cooperation and planning is a top item at the National Governors Association.
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Inslee, however, also seemed to connect other issues — that at first blush may not seem related to global warming — to the topic.
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The Paris Agreement calls for countries to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius -- or at most 2 degrees -- above pre-industrial levels.
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" Alex Conant, the former communications director for Rubio's failed presidential bid, described the subsequent reports of Rubio warming to Trump as "false.
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In recent weeks, Bullock's resistance to a Senate campaign has eased, the officials said, with his family now warming to the idea.
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In recent weeks, Bullock's initial resistance to a Senate campaign has eased, officials said, with his family now warming to the idea.
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That is key to internationally agreed efforts to try to hold global warming to 5943 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), WRI noted.
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That is key to internationally agreed efforts to try to hold global warming to 5943 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), WRI noted.
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This was not meant to be the year of Shapo, a nickname Denis and his two friends said they are warming to.
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But Repsol's pledge to eliminate emissions is more in line with the overall goal to restrict global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Ballard is something of an evangelist for clean energy, and said TreeHouse's model fits well in a world that's warming to renewables.
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Emissions should be falling, fast, if the world wants to have an inkling of a chance of limiting warming to 251 degrees.
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The IEA's most aggressive scenario still only gives the world a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees.
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Going into the meeting, Stavridis said, allies are hopeful Trump will continue the warming to the alliance he expressed after meeting Stoltenberg.
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He argues that we'd likely need to keep total global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius for coral reefs to continue thriving.
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Many experts consider 2°C of warming to be unacceptably high, increasing the risk of deadly heat waves, droughts, flooding, and extinctions.
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As of now, there isn't any kind of evidence that suggests Trump has some spectacular financial prize to gain by warming to Russia.
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He is against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, at a time when the public is gradually warming to the ideas under certain circumstances.
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Some opposition figures are slowly warming to the idea, which would essentially put in place an Iraq or Lebanon-style power-sharing system.
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Nearly 000 countries signed the Paris climate accord, agreeing to limit warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, and ideally to 1.5.
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They agreed to limit warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, while pursuing efforts for a 1.5 Celsius limit.
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We have been warming to the banks, which make up the largest component of the S&P 500 Financials, for a few reasons.
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Last month, Trump appeared to be warming to the solo press conference, a format he had avoided almost entirely as president until recently.
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It also contains an aspirational goal of limiting warming to at or below 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels.
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Already, researchers have observed about 1 degree Celsius of warming to average surface temperatures since the Industrial Revolution, when people started burning coal.
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The largest, most diverse, and most urbanized of the red states is clearly not warming to Trumpism, and Democrats made big gains there.
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The agreement contained language that aims to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by the end of this century.
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Tellingly, even Trump's own aides don't think so: Some sources in WH are frankly surprised at how pundits are warming to the speech.
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One of the first film's chief pleasures was warming to the idea that the normally lightweight actor could be a coldblooded, grieving killer.
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Of these, only a hundred and sixteen limit warming to below two degrees, and of these a hundred and eight involve negative emissions.
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Meantime, Turkey has been warming to Russia and recently agreed to buy the S-400 air defense system from Moscow despite U.S. concerns.
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In 2015, governments adopted the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to "well below" 2C above pre-industrial times, and ideally to 1.5C.
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Trump has argued that establishment Republicans are warming to his potential presidency because they are scared of Cruz getting into the White House.
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In Paris, world leaders decided to work together to limit warming to at most 2 degrees -- and 1.5 degrees if at all possible.
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Climate was a major theme in Davos, where panel discussions on everything from global warming to ocean sustainability and biodiversity drew large crowds.
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The nations of the world agreed years ago to try to limit global warming to a level they hoped would prove somewhat tolerable.
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In 20133, nations agreed to try to limit the planetary warming to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2 degrees Celsius, above the preindustrial level.
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Moreover, most fields need to be shut down before their fossil fuel reserves are fully depleted to limit warming to below 85033 degrees.
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The researchers also looked at what would happen if we limited warming to two degrees Celsius, the formal target under the Paris pact.
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If the average global temperature temporarily exceeded 1.5C, additional carbon removal techniques would be required to return warming to below 1.5C by 2100.
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There have been signs in the past two weeks of establishment Republicans warming to Trump as his nomination becomes more of a certainty.
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The warmer automatically shuts off after eight minutes and has cycle memory, so it sets your warming to the previous cycle each time.
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If the climate manages to keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the researchers predict an additional 1,600 injury-related deaths.
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More broadly, the company said its targets would align it with the Paris Agreement's goal to restrict global warming to 2.83 degrees Celsius.
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The Paris Agreement calls for holding global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, below preindustrial levels by 2100.
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That's why the IPCC put out another report in 2018 comparing 2°C of warming to a scenario with 1.5°C of warming.
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At its core, the Paris Agreement promises to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
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When the world came together to produce the Paris Agreement in December 21.5, all nations agreed to limit warming to well below 2 degrees.
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It sets a target of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to preindustrial levels by 2100.
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The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, is out.
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There, the world pledged to do everything in its power to limit harmful warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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The models are used to compare the odds of such an event happening in a world with human-caused warming to one without it.
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The grimmest prognosis in the draft report is in the details of the effort it would take to actually limit warming to 1.5°C.
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Surely even the most hopeful of us didn't expect global warming to compete with jobs, the border, or national security on the campaign trail.
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In 2015, 195 countries signed the Paris climate accord, pledging to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.
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Under the Paris Agreement, countries have agreed to "pursue efforts" to limit global warming to around 1.5 ℃, which scientists say is a safer target.
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The accord aims to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.
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The criteria could reportedly range from an acknowledgment of how humans affect global warming to a review of financial ties to the energy industry.
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The report from Politico said Rove's super-PAC American Crossroads was warming to Trump and beginning to see him in a more favorable light.
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The criteria could reportedly range from an acknowledgment of how humans affect global warming to a review of financial ties to the energy industry.
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Russell Westbrook is warming to the idea of leaving Oklahoma City, and the Miami Heat are high on the All-Star point guard's list.
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The UN report concludes that the world isn't hitting the emissions targets necessary to curb warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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But they're warming to the idea of using it as leverage to put pressure on web and social media firms in specific cases. Sen.
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Sad, but this late-life warming to his co-species only guarantees the one Minotaur left on earth will end up that much lonelier.
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The authors of the report asserted the planet has only 12 years to limit global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit before catastrophic consequences ensue.
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There is always some uncertainty in climate projections, but scientists' estimates about the effects of global warming to date have largely been borne out.
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Limiting warming to 1.5C, 2C, or somewhere in between will require an unprecedented global effort to transform civilization's power, industrial, agricultural, and transportation systems.
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The countries who signed the Paris agreement pledged to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, a far cry from the worst-case scenario.
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If we had started in 22020 to limit warming to 250 degrees Celsius, we would have needed to cut emissions by 217.7% per year.
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The Paris Agreement sets an over-riding goal of limiting global warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
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Some temperature anomalies can be explained by the natural phenomenon known as El Niño, which causes period warming to occur all over the globe.
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Scientists say the lingering Pacific warming trend known as El Niño built on human-fueled global warming to turbocharge temperatures in the past year.
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According to a study in Nature Climate Change, any delay from the U.S. makes the overall target of limiting warming to 24 degrees unreachable.
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According to a study in Nature Climate Change, any delay from the U.S. makes the overall target of limiting warming to 2 degrees unreachable.
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Obama said in his SOTU that They changed the name global warming to climate change because the concept of global warming just wasn't working!
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Warming to friends' and family members' babies made me feel as though I were learning how to share the world with the friend-snatching species.
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O'Leary said that Larsen A and B's breaks were "unequivocally climate change-related," but so far researchers aren't linking global warming to Larsen C's split.
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The GOP may be feuding over whether to embrace Donald Trump, but some on Wall Street appear to be warming to the presumptive Republican nominee.
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The Paris agreement was always likely to fall far short of its goal of limiting global warming to within 2°C of pre-industrial temperatures.
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The Paris Agreement sets a goal of limiting global warming to "well below" 22016 degrees Celsius, or 1.83 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 21.8.
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Limiting warming to 1.5°C, as compared to 21003°C, would prevent 1.5 to 2.5 million square kilometers of permafrost from thawing, the report finds.
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The Paris agreement, which saw more than 190 countries pledge to keep global warming to "well below" that threshold, was a triumph of Gallic diplomacy.
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Why it matters: This is the first study to find that global warming to date has already affected the gap between rich and poor nations.
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BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. hedge fund managers began warming to President Donald Trump soon after his surprise election ignited a powerful stock market rally.
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PEOPLE WANT TO WRITE THIS SCRIPT, THAT IT IS INVESTORS WARMING TO A PRO GROWTH PLAYBOOK WHERE WE'VE GONE FROM DEFLATION SCARE TO INFLATION STORY.
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The latest solution to pick up traction in the area is to build on top of disused landfills and regulators are warming to the idea.
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But unless political leaders like Messrs Macron, Emanuel and Brown redouble their efforts, the prospect of keeping global warming to under 2°C looks poor.
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The effects of climate change will be irreversibleLate last year, world leaders forged an agreement to limit human-caused global warming to two degrees Celsius.
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Robust data showing that limiting global warming to the Paris targets of 1.5°C or 2°C would have significant, tangible benefits by reducing damage.
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The current greenhouse-gas reduction targets for each country outlined in the agreement will not be enough to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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In the 2015 Paris Agreement, governments agreed to keep global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, and to strive for a 1.5 degree limit.
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In the context of the agreed goal of global climate policy, which is to limit such warming to less than 2°C, this is significant.
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Even if viewers of her show don't immediately get up and clean something, it's incredibly satisfying — and often heart-warming—to watch others do so.
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Governments in 2015 agreed to limit warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, while pursuing efforts for a 1.5 Celsius limit.
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It outlines visions for bold climate actions towards deep decarbonization consistent with the Paris goal of limiting the warming to well below 28503 degrees Celsius.
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Polls suggest some may be warming to that message, but a similar approach to the 2018 midterm race yielded sweeping losses for the Republican Party.
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The growing importance of global warming to voters follows a broader trend that has seen increasing awareness of the effects of climate change, Leiserowitz said.
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Third, and knottiest of all, some governments are warming to the idea of weaponising the budget to resolve some of the EU's most intractable disputes.
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But given such findings, and now that Bernie Sanders has endorsed Hillary Clinton, don't expect global warming to take center stage in the fall fight.
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Limiting warming to the lower Paris Climate Goal could avoid 110 to 2,85033 annual heat-related deaths during extreme heat-events, depending on the city.
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The 2015 accord commits the world to limiting global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 2100.
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The goal component states that the nations collectively agree to try to hold global warming to between 85033 and 2˚C above pre-industrial levels.
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A United Nations panel of scientists released a report last week saying that we only have 12 years to keep global warming to moderate levels.
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Any Moscow talks involving the Taliban would be a remarkable display of Russia's recent warming to a group it has labeled as terrorist since 2003.
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However, it notes, the world likely won't be able to remove enough carbon dioxide with these technologies alone to limit warming to 2100 degrees Celsius.
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To limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius using BECCS, one estimate found that it would require biomass planted over an area larger than India.
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The draft lays out options on ways to implement the 2015 Paris pact which aims to limit global warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius.
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With a medium degree of confidence, the authors linked the contribution of human-caused warming to rising temperatures over the Western and Northern United States.
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This puts us well over halfway to the ambitious target of limiting warming to 1.5˚ C (2.7˚F) set in the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement.
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I've heard everything from being blamed for global warming to wondering why we'd do this to ourselves when we've already got the "perfect" family, etc.
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IN THE months following the release of "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006), the percentage of Americans attributing global warming to human activity rose from 41% to 50%.
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The organisers called for ambitious climate policies to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in line with goals set by the Paris Agreement in 2015.
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And in September 2018, one team estimated the contribution of global warming to the rainfall from Hurricane Florence even before it made landfall in the Carolinas.
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The Paris Agreement sets the bold goal of ridding the world of fossil fuel pollution this century -- and limiting warming to well below 218 degrees Celsius.
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ECONOMISTS seem to be warming to the idea that regional inequality is a problem, if only because it leads to political movements that threaten broader prosperity.
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Thousands of sea lion pups are coming ashore hungry while their mothers are forced by El Niño's warming to travel much farther than usual for food.
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Image: Jeff Robertson / APBarring some incredible new carbon capture technology, the window for limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius appears to have closed.
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This is especially true in articulating phenomena like global warming to climate change deniers or explaining racial bias and police brutality to blue lives matter crusaders.
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Over the course of just the past few weeks, the United States has gone from the world leader on fighting global warming to its biggest holdout.
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More than 400 firms including H&M, Coca-Cola and Sony have committed to a U.N.-backed initiative to help limit global warming to below 2C.
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"All pathways that limit global warming to 1.5°C with limited or no overshoot project the use of carbon dioxide removal (CDR)," according to the report.
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Emissions need to fall to 9.5 gigatonnes by 2050 to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures, IRENA said.
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Then, warming to her theme, she sought to debunk the idea that her long history as a figure of the political establishment eroded her progressive credentials.
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"Given the urgency for action indicated in the most recent IPCC special report on limiting warming to 1.5C, this work cannot wait any longer," she wrote.
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill looking to avert a partial government shutdown starting Saturday are warming to the possibility of passing a short-term, stopgap spending measure.
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Hoesung Lee, the IPCC's chairman, said there are "clear benefits" to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, in comparison to 2 degrees Celsius, another common benchmark.
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Its findings are even structured as if Mueller intended for lawmakers to use them in impeachment proceedings—an idea some top Democrats are finally warming to.
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The 2015 Paris Agreement set an overriding target of limiting warming to "well below" 2 degrees C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times, ideally just 1.5 (2.7F).
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Policymakers are pushing companies to do more to help meet a target, agreed in Paris in 2015, to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.
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That would have profound consequences on the United States' ability to ever meet the targets necessary to prevent the world from warming to a catastrophic degree.
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The treaty called for limiting human-caused global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by the year 2100.
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Almost 200 countries agreed -- barely -- to a "rulebook" governing the Paris Agreement on climate change, which is meant to help limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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That international agreement aims to limit human-caused global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial average through 2100.
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But now they are warming to the mission, believing that Islamic State is a threat to the existence of their country best fought outside Iran's borders.
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The Washington Post has a nice explanation of the evolution from global warming to climate change to what we have today: a mix of the two.
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"They changed their talking points and scrubbed them of climate change and global warming to say this is all about jobs and innovation," said the official.
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At COP24, this manifested in a fight over how to acknowledge the findings of the recent IPCC special report on limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Instead, much of the debate has been dominated by climate, with nearly every major party proposing its own plan to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees.
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The IEA has pointed out that its projections are not forecasts, but analyses of what might be required to limit global warming to various different ceilings.
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the emissions consistent with keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will have been used up by 2030.
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He serves as the co-chair of Trump's fundraising efforts in Texas and said that Republican contributors of all kinds are warming to the GOP nominee.
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The Paris climate agreement, signed by hundreds of countries in 220, aimed to limit future warming to 225 to 2 degrees Celsius below pre-industrial levels.
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Trump is warming to the argument from some advisers that his Environmental Protection Agency head is doing more harm than good in his much-investigated position.
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The study showed the advantages to be gained from limiting warming to 1.5 degrees: Thawing would be reduced by about 30 percent, or 750,000 square miles.
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Leaders should start by looking to the text of the Paris Agreement itself, where the world agreed to keep global warming to well below 85033 degrees.
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Nearly every country backed the Paris climate accord in 2015, agreeing to limit future warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and ideally to 1.5 degrees.
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The Marshall Islands declared a "climate crisis" and updated its commitments to try to reach the more ambitious target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Some central bankers are indeed warming to the idea of raising the BOJ's yield curve targets if rising inflation reflects a solid expansion in the economy.
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Within hours of Guterres' appeal, dozens of countries announced they would step up their efforts to curb global warming to help kick start stalled climate talks.
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Like President George W. Bush in the lead-up to the Iraq war, the Trump administration is warming to the more authoritarian governments of Central Europe.
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In addition, an area the size of Brazil being reforested offers the possibility of limiting warming to 1.5°C, the ultimate ambition of the Paris Agreement.
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And damned if it isn't incredibly festive and charming and heart-warming to watch them all ham it up to the only true modern Christmas classic.
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" Over a brief flutter of laughter from observers, he added, "That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.
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House Democrats have been slowly warming to the new trade agreement and some administration officials believed the deal could win passage by the end of the summer.
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Leaders from at least 175 countries came to New York to sign an international treaty that aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
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During the day, attendees nurse hangovers while taking part in seminars and roundtable discussions ranging from global warming to technological innovations and strategies to integrate recent immigrants.
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Varoufakis was especially proud of the party program, a 16-page document developed in consultation with members, covering everything from monetary policy to global warming to demilitarization.
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While the report says that limiting global warming to 21.5°C would reduce risks to marine biodiversity, fisheries, and ecosystems, and their functions and services to humans.
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The treaty commits nations to reducing emissions enough to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
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But it will not take a worst-case warming to deliver ravages dramatic enough to shake the casual sense that as time marches forward, life improves ineluctably.
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However, European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have suggested he is warming to trade talks with the EU, which unifies trade rules for all 28 states.
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Clinton says she will work to meet the terms of the Paris Agreement, in which 195 countries agreed to limit warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius.
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Image: NASA/GISSIn December, world leaders made an unprecedented agreement to limit human-caused global warming to 1.53 degrees Celsius, with a "reach" goal of 1.5 degrees.
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The Paris Agreement set goals of limiting global warming to "well below" 20163 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to preindustrial levels by the year 2100.
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President Donald Trump's promise to withdrawal from the Paris agreement has alarmed the science community, which has a goal to hold the planet's warming to a minimum.
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The Pope credits Saint Francis, known for his poverty and love of nature, in a 2015 encyclical urging action to halt global warming to safeguard the planet.
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Warming to his theme, he told his crowd that allowing immigrants to take jobs hurt black as well as white Americans, making it a "civil rights issue".
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The Sanders campaign is still fighting vigorously for every delegate that remains on the table, and his supporters have shown little sign of warming to his opponent.
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Participants vowed to meet the Paris agreement's target of limiting global warming to "well below" 21 degrees Celsius, or 25 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 22017.
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The airbag project also marks Daicel's first foray into foreign military markets and may be a sign that Japanese corporations are finally warming to defense-related exports.
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Y.) is warming to the idea of backing Pelosi's bid for Speaker, even after spending her first day on Capitol Hill protesting outside Pelosi's office (The Hill).
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He does have an ex-wife (Kate Lyn Sheil) and an adoptive sister (Wrenn Schmidt) who help give him dimension, but still, warming to him isn't easy.
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Limiting warming to only 2628 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is a key goal of the Paris climate deal, which the Trump administration is withdrawing from.
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Thankfully, the goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was added in the Paris Agreement, and was the inspiration for this report by the world's scientists.
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Wall Street economists are warming to the idea that the Fed may raise interest rates four or more times next year, moving faster than its current forecast.
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The pact contains the goal of limiting global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 43 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to preindustrial levels by the year 2100.
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It's an alarming shift, especially given that scientists recently warned that we are running out of time to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius this century.
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Today, President Trump supports increased coal production and has pledged to abandon the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius.
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PROFOUND IMPACTS: Even if the world manages to limit warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius, the ranges of most terrestrial species are projected to shrink profoundly.
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"I feel lucky that I could enjoy swimming," Ledecky said, warming to a theme that seems destined to become part of her platform as a public figure.
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To limit global warming to 1.5 degree C is "possible within the laws of chemistry and physics," said Jim Skea, co-chair of IPCC Working Group III.
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The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the world needs to cut global emissions in half by 2030 to limit warming to below 1.5 degrees.
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And there are chips that run various processes for computers, from the supercomputers used to create models for global warming to personal computers, internet servers and smartphones.
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"We have to do both adaptation for the warming to be expected, and as much mitigation as possible to be on the best possible path," Boucher said.
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Celebrity chef and vocal Trump critic José Andrés ripped the president Friday after he tweeted that the U.S. could use some "global warming" to combat cold weather.
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This is all part of the artistic process now, I told Sonia back at her apartment, warming to the notion as the chilled vodka hit my bloodstream.
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Corker has been seen as warming to Trump, praising the billionaire businessman's speech last month in Washington in which Trump outlined his "America first" foreign policy views.
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But polling suggests that up to a third of Welsh voters are warming to the idea as Brexit rumbles on and the specter of English nationalism rises.
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They might note that record hot days are becoming far more frequent than record cold days, and that no one expects global warming to eliminate snow altogether.
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It's an alarming shift, especially given that scientists recently warned that we are running out of time to limit global warming to 26 degrees Celsius this century.
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The longer the delay in reducing CO22010 emissions towards zero, the larger the likelihood of exceeding 1.50°C, and the heavier the implied reliance on net-negative emissions after mid-century to return warming to 22010°C And CDR is not a get-out-of-climate-change-free card: Limiting warming to 1.5°C still demands the rapid scale-up of technologies the world has never deployed at any appreciable scale.
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A landmark report released on Sunday sets the clock ticking for humanity and its quest to keep global warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels.
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To restrict global warming to less than 1.5 degrees — itself a "goal" with catastrophic environmental consequences — we have to find more ways to bring carbon emissions down, fast.
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The pleas for unity were frequent in Cleveland, led by House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, the top elected Republican, who has been slow in warming to Trump.
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LGIM said meeting the 2015 Paris climate agreement goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius would mean cutting fossil fuel use by a third by 2040.
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ET, were likely to show policymakers warming to the idea of an interest rate hike, after saying last month near-term risks to the economic outlook were diminished.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report on limiting global warming to 2100 degrees Celsius said we may have only until 22018 to avert catastrophic climate change.
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Far from retreading well-worn paths, many of the artists brought new takes on emergent and evolving issues, ranging from global warming to the construction of alternative identities.
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Failing to do so could jeopardize commitments made as part of the Paris climate agreement's goal of keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Under the agreement, more than 100 countries have committed to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels through 203.
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That's no mean feat considering the risk of data corruption or overwriting an important contact's information, which is why, says PieSync, companies are warming to the company's proposition.
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Back slaps and handshakes accompanied the inclusion of an aim to limit global warming to just 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in the Paris Agreement last year.
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Just when we're warming to the idea of her potentially getting together with Marilla, we get a flashback revealing Marilla's teenage romance with the now-deceased Mr. Blythe.
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The FAA made substantial headway with the Part 107 regulations, private businesses poured time and resources into developing technology, and Americans began warming to the idea of drones.
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Trump is using a common argument here: that scientists changed the term "global warming" to "climate change" because they couldn't support their claim that the world was warming.
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Key House Republicans are warming to a proposal aimed at bringing down ObamaCare premiums, raising the chances of legislative action this year to stabilize the health-care law.
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To have a chance of limiting warming to 2628 degrees Celsius by 28503 will require a level of political action that is harrowing and unprecedented in human history.
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Scientists have linked global warming to accelerating sea-level rise, shrinking sea ice, glacier retreat and extreme events like heat waves, the U.N. agency noted in its report.
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In fact, the speed with which New York's neighboring states have been warming to recreational weed caught the Cuomo administration by surprise, one state lawmaker suggested to VICE.
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You get the impression he always wanted to be that golden boy and felt stung by Britain never warming to him, ultimately through no fault of his own.
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Add mashed potatoes if you like, or a spinach salad, and see if you aren't warming to this business of cooking during the week, like, all the time.
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The panel's analysis concluded that limiting warming to 6900 degrees instead could, for example, mean the difference between survival and extinction for thousands of plant and animal species.
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Trump announced in 2017 he would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement, which seeks to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
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If most of the world's proposed new coal facilities are ultimately built, their output would far exceed the level required to limit global warming to 290 degrees Celsius.
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Republicans in Congress are also warming to the idea of continuing payments to insurance companies to help cover the out-of-pocket costs for people with low incomes.
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Ocean-based climate solutions could deliver as much as 21% of the emissions reductions needed to limit global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050.
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At present, voters are warming to Mayor Mike based almost entirely on his huge ad campaign, on which he has reportedly spent $200 million of his own money.
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But now, as a new generation of voters comes of age, an upswing of protests and extreme weather has pushed global warming to the top of voters' priorities.
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In these new models, there is only one socio-economic scenario that limits warming to 2 degrees, and it requires strong international cooperation and investment in sustainable development.
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This means we're already more than halfway to the temperature goals set by the Paris climate agreement, which aimed to limit warming to 22016 to 22017 degrees Celsius.
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Many fine words were spoken in 2015, as nations agreed at a summit in Paris to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures.
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The bad news is that the progress being made on RE is not enough to hold global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius, the agreed-upon global target.
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The report, which is expected in 2018, will have to address both the scientific feasibility of holding warming to 1.5°C—and the consequences if those efforts fail.
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Senior members of the movement said last week that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour's faction had shown signs of warming to the idea, and other groups were considering it.
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Under the Paris agreement on climate change, countries have pledged to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above industrial levels, with an aim of 1.5 degrees.
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Saudi Arabia might be warming to the idea, but any deal would mainly depend on a commitment by Iran to curb its plan to boost exports, the sources said.
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The confirmation hearing would also force Tillerson to develop positions on issues ranging from global warming to North Korea's nuclear program and US humanitarian aid in the developing world.
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A confirmation hearing would also force Tillerson to develop positions on issues ranging from global warming to North Korea's nuclear program and US humanitarian aid in the developing world.
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The bloc should not sign any free trade agreement with countries that do not uphold the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, the European Citizens' Initiative said.
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Even if the world can limit the warming to 2 degrees Celsius, the researchers predict that the number of lakes with intermittent ice will more than double to 35,300.
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First, if the world seriously intended to limit global warming to 2ºC, most of the coal, oil and gas reserves in the ground would be left "stranded", or unrecoverable.
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The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, with an ideal limit of 1.5 degrees, to stave off the worst impacts.
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The goal of the agreement is to limit warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels -- which is the fuzzy-ish threshold for especially dangerous climate change.
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That agreement calls for countries to limit global warming to "well below 2°C" of warming, relative to preindustrial levels, with an aspirational target of 1.5°C of warming.
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there's "no documented historic precedent" for the global economic and social changes required to limit warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.
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Now, Cruz seems to be warming to the idea too, assuming it comes down to a two-man race in which neither he nor Trump has reached 1,237 delegates.
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Robert Pittenger once handed out The Skeptical Environmentalist—a book that attempts to debunk man-made global warming—to his colleagues in the Legislative Commision on Global Climate Change.
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"Limiting warming to 1.5 C is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics but doing so would require unprecedented changes," IPCC co-chair Jim Skea admitted last year.
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Dunkirk director Christopher Nolan has had a bumpy road with the Academy, but with four prizes for Inception and three for Dunkirk, they're slowly warming to what he does.
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The UN climate deal struck last year in Paris to limit global warming to "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures also owes much to the earlier agreement.
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Emissions are falling short of targets that would limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the goal of the Paris climate accord, the report said.
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Still, whether the required reduction is 60 percent (to limit warming to two degrees) or 80 percent by 2050, improved technology can accelerate progress toward either of the targets.
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And agreements reached in Paris would not limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, he said, adding that carbon emissions were at peak levels in 2015 and would rise.
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Oracle: The second computer software name to report on Wednesday, Oracle seems to be benefiting from various industries warming to the cloud, so Cramer expects the company to deliver.
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BHP also supports pricing carbon dioxide emissions and a goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, both of which the Chamber has criticized.
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Today, with about a dozen speakeasies, from dives to high-class boîtes, locals are warming to imported ideas about elaborate cocktail recipes and the charms of Prohibition-era misbehaving.
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Republican senators on Sunday mulled over the possibility of first repealing and then replacing ObamaCare, an idea that the GOP originally rejected but seems to be warming to reluctantly.
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A recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the global steps needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius is a clarion call to action.
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Most scenarios for limiting total global warming to anywhere close to 25°C — the threshold broadly considered "dangerous" — envision global CO275 emissions peaking by 22 and falling sharply thereafter.
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Progressives are again at the margins, just as four years ago, and a fractured electorate is both warming to its poles and becoming fearful of how it might end.
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Fine writing, no matter how exquisite, has yet to make most people care enough about global warming to make the changes necessary to combat it or adapt to it.
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With the overall deal ratified, nations are now hashing out exactly how they will meet the goal of limiting global warming to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above the preindustrial level.
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The withdrawal is at odds with last year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that forecasts dire risks if emissions cause warming to exceed 1.5°C above historical averages.
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More than 20.9056 firms including IKEA, H&M, Coca-Cola and Sony have committed to a U.N.-backed initiative to help limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that a 40 to 70 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is needed by 2050 to limit warming to 85033 degrees Celsius.
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"Limiting warming to 1.5 C is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics but doing so would require unprecedented changes," U.N. climate scientist Jim Skea said in 2018.
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Building on those commitments is crucial, the combined strength of all the countries' current action plans still only limit global warming to somewhere between 2.7 and 3.7 degrees Celsius.
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The 2015 accord, backed by nearly 200 countries, aims to limit global warming to 2 degrees or less by 2100, mainly through pledges to cut carbon dioxide and emissions.
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United Nations scientists have said the world needs to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030, and must eliminate them by 2050 to limit warming to relatively safe levels.
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These changes can't be because of changes in Putin's behavior; his airstrikes slaughtering civilians in Syria and his close relationship with Iran can't possibly explain Republicans warming to him.
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The reality is that Trump's policies as he presented them today cannot be implemented if we are to have any hope of containing global warming to a somewhat manageable level.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported earlier this month that the world may have as little as 12 years to act to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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This is especially relevant since world leaders have committed to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, below preindustrial levels by the year 2100.
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At the Paris climate conference in December 2015, 195 countries adopted a legally binding deal aimed at avoiding dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to "well below" 2 Celsius.
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The Paris climate agreement, adopted by almost 200 nations in 2015, set a goal of limiting warming to "well below" a rise of 2 degrees Celcius above pre-industrial times.
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"The EU would have to provide some encouragement as well that it is warming to the idea for the pound to stage a rally in the coming weeks," they said.
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"From ocean acidification and ocean warming to plans for offshore oil exploration right on top of these new discoveries, the whole system is at risk from human impacts," Yager said.
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Globally, 232 firms that are collectively worth over $1393trn have committed to cut their carbon emissions in line with the accord's goal of limiting global warming to less than 2ºC.
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A century later the European Union's environment ministers (who at the time numbered among their members one Angela Merkel) adopted the aim of keeping global warming to below 2°C.
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The agreement requires nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above the preindustrial average.
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We're starting to see car companies flirt with the idea of shopping in a car, and it's easy to imagine them warming to the idea as cars become more autonomous.
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The goal of the Paris agreement is to limit global warming to 2628 degrees Celsius (28500 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, a somewhat arbitrary goal that policymakers centered upon.
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In December, governments around the world got together and grandly agreed to limit global warming to below 2℃ above pre-industrial levels—with a preference for keeping it below 1.5℃.
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The Paris agreement aims to curb greenhouse gas emissions by shifting away from fossil fuels to limit global warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial times.
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Earlier, Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said he was warming to the idea of holding a second referendum, arguing that another vote would see "Leave" win again and end the debate.
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A group of European researchers, Climate Action Tracker, tracks countries' progress towards the globally agreed aim of limiting warming to well below 2C and a more ambitious target of 1.5C.
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"From the refugee crisis worldwide, to the threat of global warming, to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction — the world's increasingly complex problems demand multilateral solutions," the senators wrote.
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Senate Democrats are warming to the idea of studying reparations for African Americans whose ancestors suffered economically as a result of slavery and decades of repressive Jim Crow-era laws.
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As of the end of last year, the warming to date was about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit over the entirety of Earth's surface, including the oceans, which pull down the average.
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Just at Smolka seemed to be warming to the striking Moreno took him to the ground where 'The Last Samurai' rewarded him with a series of elbows from the guard.
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From the moment he stepped foot in the White House, President Donald Trump has been dogged by his perceived warming to Russia and his open admiration of President Vladimir Putin.
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Warming to my new role as a pseudo philosopher, I would suggest that we do not see what is really there, but rather what we believe we should be seeing.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies are warming to mobilizing their mountains of accumulated cash for mergers and acquisitions but remain stubbornly resistant to wage increases, a Reuters poll showed on Monday.
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"Put it all together, though, and it feels like the investors are warming to speculative biotechs again, even with the tape showing signs of raggedness today," Cramer said on Tuesday.
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On Monday, the world's leading climate scientists are expected to release a report on how to protect civilization by limiting global warming to 6 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Under the 2015 accord, countries set out to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2100 at most, with a preferred target of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Next year, world leaders will meet for a formal dialogue to assess how their efforts stack up against the goal of limiting global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius.
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If the planet keeps warming to 2000 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the effects could include devastating floods and droughts and the permanent loss of the world's coral reefs.
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If that rate of tropical forest loss continues, the report said, it would be impossible for the world to keep global warming to below the goals of the Paris accord.
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The Trump Administration is now offering Maduro some form of amnesty if he steps down, and the Venezuelan opposition is warming to the prospects of peace talks with the government.
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The industry faces mounting pressure from investors and climate activists to meet the 2015 Paris climate goal of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.
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Charlie Dent, a leading moderate Republican who co-chairs the Tuesday Group moderates in the House, signaled last week he is also warming to Trump because he is not Cruz.
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"Limiting warming to 1.5 C is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics but doing so would require unprecedented changes," Jim Skea, a leading IPCC scientist, said last year.
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But with McGahn defying Democrats, impeachment was on the minds of many rank-and-file members — several of whom said they were warming to the idea of moving toward impeachment.
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Scientists had linked global warming to more frequent and intense extreme weather events, but until recently, it was difficult to attribute the destruction of any one storm to climate change.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported last year that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius this century would require the world to halve emissions by as soon as 2030.
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Under a scenario that would limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, oil company revenue could fall by more than $22 trillion over the next 25 years, Barclays predicted last year.
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Despite overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing overall because of greenhouse gases emissions, for years most scientists had said it was extremely difficult to link warming to specific events.
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A group of European researchers, Climate Action Tracker, tracks countries' progress toward the globally agreed aim of limiting warming to well below 2C and a more ambitious target of 1.5C.
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Congress is warming to the idea of revising part of a law — Section 230 — that, as it currently stands, protects tech platforms from legal liability for the content they host.
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That treaty, which went into force in November 2016, aims to keep global warming to well under 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through the year 2100.
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Leonard added that if countries did not submit stronger national goals before 2020, it would be "very hard" to deliver on the Paris Agreement's goals to limit warming to safer levels.
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Creating climate change – Back in 2012 he floated a conspiracy theory that blamed China for creating the "concept" of global warming to benefit the country's manufacturers and make U.S. companies noncompetitive.
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Even more is needed worldwide to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as agreed under the Paris climate deal which took effect last year.
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Even warming to half of that amount would create a planet that would have nothing to do with the one on which humans evolved, or on which civilization has been built.
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Under the Paris climate agreement, nations agreed in 2015 that they would take actions to limit global warming to 2°C while striving for the even tougher target of 1.5°C.
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But he said the Netherlands, like many other nations, would still struggle to meet its goals under the Paris deal, meant to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in 2050.
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The IPCC may have chosen to maintain optimism about containing warming to 2 degrees Celsius in the hopes that it'd spur people to action, but if so, it hasn't really worked.
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The Paris Agreement sets in motion a process for steep emissions cuts -- and it establishes the important goal of limiting warming to only 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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Mr Trump promised on the campaign trail to rip up the Paris Agreement on climate change, which aims to limit global warming to "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures.
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It also established a more ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, but that's likely now out of reach given that the planet has already warmed by about 1 degree.
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As of 2019, the prospect of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above 19th-century levels — which would avoid the worst consequences of climate change — looks dismal.
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The Paris Agreement, which entered into force in 2016, commits global leaders to holding global warming to "well below 2 degrees Celsius," or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 20183.
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That said, without the world's second largest carbon emitter chipping in, it will undoubtedly be harder to achieve the Paris Agreement's ultimate goal, of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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Unleashing that stored-up carbon dioxide and methane would obviously "derail efforts" to limit warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) as outlined in the Paris Agreement, the report says.
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"Limiting warming to 1.5 C is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics but doing so would require unprecedented changes," said Jim Skea, a leading IPCC scientist, in a statement.
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The study is based on the International Energy Agency's 450 Scenario to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius under which oil demand declines by 23 percent between 2020 and 20153.
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BP, like rival Royal Dutch Shell but unlike Exxon and Chevron, lent its support to last year's climate agreement in Paris that commits to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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The agreement, which went into force in 2016, aims to limit global warming to well under 2 degree Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to preindustrial levels by the year 2100.
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Another success of Paris is the recognition that the world should try to contain warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, or two degrees as a worst-case scenario.
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That's to have any reasonable shot of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the threshold world leaders have agreed is the absolute red line for climate change.
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An agreement reached late last year in Paris seeks to cut emissions, but it is not remotely ambitious enough to limit global warming to the degree Dr. Hansen regards as necessary.
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Under the treaty, which officially entered into force last November, nations agreed to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
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Limiting warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, the goal of the Paris climate agreement, would require coordinated global action that would have immense benefits for health, particularly for young people.
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"We need to decouple GDP and GHG emissions in China and India to have any chance of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures this century," Aden said.
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Worse, the assumed policy pushback doesn't even limit warming to the 1.5 degrees Celsius recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - for that even tougher political prescriptions could be needed.
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The company said this year it would improve disclosure around emissions and show how its investments meet the Paris climate goal to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius.
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Cutting greenhouse gas emissions would likely help: The study concluded that limiting total global warming to 1.5 degrees or 2 degrees Celsius would significantly reduce the vulnerability of hundreds of species.
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But the most consequential warming to Russia has come from the surging Five Star Movement, which now leads in the polls as Italy faces the prospect of elections late this year.
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.
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Humanity is now extremely unlikely to keep warming to the long-targeted 1.5 degrees Celsius, a target that would stave off many of the most severe effects of a changing climate.
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The campaign demands that political, business and finance leaders united behind the science by basing every policy and business decision on the need to limit global warming to 103ºC by 2100.
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Even if every country managed to meet its targets, the world would not be on track to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, the main goal in the Paris climate agreement.
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And the number of climate migrants could accelerate after 2050, unless there is urgent action to hold global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the report noted.
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It was reached in 2015 by nearly 200 countries with pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with a goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Last year's I.P.C.C. report noted that it may be impossible to limit warming to 1.5 degrees by 2100 through only a rapid switch to clean energy, electric cars and the like.
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Under the Paris climate agreement, 195 countries pledged to cut their greenhouse gas in an effort to hold global warming to two degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels.
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Pruitt hopes to recruit scientists who are skeptical of the role of greenhouse gases in global warming to provide a critique of mainstream reports on climate change, E&E News reports.
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Notwithstanding Britain's enduring alliance with the United States, some British voters see Trump as crude, volatile and opposed to their values on issues ranging from global warming to his treatment of women.
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The United Kingdom is a signatory to the 2015 Paris Agreement, which seeks to keep global warming to well below two degrees above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
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Whether the authors are correct in their baseline or not, the study's message isn't that it's time to rest on our laurels if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
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The Paris climate agreement, adopted by almost 200 nations in 2015, set a goal of capping temperature warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) before the turn of the century.
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When someone mentions wanting to cook or roast or mash something hearty and warming to eat in the middle of the bone-chilling winter months, we generally turn to the humble potato.
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When nearly 200 countries signed the Paris climate accord aimed at preventing catastrophic climate change, they agreed to limit warming to at least 20303 degrees Celsius, and ideally to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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But according to the new report, even an optimistic emissions scenario that limits global warming to two degrees Celsius could ultimately cause global sea levels to rise by 25 meters (82 feet).
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While progress is being made, a new United Nations report says that collectively countries aren't on track to contain global warming to the level set by leaders in the Paris Climate Agreement.
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The gap is larger, however, when looking at the more ambitious target in the Paris Agreement, which calls for holding warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels.
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The IPCC met last week in Incheon, South Korea to finalise the report, prepared at the request of governments in 22100 to assess the feasibility and importance of limiting warming to 22C.
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Attendees also reaffirmed their strong commitment to the terms of the pact, which was signed by nearly 200 countries and seeks to limit further global warming to no more than 2 degrees.
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The International Energy Agency, a forecaster, reckons that, if action to limit global warming to below 2°C accelerates in coming years, $1trn of oil assets could be stranded, ie, rendered obsolete.
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In particular, the agreement's goal of holding global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels may be put completely out of reach by this delay.
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The authors, spanning the globe from the United States to India, said they had produced the accessible guide for cities "because without them, there will be no limiting global warming to 1.5C".
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However, campaigners say this does not go far enough to meet pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate agreement to try to limit a rise in global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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But campaigners say this does not go far enough to meet pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate agreement to try to limit a rise in global warming to 20203 degrees Celsius.
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The resolution asks Exxon to disclose how resilient its portfolio and strategy would be under a globally agreed plan to restrict global warming to 2 degrees, as agreed in Paris in December.
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Under the Paris treaty, which entered into force last fall, world leaders agreed to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, or 20163 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
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"Limiting warming to 1.5 C is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics but doing so would require unprecedented changes," Jim Skea, an author of the report, said in a statement.
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On Thursday, however, the United Nation said greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 will exceed by 12 billion to 14 billion tonnes what is needed to keep global warming to the agreed target.
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Warming to his subject, and oblivious to occasional titters in the audience, Cole warned that February's flash of turbulence was just an appetiser for a "volatility revolution" that "will not be televised".
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If you find it suspect that Hispanics would be warming to the most anti-Latino and anti-immigrant president in history — during the government shutdown over the wall, no less — you're right.
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Conservation groups are linking the threat of global warming to health care and other prominent issues as they seek to win more support for candidates backing climate change policies in the midterms.
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A long, powerful section represented Brazil's history of slavery, and the culmination of the ceremony was a bald warning of the dangers of global warming to coastal cities like Rio de Janeiro.
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Slashing carbon emissions from transportation including freight is a key part of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which aims limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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China's success could energize worldwide efforts to limit global warming to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, or two degrees Celsius, above preindustrial levels, considered a difficult mission but critical for forestalling catastrophic environmental changes.
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What was also interesting is you see big tech is now actually warming to the idea of federal regulation because of the transaction costs of dealing with a bunch of statewide regulations.
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That would not be fast enough for the world to achieve the goal of the 2015 Paris climate agreement to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial Age levels.
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Meanwhile, Trump said he believes global warming to be a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese, and since his election, has proceeded to pack his cabinet full of those who deny climate change.
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A U.N.-backed panel of scientists has said limiting global warming to 1.5C would cost at least $830 billion a year but the cost of inaction is thought to be much higher.
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The IPCC met last week in Incheon, South Korea to finalize the report, prepared at the request of governments in 22100 to assess the feasibility and importance of limiting warming to 22C.
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Japan, while tentatively warming to China with Mr. Abe's recent visit to Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping, has made clear it will not concede on territorial disputes between the two countries.
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Oil and gas companies are under pressure from investors and climate activists to meet the 2015 Paris climate goal of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.
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For a start, they want to highlight the need to heed the warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on what is required to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
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That would bring Earth's average warming to around 2 degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-Industrial Revolution levels, which is the warming limit set by the historic Paris climate accords.
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Regardless of how much of the climate change problem you think is due to human activity, almost no one doubts that the Earth's atmosphere is in fact warming to our collective detriment.
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When nearly 1003 countries signed the Paris climate accord aimed at preventing catastrophic climate change, they agreed to limit warming to at least 2 degrees Celsius, and ideally to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Scientists who worked on the study concluded that we have a dozen years to change our economies radically if we are to keep the effects of global warming to even manageable proportions.
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That's the benchmark many scientists favor, because it has the potential to restrict planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — which would still be damaging but also radically different from, say, 2.5 degrees.
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The agreement, adopted by almost 203 nations, set a goal of limiting warming to "well below" a rise of 2C above pre-industrial times while "pursuing efforts" for the tougher 1.5C goal.
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The United States still draws roughly 30 percent of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, so many plug-ins still rely on a major contributor to global warming to charge up.
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Under the 2015 agreement, more than 200 nations committed to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and, if possible, to less than 1.5 degrees above.
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Although the text included a collective pledge to limit global warming to 1.5º-2ºC above pre-industrial temperatures, that ambition was not matched by the sum of national promises to cut emissions.
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This means cuts in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2531) will have to be even greater than expected to meet the Paris climate target of keeping global warming to less than 230℃.
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MEXICO CITY/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Foreign investors in Latin America are warming to Brazil as a promising turnaround bet while souring on Mexico and its landmark energy reform that has yet to deliver.
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In order to limit global warming to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels, analysts reckon that rich countries should stop operating coal plants by 2030, with the rest of the world following by 2050.
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"The speed of transitions and of technological change required to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels has been observed in the past within specific sectors and technologies," the report states.
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The costs spiral into the tens of trillions if you take into account effects on the entire global economy, and the fact that we're currently nowhere close to limiting warming to 2 degrees.
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Now many development economists are warming to higher education, pointing to the demand for graduates—as demonstrated by their wage premium—and to the positive effect of university-based research on the economy.
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If you add in global warming to heat the now-slower waterways to a temperature too high for the chinook, you have a combination ready to make the situation even worse, VandenHeuvel fears.
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Delegates from the country led a charge at the COP21 climate talks in Paris in December to push for the ambitious global target of holding warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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The U.S. president has said he aims to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, an international deal that seeks to hold global warming to relatively safe limits by cutting emissions.
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However, countries will have to reduce emissions by much more to achieve the agreement's overarching goal to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
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Because under the Paris agreement, countries agreed that the goal should be to limit warming to below 21003°C by 2100, with a nice-to-have target of capping warming at 1.5°C.
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It's not the goalpost-moving report that the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released two months ago about the need to limit warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (instead of 3.6 degrees).
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If we are to limit global warming to manageable temperatures, the older industrialized nations must emit no carbon by 2050; the whole world must be carbon-neutral by the end of the century.
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The Republican winner of the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump, says the Chinese came up with global warming to sabotage American industry; Ted Cruz, the victor in Iowa, reckons lefties cooked it up.
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The Paris climate agreement sets a goal of ending the fossil fuel era this century and to limit warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, ideally 1.5C.
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This resolution's sponsor, a group of New Jersey nuns, wants Exxon to support the Paris climate accords with a company policy that commits to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
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But Kipnis is taking the science of global warming to heart in a way that relatively few of us do, even in a "ground zero" location for climate change such as Miami Beach.
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Scientific advisers on the intergovernmental panel have acknowledged all pathways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees in the longer term will require some method to remove already-emitted CO2 from the atmosphere.
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The EU pledged to team up with China, the world's largest polluter, to achieve the goal of limiting global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned we have a little more than 10 years to limit warming to a level that can potentially avoid the worst catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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For cities to do their part to limit global warming to 1.5°C, the report says, they must limit their consumption-based emissions by 50 percent by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050.
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Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and John McCain of Arizona are still wild cards even as Collins and Murkowski have signaled they are warming to the proposal in recent days.
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In 2015, the US and China emerged as global leaders in the fight against climate change, orchestrating a deal aimed at limiting warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.
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The recent U.S. National Climate Assessment estimates future warming to cause up to 21625 billion lost labor hours annually by 2900 due to temperature extremes, costing an estimated $220006 billion in lost wages.
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Climate-change deniers have, over the years, accused scientists of changing the term—from global warming to climate change—because people were starting to catch on that it still gets extremely cold sometimes.
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The IPCC met last week in Incheon, South Korea to finalise the report, prepared at the request of governments in 21.5 to assess the feasibility and importance of limiting global warming to 270C.
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Yet the Honduran military, and the elites who supported the coup, held firm and with time, various actors within the US government began warming to the idea of keeping Zelaya out of power.
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The chances of meeting the Paris goal of limiting global warming to 2°C are receding since the U.S. withdrew and financial contributions of many signatories remain out of scale with the problem.
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Johnson likes to emphasize he's down with the kids in opposing the drug war and foreign wars, but his free market economics aren't quite in step with a generation that's warming to socialism.
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Background: Under the Paris climate agreement, 195 countries pledged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to hold global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels.
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Mark Eakin, who runs who runs NOAA's Coral Reef Watch program, told me that we'd likely need to keep total global warming to below 21997 degrees Celsius for coral reefs to continue thriving.
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So we would need more than 800,000 times our current annual direct air capture capacity by 2100 if we're going to rely on this method alone to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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While the world's nations have vowed, under the Paris climate agreement, to curb emissions in order to limit global warming to those lower levels, they are nowhere near on track to do so.
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Silicon Valley's warming to Warren comes as Wall Street Democrats on the opposite side of the country are threatening to sit out the election or even back Trump if she becomes the nominee.
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To achieve the Paris Climate Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times by 2100, emissions must fall by 2.7 percent every year between 2020 and 2030.
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Part of this is due to increasingly dire warnings from scientists, like the October 2018 IPCC report that found humanity has 12 years or less to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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From global warming, to advancements in artificial intelligence, to various political movements threatening the stability of global democracy, our newscasts and newsfeeds are filled by the minute with dire warnings and breathless predictions.
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Why it matters: Achieving global net-zero emissions by mid-century is a widely cited target in a steep uphill battle to meet the Paris agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C.
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Under the pact, countries pledged to hold global warming to "well below" 3.6 degrees (2 Celsius) of warming, and to aspire to keep it to 2.7 degrees (1.5 Celsius) compared to preindustrial levels.
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A Key Part of the Paris Climate Agreement Is Practically ObsoleteIn December, world leaders made an unprecedented agreement to limit human-caused global warming to…Read more ReadIn addition to concluding that "the window for limiting warming to below 1.5 degrees C with high probability and without temporarily exceeding that level already seems to have closed," the study found that the pledges outlined in the Paris Agreement will likely see global temperatures rise 2.6 to 3.1 degrees Celsius by 2100.
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The EIA's latest numbers starkly reveal where we are and just how far we have to go if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century.
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The United Nations body also pledged to pursue deeper cuts to meet the Paris Agreement's more ambitious goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels.
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This still would violate the commitment that world leaders made in the Paris agreement, which was to limit global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
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To reach this goal, or even to limit warming to 2°C, countries, states, and cities will have to accelerate every tool they have to ratchet back emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
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There is a small respite in the IPCC report: Researchers found that the greenhouse gas budget to limit warming to 1.5°C may be a bit larger than previously thought by about 300 gigatons.
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Leaders from nearly 200 nations signed a global pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, relative to preindustrial levels by 2100.
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And it doesn't help that US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to scrap the Paris Agreement, which aims to get the world to ditch fossil fuels and limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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According to a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in October, even if the world succeeds in limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, a series of dire climate impacts are unavoidable.
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Scientists have warned that the world would have to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by as soon as 2030 if the aim is to limit warming to just 1.5 degrees Celsius this century.
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"Pathways limiting global warming to 203 °C with no or limited overshoot would require rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems," it states.
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This equates to a drop in GDP by some 20173 percent, compared to limiting warming to around 2 degrees F. "That's just a pile of money we're throwing away by not mitigating," said Burke.
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Mr Tillerson supported the Paris climate agreement but also said that there was "no scientific basis" for limiting warming to 2ºC and warned that the world depended on fossil fuels for "our very survival".
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The report did find that if the planet was able to keep warming to 2.43 degrees Celsius or under, countries would have to reduce about 45% of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions by 2030.
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The fact that the Trump administration was visibly warming to Assad as of the beginning of this week underscores that improved relations with Washington won't offer much protection against the consequences of WMD use.
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A looming Brexit may even speed up ratification of the Paris deal to keep warming to less than 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures; optimists hope proceedings can be wrapped up early next year.
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Global emissions need to be 25% lower than this figure by 2030 in order to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius and 55% lower in order to limit to 1.5 degrees, the report claims.
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All the scenarios that the I.P.C.C. could come up with to limit warming to 1.5 degrees rely on some kind of "carbon-dioxide removal": essentially, technologies to suck CO 2 out of the air.
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The two countries have been warming to each other of late and King Salman's visit to Moscow in October this year marked the first ever state visit to Russia by a reigning Saudi monarch.
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Carlsberg said it had worked with an independent non-profit, the Carbon Trust, to set out science based targets for emissions reductions at levels which would help limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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The Paris Agreement seeks to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
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If the world's governments are unable to hold global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, then fire conditions like those experienced this summer could be four times more likely in the coming years.
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They seem to be warming to Mr. Rees-Mogg, who has transformed himself from a political curiosity to a front-runner for the leadership, finishing above Mr. Johnson in some surveys of party members.
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Also, Exxon didn't address what might happen if countries agreed to make considerably more aggressive cuts designed to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, as urged by the Paris agreement.
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The timeline here is aggressive, which makes sense given recent warnings from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that we are running out of time to limit warming to 20100 degrees Celsius.
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"Probably no other country would dare" to behave as France had, she said, warming to the topic as she faced a fake Mona Lisa in the Leonardo da Vinci Experience museum near the Vatican.
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Brodin urged companies and government leaders at Monday's United Nations-hosted Climate Action Summit in New York to commit to limiting global warming to 1.50 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit), as called for by scientists.
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Brodin urged companies and government leaders at Monday's United Nations-hosted Climate Action Summit in New York to commit to limiting global warming to 4000 degrees Celsius (21 Fahrenheit), as called for by scientists.
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Nations in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change vowed to cap emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels but are not on track to meet that goal.
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More recently, researchers figured out that in order to meet an even more ambitious goal laid out in the agreement — limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — countries needed to become carbon-neutral by 2050.
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And yet its goals of limiting warming this century to less than 2 degrees Celsius, with a more ambitious target of limiting warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius, are slipping further out of reach.
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The automaker, which has invested heavily in hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles as the most promising "green" alternative to conventional cars, also suggested that it was warming to the idea of producing more electric vehicles.
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Scientists have warned that the world would have to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by as soon as 2030 if the aim is to limit warming to just 1.5 degrees Celsius this century.
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Agreed by 195 countries in December, the accord is designed to slash greenhouse gas emissions and avert dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial times.
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Before the talks started, many expected that the deal would fall short of the detailed plan scientists have said is needed to limit global warming to well below a 2 degree-Celsius rise this century.
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Interestingly, the UNEP report notes that most scenarios limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less by 2100 foresee a reliance on as-yet unproven technologies that would yield actually remove carbon from the atmosphere.
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In a separate United Nations report released in October, scientists reported that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would require a gargantuan global effort — and that we have roughly 12 years to do it.
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"Overall, the idea that we can limit warming to 1.5°C is so ridiculous that it doesn't seem to even merit thinking about it," said Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University.
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The Paris Agreement seeks to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
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As part of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees, the bloc has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.
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Some Cubans express pity for the Cuban-American duo, seeing them as dupes of the Miami-based diaspora, which is traditionally hostile to Cuba's government (though it is warming to the idea of better relations).
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"When we take into account the financial impacts of efforts to cut emissions, we still find the expected value of financial assets is higher in a world that limits warming to 2°C," Dietz said.
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To prevent climate disaster within this century, we need to aim beyond the goals of the Paris agreement, which only commits signatories to capping warming to "well below 2 degrees Celsius" above pre-industrial levels.
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"Another four years of Trump would probably render futile any efforts to limit planetary warming to 1.5 [degrees Celsius], which is necessary to avert ever-more catastrophic climate-change impacts," he said in an email.
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Strict vegetarians and vegans may not be growing as an interest group, but Americans are warming to the idea that they should be eating more plants—not just for the environment, but their own health.
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And even if all the leaks are sealed, burning natural gas still produces greenhouse gases, so relying on natural gas may not move the planet fast enough to limit global warming to less dangerous levels.
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Britain's relationship with the United States is an enduring alliance, but some British voters see Trump as crude, volatile and opposed to their values on issues ranging from global warming to his treatment of women.
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The window of time is rapidly closing to reduce emissions and limit warming to no more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the goal set in the Paris climate accord.
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Warming to this theme, Mr Ren suggests that the management of Huawei—though they run one of China's largest companies and only global champion—are somewhat shielded from growing pressure to study Communist Party ideology.
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In the face of the vast economic fallout from the virus that the International Labour Organization (ILO) has warned could cost up to 25 million jobs globally, politicians and economists are warming to the idea.
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Some context: The Paris agreement committed more than 23 nations to a collective effort to limit the rise in global warming to well below 22008 degrees Celsius, or 21 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial temperatures.
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Over the course of 28500 events Weld has attended across the Granite State over the past year, he said there's been no evidence to suggest that Trump's voters are warming to him as an alternative.
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Climate hawks, along with numerous recent scientific and economic reports (including the IPCC's), emphasize that limiting global warming to 21˚C is still possible — physically and economically possible, with technology and resources we now possess.
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Secondly and consequently, the level of action and coordination necessary to limit global warming to 21.5˚C utterly dwarfs anything that has ever happened on any other large-scale problem that humanity has ever faced.
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A handful of polls released this week show independents and a growing share of Republicans warming to the nascent impeachment inquiry or expressing concern about Trump's request that Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
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But Mr. Erdogan faced a dilemma: Even as he was warming to Russia, he faced a Turkish public, not to mention the Syrian refugees within Turkey, angry over Russia's role in the bombing of Aleppo.
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Researchers have said that to limit global warming to 153 degrees Celsius, the world needs to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in half by 215, a goal that is far beyond most countries' current commitments.
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Even if every country managed to meet their current climate goals, the world would not be on track to limit warming to at least 2 degrees Celsius, the main goal in the Paris climate agreement.
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Before the talks started, many expected that the deal would fall short of the detailed plan scientists have said is needed to limit global warming to well below a 2 degree-Celsius rise this century.
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Kyte said there is urgency around these aims, particularly in the wake of December's Paris climate change agreement, which commits the world to keeping global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.
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The complaint comes just as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is on a Pacific tour focused on climate change, flagging that the world was "not on track" to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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KATOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - British broadcaster and environmentalist David Attenborough on Monday urged world leaders, meeting in Poland to agree ways to limit global warming, to get on and tackle "our greatest threat in thousands of years".
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A global climate summit in Paris last December set a goal of limiting global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (1203 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, while leaving open precisely how this would be achieved.
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He said that's why the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has called for reducing natural gas in the coming decades in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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And while conservative Republicans are warming to the idea that climate change is happening, only 26% of them acknowledge it's mostly humans who are causing the problem by burning fossil fuels and chopping down rain forests.
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Take the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a green treaty adopted in 1992, under which the Paris agreement to limit global warming to "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures was adopted in 2015.
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The feud between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the central bank has knocked confidence in the bank's independence, though the president had seemed to be warming to the idea of raising rates to help the struggling lira.
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The draft estimated that humanity could emit just 580 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to give a better than 50 percent chance of limiting warming to 1.5C - roughly 12-16 years at current rates of emissions.
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Limiting warming to this ambitious mark, however, is now nearly impossible, which means trains (and the metal rails they ride on) will almost certainly feel the heat — heat that now regularly breaks or smashes historical records.
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According to its findings, the world will face dire threats to civilization and ecological stability as early as 22008 unless we can reduce carbon emissions enough to restrict global warming to less than 20403 degrees Celsius.
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That treaty, which more than 100 countries, including the United States, are expected to sign at a U.N. ceremony on Earth Day, sets the goal of limiting warming to 23 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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But even in a best-case scenario where we fundamentally change our modes of production and limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, our oceans will continue to warm and expand for decades.
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"Limiting warming to 1.5ºC is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics but doing so would require unprecedented changes," said Jim Skea, co-chair of the IPCC working group that focuses on mitigating climate change.
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December's Paris accord, by almost 200 nations, aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions by shifting away from fossil fuels to limit global warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial times.
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The drafts show that there has been compromise in some areas, such as language to recognise the importance of a U.N. report on limiting global warming to 1.5C which caused rifts last week, and on finance.
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Trump has announced he will pull out of the Paris climate agreement under which 195 countries pledged to try to keep global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
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Mark Eakin, who runs who runs NOAA's Coral Reef Watch program, told me back in March that we'd likely need to keep total global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius for coral reefs to continue thriving.
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Republican Donald Trump, on the other hand, has an aura of uncertainty, with a volatile personality and changing views on key issues, though some on Wall Street are warming to his tax proposals and economic plan.
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The draft estimated that humanity could emit just 580 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to give a better than 50 percent chance of limiting warming to 1.5C - roughly 12-16 years at current rates of emissions.
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World leaders are working to keep global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2400 to avoid dangerous changes in sea level rise, extreme weather events and other effects.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in its most recent assessment that we need to cut carbon emissions drastically and immediately to hold warming to the moderate levels that will prevent the worst impacts.
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In addition, U.S. withdrawal could make it more difficult for the world to meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
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His warning comes on the heels of last week's alarming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warning that we only have 12 years to make changes massive enough to keep global warming to moderate levels.
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GENEVA, Oct 203 (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions are on course to be about 220 percent above the level needed to keep global warming to an internationally agreed target in 265, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Scientists are most confident in tying human-induced warming to extreme weather for heat waves and cold snaps, since there are plenty of historical data and simulating them with models is relatively easy, the report said.
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Earlier this month, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned the world would have to make "unprecedented" changes to meet the target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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The meetings in Morocco will lay the groundwork for the next few years of climate action, and can help raise ambition to make sure we all do our part in limiting global warming to safe levels.
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Even Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) seems to be warming to the idea.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Activist investors in Japan may be struggling to get companies to embrace their proposals but are optimistic that management is warming to shareholder activism that will likely shape more of Corporate Japan's decision making.
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In October, a landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have 12 years to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, or we will face devastating consequences.
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Last year, the organization detailed the extraordinary difficulty of limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius), over the next 80 years, and the grim consequences that will result even if that goal is met.
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The United Nations sees limiting aircraft pollution as a step toward keeping global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels, a goal set out in the Paris agreement.
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OECD studies suggest annual debt issuance will need to rise to between $620-$720 billion by 2035 if world leaders are going to meet their 2015 pledge to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.
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Keeping the increase in global warming to below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), which most scientists believe is the tipping point for catastrophic changes to the earth's natural systems, "would become impossible," Professor Oppenheimer said.
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We have just 12 years to make massive and unprecedented changes to global energy infrastructure to limit global warming to moderate levels, the United Nation's climate science body said in a monumental new report released Sunday.
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That includes chief of staff John Kelly, who twice intervened when it appeared Trump was warming to moderate immigration deals, and Stephen Miller, the senior policy adviser who has repeatedly encouraged a harder line in negotiations.
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The duration of the sessions could point to an effort by White House officials to create an impression that Republicans are warming to Judge Garland as Democrats search for cracks in the opposition to his nomination.
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Related: The business and political elites who gather each year at Davos appear to be warming to Mr. Trump, even if some may roll their eyes behind his back, writes our DealBook columnist, Andrew Ross Sorkin.
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That those on the right seemed to be warming to Russia was not seen as a particularly unusual development, though some joked about the incongruity of the left putting such faith in the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Per Variety: Lindelof mostly dodged the question just like everyone else with the exception of King, whose "absolutely" might've just wishful thinking, but it sounds like he's at least warming to the idea of future seasons.
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Equinor's so-called Renewable energy scenario consistent with the Paris pact's goal of limiting warming to less than 1053 degrees Celsius requires cumulative CO2 emissions at a little more than 770 gigatonnes (Gt) between 2017 and 26.
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Equinor's so-called Renewable energy scenario consistent with the Paris pact's goal of limiting warming to less than 2118 degrees Celsius requires cumulative CO22050 emissions at a little more than 214 gigatonnes (Gt) between 238 and 280.
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Climate campaigners hoped the initiative could help raise awareness about rising temperatures, with nations at the 2015 Paris climate talks agreeing to try to limit a rise in global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Campaign groups said the release undercuts Barack Obama's efforts to slow the rate of global warming to avoid a tipping point and live up to U.S. commitments to a historic climate accord agreed in Paris last month.
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" Sven Harmeling, climate change advocacy coordinator, CARE International "Although we have seen a great amount of global commitment to tackle climate change, current national action plans are not ambitious enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
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Donald Trump's fight to stop U.S. companies from moving jobs overseas is garnering support from an unlikely group of American voters: Non-Republicans, who are warming to the idea of the president-elect in the White House.
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A study published in 2013 estimates that in order to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, the average individual carbon footprint needs to be brought down to 2.1 metric tons of CO2 per year by 2050.
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The way she sees it, factor investing isn't a new phenomenon; people are just warming to it as they realize it's worth missing out on potential stock-market gains if it means opting out of major drops.
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Why it matters: IEA's finding arrived as a United Nations science panel unveiled a major report concluding that large emissions cuts are needed in coming years to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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On Sunday evening eastern time, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is scheduled to release its special report on the risks and benefits of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, or 2.7°F, above preindustrial levels.
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The country has committed to reducing its emissions 37% by 2025 compared to 2005 levels, and pledged additional pollution cuts by 2030, to help limit future global warming to at least 2 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Emissions from coal combustion have accounted for over 0.3°C of the nearly 1°C increase in global average surface temperatures so far, the report says, making coal the "single largest source" of global warming to date.
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The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said last year that carbon dioxide emissions would need to fall by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 and reach "net zero" around 2050 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees.
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According to InsideClimate, the Koch brothers-backed think tank recently mailed a second edition of its report on the "unsettled" science of global warming to thousands of American science teachers—much to the horror of educators nationwide.
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China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters that Trump's previous claims that the country had created global warming to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive simply couldn't be true because other Republican presidents worked on climate negotiations.
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This finding, which comes from the nonprofit research and journalism organization Climate Central, is significant, since world leaders are working to try to hold global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, through 2100.
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Solving human-caused global warming requires cooperation between the countries responsible for the majority of global warming to-date, such as the United States, and the fast-growing nations representing the emissions of tomorrow, such as India.
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Their objective: to limit global warming to 7003 to 2 degrees Celsius (2.7 to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures, or equivalently about 0.5 to 1.0°C (0.9 to 1.8°F) above the current global average temperature.
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"There is no realistic possibility of tracing any particular alleged effect of global warming to any particular emissions by any specific person, entity, group at any particular point in time," wrote US District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong.
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Equinor's so-called Renewable energy scenario consistent with the Paris pact's goal of limiting warming to less than 22050 degrees Celsius requires cumulative CO214 emissions at a little more than 238 gigatonnes (Gt) between 280 and 143.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an independent international body of climate scientists, will issue a report next year looking at how the Paris Agreement aim of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius might be achieved.
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Clearly it's going to take significant and swift action to hold warming to such levels, and numerous reports have been published showing that the emissions reductions contained in the Paris Agreement itself won't get the job done.
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The threshold is relevant since the Paris Climate Agreement specifies that countries should work to keep human-caused global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, or 21.5 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by the year 21.33.
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Months of youth climate protests and bleak warnings from U.N. scientists that more is needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius helped propel Green parties to their strongest showing yet in May's European Parliament elections.
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The global scientific consensus suggests that, in order to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, high-emitting countries must reach net zero emissions by 2050—which means all industries have to start drastically reducing carbon emissions immediately.
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That would be far above goals set in 2015 by almost 200 nations under the Paris climate agreement to limit warming to "well below" 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times by phasing out fossil fuels this century.
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Yet progress has still been modest since the Paris deal agreed by almost 200 nations came into force in November last year, aiming to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
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The latest figures suggested investors were warming to the president's budget proposal, unveiled last week, which calls for $200 billion in federal infrastructure funds with hopes to leverage $800 billion more in private and state government investments.
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European countries are among the first big nations to try to switch away from fossil fuels as part of a global attempt to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, under the Paris climate agreement.
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Unsurprisingly, big oil players like BP or Total have little incentive to give this type of detail, or explain how their plans comply with the Paris Agreement to restrict global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
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But a bitter dispute erupted over how to treat the scientific findings of a flagship report, requested by the talks, on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F), the lower goal set in the Paris pact.
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Global brands including H&M, Coca-Cola and Sony have also committed to science-based targets, which aim to help limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius - the goal set in the 2015 Paris agreement.
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Under the Paris climate agreement, nations set a goal of limiting warming to 3.6°F, or 2 °C, increase in global average temperatures, with ambitions of a stricter limit of 2.7°F, or 1.5°C of warming.
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"All assessed modeled pathways that limit warming to 1.5ºC or well below 2°C require land-based mitigation and land-use change, with most including different combinations of reforestation, afforestation, reduced deforestation, and bioenergy," per the report.
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Greenpeace Russia said the strategy was welcome but "modest", adding the measures were not enough for Russia to make an "adequate contribution" towards a global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.
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To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees and avoid some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change, experts say we have to go beyond reducing emissions and start pulling carbon dioxide directly out of the air.
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"Why not respond to news that the planet is warming to uninhabitable levels by matching your hair to your parka to your nails to your sunglasses to your shoes and socks," Ms. Petrusich wrote, not altogether facetiously.
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Van Beurden said he supports the transition to cleaner power sources, saying it is necessary to achieve climate goals adopted by most of the world to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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For the world to meet the goal of keeping the increase in global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit from preindustrial days, global greenhouse gas emissions must be zero before 2050, and earlier for advanced economies like ours.
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The daughter of Mexican-American immigrants, Cisneros said that residents in the largely Hispanic district, which is centered in Laredo and stretches from the San Antonio suburbs to the U.S.-Mexico border, are warming to liberal policies.
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One month ago, I watched the president and other heads of state in Paris do what was unthinkable only a year ago: they signed an agreement to stem the rise in global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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In between short-term weather events and long-term climate trends there's another force to consider: natural circulation patterns in the atmosphere, which can work with or against global warming to counteract or compound Arctic ice melt.
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Even if the world manages to hit the IPCC target of limiting global warming to 25 degrees Celsius by 2000, the report found that around 25 percent of the permafrost near the surface could still be lost.
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Correction: This story focuses on a scenario from climate scientist Joeri Rogelj, which would give us a 66 percent chance at limiting warming to 2 degrees, which would requires no emissions by 2065, followed by negative emissions.
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One of the people said the commerce ministry met with automakers this week to discuss the market and ways to spur growth, which included purchase tax cuts - a signal the central government may be warming to the idea.
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The Paris Agreement, which went into force in 2016, calls for nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 2100.
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But if humanity can somehow escape the proverbial coal mine in time and hold warming to the Paris Accord target of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7˚F), 76% of the most vulnerable species should survive, the Audubon study states.
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The deal, agreed by nearly 200 countries in Paris last December, aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions by shifting away from fossil fuels to limit global warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times.
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This is particularly relevant since the Paris Agreement on climate change specifies that countries should work to keep human-caused global warming to under 20.97 degrees Celsius, or 21981 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by the year 22010.
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" Warming to his theme, he decided that the leaked e-mails confirm that Mrs Clinton is the "vessel" of a "criminal government cartel [that] doesn't recognise borders but believes in global governance, unlimited immigration and rule by corporations.
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Jeff and Karen get drawn into the intrigue -- the former in a constant state of panic, the latter oddly warming to it -- while the Joneses aren't entirely immune from having Jeff's corporate counseling skills rub off on them.
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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if we want to preserve a better-than-50-percent chance of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius, we can only emit another 1,000 billion tons of CO2 at most.
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Limiting global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius compared to 2 degrees - the higher target in the Paris pact - could reduce the proportion of the world's population exposed to increasing water stress by up to half, the report noted.
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ABOUT THE RANGERS (1-33-0): Mika Zibanejad is warming to the challenge of even more responsibility as the No. 1 center by recording at least one goal in every game and four overall in the early going.
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Its key message, which reverberated around the world, was that humanity still has a shot at limiting warming to 22050°C, and thereby avoiding further catastrophe in the form of disease, famine, water scarcity, and sea-level rise.
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His comments also come just five days after a United Nations panel on climate change said humanity has just 12 years to make massive and unprecedented changes to global energy infrastructure to limit global warming to moderate levels.
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That's is enough warming to set in motion a cascade of impacts for centuries to come, according to the new study, "The eventual magnitude as well as the rate of change is still in our hands," Levermann said.
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Our nation also played a pivotal role in forging the historic Paris climate agreement, in which nearly 22019 nations committed to emissions reductions with the aim of containing global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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"Limiting global warming to 1.5°C instead of 2°C could result in around 420 million fewer people being frequently exposed to extreme heatwaves, and about 23 million fewer people being exposed to exceptional heatwaves," the report said.
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Britain's so-called special relationship with the United States is an enduring alliance, but some British voters see Trump as crude, volatile and opposed to their values on issues ranging from global warming to his treatment of women.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees to give vulnerable populations even a 50 percent chance of surviving the impact of climate change, the former United Nations climate chief said on Friday.
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Activist investors have been pressing oil companies to commit to fixed emissions targets and align with the Paris climate agreement that limits global temperature warming to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) before the turn of the century.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese households, traditional savers with an aversion to debt, are rapidly warming to the idea of borrowing to buy a car, as automakers push financing deals to boost sales and margins in an increasingly competitive market.
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Separately, 245 U.S. mayors so far have pledged to intensify their local climate efforts to meet the Paris agreement's aspirational goal to keep global warming to 33 degrees Celsius, or 23 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 22.
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Rio didn't squander the opportunity to highlight climate change: in the opening ceremony, it broadcast a video about global warming to a global audience of billions, boosting the profile of the issue to an extent it rarely receives.
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At the upcoming meeting in Hamburg, Germany, G-2202 countries must show they are serious about keeping global warming to 2628 degrees Celsius — they must pledge to end their public support for fossil fuels once and for all.
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The announcement came just after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that the world may have as little as 0003 years to act to limit global warming to 2000 degrees Celsius, and Exxon's news got somewhat buried.
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Hendricks teed off on Lawler and just when he looked like he warming to the exchanges, the ATT man was forced to the canvas where he was forced to watch his welterweight championship dreams stroll away from reality.
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The remarks came shortly after Hurricane Michael tore through Florida and as an international panel of scientists warned that the world may have as little as 0003 years to act to limit global warming to 2000 degrees Celsius.
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Even at the time of its signing, countries knew that the Paris agreement wouldn't be enough to limit warming to 43 degrees Celsius this century, so the expectation was that signatories would ramp up their commitments over time.
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My article focused on a clash between a high school science teacher and his students, in a town in southeastern Ohio coal country, over the broad scientific consensus that human activities are causing dangerous warming to the planet.
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That's wise, because it's almost certain global civilization will blow through the warming limit set by the historic U.N. Paris climate agreement, which seeks to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 Fahrenheit, above 19th-century levels.
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The study shows that if actions are taken to stabilize carbon emissions and hold global warming to the Paris Accord standard of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), then 76 percent of the vulnerable bird species will survive.
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It said the new investment vehicle, which is called the FTSE TPI Climate Transition Index, is the first to use data to track whether companies are aligned with the goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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But average world temperatures are still on track to rise far above the key goal set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.53 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, it said.
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Throughout the decade, climate change deniers like President Donald Trump have been claiming that "they" (whoever the fuck "they" are) changed the name of environmental collapse from "global warming" to "climate change" because the earth isn't getting warmer.
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Prime Minister Najib Razak's ruling coalition — the United Malays National Organisation or UMNO — has been warming to PAS, a group that aims to increase the power of Sharia courts and impose Sharia-based punishments for certain criminal offenses.
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And for the planet as a whole, time is rapidly running out for humanity to drastically cut its greenhouse gas emissions to limit this century's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the more ambitious target of the Paris agreement.
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If the world seriously intended to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, he said, most of Earth's coal, oil and gas reserves would need to remain in the ground, rendering a substantial bulk of those assets worthless.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in early October reported that it is still possible to limit average global warming to 1.5°C, or 2.7°F — the more ambitious target under the Paris climate agreement — this century.
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Trump said Thursday he will fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the US from the agreement, which aims to put the world on a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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In 210063, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that it is possible to limit global warming to 210053 degrees Celsius this century, but the world may have as little as 210043 years left to act.
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Johnson, former governor of New Mexico, likes to emphasize he's down with the kids in opposing the drug war and foreign wars, but his free market economics aren't quite in step with a generation that's warming to socialism.
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What they found: The amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted by human activities before putting the goals of limiting warming to under 2℃, or 3.6℉, out of reach is about 25% less than what was previously calculated.
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Gary Cohn has privately said he's warming to the idea of eliminating the local and state tax deduction to pay for tax cuts and simplify the code, according to sources familiar with the thinking of president's top economic advisor.
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However, emissions in 22 will need to be around 25 percent and 55 percent lower than last year to put the world on track to limit global warming to 2 degrees and 1.5 degrees Celsius respectively, the report said.
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That is when China will host the UN convention on biodiversity to set new 20-year targets and when the signatories of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep global warming to less than 2 degrees will revise their commitments.
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The 2015 Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
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Failure to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) or less, compared to pre-industrial times, would likely lead to worsening water and food shortages, rising poverty, more destructive disasters and accelerating natural losses, scientists warned.
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The U.N.-backed Paris climate agreement aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions, produced mostly by burning fossil fuels, to net zero by the end of the century in order to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius.
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The U.N.-backed Paris climate agreement aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions, produced mostly by burning fossil fuels, to net zero by the end of the century in order to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius.
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This contrasts with the sharp reduction in emissions needed to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which saw 197 parties agree to limit global warming to well below 2℃, and ideally 1.5℃, relative to pre-industrial temperatures.
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A previous IPCC report, published in 2018, on the feasibility of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, made it abundantly clear that this would require large amounts of greenhouse gases be removed from the atmosphere and somehow stored away.
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Similar to past years, the analysis shows a gap between what countries have pledged to do or have already done and what's still needed to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius, the temperature goal of the Paris climate agreement.
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According to a recent special climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, there are only a few decades left, at most, to keep future warming to 1.5 degrees, and even then some dire climate impacts are unavoidable.
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Threat level: The slowdown comes as global carbon emissions are still rising — a far cry from the steep cuts scientists say are needed in coming decades to limit warming to 1.5°C or even 2°C above preindustrial levels.
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Last month, leaders of 33 countries met to sign the Paris Climate Agreement, which resolves to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, a ceiling that will hopefully allow us to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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It was also a signatory to a letter by investors sent to the International Energy Agency asking it to develop a forecasting model to take into account the lower emissions necessary to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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But with more studios warming to the idea of long-term franchise-building, there's not as much freedom to operate during the all-important spring and summer months, when school's out and many people seek respite from the heat.
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Simply put: The laws of the physical universe say that we can keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the optimistic goal set out in the Paris Agreement, but we're quickly running out of time.
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The lack of effective oversight could make it harder to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement — specifically the temperature target of limiting warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
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The Paris agreement seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, most of which come from the burning of fossil fuels, to a net zero by the end of the century to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius.
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The plan — which was even signed by North Korea — hopes to limit warming to less than 22 degrees Celsius (about 22017 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, back in the 1.53s when the atmosphere had substantially less carbon pollution.
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Reports suggest Trump is set to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the US from the agreement, which aims to put the world on a path to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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Worldwide, green investments in cities - from electric vehicles to low-carbon buildings - will be crucial if nations are to reduce emissions enough to keep global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, as agreed in the 2015 Paris accord.
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World leaders hope to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century over preindustrial levels under a treaty signed Friday, an unrealistic goal that might leave the earth warmer than it was during the Eemian.
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"This decarbonisation must start now and targets improved along the way, because without concrete, urgent measures to cut emissions from shipping now, the Paris ambition to limit warming to 202 degrees will become swiftly out of reach," Frank said.
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A 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calculated that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees would require cutting global human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide by half by 2030 and reaching "net zero" emissions around 2050.
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Like the surgeon general's 000 report connecting smoking to lung cancer, the report from the National Academies connects global warming to the increased risk and severity of certain classes of extreme weather, including some heat waves, floods and drought.
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And interest in geoengineering as a possible climate short-cut may rise because governments are not on track to limit global warming to goals set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to avert floods, heat waves and rising seas.
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Perhaps warming to his new role as a sports logo truther, Will contends that the red area looks literally nothing like any 1 he has ever seen and grows angry at our insistence that it sort of does, actually.
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A global climate agreement reached in Paris last December commits both rich and poor countries to hold a rise in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius and to try and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
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In related news: The findings relate to another study published in Science on Thursday that looked at a staggering number of species — 115,000 — to see how limiting global warming to different levels would vary in their impacts on species.
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To focus on the telic is to focus, all too often, on the distance and precariousness of our goals: to provide health care for all, to halt the resurgence of white supremacy, to limit global warming to 2 degrees.
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Trump could laugh off the scorn of people like Kirk and Armitage if he were riding a wave of populism to the White House, but there's mounting evidence that people outside of DC aren't warming to his schtick either.
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One study estimates that by 2050 aviation could take up 25 percent of the carbon emissions allowed if the world hopes to meet the Paris Climate Agreement's goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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Of the fossil fuels, the report found that coal production is the furthest off track -- the world is expected to produce 150% more coal in 2030 than is allowed to keep global warming to no more than 2 degrees.
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The Paris Agreement -- the international treaty on climate change, which admittedly is in trouble, but also is the best thing we've got -- sets the goal of limiting warming to 1.5 or, at most, below 21 degrees Celsius of warming.
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Even if the world manages to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F), the negative effects would still double between 2041 and 2070, they said, urging farmers to adapt by using water more efficiently and altering planting schedules.
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What happens with global fossil fuel emissions — and therefore our ability to contain global warming to at or below 2 degrees Celsius or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels — will hinge on what happens in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Projections show that oceans will rise on average by 21 to 250 feet across the globe by 22, which would expose 30 to 60 million people worldwide to flooding, assuming we can keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Critics say this route, which is similar to using expired banknotes in a modern market, means greenhouse gases won't be lowered at the rate needed to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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His quest for power is motivated by an obsession with a dead woman, Catelyn Stark, who never requited his affections, and then by a fixation on her daughter Sansa, who shows no signs of warming to him romantically either.
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The Paris agreement seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, most of which come from the burning of fossil fuels, to a net zero by the end of the century to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius.
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There has been compromise in some areas, such as tweaking language to recognize the importance of a report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on limiting global warming to 1.5C, which caused rifts last week.
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The Paris accord, reached by nearly 200 countries in 2015, was meant to limit global warming to 2 degrees or less by 2100, mainly through country pledges to cut carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
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But "there is no guarantee that these partnerships will evolve or cohere into the type of service delivery and climate governance system that could steer the change on a scale required to limit to warming to 1.5C", the report warned.
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The El Niño event combined with the effects of human-caused global warming to send ocean temperatures soaring to record levels around the world, with widespread coral reef mortality found this week on parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, for example.
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After a lacklustre start, however, Svitolina began warming to her task and found some range and depth to fashion two break-back points but Stephens' forehand was dialed in and she moved 3-0 ahead when the Ukrainian's backhand faltered.
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REUTERS INVESTIGATES: While Duterte fights a war on drugs, China is the main source of narcotics Even as he wages a brutal drug crackdown at home, Duterte is warming to China, the main source of the methamphetamine consumed in his country.
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The bottom line: "Limiting warming to 1.5ºC is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics but doing so would require unprecedented changes," notes a statement from Jim Skea of the Imperial College of London, who helped write the report.
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Although 20123-odd countries signed up to limit warming to "well below" 2ºC above pre-industrial temperatures in Paris in 2015, pledges for mitigating action are likely to see temperatures increase by around 3ºC—assuming countries stick to their promises.
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Cities need to at least halve their emissions - already 10% of the global total - by 2030 to have a chance of keeping global warming to 1.5°C, it said, by transforming their use of food, clothing, electronics, transport and building methods.
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The Paris accord, signed by nearly 200 countries in 2015, was meant to limit global warming to 2 degrees or less by 2100, mainly through country pledges to cut carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
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The intervention is the single largest on the topic to date, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change said, as talks continue in the Polish city of Katowice to agree how to slow global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.
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There's only so much carbon the world can pump into the atmosphere before we're assured of screwing up the targets set in the Paris Agreement, which aims to limit warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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It was rather heart-warming to hear the nostalgic, faintly defiant cheers for George W. from a crowd of cautious, quietly prosperous Republicans who do not want a thuggish property tycoon to rip America up and make it great again.
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The 2019 resolution calls on the companies to set and publish targets for the reduction of carbon emissions in line with the 2015 Paris Climate Accords to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
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The photographer's monthlong stay ended only a few weeks before the COP21 climate change summit in Paris, where world leaders agreed to a monumental deal to try to cut carbon emissions and limit warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
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The EU, the world's third-largest emitter, has pledged to team up with China, world's largest polluter, to defend the Paris climate pact's goal of limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
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The joint actions mark the culmination of one of the most consequential partnerships of the Obama presidency, in which the two biggest emitters in the world have overcome decades of disagreements about global warming to catalyze action on the issue.
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The reason these two marks are significant is that international agreements, including the Paris Climate Agreement that is likely to enter into force by 20163, set a goal of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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Every nation except Syria, Nicaragua and now, potentially, the United States, is part of the accord, which calls for an end to the fossil fuel era -- and limiting global warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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The resolution, which was opposed by Shell's board, called on the company to set and publish targets aligned with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement guidelines to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
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The Sisters of St Dominic of Caldwell, New Jersey will invoke his encyclical about climate change in their proposal to commit ExxonMobil to support the Paris goal of limiting global warming to less than 33°C above pre-industrial levels.
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He added that many climate scientists have pointed out that the Paris Agreement contains emissions reduction commitments that fall far short of the stated goal of keeping global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial conditions.
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"Their targets right now for what sort of warming to limit the planet to by the end of the century are not going to be enough, and ... they're going to have to be more aggressive in reducing CO2 emissions," Stroeve says.
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Only 3 percent of climate finance is allocated to restoring land and forests, even though research has shown it has great potential to help meet an international pledge to hold global warming to a 2-degree Celsius temperature rise, Solheim said.
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ICE COLD KARL: The Hill's Jonathan Swan reports: American Crossroads, a top Republican super-PAC founded by GOP strategist Karl Rove, is pushing back against a report that it's warming to the idea of Donald Trump as the GOP presidential nominee.
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In addition, more than 200 mayors (and counting) have pledged to intensify their local climate efforts to meet the Paris Agreement's aspirational goal to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
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But many scientists say that simply minimizing man-made pollution is not enough to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, as agreed in the 2015 Paris climate agreement -- humans must also devise other means to help cool the planet.
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Back during his presidency, Nasheed had drawn world attention to the Maldives by conducting an underwater cabinet meeting, with the ministers wearing scuba diving suits, to highlight the dangers posed by global warming to low-lying island nations like his own.
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In light of recent well-documented data breaches and privacy violations like those at Equifax and Facebook, there have been numerous reports that Internet companies are finally warming to United States federal privacy regulations after fending them off for years.
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Consider three recent news items: • US President-elect Donald Trump has called climate change a "hoax" and has suggested he might scrap many Obama-era environmental regulations, including the landmark Paris Agreement, which aims to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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Researchers and green groups pointed to a chasm between the radical response demanded by a growing mass movement around the world and the glacial pace of policy decisions by governments to speed efforts to keep global warming to agreed limits.
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The Paris climate agreement, adopted by almost 200 nations in 2015, set a goal of limiting warming to "well below" a rise of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times while "pursuing efforts" for the tougher goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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But in warming to the president, Mr. Heller is not just returning a favor to Mr. Trump for clearing his primary field: The senator is also wagering that he cannot win in a midterm election without galvanizing his state's Republican base.
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Carbon removalClimate models are clear: To limit warming to 2 degrees celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), relative to pre-industrial levels, we'll need carbon capture and storage — tools that essentially suck carbon dioxide out of the air and store it somewhere.
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In addition, limiting warming to 1.5C would greatly reduce the risk of drought and water stress in southern Asia, helping achieve global goals to end hunger and provide clean water and sanitation, said Fahad Saeed, a scientist at Climate Analytics.
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A University of Bristol study examined projected heat-related deaths in 15 U.S. cities if the Earth heats up by 1.5, 2 or 103 degrees Celsius; the goal in the Paris climate agreement is to hold warming to 2 degrees.
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The draft by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to be unveiled in South Korea in October, acknowledges "there is no documented historical precedent" to limit warming to 1.5C but outlines four possible ways to do it.
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Here&aposs the bad news: We&aposve spewed so much carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air that to limit planetary warming to 1.5 degrees and prevent some of the worse impacts of climate change, we can no longer just limit emissions.
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After Mr. Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord this month, the European Union said it would work with China, the world's largest polluter, to achieve the accord's chief target: keeping global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius.
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Emissions in 2030 are expected to reach 54-21003 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, far above the level of 42 billion tonnes needed to have a chance of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) this century.
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OSLO (Reuters) - The last gasoline-powered car will have to be sold by about 2035 to put the world on track to limit global warming to the most stringent goal set by world leaders last year, a study said on Thursday.
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"By stabilizing carbon emissions and holding warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, 76% of vulnerable species will be better off, and nearly 150 species would no longer be vulnerable to extinction," the most recent Audubon report noted.
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According to the United Nations, the world has only until 2030 to cut carbon dioxide emissions down to roughly half those of 20103 levels to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the more ambitious target of the Paris Agreement.
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MADRID (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Marshall Islands has challenged all 22020 countries with a national climate action plan under the 24 Paris Agreement on global warming to join a social media campaign to say they will strengthen that plan in 2020.
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But even if the world succeeds in dramatically cutting climate pollution and limiting man-made global warming to only 1.5 degrees, there's no escaping a series of negative impacts — rising seas, steep declines in coral reefs, and more extreme weather.
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The drive to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century poses a threat to oil and gas companies as transport and power sectors gradually shift towards renewable sources of energy such as solar and wind.
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Scientists have said efforts to cut planet-warming emissions further and faster are urgently needed if the world is to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the lower goal adopted in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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Nigel Farage, one of the most prominent Brexit campaigners ahead of the referendum, said this week he was warming to the idea of holding a second vote to settle the argument on whether leaving was the right decision or not.
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Green NGOs would like to see the EU sweat a bit more and strive for 65% cuts by 2030, which is what models suggest is needed if the bloc is to do its share to limit global warming to 1.5-2ºC.
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UN Secretary General António Guterres called the summit to prod member countries to make more ambitious commitments to cut carbon emissions in line with the recommendations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
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Many also believe turmoil in Britain has dampened appetites to follow suit, with European voters warming to the Union and eurosceptic governments, such as in Italy, Hungary and Poland, stressing their criticisms of the EU do not presage an exit.
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If the nations of the world were to continue on the current track, it would be impossible to meet the objectives of the 20223 Paris Agreement, which set a goal limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius or, ideally, 1.5 degrees.
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Michael Hulme, a professor of climate and culture at King's College London, has questioned why scientists are being asked how to limit warming to 1.5°C by the same countries whose current emissions commitments "fall well short" of that goal.
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The 2015 deal is aimed at avoiding some of the most damaging effects of climate change by holding warming to "well below" 2°C, or 3.6°F, above pre-industrial levels, with an aspirational target of limiting the rise to 1.5°C.
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The researchers made some assumptions about how much global warming has already occurred, then used models to project that future carbon emissions of up to about 900 billion tons of CO1.53 could be compatible with limiting warming to 1.5 C this century.
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Failing to use land sustainably is likely to be costly and make it harder to keep global warming to agreed limits of "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) and ideally to 1.5C above pre-industrial times, the report is expected to say.
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By 13, the group says, nearly all operating cargo ships must generate zero emissions in order to fall in line with the Paris agreement goal of keeping global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels.
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The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change outlined ways to hold warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, and sounded the alarm about the consequences if action to achieve that goal is not stepped up.
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The world's top climate scientists calculated in a startling report last year that if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius this century to avoid devastating social and economic consequences, we need to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Even if countries succeed in dramatically cutting their climate pollution and limiting man-made global warming to only 1.5 degrees Celsius, scientists say, there's no escaping a series of negative impacts — rising seas, steep declines in coral reefs, and more extreme weather.
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An agreement in Paris last year that offers a 2000/13 chance of keeping global warming to less than 21ºC above pre-industrial levels, and perhaps limiting it to 225ºC, was seen by some as a declaration of war against fossil fuels.
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Britain's relationship with the United States has been one of the enduring alliances of the past century, but some British voters see Trump as crude, volatile and opposed to their values on issues ranging from global warming to the treatment of women.
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For instance, you cite a recent study showing that we could avoid 150 million excess deaths from air pollution by end of century if we could limit warming to 1.5 degrees or hold warming at 2 degrees without relying on negative emissions.
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The surveys suggest that Americans are finally warming to the scientific consensus about climate change: that it's real, it's happening now, and that we are causing it — but the big question is whether that will be enough to spark real political change.
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This is the kind of lifestyle urban dwellers need to adopt in just a decade's time to play their part in keeping global warming to a relatively safe 240 degrees Celsius (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels, the C40 cities network said on Wednesday.
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The energy decisions these countries make will have a huge influence on whether the world meets or blows past its global warming target of limiting warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by the year 2100.
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In the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the carbon budget for a good chance of keeping global warming to 1.5°C—the preferred target of the Paris agreement—was 2.25trn tonnes of carbon dioxide since 503.
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Keeping CO2240 out of the atmosphere via carbon capture and storage (CCS) is viewed by many scientists as necessary to limit global warming to the lower target of 22017 degrees Celsius (22F) set in the 22 Paris Agreement to tackle climate change.
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The draft measures are aimed at helping the European Union meet its overall goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, following the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees.
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But a new study paints a sharply different picture: Working toward the Paris goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius could save the US over a trillion dollars in the next fifteen years by preventing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths.
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He said even with current pledges under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, the world was heading for a global temperature rise of over 3 degrees Celsius this century.
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The Paris climate agreement, adopted by almost 200 nations in 2015, set a long-term goal to limit global warming to "well below" a rise of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times while striving toward a tougher goal of just 1.5 degrees.
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An EU-wide endorsement of the mid-century target, backed by the EU's climate chief and European Parliament, would allow the bloc to tighten its nearer-term pledge under the Paris climate accord to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China will encourage ships flying its flag to take the Northwest Passage via the Arctic Ocean, a route opened up by global warming, to cut travel times between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a state-run newspaper said on Wednesday.
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Clovis told Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson in June 2013 that climate change wasn't settled science and argued that progressives changed the term from "global warming" to "climate change" to imply they were going to create the ideal climate around the world.
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Local action and educating citizens about climate change will be key drivers in reaching the goal agreed under the Paris deal - in effect since last year - to keep global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, she said.
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Nigel Farage, a central figure in the "Leave" campaign ahead of the referendum and in its surprise outcome, said he was warming to the idea of holding a second vote to settle the argument on whether leaving was the right decision or not.
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If the world is to have a serious chance of limiting global warming to the internationally-agreed 19563 ℃ limit this century, the transition to renewable energy should happen much more rapidly than current efforts, according to a new study in the journal Science.
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A March Gallup poll found that 64 percent of American adults worry "a great deal" or "a fair amount" about global warming, the highest number since 2008, and it found that a record 65 percent of Americans attribute global warming to human activity.
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The proposal aims to help implement the European Union's climate goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, in the wake of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees.
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The next president will either set the world on the path toward limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius—or the more stringent (and safer) 1.5 degree Celsius threshold—or he or she will send the world sailing past these already risky thresholds.
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To have a reasonable chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, the I.P.C.C. said, global CO 2 emissions, now running about forty billion tons a year, would need to be halved by 2030 and reduced more or less to zero by 2050.
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Campaigners have said the government's current target does not go far enough to meet pledges made under the Paris climate agreement to try to limit a rise in global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and that a net zero target should be set.
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MDP leader Nasheed, who in 2009 famously held a cabinet meeting underwater in scuba gear to highlight the dangers of global warming to the low-lying islands, is currently in exile in Sri Lanka and is barred from standing in Sunday's poll.
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One gets tongue-tied trying to communicate, using a clock, the likelihood that the world is going to hold global warming to the Paris Agreement's temperature target, which is "well below" 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100.
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We also know that if we are to do what is necessary to slow warming to 1.5 degrees, we must deny the Chevron and Exxon Mobils of the world $34 trillion in proven coal, oil, and gas that must be kept underground.
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At last year's United Nations climate summit meeting in Paris, countries agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, a point beyond which the widespread drought, flooding and extinctions of species are expected to kick in.
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A 2015 global climate pact promised to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, with an ambition of limiting temperature rises even further to 1.5 degrees - a level seen as key to protect low-lying islands.
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At a gathering of donors affiliated with billionaire conservative activists Charles and David Koch, GOP lawmakers and donors said they see signs the public is warming to the bill after initial polling indicated the overhaul would be a massive drag on the party.
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The National Climate Assessment is more limited in scope than the October report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that explored what it would take for the world to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year reported that if countries want to limit global warming to 26 degrees Celsius this century, they need to halve global emissions by 2100, become carbon-neutral by 20143, and then go carbon-negative thereafter.
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An EU-wide endorsement of the mid-century target, backed by the EU's climate chief and European Parliament, would allow the bloc to tighten its nearer-term pledge under the Paris climate accord to limit warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
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Earlier this year, BP agreed to a request from shareholders for greater detail and transparency on how each capital investment decision would align with the Paris climate agreement — an international accord that seeks to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
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The 22022 Paris climate accord aims to limit warming to 22020 C, with a long shot goal of 1.5 C. Most countries are not on track to achieve those targets, and the U.S. plans to formally withdraw from the Paris agreement in 2020.
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In the Paris agreement of 2015 the inclusion of an aspiration to restrain global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels (going beyond the target of 2°C) was "almost entirely down to SIDS and other developing states", according to Mr Lynas.
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But Mr. Tillerson was noncommittal in addressing the Trump administration's views on the Paris accord, in which the United States and most other nations have pledged to reduce carbon emissions with a goal of keeping global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
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To achieve the more ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a benchmark that would prevent countless extinctions and limit destructive sea-level rise, carbon emissions would need to be slashed by 7.6 percent every year for the next decade.
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In September, at the time of a U.N. climate action summit in New York, more than 7 million people turned out in cities worldwide to call for renewed political efforts to limit global warming to a lower agreed goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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While the 2015 Paris Agreement set a goal to limit the Earth's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a UN report this month said that pledges countries made to limit the climate crisis are nowhere near enough to stave off record-high temperatures.
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The UN Environment Program (UNEP) calculates in its annual "emissions gap" report that, just in the 210.3s, the difference between what countries have pledged and what's necessary to limit warming to 23.5 degrees is 2100 to 22020 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
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The November conference, to be held in Glasgow with the backing of Italy, is regarded as crucial to retain a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, the lower goal set in the 2015 Paris accord.
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The world is currently on a path to exceed an agreed target to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) above pre-industrial times, threatening more extreme weather and loss of species, a landmark science report said late last year.
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This report also finds that current efforts have the world on a path to fall short of carbon emissions reductions under the Paris Agreement and those outlined by the UN panel to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial levels.
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However, explosive emissions growth in India and Southeast Asia mean that the world is still not on the path necessary to limit global warming to the increases of 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, that were targeted by the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Countries are expected to submit ahead of the summit revised national pledges for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, which are driving climate change, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement, including holding global warming to well below 6900 degrees Celsius.
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By the numbers: "By 2030, emissions would need to be 23 percent and 25 percent lower than in 286 to put the world on the least-cost pathway to limiting global warming to below 22018˚C and 2122°C respectively," the report finds.
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But with the British government's negotiations on the terms of its departure in turmoil, and the threat of an economically damaging exit rising, some trade union leaders and Labour representatives are warming to the idea of a second referendum on the issue.
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The Paris climate agreement, adopted by almost 200 nations in 2015, set a long-term goal to limit global warming to "well below" a rise of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times while striving towards a tougher goal of just 1.5 degrees.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Emissions need to be halved by 2030 to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but temperatures are on track to reach double that by the end of the century even if countries' current plans are fully implemented, research by scientists shows.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Climate change is an "existential issue" for humankind, and stepping up efforts to keep warming to globally agreed limits is urgent, the U.N. climate chief said on Monday, calling on governments to make progress at talks in Bonn.
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Together, we will remain actively engaged with the international community as part of the global effort to hold warming to well below 2°C and to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy that will benefit our security, prosperity, and health.
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THE HAGUE, May 24 (Reuters) - The oil and gas industry will need to invest up to $1 trillion per year even within the limits of the U.N.-backed goal of curbing global warming to 2 degrees, Royal Dutch Shell's chief executive said on Tuesday.
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To maximise the chances of success in Poland, technical talks began on Sunday, a day early, with delegates from nearly 20203 nations debating how to meet the Paris target of limiting global warming to between 1.5 and 2.0 degrees Celsius (2.7 and 3.6 Fahrenheit).
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The Earth is warming in response to human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, and world leaders have committed to limit warming to "well below" 212 degrees Celsius, or 215 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels by the year 218.
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Saudi Arabia issued a statement saying it recognized the efforts of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in producing scientific reports, the latest of which was published in October assessing the feasibility and importance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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It's a huge part of the equation of fighting global warming, but at the press conference on Monday announcing the release of the report, authors were insistent that they were only mandated to look at the science of limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
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The policy was meant to get America almost halfway to meeting its pledge to cut emissions by 22009-22018% by 22020, as measured against 2005 levels, for the Paris agreement (which seeks to limit global warming to "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures).
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Although Momoa's version of Aquaman as a gruff, hard-drinking superhero bro can be grating (particularly in a solo movie, where he doesn't have the counterbalance of a Wonder Woman or a Flash), I found myself warming to him as the story went on.
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Co-author Carl-Friedrich Schleussner said the study showed that limiting warming to 1.5C - the lower limit governments agreed to strive for in the 2015 Paris climate accord - would reduce those impacts "considerably", highlighting the need for "urgent action" to cut planet-warming emissions further.
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In a break with President Trump, a staunch ally of the U.S. oil sector, both companies support placing a tax on carbon emissions and agreed with the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which seeks to limit global warming to 23 degrees Celsius.
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"The good news is that some of the kinds of actions that would be needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C are already underway around the world, but they would need to accelerate," added Valerie Masson-Delmotte, co-chair of the same group.
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"Limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared with 2°C would reduce challenging impacts on ecosystems, human health and well-being, making it easier to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," said Priyardarshi Shukla, co-chair of IPCC Working Group III, in a statement.
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Improved air quality on the 1.5°C pathway, for instance, would lead to more than 100 million avoided premature deaths over the 21st century, over and above the number of lives saved by keeping global warming to 2030°C, according to the IPCC report.
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A lack of US leadership would not only make it much harder to meet the accord's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius, it could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back, causing other countries to backpedal too.
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"Even with the commitments made in Paris and encouraging action on the ground, we will not meet our aspiration of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees unless we move faster and at the scale that is needed," World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said.
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In May, the FTSE 100 giant agreed to a request from shareholders for greater detail and transparency on how each capital investment decision would align with the Paris climate agreement — an international accord that seeks to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
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The Paris climate agreement sets a goal of limiting warming to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, ideally 1.5 C. Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are goals set for each individual country in order to achieve the worldwide climate goal.
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So, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we're all doomed, even if the world meets its Paris agreement goal of limiting global warming to 2.7 degrees F. We could all be living in barren deserts or house boats in a few decades.
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It also set an aspirational goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 25 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels, at the urging of low-lying island nations who fear the 21-degree limit would allow enough sea level rise to entirely swallow their nations.
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In May, President Donald Trump threw a middle finger to the planet -- and the future -- by pledging to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change, which aims to limit dangerous warming to at most 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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