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Scientists say ensuring global average temperatures this century do not rise more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is needed to limit devastating climate effects like crop failure and melting glaciers. They believe that is only ...
May 24, 2012 at 15:36 | Source: Reuters
The UN's target is a 2 C (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) limit on warming from pre-industrial levels for manageable climate change. In a report issued on the penultimate day of new UN talks in Bonn, scientists said Earth's average global temperature rise could ...
May 23, 2012 at 23:58 | Source: YAHOO!
New research recently predicted Earth's temperature rising by as much as five degrees Celsius (9.0 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels on current pledges, instead of the 2 C (3.6 F) limit targeted under the UNFCCC banner. He pointed the finger ...
May 25, 2012 at 18:05 | Source: YAHOO!
Countries had agreed in 2010 that deep greenhouse gas emissions cuts had to be made to keep a rise in global average temperature below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century to avoid more extreme weather, glacier melts ...
May 22, 2012 at 18:37 | Source: The Vancouver Sun
As countries bicker, researchers recently predicted Earth's temperature rising by as much as five degrees Celsius (9.0 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels, instead of the 2 C (3.6 F) limit being targeted. While rich nations bear most of the ...
May 24, 2012 at 02:43 | Source: Terra Daily
They say countries must dramatically reduce emissions to avoid aver-age global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
May 18, 2012 at 15:15 | Source: Regina Leader-Post
with a view to doing our part to limit effectively the increase in global temperature below 2ÂșC above pre-industrial levels, consistent with science. We strongly support the outcome of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework ...
May 24, 2012 at 00:13 | Source: DAILY KOS
The cumulative effects of the Industrial Revolution, of burning coal and oil and pumping fumes into the air, have raised the average annual temperature of the atmosphere by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-1850 levels. The results are just ...
May 27, 2012 at 08:59 | Source: Forward
It is projected that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will exceed the levels needed to maintain the average global temperature at no more than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. Climate impacts are already being felt, with the greatest ...
May 23, 2012 at 21:14 | Source: Brookings Institution
In 2010, countries agreed that deep emissions cuts had to be made to keep an increase in global average temperature below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century. Scientists say that crossing the threshold risks an unstable ...
May 16, 2012 at 17:40 | Source: Reuters India