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The protocol is an outgrowth of the first international climate treaty, the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change, which committed industrialized nations to work voluntarily to avoid "dangerous" interference with the climate system, but never defined "dangerous".
Two degrees is how our governments defined "dangerous warming" in the Copenhagen Accord.
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The same is true for defining "dangerous climate change".
In responding to this week's post on who gets to define dangerous human-driven climate change, Philip S. Wenz of Corvallis, Ore., proposed a maritime analogy for judging and responding to risks from accumulating greenhouse gases.
The solution is useful for defining dangerous operating speed ranges and for quantifying the relationship between shaft torsional and blade bending natural frequencies.
The continuing high temperatures, the spate of intense tropical cyclones and deepening droughts in some parts of the world have focused attention on the issue of defining "dangerous climate change" [1].
Although a very important exercise, this approach to defining dangerous climate change can itself be dangerous, in particular because it often ignores the systemic nature of the global environment.
The continuing high temperatures, the spate of intense tropical cyclones and deepening droughts in some parts of the world have focused attention on the issue of defining "dangerous climate change" [ 1].
Riding crops have been defined as "dangerous weapons", nipple clamps and hot wax to cause "serious body injury".
The current international policy judgment is that 2 degrees warming above preindustrial is defined as "dangerous".
The report's authors calculated the global carbon budget between 2000 and 2050 required to limit temperature rises to 2C, the climate threshold defined as "dangerous" by the EU.
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