 | Peter H. Gleick, William C.G. Burns, Elizabeth L. Chalecki, Michael Cohen, Katherine Kao Cushing, Amar S. Mann, Rachel Reyes, Gary H. Wolff, Arlene K. Wong - 2002 - 362 pages
...This will result in an increase of global average temperatures of 1.4 to 5.8° C by the end of this century, "very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years" (IPCC 2001c). In a subsequent study, Wigley and Raper (2001) sought to assess the IPCC's projected... | |
 | Nijavalli H. Ravindranath, Jayant A. Sathaye - 2002 - 308 pages
...The projected rate of warming is much larger than the observed changes during the 20 century and is very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years. By the second half of the 21st century, it is likely that precipitation will have increased over northern... | |
 | Spencer R. Weart - 2003 - 244 pages
...confidently than ever, that global temperatures would rise much higher still. Indeed, the rate of warming was "very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years." Under a worst-case scenario, where global emissions of CO2 and restrictions on sulfate pollution might... | |
 | V Grover - 2004 - 480 pages
...surface temperature is projected to increase by 1. 4 to 5.8° C by 2100. • The projected warming is very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years. "A collective picture of a warming world" includes: • Over the 20th century: • global-average surface... | |
 | John M. Deutch, Richard K. Lester - 2004 - 286 pages
...The projected rate of warming is much larger than the observed changes during the 20th century and is very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years, based on palaeoclimate data 4 It is very likely that nearly all land areas will warm more rapidly than... | |
 | Shizuka Oshitani - 2013 - 348 pages
...the global average temperature will rise by about 1.4-5.8°C between 1990 and 2100 - a rate of change very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years. This would raise the global average sea level by about 0.09-0.88 metres over the same period (IPCC,... | |
 | United Nations Environment Programme - 2006 - 64 pages
...forests, inland water ecosystems, and ecosystems overlying permafrost. Projected changes in climate are very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years and will affect biodiversity both directly through changes in temperature and precipitation, and indirectly... | |
 | Andrew E. Dessler, Edward A. Parson - 2006 - 208 pages
...attributable to human activities," and moreover that the warming projected for the twentyfirst century is "very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years."10 The organization and operations of the IPCC are similar to the highly successful scientific... | |
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This projected rate of warming is much larger than the observed changes during the twentieth century and is "very likely to be without precedent during at least the last 10,000 years. 