The phrase
"climate catastrophe" refers to a severe and harmful event caused by climate change. It indicates a situation where widespread and disastrous impacts occur, such as extreme weather events, rising temperatures, melting glaciers, or sea-level rise. The phrase highlights the urgent need to address climate change to prevent these catastrophic consequences.
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At a time when we have run out of carbon budget and run up carbon debt for
avoiding climate catastrophe, the oil production in this country has shot up.
And even
if climate catastrophe were approaching, the best fix would be for the private sector to unleash its ingenuity on the problem.
Humans are developing technologies and means to improve lives while reducing environmental impacts even as humanity is increasing greenhouse gas emissions and
worsening climate catastrophe risks and impacts.
None of its core scenarios for the future of energy provide a reasonable chance that the world will
avoid climate catastrophe.
The most convincing fact
about climate catastrophe is the scientific consensus over the fact that global warming is happening, our fault, dangerous, and can be fixed — partly.
GRIST January 2, 2009 We're gonna need a bigger boat Scientists and other experts rattle off options for
averting climate catastrophe Meanwhile, the mysterious Edge Foundation released its annual question for 2009, asking smart folks of all disciplines to name what new idea or technology will «change everything.»
Speaking to the Guardian for an interview ahead of a landmark UN climate science report on Monday on the impacts of climate change, Lovelock said of the warnings of
climate catastrophe in his 2006 book, Revenge of Gaia: «I was a little too certain in that book.
Additionally primary responsibility
for climate catastrophe falls on those who bear substantial responsibility by dint of economic positioning, scientific obfuscation, political patronage, political influence or political position as to the direction of our political - economic system, where that system effects our society's energy and land use and therefore climate impacts.
«He castigated people who don't believe in
climate catastrophe as some sort of major fools,» Rossiter says of the president's speech, adding he would have agreed with the president — back then.
To the point, frankly, that it's hard to see how we can honestly hope to avert
climate catastrophe without a major shift back to progressive taxation.
Phrases with «climate catastrophe»