Sentences with phrase «earth hour global»

In a report prepared for this month's Earth Hour global climate change campaign, University of Queensland reef researcher Ove Hoegh - Guldberg said the world heritage site was at a turning point.

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The Great Barrier Reef, one of the most bio-diverse places on Earth, teems with marine life and will be the focus of Australia's Earth Hour — a global campaign which encourages individuals and organisations to switch off their lights for one hour on April 29 for climate chaHour — a global campaign which encourages individuals and organisations to switch off their lights for one hour on April 29 for climate chahour on April 29 for climate change.

Tomorrow night, you can participate in Earth Hour, a global effort to raise awareness about climate change by turning off nonessential lights for an houHour, a global effort to raise awareness about climate change by turning off nonessential lights for an hourhour...

During Earth Hour, cities, towns and individual families from around the world were encouraged to turn off all non-essential lights from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. People in more than 92 countries participated in a global call to action for, and to demonstrate the urgency of, climate change.

On Saturday, March 27, the world observed the fourth annual Earth Hour, a global event started by the World Wildlife Fund.

The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.

I think the figure is the sun bathes the Earth in 120,000 terawatt - hours of energy and the global community only uses 12 to 15 terawatt - hours.

This is why on 24 March millions of people across the world will come together for Earth Hour, to show their commitment to reducing global emissions and protecting people and wildlife from the impacts of climate change.

On the eve of this year's Earth hour (25 March), researchers propose a solution in the journal Science (24 March) for the global economy to rapidly reduce carbon emissions.

Australia's global achievements include the «black box» flight recorder, now on every airplane, the annual «Earth Hour Initiative» and even the invention of wi - fi.

I don't usually post on blogs (even my own) but I agree with this post, for I can say, without doubt, I would not have spent four years, thousands of dollars, and countless hours on The Phantom of the Earth if (1) I thought for an instant that someone out there could prevent my work from making its way to readers; (2) that there wasn't a global support system that would enable me to put forward a professional product; and (3) that readers weren't at least open to trying out a new, self - published author.

A group of London Hilton hotels plan to mark Earth Hour 2012 from 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 31, 2012 as people and organisations around the world turn off their lights in support of action on global climate change.

Of course, Earth Hour 2009 is just around the corner... And Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at 8:30 pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take actHour 2009 is just around the corner... And Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at 8:30 pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take actHour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at 8:30 pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take acthour at 8:30 pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take action.

«New York, March 27, 2009 - JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced today that it will support action against climate change by participating in Earth Hour 2009, a World Wildlife Fund global event to switch off all non-essential lighting for one hour on March 28.&raHour 2009, a World Wildlife Fund global event to switch off all non-essential lighting for one hour on March 28.&rahour on March 28.»

Shrouded in darkness many of the world's major landmarks stand as symbols of hope against global warming during Earth Hour, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Gold Gate Bridge in San Francisco and the Colosseum in Rome.

Earth Hour is WWF's global environmental movement.

March 25, 2017 completed a decade of the foundation of the global initiative Earth Hour for raising awareness regarding the environmental issues and supporting the action for climate change.

You may have heard something about tonight's «Earth Hour» (this is not the weekend you want to visit Vegas), in which the World Wildlife Fund co-opted my team's quarterback to promote a global power - down in order to draw attention to evil human consumption.

Empowered by knowledge of the Ecological Footprint from my studies at UC Berkeley and work at Global Footprint Network, I now consider Earth Hour as a great opportunity for everyone to review our relationship with the entire ecosystem and at the same time raise environmental consciousness.

These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.»

-- Climate Depot Factsheet on Inconvenient History of Global Warming «Tipping Points» — Hours, Days, Months, Years, Millennium — Earth «Serially Doomed»

24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching will have a truly global broadcast footprint.

Washington, DC (11/09/15)-- 24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching will include dynamic appearances and performances from world - renowned musicians and entertainers and will be available to a global audience through mobile, web, and television broadcast as it seeks to engage with people worldwide to build momentum for strong action at the upcoming UN climate talks in Paris.

Within hours of the announcement by scientists in the US that 2017 was at least the third warmest year recorded, if not the second, over the Earth's land and oceans, there comes a further revelation: 2017 was also the warmest year on record for the global oceans.

Washington, DC (11/03/15)-- Seeking to generate momentum for strong action on climate from world leaders in the final days before the UN climate talks in Paris, former US Vice President and Chairman of The Climate Reality Project Al Gore will lead the global broadcast of 24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching, airing from 6 pm CET, Friday, November 13 to 6 pm CET, Saturday, November 14.

One study estimates that there are likely to be places on Earth where unprotected humans without cooling mechanisms, such as air conditioning, would die in less than six hours if global average surface temperature rises by about 12.6 ° F (7 ° C).16 With warming of 19.8 - 21.6 ° F (11 - 12 ° C), this same study projects that regions where approximately half of the world's people now live could become intolerable.7

-- Climate Depot Factsheet on Inconvenient History of Global Warming «Tipping Points» — Hours, Days, Months, Years, Millennium — Earth «Serially Doomed» It's difficult to keep up whether it is hours, days, months or 1000 yHours, Days, Months, Years, Millennium — Earth «Serially Doomed» It's difficult to keep up whether it is hours, days, months or 1000 yhours, days, months or 1000 years.

Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warmHour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warmhour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global warming.

«On December 12th, 12.12.12, across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and other inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24 - hour period and contribute their voice to the third annual global day of media creation called One Day on Earth.

That is pretty much the role now being played by most of the news media in refereeing the current wrestling match over whether global warming is «real,» and whether it has any connection to the constant dumping of 90 million tons of heat - trapping emissions into the Earth's thin shell of atmosphere every 24 hours.

24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching will include dynamic appearances and performances from world - renowned musicians and entertainers and will be available to a global audience through mobile, web, and television broadcast.

Washington, DC (11/12/15)-- The 24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching global broadcast event lineup will include Duran Duran, Florence + The Machine, Mumford & Sons, Neil Young, Laura Pausini, and Joss Stone & Dave Stewart, it was announced today.

24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching will have a global broadcast footprint.