Sentences with phrase «future face of the earth»

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It actually does feel like your living like an alien here on earth, all I can do is hope for what at times seems like an uncertain future and trust that the power of our Lord will get me to that place where I can eventually fall into his arms, where he will reach out his hand when he sees me and place it on my face and say hello Tony.

-- you will learn how to teach the Birth of a New Earth curriculum — a curriculum that will empower and transform you, and that will enable you to assist people worldwide with information that can truly change the face of humanity and the future of our planet.

But the study, published today in Earth's Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine, based on measurements of large - scale phenomena like global sea level and Antarctic mass changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.

Finding Life Beyond Earth PBS As manned space programs face an uncertain future, powerful telescopes are uncovering a wealth of new planets across the galaxy — some of which could harbor life.

Wallace S. Broecker: Preface 1: Jean - Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson: Ocean Acidification: Background and History 2: Richard E. Zeebe and Andy Ridgwell: Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 3: James C. Orr: Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 4: Andrew H. Knoll and Woodward W. Fischer: Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View 5: Markus G. Weinbauer, Xavier Mari, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms 6: Ulf Riebesell and Philippe D. Tortell: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems 7: Andreas J. Andersson, Fred T. Mackenzie, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems 8: Hans - Otto Pörtner, Magda Gutowska, Atsushi Ishimatsu, Magnus Lucassen, Frank Melzner, and Brad Seibel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms 9: Stephen Widdicombe, John I. Spicer, and Vassilis Kitidis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna 10: James P. Barry, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall - Spencer: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 11: Frances Hopkins, Philip Nightingale, and Peter Liss: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically - Active Trace Gases 12: Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Gruber, Reidun Gangstø, Laurent Bopp, and Andreas Oschlies: Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System 13: Carol Turley and Kelvin Boot: The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society 14: Fortunat Joos, Thomas L. Frölicher, Marco Steinacher, and Gian - Kasper Plattner: Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections 15: Jean - Pierre Gattuso, Jelle Bijma, Marion Gehlen, Ulf Riebesell, and Carol Turley: Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives Index

Father - daughter team JiaYing Han and YiYi Han are highly aware of the perils facing our planet; this is a story of a father who has seen the Earth changing, and a daughter trying to preserve the planet for future generations.

Set against a backdrop of London torn apart by violence, the film follows one of the champions of Earth's survival: Theo (Academy Award nominee Clive Owen), a disillusioned ex-activist turned bureaucrat, who faces his own demons and must protect the planet's last remaining hope for a future generation.

After Earth will inspire a conversation focusing on the important questions we face about the present state of the planet, the future, and the environment.

That is the challenge we face today to achieve the MDGs, to which we must reply with a new awareness - identity of «Homeland - Earth», where the human being is seen as a same biological specie with the same evolution, because the future history of our biosphere will depend of the future history of knowledge we develop and how we choose to apply it.

X is a symbolism - heavy tale of magic, prophecy and destruction as two groups of super-powered individuals — the Dragons of Heaven, and the Dragons of Earth — face off in a battle to determine the future of our world.

Facing a hopeless future and betrayed by her long - time boyfriend, Sarah Orange is one of those who leave the Earth.

Somewhere in the future, humanity \'s desire to expand to the stars is yet again faced with expected adversity.After finding an earth - like planet capable of sustaining a civilization, a colony ship is sent with a small...

Crisis is guaranteed and the only chance for survival is to be creative and decisive in the face of disaster Habitat is a space - themed strategy game that places you in high orbit around a ravaged Earth far in the future.

The Surge maintains the same core formula while fundamentally changing the setting, which is now a dystopian future where Earth nears the end of its life and overpopulated cities face environmental diseases among many other issues.

After reading about Japan's aging, and largely forgotten, stone tablets warning of tsunami risk, a Dot Earth reader, «Mesa» from Telluride, Colo., posed an important question about the human capacity to act sensibly when facing future risks (some abbreviation expanded):

BERLIN — I just participated in the first face - to - face meeting of the Anthropocene Working Group, a subset of a branch of the International Commission on Stratigraphy examining whether humanity's growth spurt (in both numbers and resource appetites) has caused sufficient change to Earth systems to leave a discernible trace in layered rocks that will build and endure far into the future.

Warmer ocean water made Harvey bigger and dump more rain according to Earth's Future, which flies in the face of a mountain of other studies backing the «consensus» on extreme storms.

«I think when you put it in the context of a possible future for the Earth with climate change and the challenges the local community face, that certainly puts it into perspective and it doesn't seem like that big of a sacrifice.»

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«India is facing a dilemma of its own making,» said Steve Davis, associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California Irvine and coauthor of a new study published today in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Because the basics of anthropogenic global warming are fairly straightforward — CO2 is a greenhouse gas, because of the lapse rate water vapor condenses or freezes out in the troposphere and acts mainly to amplify the effect of CO2, humans are burning a lot of fossil C and increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere, the surface of the earth is warming, the cryosphere is retreating, the climate that supports civilization is rapidly changing, and consequently we are facing an uncertain future — but the details are complex, it's easy to «misunderestimate» the way climate works in detail.