Sentences with phrase «radical climate shifts»

So, somewhat similarly, we believe, that to «progress» (and turning the term into an oxymoron) we need to harm our world (from our perspective anyway, when it comes to radical climate shifts, and often from any perspective, when it comes to a lot of pollutants and excess and often ultimately needless carcinogens), and since we DO NT want to NOT progress, we argue that we are not really harming our world.

Radical climate shifts can alter air circulation and precipitation, both [continue reading...]

Even a cursory glance at what we know about the geologic past reveals that this lovely little planet has been through much, MUCH worse than anything we can throw at it; massive meteor strikes, super volcanoes, radical climate shifts to both extremes of hot and cold, and yes, several mass extinctions.

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But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

Shifting climate patterns mean these radical disruptions could be a harbinger of things to come.

Zhang, X., Sorteberg, A., Zhang, J., Gerdes, R. & Comiso, J. C. Recent radical shifts of the atmospheric circulations and rapid changes in the Arctic climate system.

Then, as an expert, you cite from an interview the head of an organization created to refute the idea that geologically radical long lived greenhouse gas concentration level alteration of our atmosphere (said more correctly than the simplistic «climate change» phrase, it's a mouthful for our twitter age), poses a threat of significant climatic shift in response.

Which is to say any scientist who studies this who recognizes that our geologically radical alteration of the atmosphere naturally would present a threat of very simple — if to us quite major — accompanying, if lagging and inherently non linear and somewhat chaotic and volatile, shifts in the general global climate, and various major regions then again within it, as almost all, who actually professionally study this issue and professionally work in this field do, is immediately dismissed.

«To fight climate change, we need a radical shift from dirty energy sources to renewable energy and energy efficiency measures.

The emergence of an army of aggressive denialist bloggers indicates that climate denialism has made a radical shift in the last couple of years.

When really, all of the ongoing discovery, individually, is secondary to (if that), and all of it together only further corroborates, the basic climate change concept — a radical shift in the atmosphere's heat re radiation will ultimately likely lead to a radical or at least major shift in global climate — and the reasons for it, which haven't really changed for several decades.

Amid a new normal of wild weather events and volatile precipitation patterns, the world's dams that were designed for the climate of their time are ill - prepared for radical shifts in river flow and precipitation.

Audubon's climate model projects a radical shift in winter climate space for this species, with only 6 % of the current remaining stable by 2080.

Energy and Climate Change secretary Ed Davey says these proposals are «a radical shift» away from old policies of «tinkering at the edges» without tackling fuel poverty's root causes — homes that are too energy inefficient to be kept warm on a budget.

That's from a spokesperson for the International Institute for Environment & Development, as quoted in a report titled: Radical shift needed to end alarmism over climate - related migration.

But this domestic political drama, absorbing in its own right, may obscure a more important, even radical, shift in the global politics of climate change that Francis has helped to advance.