Sentences with phrase «accelerate climate change even»

In a separate study, the USGS reports that roughly 53 % of America's carbon — material that could stay in the permafrost or, in a warming world, escape into the atmosphere to accelerate climate change even further — is stored in the forests, wetlands and permafrost of Alaska.

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Such a transition has been made possible by the convergence of several factors: a stream of new science showing an accelerating pace of climate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate change and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange and its impacts; the everyday experience of people witnessing the change around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuchange around them (and seeing it on the evening news); the compelling portrayals of what is happening and why, such as Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the 2007 reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secClimate Change; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secuChange; and the shifting stances of constituencies as diverse as evangelical Christians (who argue for protecting the climate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national secclimate on grounds of stewardship of God's creation) and military leaders (who argue on grounds of national security).

Changes come even with lower warming What was most surprising, Diffenbaugh said, is that the accelerated melting of the snowpack would occur even if the world were able to limit warming to the target of a 2 - degree - Celsius increase agreed upon in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark.

It's even possible that a change in the D.C. school climate accelerated learning gains.

... the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate DisrClimate Disruption.

# 103 (cont)... the rate of climate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate change reported and rate of change in factors affecting climate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate Disrclimate which are reported strike me as completely unprecedented by measure of any geologic era... which seem to be accelerating, they incline me to be even more cautious about geoengineering projects... I hope this thread might help me learn some better ways to mitigate, and adapt to what I will now call Climate DisrClimate Disruption.

«Positive feedbacks (self - reinforcing cycles) within the climate system have the potential to accelerate human - induced climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.climate system have the potential to accelerate human - induced climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.climate change,» says a section from that Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.Climate Science Special report, «and even shift the Earth's climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.climate system, in part or in whole, into new states that are very different from those experienced in the recent past.»

Even in 2007, some Arctic climate and ice specialists were warning that the ice retreat was «as much a result of ice moving as melting,» adding that the unpredicted changes could just as easily betray weaknesses in climate models as hints of some accelerating meltdown.

Although this century kicked off with the hottest decade on record, 2010 was the hottest year and in 2011 the Arctic may have broken both the summer and the winter melting record, there has still been heat missing: the rise in global temperatures is smaller than what one would expect from the rise in greenhouse gas concentrations, which — despite UNFCCC attempts to tackle climate change since Kyoto 1997 and Copenhagen 2009 — has even accelerated.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

But increasingly dire scientific warnings about the consequences of climate change mean that the world will need to accelerate the shift to carbon - free, renewable sources of energy even more so in the years to come.

Carbon dioxide released by thawing permafrost in the Arctic is likely to accelerate climate change, even if it doesn't reach runaway conditions.

U.S. spending on Arctic research has flatlined the last few years, even as climate change in the Arctic is accelerating.

And, if we assume the weather in 2050 or 2100 — and, by extension the climate during that period — remains as unknown today as it has always been and, if we also agree that climate change is not getting reversed or slowed or accelerated by anything we have done or will ever do or even can do, imagine the massive futility of engaging in efforts to sequester CO2.