Sentences with phrase «accelerating impacts of global warming»

A ban follows from the 1) accelerating impacts of global warming, 2) the accelerating depletion, due now to demand and soon depletion, of the petroleum resource, and 3) oil wars such as that in Iraq.

That is because the advance of boreal forests, which have begun to supplant the region's tundras, threatens to accelerate the impact of global warming by reducing the region's albedo effect.

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Given that methane has 20 times the impact of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, such a release could have accelerated global warming at that time.

With the impacts of global warming accelerating, we can not afford to wait any longer to switch to clean energy.

There is much that can still be done to reduce future climate impacts, and those efforts will depend far more on how quickly we can accelerate declines in the carbon intensity of the global economy than on what target we pick today for eventual warming.

We want to ask you instead to begin fully embracing a just energy policy for all Virginians that reduces total climate pollution while investing in clean - energy jobs and real investments to protect our people and the military from accelerating sea - level rise and other impacts of global warming.

Since the ESA forbids the Federal Government from funding any activities which might harm a listed species, why not sue to prevent the ridiculous Federal subsidies on Ethanol, on the grounds that the production, distribution, and use of ethanol have a net negative impact on carbon dioxide emissions when compared with petroleum products, thus accelerating global warming and further endangering the polar bears.

It's also a reminder of those predictions by NASA experts and computer models, as promulgated during 1988 congressional testimony, that accelerated global warming would significantly impact the U.S., with many «experts» then claiming our future was one of warmer winters and no snow.

Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier became known around the world in 2002, when its accelerated shrinking and massive breakup into the ocean helped raise awareness of the faster - than - expected pace of impacts from global warming.

The shift provides additional evidence that changes in the Arctic are not only directly because of global warming, as shown by warmer air and sea temperatures, but are also part of an «Arctic amplification» through which multiple Arctic - specific physical processes interact to accelerate temperature change, ice variability, and ecological impacts.