So, this isn't a joke — we're talking about humans polluting the oceans and
atmosphere at their peril.
Not exact matches
In my mind, the most serious
peril of sulfate geoengineering is one that stems from a problem that is not
at all in dispute: the fact that the lifetime of CO2 in the
atmosphere is centuries to millennia, whereas the lifetime of aerosols in the stratosphere is
at best a few years.
The implication is that even though other teams have repeatedly warned that the world's reefs are in
peril as the world warms because of ever - greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere, as a consequence of human combustion of fossil fuels
at a profligate rate, the world's great reefs may survive for perhaps another century, rather than perish within the next 50 years.