Sentences with phrase «avoid global catastrophe»

Climate researchers warn we must reduce the level of atmospheric CO2 to 350 ppm in order to avoid global catastrophe.

If we wish to avoid global catastrophe, that bubble must burst.

To wit: we (and I use this pronoun advisedly) can still avoid a global catastrophe, but it's not at all obvious that we will do so.

The possibility of avoiding a global catastrophe is «already almost out of reach», Sir Nicholas Stern's long - awaited report on climate change will warn today.

Not exact matches

The hard truth is that in coming decades the oil industry must be phased out in Canada and around the world if we are to avoid catastrophe from global warming.

While no one claims it will be a panacea for global warming, geoengineering may be the only way to buy some time and avoid a catastrophe.

«Global warming threatens the basic fabric of life on which birds — and the rest of us — depend, and we have to act quickly and decisively if we are going to avoid catastrophe,» Langham said.

The government's actions to avoid financial collapse last fall — as distasteful and unfair as some undoubtedly were — were unfortunately necessary to prevent a global economic catastrophe that could have rivaled the Great Depression in length and severity, with profound consequences for our economy and society.

Anyone who follows climate science, solutions, and politics knows that climate change is in the process of emerging as the story of the century — and that's only if every major country pulls together to rapidly transform the global economy to avoid catastrophe.

If the critical threshold for climate catastrophe could be identified with scientific certainty, their research suggests that countries very likely would propose a collective target certain to avoid catastrophe, would pledge to contribute their fair share to the global effort, and would act so as to fulfill their promises.

Alarmists uniformly believe that global CO2 levels need to be lowered compared to what they would otherwise have been if various climate catastrophes are to be avoided.

But given the role of the MIC, only if this obstacle is overcome in time can a prevention program avoid climate catastrophe be achieved, with a process of global demilitarization, transformation of agriculture to agroecologies and increased cooperation among nations.

First is the systematic process by which the Drawdown team set out to show that we really can stabilize the climate system, in time to avoid cascading global catastrophe.

They often want government to intervene to avoid what they claim is a horrible catastrophe for modern civilization in the making — which never seems to happen (consider, for example, how badly their predictions of future global warming have worked out).

These technological fixes won't solve the problem of humans causing climate change, could give us an excuse to avoid reducing carbon emissions, and could lead to a global catastrophe.

And if they can not trust you and can not understand the physics, they will not avoid any possible global warming catastrophe.

Since I was a teenager, I have been concerned about the global warming crisis we are facing and I have been passionate about finding ways to help the world help itself and avoid tremendous climate catastrophe.

Instead, we prefer to stay in the reality - based world of those (the E.U., the Climate Action Network) who draw the line at 2C maximum (which is itself not by any means safe) and who admit that avoiding a global climate catastrophe is going to be difficult indeed.