Sentences with phrase «called future earth»

I'm in Beijing to participate in a week of meetings related to the unfolding international science effort called Future Earth, so I won't be able to weigh in in a timely fashion on President Obama's planned Monday release of regulations restricting carbon dioxide emissions from existing American power plants.

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The introduction to notes that the book's essays «focus on the urgent and far - reaching changes in ecclesial governance, administrative style, and financial accountability called for if the congregation of the faithful in the future is to fulfill its hallowed aspiration to be the salt of the earth and the light of the nations.»
She said: «That, O Yajnavalkya, which is above the sky, that which is beneath the earth that which is between these two, sky and earth, that which people call the past and the present and the future — across what is that woven, warp and woof?»
The fact remains that at the present time a fundamental inner impulse, newly born in our hearts, is tending to find a dual, and divergent, expression in two apparently incompatible spiritual forms; on the one hand, the spirit (let us call it «Christian») of sacrifice and of union centered in the expectation of an Apotheosis in the future; and on the other hand the Promethean or Faustian spirit of self - worship based on the material organization of the earth.
«NASA's mission selection process is highly competitive,» says Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's science mission programs in Washington, D.C. «Earth's so - called «twin» planet Venus is a fascinating body, and of tremendous interest to our science community... the Venus community should continue to compete for future missions.»
Christopher Nolan's new film, Interstellar, is a near - future tale of astronauts departing a dying Earth to travel to Saturn, then through a wormhole to another galaxy, all in search of somewhere else humanity could call home.
The findings will help in the design of future space missions that have the goal of taking pictures of planets similar to Earth, called exo - Earths.
To that end, the budget also calls for $ 150 million in 2019 and more in future years to help commercial companies expand their activities in low Earth orbit, although it does not specify the ISS as an explicit part of that spending.
Today, an organization called B612 hopes to avoid future follies by building up a planetary defense system to protect Earth from asteroid collisions.
This image of Earth was called Pale Blue Dot, and inspired the late Carl Sagan's essay «Pale Blue Dot: A vision of the human future in Space», which in turn has been the source of inspiration for a generation of exoplanet hunters.
i am looking for a serious relationship that can lead to something good in the future, i need a woman i can call my wife, someone that i can share my love with, very loving, caring, romantic, down to earth, understanding and sincere with me, someone that will love me for who i am and not what i...
In theaters November 1, «In the near future, a hostile alien race called the Formics have attacked Earth.
Set in a far distant future, Earth's former space station is now a mega city called Alpha.
The future looks grim, until alien forces descend upon earth which prompts the government to call upon the services of the monsters.
There's a pattern: Get a call from a recently deceased acquaintance, miss the call (dated and timed a few days in the future), get a voicemail from your future self, hear your last moments on Earth, and die at the time of the call.
In a future where global climate change has sapped the Earth's water supply, a paramilitary group called HUMNX (pronounced humanix) has risen to return order to a world spinning out of control.
In the eyes of five - year - old Enzo, brotherhood is first and foremost a beautiful human chain between men or all children of Earth would held hands, towards a future where there is no more hunger, no more misery, where nobody would be cold or sick, and that all children have parents to call mom and dad.
In a future where Earth has been wiped clean of all life, and humanity has moved on to other worlds, twelve - year - old Noah Zarc and his family have embarked on a quest, in a time - traveling spaceship called the ARC, to retrieve two of every animal and repopulate a dead world.
My most recent series is called the First Colony Series that takes place a few hundred years in the future and Earth is sending its first interstellar colony out.
This time around it is original creator Infinity Ward's turn at bat, and they've decided to bring warfare to the future with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, dropping players into a war between two factions from Earth and Mars as they fight for complete dominance.
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Taking place in the future year 2279, the story focuses on a human colony on the planet Delia, which has sent a distress call back to Earth to help fend off alien invaders.
It's a broadly interesting story concerning the struggle for survival on a near - future Earth ravaged by an inconclusive war between humans and an alien alliance called Votans.
Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare (PS4, Xbox One, PC) sets its conflict in the future, safe in the knowledge that no memories are being trampled in its more gung - ho approach, which sees your hero fighting his way up from Earth to its planetary colonies in pursuit of rebels who are painted as utterly unsympathetic and totally evil.
What artist Robert Smithson called «Where remote futures meet remote pasts» in his essay «A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects,» (1968), discussed in Sarah J. Montross, «Cosmic Orbits: Observing Postwar Art of the Americas from Outer Space,» in Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americfutures meet remote pasts» in his essay «A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects,» (1968), discussed in Sarah J. Montross, «Cosmic Orbits: Observing Postwar Art of the Americas from Outer Space,» in Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the AmericFutures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas, ed.
«We are calling on policy - makers to respond to the prospect of triggering future climate tipping points by applying the brakes now and putting a high price on carbon emissions before it is too late,» says one of the authors, Tim Lenton, professor of climate change and earth system science at the University of Exeter.
In the February 2014 edition of Earth's Future, a new publication from the American Geophysical Union, Richard Somerville has written an article called, «Is learning about climate change like having a colonoscopy?»
«As paleoclimatologists, we want to study Earth under conditions similar to those we have today, what we call «climate analogues,» which might tell us what to expect in the future,» he said.
Friends of the Earth Europe is calling on European politicians to act as an example, and to push for fast and fair emission cuts in line with science, and a renewable energy future that is community - orientated.
In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.
Friends of the Earth Europe is calling on European politicians to push for fast and fair emission cuts in line with science, and a renewable energy - powered future that puts the interests of people at its centre.
But more telling is the demand for the «strengthening of Earth system governance», which calls for a range of institutions to be created or given greater power to «integrate the climate, biodiversity and development agendas» and «address the legitimate interests of future generations».
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Friends of the Earth Europe calls on the European Union to show leadership at these negotiations, ensuring a robust framework for the future that delivers real emission cuts in order avoid the more catastrophic effects of climate change.
Friends of the Earth Europe is calling on European politicians to push for fast and fair emission cuts in line with science and equity, and a renewable energy - powered future that puts the interests of people at its centre.
Here are two Northwest Earth Institute books available as pdfs: The first is a new two - session book on energy called Powering a Bright Future.
It's what Joe Romm at Climate Progress calls «a declaration of dependence on fossil fuels, a figurative declaration of war on a livable climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate change.
Writing this week in Earth's Future, Andy Parker of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Postdam, Germany, and Peter Irvine of Harvard's engineering school note that there's been little consideration of how likely a so - called «termination shock» really is.
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