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.
Not exact matches
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 Americ
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 Americ
Futures: 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.