Sentences with phrase «catastrophic climate»

In other words, we'll have a much greater chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change if we make some of the biggest cuts now.

So what I'm trying to achieve is to reduce the possibility and impact of catastrophic climate change.

Talk of avoiding catastrophic climate change just strengthens an energy transformation which already makes economic and social sense.

We need a deal that is adequate to the task of preventing catastrophic climate change.

Are emissions from our cars, factories, and farms causing catastrophic climate change?

A growing body of evidence suggests that vulnerability to catastrophic climate impacts might be higher than expected.

«Especially troubling is the current trajectory of potentially catastrophic climate change» from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities, the paper stated.

Something we must do and quickly, to prevent catastrophic climate disruption.

It is no surprise then, that this is where we find arguments about catastrophic climate change bury themselves — in uncertainty and ambiguity.

HOW much more carbon dioxide can the atmosphere absorb before it triggers catastrophic climate change?

Now the word is out: Global warming is happening and the educational and design communities have an obligation to join others worldwide in the battle against catastrophic climate change.

While it is sad that people lose their jobs when coal fired power stations are shut down, it must happen if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided.

Publication bias that fails to report positive changes has been a disturbing phenomenon observed elsewhere by authors making catastrophic climate assertions (here and here).

Local communities have challenged both the safety of transporting coal, oil and volatile gas through their communities and the role of fossil fuel export in fueling catastrophic climate disruption.

It also means that scientists and other experts are going to have to monitor measures other than just atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases to catch catastrophic climate change developing.

This is a good day for the public and a good day for the cause of addressing catastrophic climate change.

Perhaps the smoker will be one who does not contract cancer, and perhaps some yet unknown negative feedback will delay catastrophic climate change long enough for us to avoid it.

To prevent truly catastrophic climate change and preserve our planet for future generations, we need to dramatically and rapidly reduce CO2 emissions from the burning fossil fuels.

Without effective policy, we are looking at the difference between catastrophic climate change and less worse scenarios.

However governments have said that we need to limit temperature rise to two degrees in order to prevent catastrophic climate change events.

He was supposed to be on another panel, debating someone about the case for and against catastrophic climate change.

The right insurance policy against the risk of catastrophic climate change involves either a significant tax on carbon or a cap - and - trade system.

Because there are many scientists who believe we are approaching the point where it may be too late to really avoid catastrophic climate change.

Truly only one negative feedback in the planet's overall carbon cycle can act with sufficient speed and strength to avert catastrophic climate impacts: The dominant carbon - based life form on this planet will have to respond to the already painfully clear impacts of our carbon emissions by slashing those emissions sharply and eventually running the planet on carbon - negative power.

Chris Field said those reports don't take into account the full range of impacts, or plan for what might happen with catastrophic climate events, such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

AFTER being rightly sacked by the Abbott government in 2013, Flannery began his own go - fund - me version of the Climate Commission, the Climate Council, which continues the propagandised rollout of catastrophic climate predictions and unreliable - energy pipe dreams.

A rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperatures — the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change which will expose millions to drought, hunger and flooding — is now «very unlikely» to be avoided, the world's leading climate scientists said yesterday.

The effect also illustrates one proposal for so - called geoengineering — the deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment — that would use various means to create such sulfuric acid aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and thereby hopefully forestall catastrophic climate change.

While Keystone XL, in and of itself, will not guarantee that we have crossed the Rubicon to unstoppable catastrophic climate chaos, the reality is dire and, well, rather terrifying.

«In reality, the scientific consensus» is a manufactured myth... there is no convincing evidence that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) will produce catastrophic climate changes.»

Cape Town's current water crisis is an opportunity for the City to step up and show strong political will in halting catastrophic climate impacts.

Across the country, and especially among youth, the Greens represent a significant layer of society that recognises the urgency of tackling catastrophic climate change and other ecological threats.

Specifically, in the case of rapid action to slow catastrophic climate change, the best alternatives appear to be: methane and black carbon (otherwise known as soot).