Sentences with phrase «catastrophic climate impacts»

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.

India, therefore, must now work harder with developing countries and push for an ambitious global deal which is equitable and saves the world from catastrophic climate impacts.

That Cancun decision clearly did not reflect the most up - to - date scientific assessments of climate sensitivity that show that a temperature rise of more than 2 degrees — even one above 1.5 degrees — has a high probability of catastrophic climate impacts.

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.

Second, by not mentioning climate change Blue could avoid having to explain how Dominion's business plan will affect the climate, or Virginia's ability to transition from fossil fuels to carbon - free energy in time to help our country avoid catastrophic climate impacts.

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.

(Scientists say we must stay below a two - degree increase to avoid catastrophic climate impacts.)

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

Virtually all of the world's scientists believe that if we don't start slashing carbon emissions very soon, we risk locking in temperature increases that will have catastrophic climate impacts and affect every part of the globe.

- According to the IEA, 2/3 of fossil fuels should not be used, if we want to avoid catastrophic climate impacts.

Miyoko Sakashita, from the Center for Biological Diversity, said: «This report affirms that climate pledges made in Copenhagen fall far short of the action necessary to avoid catastrophic climate impacts.

Shakuntala Makhijani, the report's author, added, «the science is clear that at least two - thirds of proven fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate impacts — it is time for the U.S. government to show leadership and immediately end the massive subsidies that encourage their production.»

The world's preeminent scientific institutions working on climate and energy have determined that the majority of the world's existing fossil fuel reserves need to be left in the ground in order to avoid catastrophic climate impacts.

The bad news is that humanity has dawdled for so long that our only realistic chance to avoid multiple, irreversible, catastrophic climate impacts is to slash both carbon dioxide and the «super pollutants» like methane sharply starting as soon as possible.

(Scientists say we must stay below a two - degree increase to avoid catastrophic climate impacts.)