Sentences with phrase «catastrophic rise»

But what about the risk that a city might not even exist in a few years, the victim of catastrophic rises in sea level due to global warming?

Business - as - usual emissions would drive sea level up by a disastrous 80 centimeters, though the panel rejected suggestions of a truly catastrophic rise.

It's an «enormous catastrophic rise» Paul says.

One of the biggest selling points of the anthropogenic global warming theory is the incorrect assertion that glaciers are melting, which will supposedly contribute to catastrophic rises in sea level and the endangerment of polar bears, among other things — and the media are all too eager to pass on this inaccurate view of climate to the public.

But these frozen reservoirs are melting rapidly, and the water they release could cause a catastrophic rise in sea levels

The warming ocean and atmosphere that are already melting glaciers and ice sheets produce a catastrophic rise in the ocean.

The reason: the world's oceans and forests, which scientists were counting on to help hold off catastrophic rises in carbon dioxide, are already so full of CO2 that they are losing their ability to absorb this climate change culprit.

But everyone now shooting and posting things on their phones is causing a catastrophic rise in the shit sea levels overall.

We've been told of a catastrophic rise being just around the corner for thirty years or more.

An abrupt and catastrophic rise of tens of degrees was conceivable, «perhaps in the course of a single season.»