Sentences with phrase «cause irreversible climate change»

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If we don't act now, the climate change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be irreversible.»

And if action is not taken soon, climate change will cause irreversible impacts on our planet.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which, to be fair, advances the cause of global governance) has stated that if we don't cut carbon emissions there will be «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

The message of the latest IPCC report is clear: Climate change is real and caused by humans, and we will see far more dangerous and potentially irreversible impacts if we do not reduce global carbon emissions.

If we don't act now, the climate change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be irreversible.

CTPs are irreversible, uncertain events that can be triggered by climate - change - induced high temperatures and that cause large damages or disruptions to the climate system.

Whether you (or Edim) personally want to worry about these things is up to you, my point is that there are plenty of potential effects of climate change which would not fall into the «abrupt and irreversible» category but could still cause big problems if they occur, so just because the particular outcomes the IPCC classifies as such may not happen this century it doesn't logically mean we won't suffer serious impacts in the shorter term.

But we consider it to be our responsibility as professionals to ensure, to the best of our ability, that people understand what we know: human - caused climate change is happening, we face risks of abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes, and responding now will lower the risk and cost of taking action.