Sentences with phrase «change on the unprecedented scale»

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Information, Media and Technology Skills: Today we live in a technology and media - suffused environment with: 1) access to an abundance of information, 2) rapid changes in technology tools, and 3) the ability to collaborate and make individual contributions on an unprecedented scale.

... if you look at the implications of climate change, of runaway climate change, we are literally talking about millions and millions of people dying, we are literally talking about famines, and flooding, and migration and disease on an unprecedented scale.

Now that the IPCC, President Obama and hordes of other climate alarmists have convinced so many people that climate change is «real,» it's «happening now,» humans are «contributing to» myriad disasters on an «unprecedented» scale — the Group of 130 expects the FRCs (Formerly Rich Countries) to pay up.

The Task Force report represents an unprecedented scientific undertaking, on the scale of the IPPC's work on climate change.

As British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett warned the U.N. Security Council, the risk of massive economic disruption and «migration on an unprecedented scale» make climate change a true security threat.

This conclusion has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes both additional large - scale surface temperature reconstructions and pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators, such as melting on icecaps and the retreat of glaciers around the world, which in many cases appear to be unprecedented during at least the last 2000 years.

• Scale: Achieving the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's long - term sequestration goals means boosting deep geological carbon dioxide storage from about 5 megatons per year to more than 22,000 megatons annually by the end of the century — an «unprecedented» undertaking that Mr. Thomson says will involve extensive new facilities and pipelines that would rival the world's oil industry infrastructure.

The only thing that can be predicted with virtual certainty, is that when a complex system such as our biosphere has been tampered with on such an unprecedented scale as it has been in the last 200 years, there is a near certainty serious and detrimental changes will occur.