Sentences with phrase «changing at unprecedented rates»

The earth and its ecological processes are changing at unprecedented rates due to human activity; the effects of these changes are uncertain.

The global drinks market is changing at an unprecedented rate with consumption swings and market preferences both unpredictable and surprising.

Our climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, potentially jeopardizing the web of life processes that keep our planet alive.

«Our world is changing at an unprecedented rate, and educators and community members need the opportunity to learn and understand how these changes impact student success.

... But to what extent is the debate defined by the claim that «the climate is changing at an unprecedented rate»?

Numerous reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that the facts are undeniable: our climate is changing at an unprecedented rate.

The grim findings of the IPCC last year reiterated what climatologists have long been telling us: the climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and we're to blame.

The legal landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate.

The healthcare landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate and Medical Billing is not spared from the upheaval of change.

Not exact matches

As crowdfunding accelerates at an unprecedented rate, it's impacting government policy, informing enterprise innovation and changing the role of financial institutions around the world.

Humans are now changing the Earth's climate at an unprecedented rate.

From overfishing and pollution to coastal development and climate change, fragile coral ecosystems are disappearing at unprecedented rates around the world.

Glacial collapse is unprecedented in western Tibet, which for decades has resisted the effects of climate change while glaciers in southern and eastern Tibet have melted at an accelerating rate.

With environmental changes occurring at an unprecedented rate around the world, biological communication needs to be left off the pace at no point.

Arising at a time when the disparity of test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students is reaching an unprecedented level, this volume urges that the problem of educational inequality be addressed and that changes be made within the educational system.

Glaciers in South America's Andes mountain range are receding at unprecedented rates as a result of climate change, according to a recent study published in the science journal Cryosphere.

Since the Paris Agreement was struck at the global climate Summit in Paris (21st Conference of the Parties to the Un Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP21) last year, countries have come together at an unprecedented rate to ensure its early into force.

Or perhaps the science of climate change (which has been the most politically manipulated science in living memory), will finally be based on literature that encompasses all view points, rather than just the «fast and convenient» 97 % junk literature currently being mass produced at an unprecedented rate.

There is nothing unprecedented either about today's global temperatures or about the rate at which those temperatures have been changing.

Uniquely and fearlessly AMEG has studied key non-linear trends in the Earth - human System and reached the stunning conclusion that the planet stands at the edge of abrupt and catastrophic climate change as a result of an unprecedented rate of change in the Arctic.

«The sooner global emissions start to fall, the lower the risk not only of major climate disruption, but also of economic disruption that could otherwise arise from the need for subsequent reductions at historically unprecedented rates, should near - term action remain inadequate,» says another of the report's authors, Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and climate change policy at University College London's Institute of Sustainable Resources.

Climate change is happening, being driven by the human combustion of fossil fuels at unprecedented rates for more than a century.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

Given the reluctance, at virtually all levels, to openly engage with the unprecedented scale of both current emissions and their associated growth rates, even an optimistic interpretation of the current framing of climate change implies that stabilization much below 650 ppmv CO2e is improbable....

It was supposed to show how amazingly navigable the Arctic Circle has become now that climate change is supposedly melting the polar ice caps at a dangerous and unprecedented rate.

-- dropping — multi year ice will disappear in summer minimum likely within 30 years — rate of change based on current knowledge is that ice loss is unprecedented, at least within the last million years.