Sentences with phrase «climate apocalypse»

Prior to the additional 50 % of total metric tonnes of CO2 emissions being added to the world's biosphere, global warming change easily matched or exceeded that experienced since 1988 - the year of NASA's James Hansen's predictions of climate apocalypse from human CO2.

And, still, they do not buy into the hardships and deprivations required to avoid the impending climate Apocalypse.

Skepticism is a good idea, he says, since so many people who sound off about global warming don't bother to read the documents that supposedly forecast climate apocalypse.

Plus global climate headlines you missed this summer — climate Apocalypse now!.

The failure of even one of these authors to apologize, to disavow prior positions of promoting climate apocalypse for decades, of their massive and coordinated character assasination and career destruction of those with whom they disagree speaks very poorly of their sincerity and integrity.

Even though President Obama and other global - warming alarmists warn of a looming climate apocalypse, they avoid giving a metric to prove their claims.

The Daily Caller has recently inventoried some of the widely publicized such climate apocalypses predicted over the last 30 years by examining 12 of them.

(1) James Hansen sees a flooded NYC in 2030 «Stormy weather», Suzy Hansen, Salon, 23 October 2001 — «Floods, droughts, hurricanes... Continue reading Looking into the past for guidance about warnings of future climate apocalypses →

Of course, the Church of Global Warming gives itself unlimited discretion to violate academic standards, and has been known to endorse all sorts of hoopla (such as Hollywood fantasies about climate apocalypse) that it knows are ridiculous, because it's considered worthwhile to «raise public awareness» by any means necessary.

My fully - integrated self - consistent plan, if implemented, would offer a reasonable chance to avoid the impending climate Apocalypse.

Summary: As we tremble in fear at the forecasts of climate apocalypse in 2030, let's not forget the horrific forecasts made in the past.

Religious metaphors are already used to frame portions of the debate about geoengineering, a fact suggested by the prominent use of religious metaphors in contemporary discussions about «playing god,» to avoid a «climate apocalypse.»

Those who foresee a climate apocalypse have alternated between fears of hot and cold since the late 1800s.

While the iron law of climate may seem obvious, many on the left continue to reject it, insisting that turning up the volume with dire warnings of climate apocalypse and civil - rights - style protests can overcome the basic technological and economic obstacles to action.

Their rejection of a climate apocalypse — and not a denial of human contributions to climate change — is actually the view of most climate «skeptics,» and nothing Christie said is incompatible with that view.

None of the climate apocalypses have ever occurred or are even possible.

Empirical evidence review: It has now been 30 years since the former chief NASA climate scientist, James Hansen, unleashed his climate apocalypse scenarios on the public in 1988... looking back, does the empirical evidence support the fears of «unprecedented» warming?

The claim that human activity is triggering a climate apocalypse is based on expert opinion and best estimates.

At the other end of the spectrum, the self - consistent climate change amelioration plan I presented in IYSSSS # 511 shows that it may be possible to avoid the climate Apocalypse if we do hard demand reduction on fossil - based energy until the transition to low carbon technology is complete.

If he has this problem with a 2 C target, one can only imagine the extent of the problem with 3 C or 4 C. So, in my view, ANY plan or proposal that doesn't have a hard quantitative interim temperature ceiling target near ~ 1 C is a recipe for heading straight into the climate Apocalypse.

I don't think anybody has any salable concepts that will allow us to avoid the climate Apocalypse, and they are, for the most part, unwilling to post the unsalable ones.

I showed in detail that these two proxy plans posted by SA, the Spross - quoted plan [1] and the Ceres Clean Trillion plan [2], offered about a 1 % reduction in emissions annually for decades, more than an order of magnitude less than that required to avoid the climate Apocalypse!

In the thread «If you see something, say something» (IYSSSS), # 291, I use a different approach to identify the temperature target ceilings for avoiding the climate Apocalypse, and come to the above conclusion.

If you want to leave it to the «experts», feel free, but what is required to avoid the climate Apocalypse with high or reasonable chances of success is far more than their report (or recommendations) suggests.

In the thread «If you see something, say something» (IYSSSS), # 291, I identify the temperature target ceilings for avoiding the climate Apocalypse.

In IYSSSS # 511, I present the only self - consistent plan on the climate blogs that, if implemented, would provide a reasonable chance of avoiding the climate Apocalypse.

As two of many examples, I showed in detail that the two proxy plans posted by SA, the Spross - quoted plan [1] and the Ceres Clean Trillion plan [2], offered about a 1 % reduction in emissions annually for decades, more than an order of magnitude less than that required to avoid the climate Apocalypse!

Diogenese wrote: «I present the only self - consistent plan on the climate blogs that, if implemented, would provide a reasonable chance of avoiding the climate Apocalypse... The actions required are not pleasant...»

Their contribution to avoiding the climate Apocalypse parallels the contribution of errectile dyssfunction to good sex!

Concerned about appropriate temperature targets to avoid the impending climate Apocalypse; well, we'll just post an article by Knopf stating «many of these issues can not be answered solely by science, such as the question of a temperature level that avoids dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system».

We have to tighten the belt on fossil energy expenditure until we can barely breathe; we have no other options if we want to avoid the climate Apocalypse!

My climate change amelioration plan, designed to provide a reasonable chance of avoiding the climate Apocalypse, is based on data gathered prior to the publication of these articles.

What I really care about are your ideas to avoid the impending climate Apocalypse.

So, once we accept the reality that we have run out of carbon budget (as I have shown), then EVERY non-essential expenditure of fossil energy is one step closer to the climate Apocalypse.

Any plans or proposals that focus on substituting low carbon technology for high carbon technology without the parallel extremely harsh reductions in fossil energy demand are nothing more than recipes for reducing our chances of avoiding the climate Apocalypse.

This increased debt translates into reduced chances of avoiding the climate Apocalypse.