Sentences with phrase «climate time bomb»

Arctic soils: a ticking climate time bomb.

But the Climate Time Bomb is undeniably ticking — and Trump has pulled out of the Paris Agreement.

The first article linked below reports on a recent study that says that «Global warming gases traped in the soil are bubbling out of the thawing permafrost in amounts far higher than previously thourght and may trigger what researchers warn is a climate time bomb

Guest contributor Alex Carlin says the Climate Time Bomb is ticking while Trump walks away from the Paris agreement and he contends it's worse than you may think (but there's hope)... [Continue Reading...]

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17 years ago a Greenpeace report titled The Climate Time Bomb tried to frighten us with lurid images and dire predictions that have since failed.

As the Associated Press put it, humans «may be triggering a self - perpetuating climate time bomb.»

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Nuclear is likely to be out of the frying pan into the fire, a time bomb waiting for our kids, just as much as climate change.

I suspect a more apt comparison of Climate is with the whole Population Bomb / Club of Rome / Nuclear Winter forays of science into politics that never achieved the political muscle of the climate change movement, though they had their time and power, but all suffered ill fates and deserveClimate is with the whole Population Bomb / Club of Rome / Nuclear Winter forays of science into politics that never achieved the political muscle of the climate change movement, though they had their time and power, but all suffered ill fates and deserveclimate change movement, though they had their time and power, but all suffered ill fates and deservedly so.

We worked to remove HFC - 23 (an HFC with a global warming potential of 14,800 times that of CO2) destruction credits from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the Kyoto Protocol, see our report Two Billion Tonne Climate Bomb for more information.

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In recent years, climate scientists have been concerned about a so - called «methane time bomb» on land, which would be detonated when warming Arctic temperatures melt permafrost and cause frozen vegetation in peat bogs and other areas to decay, releasing methane and carbon dioxide.

And how many times in history have we gone down the same road using the same tactics... there was Thomas Malthus 1798, «An Essay on the Principal of Population,» Paul Ehrlich's 1968, The Population Bomb, The Club of Rome's Limits to Growth in 1972, how similar were they to the current climate change pusch.

Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership» (CPTPP) is a ticking time - bomb for climate policy

For something as complicated as climate science, the long run is longer than for making a bomb and nuclear power plant after the discovery of fission, which itself was a long time coming after the discovery of radioactivity.

Alexei Kokorin: The main thing that is expected to be there is data saying that the climate «time bomb» may blow up sometime around 2040.

(http://blackjay.net/?p=335)(2) The «Bomb Test Curve» of declining 14C in the atmosphere indicates that CO2 has a half - time in the atmosphere of only 10 years, not the hundreds of years of the Bern Model used in numerical climate models.

«Climate change is a ticking time bomb for global food security,» Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said Wednesday in Copenhagen.

This abrupt increase in the gas, 20 times as effective at trapping heat as carbon dioxide, would accelerate global warming 15 - 35 years ahead of current projections, setting off a so - called «economic time bomb» of some $ 60 trillion (roughly the size of the 2012 global economy, writes Climate Central) the commentary estimates.