Sentences with phrase «consequences of a warming world»

The public may or may not become engaged over the threat to polar bears, they will surely be aroused to action if they realize the consequences of a warmer world — and that they have been sold out for a few pennies.

Personally, when I think about those toiling, vulnerable masses who are going to suffer the worst consequences of a warming world, I find it offensive to hear a comfortable, white American say, «We are going to do OK.»

Steps the EPA Must Take to Reduce Global Warming Emissions The president is ensuring that the EPA fulfills its legal obligation to protect our health and environment from the consequences of a warming world by reducing carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act.

While climate science can effectively inform us about the range of possible consequences of a warming world, there is a large amount of irresolvable uncertainty inherent in climate forecasting.

Most global climate models affirm that higher levels of humidity are a consequence of a warmer world.

Climate change signals are amplified in polar regions and indicators, such as the collapse of ice shelves and melting of sea ice, have raised public awareness of the consequences of a warming world.

Less attention is paid to «pointing fingers» at humanity as the catalyst for climate change and the potentially drastic consequences of a warming world.

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We don't know the consequences of global warming in detail, but we do know that a warmer world will release a lot of carbon into the atmosphere that is currently tied up in peat moss.

This is unacceptable at a time when leading scientists from all over the world are warning that greenhouse gases must be cut by at least 60 percent over the next half a century to avert the worst consequences of global warming.

James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and a vociferous advocate for lowering global greenhouse gas emissions, was chosen for his work modeling Earth's climate, predicting global warming, and warning the world about the consequences.

Yet despite all the complexities, a firm and ever - growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and if emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with increasingly serious consequences.

While world leaders — and this NCAR study — suggest prompt action can still avert the worst consequences, a majority of scientists polled at a major international conference last month told the paper they fear society is incapable of such action and faces dangerous warming.

The report, Explaining ocean warming: causes, scales, effects and consequences, which was presented at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii recently (5 September 2016), has found the upper depths of the world's oceans have warmed significantly since World Conservation Congress in Hawaii recently (5 September 2016), has found the upper depths of the world's oceans have warmed significantly since world's oceans have warmed significantly since 1995.

Researchers find the political consequences of warming temperatures on the ancient world.

Calling it the Climate Name Change, 350 is encouraging people to name Hurricanes after the politicians that deny the real world consequences of global warming.

Amazon, Arctic, Darfur and Napa Valley Stephan Faris, a correspondent for Time, Fortune, and Salon, who wrote Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley, addressed land use and how global warming is responsible for drought, water issues, malaria spreading, health, and immigration pressures around the world.

As this blog and other venues continue discussions of global warming, its causes and consequences, we would do well also to look at the world around us for clues about where we are headed.

Never before has it been possible for people from all over the world to access the latest information and collectively seek solutions to the challenges which face our planet, and not a moment too soon: the year 2015 was the hottest in human history, and the Great Barrier Reef is suffering the consequences of warming oceans right now.

For at least two decades scientists have warned the world about the causes and consequences of global warming, but for the most part neither we nor the rest of the world has done much.

Nature is kicking back on us because we're just slow learners about hurricane infrastructure preparations as well as not paying enough attention to the real world consequences of human - induced global warming and climate change.

The potential consequences of warming include widespread famine, triggered by extreme drought in the major grain - producing areas of the world; the wholesale disappearance of the world's coral reefs; and sea levels rising by several meters over the course of a few centuries.»

Because the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, with grave consequences for local biodiversity and cultures, and for low - lying communities around the world at risk from climate change.

Generally, the remaining uncorrected effect from urban heat islands is now believed to be less than 0.1 C, and in some parts of the world it may be more than fully compensated for by other changes in measurement methods.4 Nevertheless, this remains an important source of uncertainty.The warming trend observed over the past century is too large to be easily dismissed as a consequence of measurement errors.

Of the 75 % of respondents who agreed that climate change was happening, one - in - three people felt that the potential consequences of living in a warming world had been exaggerated, up from one - in - five people in NovembeOf the 75 % of respondents who agreed that climate change was happening, one - in - three people felt that the potential consequences of living in a warming world had been exaggerated, up from one - in - five people in Novembeof respondents who agreed that climate change was happening, one - in - three people felt that the potential consequences of living in a warming world had been exaggerated, up from one - in - five people in Novembeof living in a warming world had been exaggerated, up from one - in - five people in November.

That may mean that some of the highest estimates of future temperature rises, of more than 6C within several decades, are less likely, but it does not let the world off the hook — warming of more than 2C is still highly likely on current high emissions trends, and that would cause severe consequences around the world.

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.

Climate activists excitedly report that climate litigation «has the potential to reshape the way the world thinks about energy production and the consequences of global warming.»

«Four years of the Trump administration may have only modest consequences, but eight years of bad policy would probably wreck the world's chances of keeping warming below the international target of 2 degrees Celsius,» Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said by email.

Compounding these issues is the link between increasing green crab abundance and increasing ocean temperature, which has had severe ecological and socio - economic consequences in areas such as the GOM, where warming is occurring faster than 99 % of the world's oceans.

We can probably cope with some of the warmer world consequences, and yes some may be positive, but sea level rise is clearly a harmful impact in many parts of the world and will be hugely costly to deal with.

Overall, it concluded that it would be in the developing world where the net adverse effects would be greatest, and that, as a consequence, by the end of the century, if nothing was done to stop the warming, living standards in the developing world, instead of being rather more than nine times as high as they are today, would «only» be rather more than eight times as high as they are today.

The implication is that even though other teams have repeatedly warned that the world's reefs are in peril as the world warms because of ever - greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as a consequence of human combustion of fossil fuels at a profligate rate, the world's great reefs may survive for perhaps another century, rather than perish within the next 50 years.

And so President Obama admitted that: (a) climate change is a civilization challenging problem with dire potential consequences for nations and vulnerable people around the world, (b) the world is running out of time to prevent catastrophic warming, and, (c) the United States has responsibility for causing the problem.

The litigation, reinforced by science, has the potential to reshape the way the world thinks about energy production and the consequences of global warming.

The fact that there has on any basis been little further warming over the course of the last 10 to 15 years over and above that which had already occured by the mid / late 19902 suggests that recent extreme weather events are not the consequence of additional warming (there having been all but none these past 15 years) and therefore must be due to natural variability of weather events in an ever changing and chaotic world in which we live.

... when it comes to the real - world consequences of those scientific findings, specifically the kind of deep changes required not just to our energy consumption but to the underlying logic of our economic system, the crowd gathered at the Marriott Hotel may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

US researchers report in the journal Nature that they collected fossil pollens from 642 ponds and lake beds across Europe and North America, to provide a record of local temperature shifts in the last 11,700 years, to conclude that — without global warming as a consequence of profligate human use of fossil fuels — the world ought to be in a cool phase.

I won't delve into all the data, but regarding one of the points you address, it is the poor individuals in third world countries who will be the first to suffer, and perhaps suffer massively, if we fail to act to control both warming and its consequences by a combination of mitigation and adaptation.

The backcloth to California's climate — the overall annual precipitation — may not change greatly as the world, and the US with it, warms as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion on a global scale.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a layman's critique of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory, and in particular to challenge the fairly widespread notion that the science and projected consequences of AGW currently justify massive spending and government intervention into the world's economies.

Yet despite all the complexities, a firm and ever - growing body of evidence points to a clear picture: the world is warming, this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and if emissions continue unabated the warming will too, with increasingly serious consequences.

For us in Colorado, the changes are not yet as obvious as in the Arctic, but the basic physics of the atmosphere tells us that a warming world will have serious consequences for our snowpack and water supply.

If you want to win people over, you need to convince the world that the consequences of global warming are worse than what needs to be done to stop it.

We're still heading for global warming of 3 - 4 °C with disastrous consequence for millions of people around the world living on the frontlines of climate change as droughts, storms and floods threaten their homes, their harvests and their livelihoods.

Warming temperatures, rising seas, ocean acidification, changes to regional weather patterns — nearly every consequence of climate change threatens the world's 8.7 million species in some way.

There was the keynote address by Sir Robert Watson, who explored the implications of our current emissions path, and the fact that we are likely heading for a world that is 4 or 5 degrees warmer by 2100 than it was before industrialisation, with consequences that are alarming rather than alarmist.

As we reported here in August of last year («Desperate Dash of Global Warming»), the upcoming conference in Paris is the culmination of more than two decades of very intensive (and very expensive) propagandizing and fear mongering aimed at convincing the people of the world (but especially Americans) that we must all submit to drastic global controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, Warming»), the upcoming conference in Paris is the culmination of more than two decades of very intensive (and very expensive) propagandizing and fear mongering aimed at convincing the people of the world (but especially Americans) that we must all submit to drastic global controls, or face catastrophic consequences from runaway anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming, warming, or AGW.

The consequences of warming - fueled jet stream and pressure changes are already being felt around the world.

What probably is most startling in the interview is Lovelock's call for a «more authoritative world» to deal with what he sees as the consequences of global warming:

There are some serious blinders in place in the developed and western world to the consequences of global warming «solutions».