Sentences with phrase «control runaway warming»

Chuck, the quote seems pretty accurate to me, but some will cavil about the use of the phrase «out - of - control runaway warming process» for «each» of those systems; but there are certainly feedbacks associated with most of them that will indeed drive toward more warming, though some effects are going to be stronger and faster than others.

Each of these ecosystem collapses could trigger an out - of - control runaway warming process.

Not exact matches

Climate forecasts have long noted that every increase in global temperature heightens the odds of runaway global warming, beyond any human control.

We don't know that anthropogenic global warming will be limited before the system goes into runaway positive feedback driven by melting methane hydrates we can't control.

The longer global warming continues, the greater the risk of «waking the sleeping giants» — major feedbacks such as ice sheet collapse, methane «burps,» or ecosystem collapse — that could ignite abrupt or runaway warming beyond our control.

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 runaway greenhouse effect has several meanings ranging from, at the low end, global warming sufficient to induce out - of - control amplifying feedbacks, such as ice sheet disintegration and melting of methane hydrates, to, at the high end, a Venus - like hothouse with crustal carbon baked into the atmosphere and a surface temperature of several hundred degrees, a climate state from which there is no escape.

And the result will be ever - escalating wars for control of dwindling oil supplies, ever - escalating destruction of ecosystems, and irreversible, runaway catastrophic global warming, until the whole house of cards that constitutes the present - day «American way of life» collapses, in a very painful and ugly fashion.