Sentences with phrase «dangerous climate change in the future»

For all countries, it says, there are many ways in which energy - sector actions can still be accelerated in order to increase the chances of averting dangerous climate change in the future.

Not exact matches

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to climate change, according to new Princeton research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced in coming years, BECCS and other negative emissions technologies are looked to as a means of avoiding dangerous future climate scenarios by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

It has become increasingly clear that the Administration's climate action plan, of which the Clean Power Plan is a critical part, is characterized by modest, gradual emissions reductions, that will likely be insufficient to curtail dangerous climate change without significant ratcheting in the near future.

The authors look closely at the claim of a «scientific consensus» that most of the climate change that occurred in the past 50 years was due to human activity and that future climate change will be dangerous.

It sounds like hyperbole, but on this task the future of life as we know it does in fact depend.President Obama and the Democrats are paradigmatically better than the Republicans on the issue of climate change, yet they to a dangerous degree understate and undervalue the criticality of the moment.

So «researchers» merely have to plug in estimates of future atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and, presto, out come 3 - 8 degrees of dangerous warming and climate change, and a host of «scenarios» for climate catastrophes, vanished species and dead people.

But what I don't accept is that it is certain that climate change is going to turn fast and dangerous in the future or that renewable energy is the cheap and safe solution to that problem.

In an article on «the perils of confirmation bias,» published for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (a group firmly opposed to policies that counteract climate change), Ridley suggested that «governments should fund groups that intend to explore alternative hypotheses about the likely future of climate as well as those that explore the dangerous man - made climate change prediction.»

«While we are responsible for playing our part in preventing dangerous climate change,» says Uday Gupta, the company's Managing Director, «we also future - proof our growth and profitability by taking climate action in collaboration with our partners in the value chain.»

For example, a 2010 study published in the proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States (PNAS) titled «Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emissions» demonstrated that slowing population growth could provide 16 to 29 percent of the emissions reductions suggested to be necessary by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change.

I had a chance to speak with Hansen in the midst of the action, and he took a moment to explain why tar sands represent «a critical juncture» for our future, why unconventional fossil fuels are so dangerous, and how our politics could feasibly fight climate change.

climate sensitivities, it shouldn't ultimately matter whether dangerous climate change occurs in 2200, 2300 or 2400 because of our actions now; surely we should care about what we leave for future generations?

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