Sentences with phrase «dangerous future»

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.

Copenhagen conference fails to negotiate binding agreements: end of hopes of avoiding dangerous future climate change.

Hurricane Harvey exemplifies the risks we all face — and a more dangerous future if we don't take actions now.

National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre warned women during a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference that they face a dangerous future should Democratic frontrunner Clinton winds up in the White House.

Mrs Okonjo - Iweala has done sterling work in getting the Paris Club and the London Club of creditors off our national back but is she taking us down an abyss and back to the dangerous future we do not desire.

Asked whether the threat of UKIP could cause Plaid to lose their only seat in the European Parliament, Ms Wood said that choosing to vote for UKIP at the forthcoming elections would mean «a dangerous future» for Wales and that it was important to choose a party like them who wanted to remain part of the EU.

The Kerry - Boxer bill, she added, «is the best insurance against a dangerous future.

It's in keeping with the nature of his characters coming - of - age, as his eyes have been opened as to the treachery around him, as well as his frustration in the lack of understanding by his peers and authority figures in the perils he has to endure and the dangerous future that lies in wait for all of them.

«Some could put us on a barely workable path heading into Paris, while others may doom us to a dangerous future.»

But all three also point to the same bleak conclusion: human impacts on the atmosphere promise only the choice between a dangerous future, and a catastrophic one, as the planetary thermometer rises, glaciers and icecaps melt, the oceans become more acidic and more likely to flood coastal communities, hurricanes and typhoons become more intense and destructive, heatwaves become more lethal and droughts become more devastating.

The basic assumption underlying the UNFCCC is that man's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are driving the climate system to a dangerous future that can only be prevented by massive reductions in these emissions.

Instead, the climate change debate is dominated by negative slogans about needing to change our behaviour, and that we face a difficult, unpredictable and dangerous future.

Again, this bleak, dangerous future the IPCC says we could avoid through the rapid phaseout of fossil fuels may not even be as bad as the future we're actually headed toward, while a future in which business as usual doesn't result in catastrophe exists only in the imaginations of those who close their eyes to the science.

«A dangerous future of killer robots by Tom Malinowski, The Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2012.