Sentences with phrase «devastating effects of global warming»

We can't make any progress on the real and potentially devastating effects of global warming until we have politicians who understand it and take it seriously.

The crisis facing planet Earth, can not be dissmissed as anything localized solely to the artic region, we must take action to protect ouselves from the devastating effects of global warming.

As a disclaimer, I will confess that these changes are not due to the magnanimity of the consumers who want to alleviate the potentially devastating effects of Global Warming, but instead are primarily due to the fact that people don't want to spend so much money on gas (and they use the Global Warming argument as a backup to assuage their conscience)

Algore: So what I was saying is you need to sign the Kyoto Protocol and assert US leadership in resolving the devastating effects of global warming.

And when Zaria visited Greenland in 2012, she saw firsthand the devastating effects of global warming on the region.

In an alternate present, vast swathes of America have become no - go areas as the devastating effects of global warming ravage the continent.

Protect the environment and the biodiversity, limit the devastating effects of global warming for human beings: FONROCHE Energie Group decided to get involved in sustainable environmental missions worldwide.

Not exact matches

Proposals to reduce the effects of global warming by imitating volcanic eruptions could have a devastating effect on global regions prone to either tumultuous storms or prolonged drought, new research has shown.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

1.5 °C is the maximum amount of global warming that can be accepted without devastating effects on communities worldwide, and yet, at this point, many nations are still opting for the easier goal of 2 °C, which was agreed upon in the Copenhagen Accord of last year.

The effects of continued global warming on Alpine snow cover could have a devastating impact on Switzerland's winter sports industry.

May quotes Sir Nicholas Stern's report on the economics of climate change to demonstrate the devastating effects that global warming will have on species diversity (should Stern not be citing May on such matters?)

This trend is believed to be a result of human - induced global warming, combining with the effects of a particularly devastating El Nino.

With that kind of pressure, it's only natural that some would be unsure of our ability to effect a unanimous international agreement that would do what absolutely, unequivocally must be done: We must reduce the rate of global warming, immediately and substantially, in order to curtail the devastating effects of climate change.

27 February, 2017 — The effects of continued global warming on Alpine snow cover could have a devastating impact on Switzerland's winter sports industry.

«Too expensive to act»: Some contrarians admit that global warming exists, is caused by humans, and indeed has harmful effects, but assert that it is too expensive to mitigate global warming (they ignore the principle of risk management, use economic scenarios that ignore benefits of new technologies, assume a high «discount rate», and ignore devastating future economic costs of unbridled global warming).