Sentences with phrase «disastrous changes in the climate»

We are certain about this: the more greenhouse gases we put into the air, the more severe the impacts will be, and the greater the risk we run of triggering disruptive, even disastrous changes in climate.

When someone states that they are «sure» or «highly confident» that more CO2 will lead to disastrous changes in the climate, what is the appropriate response in your opinion?

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The Liberal Democrat warned that there was no time to lose in dealing with the problem if the world was to avoid the potentially disastrous effects of climate change.

«Aardvarks» fate points to worrying consequences for wildlife, due to climate change: Hot, dry conditions that are expected to become the new normal in this elusive African mammal's habitat, my prove disastrous..»

In a statement, the PMAP cited Alvarez for his «continuous dedication in promoting clean air» and his initiatives to mitigate the disastrous impacts of climate change in the countrIn a statement, the PMAP cited Alvarez for his «continuous dedication in promoting clean air» and his initiatives to mitigate the disastrous impacts of climate change in the countrin promoting clean air» and his initiatives to mitigate the disastrous impacts of climate change in the countrin the country.

If you look at the Frameworks Institute studies on climate messaging from a few years ago, they found that framing the issue in terms of what could be done was far more successful than stressing the disastrous effects of climate change.

Otherwise it will become impractical to constrain atmospheric carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas produced in burning fossil fuels, to a level that prevents the climate system from passing tipping points that lead to disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.

A small upturn, or even one year of warming, is enough to start the now well known clamoring about the disastrous impacts of climate change, yet any movement in a downward direction is always met with cries of derision, or claims that even that is really due to climate change.

The whole crux of the CO2 issue is that it crystallises our fears for the future and provides a pressure point which might force political action if CO2 can be linked to something as potentially disastrous as a runaway unnatural change in global climate.

But if this gets in the way of an agreement that is necesssary to save us from disastrous climate change impacts, then you have a problem.

On 2013/10/23, during the disastrous NSW fires, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy (reported in news.com.au and elsewhere).

In this case, the military has been handed a «potential crisis» = disastrous climate change, so the Pentagon's knee - jerk reaction is to formulate a response plan.

The United Nations are predicting a full one metre rise in ocean levels due to climate change by the end of this century, with disastrous implications for future floods, inundation of fertile land, and storm surges.

Should Illinoisans tolerate the defiance exhibited here in Illinois to follow the dictates of the economic disastrous Paris Climate accord, given the near junk bond status of the state, and when the accord has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with punishing the US for being too industrial, too successful, too Western, and a host of other supposed evils that cause leftists to become unClimate accord, given the near junk bond status of the state, and when the accord has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with punishing the US for being too industrial, too successful, too Western, and a host of other supposed evils that cause leftists to become unclimate change and everything to do with punishing the US for being too industrial, too successful, too Western, and a host of other supposed evils that cause leftists to become unhinged?

(See article on unforseeability) Although even more optimistic predictions of climate change impacts are disastrous for some of the world's most vulnerable people, the upper end of possible human - induced temperature increases in this Century of 5 to 9 o C will be catastrophic and perhaps unimaginable for the world.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The climate accord reached in Paris this month aims to cut planet - warming emissions worldwide with the goal of averting the most disastrous effects of climate change.

In addition, IPCC carefully removes from summaries given to the press and politicians any doubt expressed in its massive assessment reports concerning the human source and disastrous consequences of climate change, thus ensuring only the alarmist perspective is hearIn addition, IPCC carefully removes from summaries given to the press and politicians any doubt expressed in its massive assessment reports concerning the human source and disastrous consequences of climate change, thus ensuring only the alarmist perspective is hearin its massive assessment reports concerning the human source and disastrous consequences of climate change, thus ensuring only the alarmist perspective is heard.

The year ended on high note with 195 nations joining together in establishing the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 - 2 degrees C and prevent the most disastrous impacts of climate change.

The suite of climate models that Western academia provide to us have been made de facto fortunetellers depicting what many of us believe to be a failed forecast of disastrous climate change calamity caused by industrial man in general and America in particular and I think such global warming fearmongers, really require a willing suspension of disbelief.»

Who would deny that disastrous and deep climate change catastrophism is a Left v right issue and that taxing energy is a plank in the Democrat party platform and Leftists throughout Western civilization?

Thus the United States, more than any other developed country, has been responsible for the disastrous 30 year delay in formulating a serious global response to climate change, while delays make the problem harder and more expensive to solve and increase the likelihood of triggering dangerous climate change.

In other words, we have a supercolony thriving under exactly the conditions that alarmist ecologists are telling us will prove disastrous for the penguins because climate change.

In summary, the combined CET and U.S. climate records add to the empirical evidence disproving the hyperbole for CO2 - caused disastrous global warming and catastrophic climate change.

Given the disastrous impacts we are already seeing in countries in Africa because of the changing climate, this fund is desperately needed.

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Climate changes resulting from global warming can have disastrous effects on the livelihood of people in the developing world:

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, as the warmest year in American history draws to a close, as the disastrous drought lingers on in the Midwest, everyone is looking for ways to make a real difference in the fight to slow climate changIn the wake of Hurricane Sandy, as the warmest year in American history draws to a close, as the disastrous drought lingers on in the Midwest, everyone is looking for ways to make a real difference in the fight to slow climate changin American history draws to a close, as the disastrous drought lingers on in the Midwest, everyone is looking for ways to make a real difference in the fight to slow climate changin the Midwest, everyone is looking for ways to make a real difference in the fight to slow climate changin the fight to slow climate change.

The drought that began in the eastern Mediterranean Levant region in 1998 and triggered the disastrous Syrian civil war was the worst climate change event in the past 900 years, a NASA study says.

Those cities and counties claim a disastrous flood is imminent due to climate change, and energy producers are the cause, in their case against the oil company.

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu argued at the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, a two - degree global mean temperature rise might result in Africa's temperature rising as much as 3.5 degrees — a potentially disastrous change.

Climate change has heated the ocean to dangerously high temperatures and a recent analysis compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the disastrous consequences to come, from super storms to change in marine life behavior.

The final decision by all countries at COP 17 in Durban recognized that current GHG - reduction pledges are not adequate to keep global average temperature below 2 degrees C (the limit science says is necessary to prevent climate change's most disastrous impacts).

The chances of proving — «proving» in the hard scientific sense of requiring both observational support and replication — that the projected change of climate over the next century will be large enough to be disastrous are virtually nil.

The theory of «man - made climate change» is an unsubstantiated hypothesis [about] our climate [which says it] has been adversely affected by the burning of fossil fuels in the last 100 years, causing the average temperature on the earth's surface to increase very slightly but with disastrous environmental consequences.

If this sum is invested in low - carbon growth, we have a fighting chance at avoiding the most disastrous impacts of climate change.

This could be disastrous in terms of climate change, but it points to the need for developing countries to build their energy infrastructure.

And like most people we'd like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change.

Friends of the Earth Finland / Maan ystävät continues to campaign for the introduction of a strong climate law for Finland, intent on their country lowering its greenhouse gas emmissions and playing its part in mitigating the disastrous effects of climate change.

The seriousness of climate change became particularly obvious in the second half of 2017 with consecutive disastrous hurricanes in the Caribbean and the USA, record wild fires in Canada and western USA, and record monsoonal flooding in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.