Sentences with phrase «disastrous global change»

Probably it was no coincidence that this new readiness of scientists to consider rapid and disastrous global change spread in the early 1960s.

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«Add to this the disastrous effects of climate change, and we are looking at a highly unstable global system by the middle years of the century unless urgent action is taken now.»

Fossil fuel emissions of 1000 GtC, sometimes associated with a 2 °C global warming target, would be expected to cause large climate change with disastrous consequences.

A slowly dropping rate of increase would still be disastrous, but encouraging because it would suggest that we have done something real and significant to start moving the needle int the right direction, but sooner or later, the needle has to start moving down or our global warming troubles will continue to build and the only change we are creating is the rate at which are troubles will build.

Global Warming: Computer models used by environmentalists predict imminent and disastrous climate change.

I understand that the global warming on its own affects the churning up of nutrients, and the mixing of water — even without any changes to the THC at all (although a shut - down of the THC or even a slow - down would be absolutely disastrous for marine life).

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.

(3) The supposed global warming you claim has such disastrous impact was — real world now, not exaggerated political propaganda — 1/2 of ONE degree change in temperature in 1998, and is right now, real world, actual numbers remember 0.0 degrees change over the past 30 years.

The supposed global warming you claim has such disastrous impact was — real world now, not exaggerated political propaganda — 1/2 of ONE degree change in temperature in 1998, and is right now, real world, actual numbers remember 0.0 degrees change over the past 30 years.

-- > a coming Ice Age — > global warming — > anthropogenic global warming — > runaway global warming — > climate change — > disastrous climate change — > a «warming hiatus» (currently)-- > irreversible and catastrophic climate changes (the future)

The melting of the Arctic ice will bring about changes that go way beyond the disastrous weather events we are seeing (and are clear to anyone looking down here in the South Pacific) but will lead to immediate increases in global temperatures which will make the large - scale growing of grain crops impossible.

The topics were broad but there was a clear premise ¨ change the system, not the climate ¨, and the outcome of discussion during these days is the Margarita Declaration consisting of 62 points some on specific issues within the climate change negotiations, as well as other crosscutting issues which delegates at the UNFCCC usually do not take into account such as the impact on education, food sovereignty, the rights of Mother Earth, the adoption of new ways of life unattached to the idea of development and intergenerational exchange as solutions to the rising global temperatures and its disastrous effects.

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.»

Perhaps Pope will write to chide Tim Flannery's latest alarmist diatribe, this one blaming global warming for Australia's disastrous fires («A deadly reminder that we must tackle climate change,» Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 12, 2009).

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 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.

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Renaming global warming to a concern about climate change and adding a few adjectives when that didn't work — like disastrous and calamitous climate change — hasn't worked out so well for the global alarmists.

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

The bottom line is that it's still possible to limit global temperature rise to 2 °C, thus preventing some of the more disastrous consequences of climate change — but it will require ambitious cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions.

Yet the disastrous Kyoto story is repeating itself; adherence to Paris has become a totem of global determination to tackle climate change while the agreement seems purpose - built to prevent the very economic sophistication on which any low - carbon future depends.»

We're still heading for global warming of 3 - 4 °C with disastrous consequence for millions of people around the world living on the frontlines of climate change as droughts, storms and floods threaten their homes, their harvests and their livelihoods.

National Academy of Sciences (1975): «We do not know what causes... climatic change» By Kenneth Richard After having switched from warning the masses in the 1970s about imminent human - caused global cooling to warning the masses in the 1980s about an imminent human - caused global warming, the late Dr. Stephen Schneider suggested that, to avoid «potentially disastrous -LSB-...]

However, the majority of these greenhouse gas reduction targets are still not ambitious enough to align with the global effort to keep warming below 2 °C, the temperature limit scientists say is necessary to prevent some of the most disastrous consequences of climate change.

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.

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).

We can see very clearly that when it comes to having an intelligent discussion about global warming then, climate change then, disastrous climate disruption then, «global weirding,» etc., that it is communication itself that has been the most attacked and then undermined.

With hope waning that we can limit climate change to an average increase of 2 degrees centigrade, global warming threatens many species (including our own) with loss of habitat, disastrous weather events, and evolving illnesses.

Ten global corporations have committed to greenhouse gas reduction targets consistent with limiting global warming to less than 2 °C — the threshold that scientists widely agree would help avoid the most disastrous effects of climate change (Table 1).

«Fossil fuel emissions of 1,000 gigaton, sometimes associated with a 2C global warming target, would be expected to cause large climate change with disastrous consequences.

The limit of 2C of global warming agreed by the world's governments is a «dangerous target», «foolhardy» and will not avoid the most disastrous consequences of climate change, new research from a panel of eminent climate scientists warned on Tuesday.