Sentences with phrase «dramatic climate»

The flood of fresh water into the ocean also caused dramatic climate changes.

To get on track to avoiding dramatic climate change, the world must avoid emitting about 200 billion tons of carbon, or eight 25 billion ton wedges, over the next 50 years.

They survived dramatic climate change, habitat change and rising seas.

Plants might mitigate the effects of Global Warming but, will the extent of flora's contribution be sufficient to prevent dramatic climate changes?

The alternative view he advances sees a less dramatic climate change that would allow the world to adapt without reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Improving our environmental approach will help, no matter how dramatic climate change actually is.

Nevertheless we acknowledge that dramatic climate change in the world will result in the fall of economies and the welfare of people worldwide.

From lakes and grasslands with hippos and giraffes to a vast desert, North Africa's sudden geographical transformation 5,000 years ago was one of the planet's most dramatic climate shifts.

As evidence of dramatically changing climate began to mount, and the reports of dramatic climate impact from melting icecaps to withering, long - term droughts from many continents started to indicate a global climate catastrophe, scientists started changing their estimations.

The immediate disasters of The Day After Tomorrow remains wild exaggeration, but melting ice could yet cause dramatic climate changes by altering ocean currents

One organization that focuses on debunking fraudulent or unsupported global warming claims, The Climate Depot, notes that in 1974, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the U.S. was alarmed over «dramatic climate anomalies.»

«Cooperation and resilient social networks were really key in helping people ride out dramatic climate change in the past,» said Riel - Salvatore

In January, New York City went to court to claim compensation from the five largest oil companies for dramatic climate change impacts, including Shell.

Still, dramatic climate swings were not terribly unusual during this period in Earth's history, and the Patagonian megafauna had made it through several warm periods before the one that finally did them in.

You live in Canada, where ice, snow, salt and dramatic climate fluctuations, combined with thousands of kilometres of gravel roads, can chip away your car's built - in protection in no time.

This blog briefly discusses potential explosive methane release from Arctic permafrost, and contrasts this with the potential dramatic climate impacts of a major volcanic eruption.

With one of the lowest carbon - emission footprints in the world, Tong has often described Kiribati as a «frontline country» that has been among the first to experience dramatic climate change impacts.

Himalayan communities are already facing dramatic climate shifts, according to AFP, which interviewed Apa Sherpa while he's participating in a 120 - day hike.

Today, he is 84, still working at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, and has given up hope that emissions reduction alone could avert dramatic climate change.

«Traditionally species have been resilient and capable of going through dramatic climate change, but with humans changing the face of the landscape, we've created lots of prisons for species, and that's the major problem they face,» he said.

During the last ice age, over 20 abrupt and dramatic climate shifts occurred that are particularly prominent in records around the northern Atlantic (see Section 6.4).

Exposure to media ensures that children can not escape hearing that their future and that of other species is at stake, and that the window of opportunity to avoid dramatic climate impacts is closing.

Emissions foreseen by the Energy Perspectives of Statoil [259], if they occur, would approach or exceed 1000 GtC and cause dramatic climate change that would run out of control of future generations.

Since the climate science is predicting such dramatic climate change that will require major changes in virtually everyones lives to mitigae, the same type of oversight for climate change science may be demanded by the public and hence politicians.

«Cooperation and resilient social networks were really key in helping people ride out dramatic climate change in the past,» said Riel - Salvatore

Sorry for lowering a bit the level of the discussion but 30 years into the most dramatic climate change that the Earth has experienced in the past millennium (perhaps since the beginning of the Holocene), I was wondering if this tremendous global warming should not have already become a bit more noticeable for the average person.

«rbG: b» confronts head - on the question of collective responsibility and environmental justice in a time of dramatic climate change.

Exposure to media ensures that children can not escape hearing that their future and that of other species is at stake, and that the window of opportunity to avoid dramatic climate impacts is closing.

A gut feeling by people that somehow they know the science better than the thousands of professional peer - reviewed scientists who just won a Nobel Prize for their work and who have gotten every major national leader, including George Bush, to agree to the basic fact that human produced CO2 is causing dramatic climate change that will be bad for humanity if we don't stop it.

New studies suggest that dramatic climate changes were killing off behemoths even before the asteroid impact

Now a remarkable find from Canada's permafrost could help explain how the trick was done, through a process that might offer organisms a way to cope with the dramatic climate change the world is facing.

But at the end of the Triassic, dramatic climate change played a role in another mass extinction.

In the flurry of new research on the rapid decline of Steller sea lions, harbor seals, and northern fur seals, I thought one of the most likely causes was a dramatic climate shift in the region they inhabit.

These findings will help scientists understand the processes that control Earth's dramatic climate changes at the end of an ice age.

The team's most recent finding of a dramatic climate change appeared in Nature Geoscience, in the paper «Record of the ancient Martian hydrosphere and atmosphere preserved in zircon from a Martian meteorite.»

Since most of the atmosphere was lost as part of a dramatic climate change, MAVEN will make definitive scientific measurement of present - day atmospheric loss that will offer insight into the Red Planet's history.

Which is fantastic since my city has unexpected and dramatic climate changes this time of year from morning till evening.

New languages, different customs and dramatic climate shifts are only a few of the challenges immigrants and refugees face upon arrival to Canada.

Stunning white ski slopes, outstandingly blue rivers and a dramatic climate make up the irresistible beauty that is Canada.