Sentences with phrase «entire global climate system»
«Imagine basing a country's energy and economic policy on an incomplete, unproven theory — a theory based entirely on computer models in which one minor variable (CO2) is considered the sole driver for the entire global climate system.»
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The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»
The elements that I believe are key to a successful agreement in Copenhagen include: • Strong targets and timetables from industrialized countries and differentiated but binding commitments from developing countries that put the entire world under a system with one commitment: to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants that cause the climate crisis; • The inclusion of deforestation, which alone accounts for twenty percent of the emissions that cause global warming; • The addition of sinks including those from soils, principally from farmlands and grazing lands with appropriate methodologies and accounting.
The free world might even, heaven forbid, reverse the current, rather unthinking, trend towards global free trade and institute a system of climate - based protectionism, to give force to our requirements that the entire globe reduce emissions.
The global water cycle is one of the fundamental elements of the Earth's climate system, involving the exchange of freshwater within the entire ocean - land - atmosphere system.
The Sustainable Innovation Forum, will convene many of the key investors in Climate Finance from organisations including: International Finance Corporation, European Investment Bank, Global Environment Facility and Amundi, to discuss adopting and mainstreaming innovative green finance products and embedding climate considerations across the entire financial Climate Finance from organisations including: International Finance Corporation, European Investment Bank, Global Environment Facility and Amundi, to discuss adopting and mainstreaming innovative green finance products and embedding climate considerations across the entire financial climate considerations across the entire financial system.
From my experience watching the climate science issue advance over the years, what I continually see is people, like yourself who have clear expertise in a specific area, believing that they understand the entire breadth of the climate change issue when, in actuality, they understand very little of the other broader elements of the global climate system that come into play.
When the warming of the Earth's entire climate system is considered, global warming continues to rise at a rate equivalent to about 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second, faster over the past 15 years than the prior 15 years.
Arctic sea ice loss can be an example of a tipping point, but it's primarily a tipping point for nothing else than itself (i.e., Arctic sea ice loss, and associated ecological systems, etc)-- but without much impact on the energy budget of the entire planet or on global climate sensitivity.