Sentences with phrase «from dangerous warming»
INTERNATIONAL climate talks may be stalled, but the fight to protect the planet from dangerous warming goes on.
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One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.
Church is meant to rattle a few pews because God's love is a radiant, passionate, all - consuming, dangerous shockwave to the soul that you may never recover from if it warms your heart and turns you into an uncontrollable explosion that people feel quaking under their feet, just like it did to the saints and revivalists of old.
«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of extreme weather and climate events ranging from more intense heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.
There are two dangerous consequences that follow from the study suggesting the world will warm more slowly than we thought...
To my wonder, I found that for an ECS of three degrees C, our planet would cross the dangerous warming threshold of two degrees C in 2036, only 22 years from now.
The theory of dangerous climate change is based not just on carbon dioxide warming but on positive and negative feedback effects from water vapor and phenomena such as clouds and airborne aerosols from coal burning.
That's the message one researcher has for the planet's physicians, the climate scientists who are diagnosing whether a new international agreement can keep us from busting the boundary of dangerous global warming.
Live embryos like the one pictured above consistently moved toward warm spots but retreated from the dangerous hot spots, the researchers report online today in Biology Letters.
«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.
They tend to believe that as the planet warms, low - level cloud cover will increase, thus increasing planetary albedo (overall reflectiveness of the Earth), offsetting the increased greenhouse effect and preventing a dangerous level of global warming from occurring.
The caldera of Tupan Patera, named after a Brazilian thunder god, reveals itself to be a strange and dangerous place, replete with hot black lava, warm red sulfur deposits likely deposited from vented gas, and hilly yellow terrain also high in sulfur.
Under red dwarf stars, plant - type life on land may not be possible because photosynthesis might not generate sufficient energy from infrared light to produce the oxygen needed to block dangerous ultraviolet light from such stars at the very close orbital distances needed for a planet to be warmed enough to have liquid water on its surface.
In the light of this perhaps I should rephrase my question to — Do you think that a dangerous thermal event like the Eocene is probable with the degree of warming from anthropogenic causes?
UN biodiversity chief tells Climate Home protecting and restoring ecosystems is the best way to protect the world from dangerous levels of global warming
He attributes the current temperature increase to Earth recovering from the Little Ice Age and, in the same article, states that «no consensus exists that man - made emissions are the primary driver of global warming or, more importantly, that global warming is accelerating and dangerous.»
It's a long paper with a long title: «Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 oC global warming could be dangerous».
«Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2o C global warming could be dangerous»
The full title is: «Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 o C global warming could be dangerous ``.
Today's Tomb Raider benefits from an occasionally sneaky line reading from its star but inevitably plays like warmed - over Raiders of the Lost Ark, too trapped inside its digital punishments to feel truly dangerous.
As the weather begins to get warmer and you have the opportunity to spend more time enjoying the outdoors with your family and your pets, it's essential to take the necessary precautions to protect your furry companions from potentially dangerous bugs waiting to infest them.
The water vapour theory suggests that a small increase in CO2 will result in a large positive feedback loop from water vapour and this feedback loop will lead to dangerous warming.
For years now, I've been exploring whether words alone, without a calamitous kick from nature, can jog humanity to cut short its long love affair with fossil fuels for the sake of limiting the odds of dangerous global warming.
On July 23, I wrote about the rocky rollout, prior to peer review, of «Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations that 2 °C Global Warming is Highly Dangerous.»
Michael Mann, the climatologist from Pennsylvania State University who has been under attack by foes of restrictions on greenhouse gases and critics of the dominant view that human - driven warming is occurring and dangerous, has been cleared on three points of inquiry by a faculty review panel at the university, John Broder of The Times reports.
But I'm guessing amphibians won't be the only species suffering from outbreaks of dangerous pathogens and fungi as the climate warms.
Two studies out Wednesday — one on energy trends, one on climate as a security issue — bode poorly for those seeking to prevent global warming from passing dangerous thresholds.
In the light of this perhaps I should rephrase my question to — Do you think that a dangerous thermal event like the Eocene is probable with the degree of warming from anthropogenic causes?
On a lone and desolate promontory clings one last living human who shrieks into the maelstrom a final defiance even as the pitiless rain clogs his throat: «In the church of climate alarmism, there may be no heresy more dangerous than the idea that the world will benefit from warming.»
(3) From the supporting perspective article: «All this would be very bad news if avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system required us to specify today a stabilization concentration of carbon dioxide (or equivalent) for which the risk of dangerous warming is acceptably low.
The ’10 year» horizon is the point by which serious efforts will need to have started to move the trajectory of concentrations away from business - as - usual towards the alternative scenario if the ultimate warming is to stay below «dangerous levels».
Reefs: Natural temperature - limiting processes may prevent ocean surface waters from warming past levels dangerous to corals, at least in some important regions, according to a study being published in Geophysical Research Letters on Saturday.
I asked for persuasive evidence that warming, even rapid warming (from the relatively cool temperatures the planet is now at) would be catastrophic of dangerous.
The fine balance of chemicals in our air and seas has been disrupted with dangerous consequences — our carbon emissions are driving global warming and ocean acidification, while excesses of nitrogen and phospohorous from industry and agriculture are turning parts of the sea into dead zones.
The issue is that we actually need China to do more than its fair share if we're to keep warming from becoming too dangerous (I never know how to phrase this... to avoid run - away climate change is really what I'm most scared about but I don't want to minimise the devastating impacts that will happen before that too).
[17] Three, the 2 °C line, which was once taken to be reasonably safe, is now widely seen (at least among the scientists) to mark the approximate point of transition from «dangerous» to «extremely dangerous,» and possibly to altogether unmanageable levels of warming.
Compelling scientific evidence supports the claim that CO2 from human activity is driving the current warming trend, that the trend is potentially dangerous, and is already having negative impacts.
Because the radiation balance of the earth shows that CO2 is warming and environmental science suggests that the warming will be dangerous, the yadayada about the emails is a mere distraction from the next agenda item, protecting climate.
The president - elect of the Maldives, a nation of 1,200 low islands in the Indian Ocean, is planning to establish an investment fund with some of its earnings from tourism so it can buy a haven for its citizens should global warming raise sea levels at a dangerous pace, according to several news reports.
In fact, Marohasy points out that a lack of rising temperatures for recent decades is so common in paleoclimate reconstructions that tendentious climate scientists have necessarily added heavily adjusted, hockey - stick - shaped instrumental records (e.g., from NASA GISS, HadCRUT) on to the end of the trend so as to maintain the visualization of an ongoing dangerous warming.
That's a dangerous combination, since urban populations are more at risk of disruption from the effects of global warming.
She has been working through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and on December 7, 2005, she filed a climate change - related petition with to the Commission as an urgent message from the Inuit «sentinels» to the rest of the world on global warming's already dangerous impacts.
«Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 C global warming could be dangerous» J Hansen, M Sato, P Hearty, R Ruedy, M Kelley, V Masson - Delmotte,... Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16 (6), 3761 - 3812, 2016
Given the increased levels of certainty regarding human - induced global warming (from 90 to 95 %), more robust projections on sea - level rise and data on melting of ice sheets, and the «carbon budget» for staying below the 2 °C target, the WGI conclusions together with other AR5 component reports are likely to put more pressure on the UNFCCC parties to deliver by 2015 an ambitious agreement that is capable of preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
You seem to be starting from a premise that global warming is dangerous.
There are a number of dangerous ecological consequences from oceanic warming beyond its impact on surface and atmospheric temperatures.
Berlin (AFP)-- Dismissed a decade ago as far - fetched and dangerous, schemes to tame global warming by engineering the climate have migrated from the margins of policy debate towards centre stage.
The initial title of «Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming is highly dangerous» had the final phrase changed to «could be dangerous.»
Originally posted on Open Mind: A new paper by Hansen et al., Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming is highly dangerous is currently under review...
The hypothesis implicit though rarely explicitly stated in the IPCC's work is that dangerous global warming is resulting, or will result, from human - related greenhouse gas emissions.