Sentences with phrase «generated buildup of greenhouse gases»

The thesis: Progress will inevitably come by raising and spreading awareness of a moral failure, whether related to racial inequality or the risks to future generations posed by the human - generated buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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-- A new post on ClimateEthics.org argues, as others have before, for another uncomfortable reality: Complacency is not an ethical response to the persistent uncertainty clouding forecasts of harmful impacts from the continuing buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

A new post on ClimateEthics.org argues, «Complacency is not an ethical response to the persistent uncertainty clouding forecasts of harmful impacts from the continuing buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»

I spent the first 20 years of my climate reporting focused on the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases as a biogeophysical problem.

One was a paper published in Science a week ago, by Andreas Schmittner of Oregon State University and colleagues, that generated cheers from doubters of global warming because the authors concluded the climate was less responsive to a big buildup of greenhouse gases than some previous work had concluded.

A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluding that the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases could leave a profound millenniums - long imprint on climate and sea levels, focuses on a characteristic of global warming that the public, and many policymakers, have not absorbed — at least according to John Sterman at M.I.T.

Global warming from the ongoing buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases is almost certainly contributing to the ice retreats, a host of Arctic experts now agree, although they hold a range of views on how much of the recent big ice retreats is due to human activities.

Luckily it's still too early to describe the ongoing buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases as the great Carbon Dioxide Catastrophe.

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Global warming from the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases almost certainly contributes to the Arctic ice retreats, according to a host of Arctic specialists.

Almost 20 years ago, Harold Lewis, a respected physicist who had advised the government and the Pentagon on matters ranging from nuclear winter to missile defense, included his assessment of climate change from the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases in a book on technological risk:

With or without shifts propelled by the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases, as populations continue rising in some of the world's worst climatic «hot zones» — sub-Saharan Africa being the prime example — the exposure to risks from drought and heat will continue to climb, as well.

With high - level talks over a new international climate agreement beginning in Lima, Peru, it's worth reviewing some basic points about climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases.

The eventual replacement of oil with fuels generated from sustainable and carbon - neutral sources is necessary if we are to avoid harmful climate change due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.