Sentences with phrase «global warming the planet»

Figure 1 also underscores just how much global warming the planet is experiencing.

To put this temperature drop in context, consider that this is enough to offset by more than half the entirety of the global warming the planet has experienced since the end of the 19th century.

The study, conducted by climate change experts from the universities of Leeds and Exeter and the Met Office, all in the UK, and the universities of Stockholm and Oslo, suggests that nearly four million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming the planet experiences.

Not exact matches

* «Papermaking and Our Small Planet,» a 6 - page pamphlet that discusses global warming, the pulping process, and recycling.

Global temperatures are the hottest since the last ice age and the planet is only getting warmer.

Keep in mind that, according to global warming's terrible new math, there's enough carbon in those Bakken fields to roast the planet — if, that is, the Sioux and tribes allied with them don't stop the pipeline.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade, helping international efforts to curb emissions of planet - warming greenhouse gases.

If a Republican candidate would say, — yes even if a messiah is coming, people had been saying that for 2000 years, therefore, we are all obliged to preserve the planet for future generations and human activities do excessively cause global warming.

You mean like Obama spewing more carbon than anyone on the planet, although he once stated that global warming is the most dire threat to mankind's existence?

This is actually the more controversial aspect of global warming because the evidence that the planet is warming is simply too obvious and incontrovertible to deny.

Watch out for global warming and other ways you are destroying the only planet I created for you.

Because our knowledge of the many delicate balances in the ecology of the planet is still in its infancy, and because what is known is not widely understood, the consequences of what the human race is (in its ignorance) doing to the earth may turn out to be even more serious than global warming.

Global warming, the loss of forest cover, the decrease of bio-diversity, and many other things affect the entire planet.

Land developers burn forests in Latin America to feed the cattle that fill the cavernous appetites of fast food chains in the United States — and the entire planet gradually warms, leaving even the experts in doubt about the future of our global ecology.

Global warming is real, but it is a natural cycle of the planet.

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

As global warming changes the planet, it is changing the sports world.

The more I read about the connection between our industrial food system and global warming (See especially Anna Lappe's new book, Diet for a Hot Planet), the more I become convinced of the tremendous importance of changing the way we feed our children at school.

The changes to our planet as a result of global warming are apparent for all to see: the receding glaciers in temperate climates, the reduction in rainfall and advancing deserts in Africa and the lakes in the Mideast and Asia that are virtually disappearing.

«I pointed out the planet has existed for four billion years,» Yeo said earlier in our interview, as he outlined his rationale on the science underpinning global warming.

«You don't have the right to heat up the planet,» he said, linking fossil fuel development with global warming.

The science says that industrial states like New York must get to 100 % clean energy and zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if the planet is to avert runaway global warming and climate catastrophe,» Hawkins said.

He routinely fingers global warming as «the single greatest threat facing our planet,» and has long backed a carbon tax.

A new study by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, sheds light on another, less well - known aspect of how these ecosystems, and forests in particular, can protect our planet against global warming.

Safety concerns over fracking are overblown — but so are the boosterish claims made for its environmental and economic benefits (see «Fracking could accelerate global warming» and «Frack on or frack off: Can shale gas really save the planet?

A new satellite will help probe the unknowns about what global warming will do to the planet's fertility

He cited several studies showing that a large number of species on the planet would become extinct in a «business as usual» global warming scenario.

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

(Im) permafrost According to a 2007 global outlook from the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the frozen soil of the Tibetan plateau has warmed about 0.3 degree Celsius over the past 30 years — after the poles, faster than anywhere else on the planet.

A substantial portion of the planet is greening in response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, nitrogen deposition, global warming and land use change.

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, ensuring public health and sustaining a federal agency to regulate global warming emissions is crucial to the future of our nation and preservation of our planet.

The dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel on the planet seemed doomed in a world of cheap gas and worries about global warming.

Global warming has replaced the China Syndrome as the number one energy worry in the United States, and Cassini is delivering a whole world of new data on Saturn: rubble - pile moons, record - groove gaps in the planet's famous rings, complex weather systems churning through the pastel cloud cover, and possible explanations for the unrelenting 900 - mile - an - hour winds.

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

These models currently predict that as a result of today's global climate change, Antarctica will warm twice as much as the rest of the planet, though it won't reach its peak for a couple of hundred years.

The hotel chain is celebrating its 50th anniversary by planting 10 million trees across the 34 countries in which it operates with the hope that the effort will help combat deforestation and global warming and attract more customers concerned about the state of the planet.

A can of white paint should be part of the planet's arsenal against global warming, say California researchers, who have calculated that installing white roofs in the world's cities could offset 1.5 years of man - made carbon emissions.

Global warming has become such an overriding emergency that some climate experts are willing to consider schemes for partly shielding the planet from the sun's rays.

One of the planet's hotspots has been the outsized warming in the Arctic, which is seeing a temperature rise double that of the global average.

While a strong El Niño provided a boost to global temperatures last year, the main driver of the planet's temperature surge, as well as other climate trends, is the warming caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

They have built up so much methane that its release could cause massive global warming or the planet's next big extinction.

Our global climate models zoom down to finer and finer resolutions; our satellites reveal remote corners of the globe; we increase our understanding of the response of giant ice sheets and deep ocean currents to a warming planet.

Global warming is increasing temperatures twice as fast in the Arctic as elsewhere on the planet.

Early in the next century, forests planted to protect the planet from global warming could be contributing to it.

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Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.

Killer heat waves have the same impact all over the world, and the death toll will soar as global warming begins to grip the planet.

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.

Last chance to hold Greenland back from tipping point The planet is on course for over 3 °C of global warming.

From the basic physics of the atmosphere, scientists expect that as the planet heats up from ever - mounting levels of greenhouse gases, net global precipitation will increase because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.