Sentences with phrase «great dangerous changes»

The other fallacy is that the climate of the past ~ 100 years has been extreme, dangerous, and is portending great dangerous changes to come.

Not exact matches

Yes, we all need to wake up, but some dreams are more dangerous than others, and in times of great social change and insecurity, there's nothing more dangerous than apocalyptic beliefs.
Elneny isn't really doing himself any favours... sideway passing with no penetration or change of pace... even Mustafi gives more forward passes into dangerous areas... he's defensive game is not that great either.
«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans; longer, hotter heat waves; dangerous droughts and floods; and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict and hunger around the globe,» Obama added.
Built originally as a rigid non-floating jetty for ferrying tourists and locals out to snorkel and scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef one important thing to consider at the time was not planned for and that was that the Palm Cove beach faces south east and the change in tide levels made it difficult to board passengers with a rising and descending ocean making it quite dangerous so nowadays the jetty is a mecca for fishing enthusiasts all year round and both day and night.
Varied shoreline topography, open - ocean swells and constantly changing conditions make our beaches beautiful, great for surfing, and often DANGEROUS.
Like a proverbial fireball from the heavens Destiny has arrived in a blaze of high sales and fire, but not before the deadly and dangerous hype train pulled into the station in order to deliver the preachers spouting their nonsense, coaxing the people to believe that the fire would be great and amazing and Earth changing.
The 2 oC number is coming after a great deal of political pressure from activists who thought that the science was saying that dangerous climate change starts after that.
Joe Romm at Climate Progress made a great point yesterday in highlighting one of the most dangerous myths of climate change: that it is reversible.
The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.
«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe,» Obama said.
Here's a great quote from Mike Hulme, one of the authors of this article: «Self - evidently dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking, although science will gain some insights into the question if it recognises the socially contingent dimensions of a post-normal science.
Despite the fact that the film delineates a few impacts of an Earth - wide temperature boost anticipated by researchers, for example climbing ocean levels, more dangerous storms, and disturbance of sea ebbs and flows and climate designs, it portrays these occasions incident a great deal more quickly and intensely than is recognized logically possible, and the hypothesis that a superstorm will make quick worldwide environmental change does not show up in the investigative writing.
And yet the idea that carbon dioxide emissions are dangerous — because the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says so — remains firmly entrenched here in the Great White North.
Although there has been a positive response to the Obama commitments to reduce US ghg emissions, there is also great international concern that national INDCs, including the US commitments, are not nearly ambitious enough to prevent dangerous climate change.
It can be most useful to think about climate change through a risk management lens — the more greenhouse gases that we emit, the greater the risks for dangerous impacts to occur.
org, US reductions need to be much greater than average reduction levels required of the entire world as a matter of equity because the United States emissions are among the world's highest in terms of per capita and historical emissions and there is precious little atmospheric space remaining for additional ghg emissions if the world is serious about avoiding dangerous climate change.
John Sterman: «It is dangerous for our leaders to count on emissions cuts that have not been pledged as if they will somehow occur automatically when those cuts require tough negotiations, greater funding and technology transfer for developing nations, and big changes in public opinion.»
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a global temperature rise of great than 2C would result in irreversible damage to society, including «increasingly dangerous forest fires, extreme weather, drought» as well as other compounding climate impacts.
That suggests the risks of climate change are greater than feared, and that we'll have to cut emissions even deeper to prevent dangerous levels of warming.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change established the principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities» among nations, suggesting that industrialized nations that had produced the greatest share of historic emissions bore particular responsibility for preventing dangerous interference with the climate system.
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