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.