Sentences with phrase «happen in a matter of decades»

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In the final hours, European negotiators in Durban tried to address the small matter of what happens in the next decade — the so - called «ambition gap»In the final hours, European negotiators in Durban tried to address the small matter of what happens in the next decade — the so - called «ambition gap»in Durban tried to address the small matter of what happens in the next decade — the so - called «ambition gap»in the next decade — the so - called «ambition gap».

Climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) finds his dire predictions about global warming and the future of the world falling on deaf ears — until the forecasted weather changes begin happening in a matter of hours instead of the anticipated years or decades.

And that demonstrates how dangerous it potentially is for us to do something that's never happened in the history of the planet... to very dramatically change the CO2 concentration, in a matter of mere decades as compared to the usual centuries or millenia involved in an ice age feedback scenario, through a mechanism never found in nature — uncovering plant matter that's been buried for hundreds of millions of years, and burning it for energy.

Bib @ 113: Not sure I'd want to be quite so sure about: «And that demonstrates how dangerous it potentially is for us to do something that's never happened in the history of the planet... to very dramatically change the CO2 concentration, in a matter of mere decades» The planets history is quite a long one, and a lot of details are not vailable.

In just a matter of a few decades, methane releases can happen in quantities that could really mess with the global climatIn just a matter of a few decades, methane releases can happen in quantities that could really mess with the global climatin quantities that could really mess with the global climate.

The study, initially made public in draft form last July as a «discussion paper» so it could be circulated ahead of the Paris climate talks, holds that multi-meter sea rise could happen within a matter of decades, rather than centuries as previous estimates suggested.

No matter what happens in the next decade or so, many experts say, the second and probably hardest phase of stabilizing the level of carbon dioxide will fall to the generation of engineers and entrepreneurs now in diapers, and the one after that.