Sentences with phrase «hasten global»

Yes, large releases of methane from thawing permafrost and undersea deposits could hasten global warming during a relatively short period — like, say, for example, the next five to ten years.

It is true that we can presently do little about volcanos and other natural disasters, but if our behaviour is likely to hasten global warming, or ice - age conditions — whatever it might be, then we should tread carefully.

35 Melting Permafrost May Rev Up Global Warming Defrosting could release nearly 1,000 gigatons of carbon and hasten global warming...

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and climatologists realised years ago that melting permafrost would hasten global warming.

To argue that we should proceed with the economic growth that hastens the global warming in order to pay the costs of response rings completely hollow in ecological perspective.

This process provides a source of energy for the mixing of abyssal waters, which, in turn, hastens the global overturning circulation.

Despite marginal improvements in efficiency, the new Tahoe is an indulgent, thirsty, oversized monster that threatens smaller vehicles while exacerbating America's dependence on imported oil and hastening global warming.

As one of the world's leading polar scientists with more than 47 years» experience of visiting and measuring ice at the poles, he provided a lucid and sobering explanation of the impact of global warming on the poles, and the way in which the disappearance of polar ice is itself hastening global warming, and contributing to extreme weather events such as the March blizzards preventing some people attending the conference.

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This evolution was hastened with China's membership in the World Trade Organization in late 2001, and is evidenced by the fact that China is taking on an increasingly large role in global economic and developmental forums.

Long - distance travel has, most of all, hastened the meeting of races and cultures, and nurtured the incipient global culture.

Since mid-century, some Christians have foreseen not global conversion but global destruction, hastened perhaps by a nuclear catastrophe.

For instance, as technological innovations become more able to create economic benefits while minimizing, if not eliminating, environmental harm, the integrated web of global economic relationships may help to hasten the process of global «greening.»

As global temperatures continue to increase, the hastening rise of those seas as glaciers and ice sheets melt threatens the very existence of the small island nation, Kiribati, whose corals offered up these vital clues from the warming past — and of an even hotter future, shortly after the next change in the winds.

The threat of global shortages of blood and fears about contamination have hastened attempts to find life - sustaining alternatives.

Mysterious under - snow lakes pockmarking its edges and deep layers of ice at higher elevations both point to changes that could hasten melt and send water cascading into the ocean, pushing global sea levels ever higher.

Chris Carfi points to John T. Unger, an artist and regular gapingvoid commenter who has used his blog and the global microbrand idea to carve out a nice wee career for himself (for more money than his last day job paid him, I hasten to add).

And, backed by science from James E. Hansen of «coal death train» fame, Al Gore will spearhead the new drive to save our planet by shutting down all coal - fired power stations in order to stop aerosol and particulate pollution that is hastening the man - made global winter.

Higher methane concentrations in the atmosphere will accelerate global warming and hasten local changes in the Arctic, speeding up sea - ice retreat, reducing the reflection of solar energy and accelerating the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

In HELL AND HIGH WATER: Global Warming - the Solution and the Politics - and What We Should Do, Romm presents a searing indictment of the policies and politics that are hastening the planet's destruction and issues a clarion call for Americans to wake up and demand action from our government before it's too late.

«Being a nonprofit allows us to focus solely on our mission: reduce greenhouse gasses, fighting global warming, hastening the transition to a clean energy future.

genognosticide — peeing in the global knowledge pool to influence more idiots (voters) and hasten the destruction of civilization... not reason enough?

So will catastrophists, or anyone else interested in what feels like a hastening pace of global disaster.