Sentences with phrase «huge inertia»
The phrase "huge inertia" means that something is resistant to change or movement. It refers to a situation where an object or person requires a lot of force or effort to start or stop. Full definition
The problem is, our instinct to wait and see is at odds with another characteristic of climate change, which is that it's a problem with huge inertia.
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com
Some of the earlier estimates seemed to imply a «headroom to 1.5» of less than a decade of current emissions — clearly unachievable given the long timespans and huge inertia.
But any large issue has huge inertia.
«There is a huge inertia in the climate system, so even if we stop the warming of our planet now — if we stop emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere today — the global sea level will continue to rise for the next few hundred years,» Dr. Jevrejeva explained.