Sentences with phrase «imminent climate»

And I feel no need to look for it, because the Nobel laureate, imminent climate scientist, IPCC guru, Dr. Phil, has confirmed that there has been no statistically significant warming in the last 15 years.

Thus climate scenarios have been dominated by the «business as usual» scenario in which the annual increment of greenhouse gas climate forcing continues to get larger and larger, leading to a specter of imminent climate disaster.

The proposal that we are facing imminent climate catastrophe ought to be comical.

As transmitted by virtually the entire Western authority matrix from presidents and prime ministers on downwards, for many years (up until the Trump administration), and in the most emotive and urgent manner, this says that imminent climate catastrophe is certain.

As the climate crisis worsens and we stand closer to the edge of an imminent climate catastrophe, governments of the world are starting to realize the importance of sustainable energy production.

Fearmongering about an imminent climate doomsday also hogs news coverage and important environmental issues like GM food, mad scientist chimera cloning and the usurpation and abuse of corporations like Monsanto flies under the radar.

Since big oil, Koch, the banks, corporations, Hollywood, the media, academia, science and the boyscouts all apparently believe in an imminent climate crisis, Who is left to fight the good fight?

A new paper warning of imminent climate danger interpreted boulders in the Bahamas as vestiges of past «superstorms.»

In line with the SAMOA Pathway approved at the Third International Conference on SIDS in 2014 and the UNESCO SIDS Action Plan adopted in 2016, this session will review imminent climate change issues within these countries.

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Climate change poses a grave and imminent danger to our community.

The clock is a symbol of the threat of humanity's imminent destruction from nuclear or biological weapons, climate change and other human - caused disasters.

Evolution is a slow process, however, so any adaptation would not save us from the imminent problems associated with climate change.

«Compared to the imminent risk of irreversible climate change impacts, the risks of mitigation are manageable» said Sokona.

These emails have the appearance of having been held back after the theft of data and emails in 2009 to be released at a time designed to cause maximum disruption to the imminent international climate talks [the U.N. conference in Durban, South Africa, next week].

Many physiological responses in present - day coral reefs to climate change are interpreted as consistent with the imminent disappearance of modern reefs globally because of annual mass bleaching events, carbonate dissolution, and insufficient time for substantial evolutionary responses.

«I don't see [climate change] as the imminent national security threat as others do,» Tillerson said.

Speaking before the World Petroleum Congress in Beijing in 1997, Raymond mocked climate models in an effort to stop the imminent adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, an international accord to reduce emissions.

The imminent demise of the Qori Kalis glacier, the main component of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes, offers the starkest evidence yet of the effects of climate change, according to Lonnie Thompson, of Ohio State University.

As a result, rising levels of CO2 do not obviously pose an immediate, let alone imminent, threat to the earth's climate.»

This, the mayor discovers from the «brainiest brain» Who - Scientist Dr. Mary Lou Larue (Isla Fisher), is the imminent demise of Whoville, owing to geographic instability and, essentially, climate change (unexpected snowfall and frigid temperatures confirm her prediction, sending the mayor into a tizzy).

The 24 - hour news cycle keeps us on the brink of hysteria with tales of terrorists, pizza parlor pedophilia rings, the imminent imposition of Sharia law on our nation, ISIS, climate change, and America's horrific number of gun deaths.

Featuring work by Hayden Dunham, Dominic Samsworth, Lila de Magalhaes, Marian Tubbs and more, the theme of the show follows contemporary anxieties over climate change and capitalist destruction in a short introductory text that follows the mutant realities of imminent human catastrophe:

If the Kilimanjaro glacier has survived earlier precipitation fluctuations, what is different this time around that is causing its imminent disappearance, if not for something associated with anthropogenic climate change?

Climate skeptics have repeatedly predicted an imminent global cooling because of the weak sun.

Global Warming: Computer models used by environmentalists predict imminent and disastrous climate change.

I'm not saying there's direct cause and effect, but it's almost as if the tidal wave of dire pronouncements about the imminent unraveling of the earth's climate and ecosystems several years ago hit a shore and rebounded in a way that now threatens to inundate the source.

A couple links to articles on the effect of major volcanic eruptions on global climate, particularly relevant given the possible / probably / imminent eruption of Mt. Agung:

As a result, rising levels of CO2 do not obviously pose an immediate, let alone imminent, threat to the earth's climate.»

Furthermore, ocean acidification is happening even more quickly in the Arctic, as shown in Stenacher et al. (2009, April), «Imminent ocean acidification in the Arctic projected with the NCAR global coupled carbon cycle - climate model,» http://www.biogeosciences.net/6/515/2009/bg-6-515-2009.pdf (open access):

To veterans of the Climate Wars, the old 1970s global cooling canard — «How can we believe climate scientists about global warming today when back in the 1970s they told us an ice age was imminent?Climate Wars, the old 1970s global cooling canard — «How can we believe climate scientists about global warming today when back in the 1970s they told us an ice age was imminent?climate scientists about global warming today when back in the 1970s they told us an ice age was imminent?»

The imminent eruption of Mt Agung raises important questions: How feasible and important is the inclusion of potential volcanism in future climate projections?

The operative term here is «imminent,» which is what sets those in the Southwest apart as losers — it's harder for them to continue living in denial of the impacts of climate change.

Bill Gates has long been skeptical of those who say a renewable energy revolution is imminent, arguing that we are going to need a «clean energy miracle» before we can solve climate change or quit fossil fuels entirely.

With the help of such an exhibit, the public would understand that neither those who proclaim with certainty that the world is facing imminent disaster nor those who seek to convince us that negligible suffering lies ahead can defend their case without going beyond today's climate science.

The solution to climate change starts with individuals giving up basic rights in order to save human civilisation from imminent collapse.

Writing on the same climate science website, he said: «When someone talks up imminent catastrophe, they might think they are getting a quick win by getting a scary story out there, but in the long term it will be an own goal.»

During the hot summer of 1988, a few outspoken scientists, convinced by new evidence that rapid climate change might be imminent, made the public fully aware of the problem.

Not being a climate scientist, and not realizing in the mid-70's that there WAS such a thing, I'm sure you will forgive me for noticing that all the articles in the «popular press», like «Newsweek», «Popular Science», «Popular Mechanics», «Science Digest», newspapers, et al warning us of an imminent ice age and proposing methods of staving off disaster were simply being made up out of whole cloth by science editors to drum up circulation while the real Climate Scientists were frantically trying to warn us that we were about to be rendered into cracklings by anthropogenclimate scientist, and not realizing in the mid-70's that there WAS such a thing, I'm sure you will forgive me for noticing that all the articles in the «popular press», like «Newsweek», «Popular Science», «Popular Mechanics», «Science Digest», newspapers, et al warning us of an imminent ice age and proposing methods of staving off disaster were simply being made up out of whole cloth by science editors to drum up circulation while the real Climate Scientists were frantically trying to warn us that we were about to be rendered into cracklings by anthropogenClimate Scientists were frantically trying to warn us that we were about to be rendered into cracklings by anthropogenic CO2.

The verdict read: «The State must do more to avert the imminent danger caused by climate change, also in view of its duty of care to protect and improve the living environment.

The Obama EPA's infamous «Endangerment Finding» declared that carbon dioxide and methane from hydrocarbons cause global warming and climate change that pose imminent dangers to the health and wellbeing of every American.

Many early advocates of climate engineering deliberately invoked the idea of an imminent or future climate emergency as a justification for developing a «rapid response» (typically through some form of solar radiation management).

Much will depend on the imminent UN climate change in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh.

In their lawsuits, the communities claimed that the risks of climate change - related damages were imminent and posed a substantial threat.

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, an expert reviewer for the IPCC's imminent Fifth Assessment Report, who found the errors in Cook's data, said: «It may be that more than 0.3 % of climate scientists think Man caused at least half the warming since 1950.

««A sensible debate,» Lilley writes, «has been averted by pretending that the Climate Change Act is virtually costless, that there are not more cost - effective ways of meeting these targets and that the climate risks averted are imminent, not centuries hence.Climate Change Act is virtually costless, that there are not more cost - effective ways of meeting these targets and that the climate risks averted are imminent, not centuries hence.climate risks averted are imminent, not centuries hence.»

Likewise the co-author of the penguin extinction paper3, 8 Hal Caswell from the Woods Hole Oceanic Institute, mistakenly interpreted polar bear emigration as evidence of death due to climate change to advocate the bears» imminent extinction as discussed here and here).

A For years, the Government's energy and climate policy has been dominated by the belief that we need swift, drastic and expensive reductions in carbon dioxide emissions to avert imminent catastrophe.

For every mentioning of climate other than imminent scorching total annihilation, your name and fame is ruined.

A run of bad news from the climate scientists might convince a government that the breakup of the Greenland ice sheet was accelerating, and that Earth's low - lying areas were facing an imminent rise of 3 feet or more in sea level.

Remember the recent United Nations Climate Summit in New York featuring President Obama and other world leaders collectively wringing their hands over the alleged imminent danger from anthropogenic (human - caused) global warming?