Sentences with phrase «irreversible global»

From 1.5 degree, climate change would already enter a nonlinear evolution stage, with irreversible global effects, particularly hostile to life as a whole.

If we relied solely on renewables and we found that they by themselves could not supply enough power to meet our «needs» and we fell back onto (or were never weaned off) the fossil fuel economy then we would have irreversible global climate change.

If, however, the carbon from these reserves were burned wantonly without the government applying any brakes, scientists predicted an intolerable rise in atmospheric temperatures, triggering potentially irreversible global damage to life on earth.»

The consensus of the two conferences of environmental lawyers is that the environmental problems of irreversible global change have become grave and require new legal principles and practices.

Such information is key to prepare for the release of gigatons of methane, which could set the Earth on a path to irreversible global warming.

They found that in oil palm plantations, eleven out of 14 ecosystem functions showed a net decrease, some with an irreversible global impact.

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«Irreversible structural forces,» including a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, technology, global markets and small - business - friendly demographics, mean the next decade will see this startup wave continue and accelerate:

Thanks to this thorough and detailed account, we can better understand not just the talent and dedication of the Mad Men - era professionals who sold the Moon to a global public, but also the larger transformation of statecraft into stagecraft, and the enduring and irreversible transformation of the public sphere into an enterprise of image creation, and manipulation.»

The destruction this time is global and in danger of becoming irreversible.

This free church model, with its populist overtones, is being borne, Volf maintains, «by irreversible social changes of global proportions.»

We are going to have some more global warming but how much more and when this will become dangerous and irreversible is where we try to set a boundary.

The IPCC will also say that global warming is irreversible without massive geoengineering of the atmosphere's chemistry.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's assessment was expected to say that «global warming is irreversible without massive geoengineering of...

And the real concern that at that point you start to get not just severe global warming effects, but you start to see kind of an irreversible trend.

But those pushing for countries to keep global temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius by midcentury — the point at which scientists say the impacts will be catastrophic and irreversible — also pushed for more.

A simple eye test could help solve the biggest global cause of irreversible blindness, glaucoma.

Mass bleaching and mortality are identified as the current crisis to corals, and based on the current rate of increase in global CO2 emissions (now exceeding 3 % per year), most reefs world - wide are committed to an irreversible decline.

Those scientists aspiring to stabilise global emissions growth before 2020 to prevent what they believe may be irreversible damage to the climate may be wondering how this can possibly be achieved.

Global warming is here, and «severe, widespread and irreversible» damage may be inevitable unless faster action is taken to reduce fossil fuel emissions, a newly leaked UN report has warned.

The United Nations scientific community is pointing to the overwhelming evidence that global warming, from increased greenhouse gas emissions, is propelling us towards an irreversible runaway melting of the ice caps and northern permafrost while rising temperature cause massive forest fires.

For the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate change.

The overarching mood is a «nothing matters» attitude in response to conditions that are seemingly inescapable and irreversible — global warming, xenophobia, gun violence, racism, sexism — that permeate news headlines across the country.

Now that species extinction, dwindling wilderness, and global warming are increasingly present and irreversible, I spend a lot of non-studio time trying to get the word out and supporting organizations that try to slow global warming.

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

While methane is short - lived, all it has to do is shift the global energy balance for a while, to trigger irreversible loss of tundra methane, loss of Arctic sea ice cover and more calthrate loss, then loss of ice sheets and everything else Hansen et al promise.

Interested in status of latest estimate of when irreversible tipping point thresholds of various cascading feedback loops of global warming might be exceeded...

Because global oil demand is increasing, declining production will soon generate high energy prices, inflation, unemployment, and irreversible economic depression.

Between the poles of real - time catastrophe and nonevent lies the prevailing scientific view: Without big changes in emissions rates, global warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to lead to substantial, and largely irreversible, transformations of climate, ecosystems and coastlines later this century.

In the report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's top scientists warned that global warming is unequivocally man - made and will become irreversible if we do not act now to reduce the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.

What is the prediction as to when anthropologically caused global warming will become irreversible?

Given the enormous consequences and irreversible losses from global warming should the worst projections play out, the time for improving the flow of information on this subject is clearly now.

The idea (quoted in the United Nations Environmental Programme report) that in order to be reasonably sure of avoiding dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change, a minimum of a 50 % cut in global emissions compared with 1990 levels is required by 2050, is based firmly on the IPCC - led consensus, contrary to the impression you appear to have.

Many important questions of environmental policy, however, involve inescapably uncertain outcomes... How much global warming will it take to trigger the irreversible collapse and melting of the Greenland ice sheet?»

Researchers such as James Hansen, a leading climate scientist at NASA, believe that global warming is accelerating and may be approaching a tipping point, a point at which climate change acquires a momentum that makes it irreversible.

Global Warming is asserted to be both serious and irreversible.

A reduction on this scale is needed to meet the 2ºC objective, which in turn should prevent massive and irreversible disruption of the global climate system.»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the Geneva - based international body set up by the UN to disseminate «climate change» information — made public a report in Yokohama, Japan, on March 31 asserting that the impacts of global warming are likely to be «severe, pervasive, and irreversible.»

The bottom line is, there is only one scenario with a good chance of averting irreversible climate change: one that caps global cumulative industrial - era carbon emissions at under one trillion tons.

That major fossil fuel producers are now following the global trend should be taken as the most emphatic evidence yet that the switch to renewable sources of energy is, over the long term, irreversible.

The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

-- > a coming Ice Age — > global warming — > anthropogenic global warming — > runaway global warming — > climate change — > disastrous climate change — > a «warming hiatus» (currently)-- > irreversible and catastrophic climate changes (the future)

We recognize the urgent need to act now to avoid irreversible costs to our global community's economic prosperity and public health and are optimistic that world leaders will reach an agreement to secure a transition to a low carbon future.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

With record temperatures the past seven months; with 2016 almost certainly going to be the hottest year globally on record (beating out 2015 and 2014); with the Great Barrier Reef sustaining massive (perhaps irreversible) damage due to global warming induced coral bleaching; and with Donald Trump bloviating about droughts and picking a global warming denier as his energy advisor, the sooner the deniers like Smith are out of power, the better our planet — the better all of us, every human on Earth — will be.

In this case, the magnitude and duration of global temperature excursion above the natural range of the current interglacial (Holocene) could be limited and irreversible climate impacts could be minimized.

Scientists have warned that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we will pass the threshold beyond which global warming becomes catastrophic and irreversible.

Of the many heat - trapping gases, CO2 puts us at the greatest risk of irreversible changes if it continues to accumulate unabated in the atmosphere — as it is likely to do if the global economy remains dependent on fossil fuels for its energy needs.

On the text on a large fraction of climate change being irreversible on a multi-century to millennial time scale, the Russian Federation observed that global warming was reversible as opposed to CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere that were not.

Here is the relevance of carbon to investing: There is consensus within the scientific community that increasing the global temperature by more than 2 °C will likely cause devastating and irreversible damage to the planet.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which, to be fair, advances the cause of global governance) has stated that if we don't cut carbon emissions there will be «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»