Sentences with phrase «like climate change and ocean acidification»

Just curious John if your meaning of «cheap» means you do nt believe there are such things as externalities like climate change and ocean acidification.

Dr. Earle has dedicated her life to protecting and preserving our oceans against human impacts like climate change and ocean acidification, as well as overfishing and pollution.

Not exact matches

As climate change begins to affect water around the world, from acidification in the oceans to glacial melting in the mountains, nationwide awareness and action programs like these will be welcome, and necessary.

Yes, ocean acidification is too little - known, and, like the overall problem of climate change, too often considered to be something for the future only.

«Like climate change, ocean acidification is a growing global problem that will intensify with continued carbon dioxide emissions and has the potential to change marine ecosystems and affect benefits to society,» the report said.

The cumulative effect of environmental threats like climate change, ocean acidification and overfishing, brings the world's interconnected ocean close to a phase of extinction of marine species that is «globally significant» and unprecedented in human history, an international panel of marine scientists states.

«[The research] demonstrates that proposed technological solutions, like CDR, to the problems of global warming and ocean acidification are no substitute for reducing carbon emissions, which remains the safest and most reliable path for avoiding dangerous climate change.»

How do we get back all that money we've had taken from us by our governments and spunked on their cronies at Solyndra and BrightSource or thrown casually into grants for junk science research like «ocean acidification» or squandered on shysters at tainted institutions like NASA, NOAA and the Royal Society or wasted on anti-capitalist bureaucracies like the EPA and the Department of Energy and Climate Change?

Whether it's overfishing, marine pollution, loss of coastal habitats like mangroves, or the ever growing threat of climate change and ocean acidification, there are plenty of reasons for this disturbing decline — and I suspect most TreeHugger readers are familiar with the disastrous way that human beings have managed our oceans.

The planetary boundaries hypothesis, first introduced by a group of leading earth scientists in a 2009 article in Nature, posits that there are nine global, biophysical limits to human welfare: climate change, ocean acidification, the ozone layer, nitrogen and phosphate levels, land use change (the conversion of wilderness to human landscapes like farmland or cities), biodiversity loss, chemical pollutants, and particulate pollution in the atmosphere.