Sentences with phrase «likely consequences of global warming»

While St. Louis doesn't have to worry directly about sea levels or ice melt, stronger weather patterns including more droughts and floods are likely consequences of global warming, they said.

According to Time magazine's very latest wisdom, the epochal blizzards that have hit the Northeast this winter are a likely consequence of global warming.

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Conservatives are, on the whole, more aligned with business and / or industry Since industry is most likely to be adversely affected by the consequences of regulations to reduce global warming (emissions restrictions, for example) there is an incentive to deny global warming.

This is clearly the case with global warming, as the consequences of our current lifestyle are not likely to be fully realized for another 25 to 50 years.»

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

That order of sea level rise would result in the loss of hundreds of historical coastal cities worldwide with incalculable economic consequences, create hundreds of millions of global warming refugees from highly - populated low - lying areas, and thus likely cause major international conflicts.

Even in a warming climate, we could experience an extraordinary run of cold winters, but harsher winters in future decades are not among the most likely nor the most serious consequences of global warming.

So basically you are arguing that because the economic losses and other destructive consequences of global warming may result in demands for government action to deal with them, we should reject the scientific evidence that such consequences are already occurring and are likely to get worse.

Denial of the reality of anthropogenic global warming, or denial of the likely horrific consequences thereof, is entirely based on ignoring «real science».

It should be televised just like Hussein's hanging and we can all show the same mercy on Bush that he did on the 152 deathrow inmates he executed without one inkling of remorse, not to mention the 4000 American's he sent to death under false pretenses, not to mention the people mentioned in this article likely to bear the worst consequence of global warming.

Although the countries of Africa have some of the lowest overall and per capita global warming emissions on the planet, they are also likely to suffer from some of the worst consequences of climate change.

This technical document seeks to quantify how a 1 - meter sea - level, as a consequence of global warming, would affect coastal wetlands in 76 developing countries and territories, taking into account how much of wetlands would be submerged and how likely the wetlands would move inland as the coastline recedes.

This might be expected, since the younger generation may see itself as most likely to have to live with the consequences of global warming.

«We conclude that the 2 °C global warming «guardrail,» affirmed in the Copenhagen Accord, does not provide safety, as such warming would likely yield sea level rise of several metres along with numerous other severely disruptive consequences for human society and ecosystems,» Hansen and his colleagues wrote.

In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant problem.

Starting in October 2002, in this final - stage editorial review and clearance process, it came to my attention that CEQ Chief of Staff Philip Cooney was extensively marking up reports in a manner that had the cumulative effect of adding an enhanced sense of scientific uncertainty about global warming and minimizing its likely consequences, while also deleting even minor references to the National Assessment.

That order of sea level rise would result in the loss of hundreds of historical coastal cities worldwide with incalculable economic consequences, create hundreds of millions of global warming refugees from highly - populated low - lying areas, and thus likely cause major international conflicts.

Because climate change is likely to cause death to many, if not millions of people, through heat stroke, vector borne disease, and flooding, annihilate many island nations by rising seas, cause billions of dollars in property damage in intense storms, and destroy the ability of hundreds of millions to feed themselves in hotter drier climates, the duty to refrain from activities which could cause global warming is extraordinarily strong even in the face of scientific uncertainty about consequences.

The likely loss of natural chemicals that might have life - saving value in advancing the development of new medicines should be added to the list of consequences of global warming, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity.

We need severities, probability and confidence, scientists» views on the likely roles of different forcings and feedbacks, interpretations of the pause in mean global surface temps, estimates of consequences and benefits of warming, etc..

In fact, based on my own analysis of the raw data, I believe that the global warming trend over the 20th century is most likely real but is largely as a consequence of recovering from the Little Ice Age.

With these trends in ice cover and sea level only expected to continue and likely worsen if atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to rise, they could alter the stresses and forces fighting for balance in the ground under our feet — changes that are well - documented in studies of past climate change, but which are just beginning to be studied as possible consequences of the current state of global warming.

With global greenhouse gas emissions at their highest level in history, the impacts of climate change have already been felt «on all continents and across the oceans»; the more we emit, the more the warming will continue, and the likelier we'll all be to experience «severe, pervasive and irreversible» consequences.

The last factor in our catalog of likely consequences of severe global warming is increased health risk — a topic close to the hearts of most people and nearly every politician.

A: Each year, scientists learn more about the consequences of global warming, and many agree that environmental, economic, and health consequences are likely to occur if current trends continue.