Sentences with phrase «looming climate crisis»

The putative magnitude of the looming climate crisis made it possible to sweep aside the differences that had troubled the relationship between institutional science and ecologism in the past such as GM technology and nuclear power.

As he revealed in the interview, Inhofe became skeptical of climate science once he found out solving the looming climate crisis might cost money.

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«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

The risks of climate change loom large, and the horrors of war and the refugee crises they've spawned show no signs of abating.

The rate of global temperature rise mayhave hit a plateau, but a climate crisis still looms in the near future

The risks of climate change loom large, and the horrors of war and the refugee crises it spawns show no signs of abating.

As with climate change, the crisis in antibiotics has been looming for decades: and yet we have carried on dazedly dispensing them like medicinal sweets to humans and fattening treats to livestock.

China seems to see the overall effect of Arctic climate change as more of a beckoning economic opportunity than a looming environmental crisis.

It's also obvious that many people still do — and in face of reading about the looming crisis of climate change, turn the page to a Range Rover ad and head to the dealership.

But the atoll study is one of many that points to a looming crisis of global displacement that will come sooner than expected if the world doesn't act quickly to reduce emissions and curb climate change.

The rate of global temperature rise mayhave hit a plateau, but a climate crisis still looms in the near future

ICN's series on Exxon's early research into global warming showed that the company was at the forefront of climate change research as early as 1978, long before the general public was aware of the looming crisis.

The IPCC climate science crisis looms... The timing of the fifth assessment report falls into this critical juncture where a lot of momentum has built up in favour of the current modelling practices which now prove so elusive.

The Pope's 184 - page Encyclical highlights the looming crisis posed by climate change and places most of the blame on human activity and fossil fuels.