Sentences with phrase «of polar cities»

Still, I remain an optimist and plan to devote the rest of my life to pushing the concept of polar cities, against all odds.

A year ago, nobody had even heard of polar cities, and those who had, tried to laugh me off the face of the Earth.

I do hope that at some point, this blog and maybe even the print pages of the NY Times can take note, pro or con, or balanced opinion from experts in the field, both pro and con, of my concept of polar cities for the future.

Not exact matches

While perhaps lacking the variety boasted by some big - city zoos to the south, it's well - known for an impressive collection of Arctic animals, such as polar bears, snow leopards, wolves, seals, otters and more.

Scott started putting his work ethic to good use helping doctors in Liberia, the polar opposite of New York City, where there was no running water, no electricity and no sewer system.

The City of Buffalo's recommended 2014 capital budget, unveiled Friday by Mayor Byron Brown, spends nearly $ 23 million on everything from parks to polar bears.

And, as Capital points out, the city today is basically the polar opposite of when Koch took office, its viability challenged by too much money rather than too little.

Today, as his city remained in the grip of a polar vortex, Mayor de Blasio was snared in a vortex of press skepticism, some deserved, some not.

what we need to think about also, now, are polar cities, GOOGLE THE TERM, for future survivors of global warming events.

In 1959, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the subterranean city under the guise of conducting polar research — and scientists there did drill the first ice core ever used to study climate.

Extreme weather like droughts and large tropical cyclones would become more common, fragile ecosystems like coral reefs would be at risk of destruction and polar ice melting would swamp many coastal cities over the next century.

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

Access: The official presentation of the Manneken - Pis polar costume will be held in the Militia Room of Brussels City Hall 08/10/2012 at 11:00.

Britain has a great history of polar exploration and science — a history of Scott and Shackleton, and many other explorers, who all had a close link to this city, home of the British Antarctic Survey and the Scott Polar Institute.

One weekend polar vortex, the other one out of the city, next one freezing rain.

A talking polar bear takes on New York City to save his Arctic home in Norm of the North starring the voice talents of Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Gabriel Iglesias, Loretta Devine, Michael McElhatton, Colm Meaney, and Bill Nighy.

Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch vet Trevor Wall «s film tells the story of a majestic polar bear named Norm, who alongside «the world's coolest party animals» are hitting the big city.

IN THE FUTURISTIC WORLD OF A.I. Artificial Intelligence, melting polar ice caps have left costal cities submerged and millions ravaged by hunger while technology booms.

These include the city's blustery lion of a mayor (J.K. Simmons), his sheepish sheep of an assistant mayor (Jenny Slate), a Don Corleone - like Arctic shrew (Maurice LaMarche) with polar bear henchmen, a super-mellow yak (Tommy Chong) and a crooked weasel (Alan Tudyk).

Book a holiday to Canada and experience the natural beauty of the Icefields Parkway, abundant whale and polar bear watching opportunities as well as the cosmopolitan cities of Vancouver, Toronto and Québec.

zipping through a sci - fi city to a man with... a polar bear head instead of a human one... playing the piano against a wintry backdrop, Media Molecule's Dreams trailer is a hodge - podge of ideas that could only originate from the minds behind LittleBigPlanet.

Instead of melting ice caps and imperiled polar bears, AHN / VHS» quiet, small works show — which features drawings, prints, video and mixed media — focuses on the daily weather data recorded at Long Island City's artist - run SP Weather Station....»

Traditional reverence for the splendors of nature has been challenged by the highly abstract color landscapes of Toshio Shibata, which embrace man - made infrastructure in harmony with natural surroundings, as well as in Hiroshi Sugimoto's view of a polar bear in the snow, actually taken within our city's Museum of Natural History.

Using the term «polar survival pod» rather than «polar city» would be more accurate and help to emphasize the «worst case scenario» aspects of this thought experiment.

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

By the way, while Dr Lovelock says «at the end of the century, meaning 2100 AD, and in recent interviews in the Guardian and Daily Mail in the UK has mentioned the dates of 2020 and 2040 as when this will occur, my own (more naive) thinking dates these polar cities as being inhabited around the year 2500 AD.

«The concept of «polar cities» betrays a lack of understanding of the basis on which urban centres can develop.

Danny Bloom, a freelance writer, translator and editor living in Taiwan, is on a one - man campaign to get people to seriously consider a worst - case prediction of the British chemist and inventor James Lovelock: life in «polar cities» arrayed around the shores of an ice - free Arctic Ocean in a greenhouse - warmed world.

If one day your polar city serve for suffering disaster human, you will be appreciated by vulnerable person and not let them exitinct, of course you will be laugh at heaven.

According to Mr. Gore the polar ice caps will collapse and melt and sea levels will rise 20 feet inundating the coastal cities making 100 million of us refugees.

Rather» push a golf ball» or a tennis ball, I am in my own small way pushing the idea of» polar cities» to house future survivors of global warming in year 2500 or so (google «polar cities» to see more info) out of a sense of obligation and care for the future.

Of course, we do not want human future will live at polar city.

(I'm here by coincidence and actually focused on Arctic and Antarctic science, not cities, as emcee for «Polar - Palooza,» something of a traveling polar - science festival that celebrates research at both chilly ends of the Earth.)

As you know, Andy, I've created a term — polar cities — as a possible place where survivors of global warming's catastrophic events by the year 2500 might live, and I've commissioned a graphic artist to come up with some very graphic visual images of these «polar cities» (/ / pcillu101.blogspot.com).

Related but on a side note, NPR recently did a big story on the new literary term of CLI FI, for climate fiction, which I coined in 2007 during my work with polar cities, which still goes on.

We do not have to lose the polar ice - caps for disastrous sea - level rise to occur, given the number of major cities situated at or close to sea - level.

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

Thank gawd for Western schoolteachers or who knows what would become of the world and all of the polar bears in the wild (not those that rained down on NY City streets from man's inhumanity to bear and all other species on Earth).

It was the warming of the polar ice caps that became the greatest concern, since this was the first tangible evidence, and will have the biggest initial impact upon coastal cities and low lying countries.

Melting polar ice raises sea levels, putting coastal cities at greater risk of floods.

Both TIME mag and NYT are poised to report news of new literary and movie genre dubbed «cli fi» — coined by yours truly from my earlier «polar cities» work, one things leads to another — and the NYT story will be about «climate science education» issues and «climate change education» issues in higher education in USA and overseas...... so it's a story that interview academics and professors of science education etc...... and TIME mag will be about new NOAH movie by Darren A set 5000 years ago and TIME is calling it a «cli fi movie» on its cover March 24 issue, get ready.

Although the zoo was the city's most popular tourist attraction, it has received its share of bad press — most notably for its display of polar bears in a city known for scorching summers.

Melting polar ice caps will cause the sea level in Mangalore, officially known as Mangaluru, to rise by 14.60 cm by then, while Mumbai, one of the world's most populous mega cities with more than 10 million inhabitants, will witness its sea rising by 13.95 cm.

Honestly, the north / south sides of this city are polar opposites, especially with investing.

Weather forecasters are calling for 6 - 8 more inches of snow in Chicago this weekend ─ the polar vortex won't be leaving the Windy City anytime soon.