Sentences with phrase «of runaway climate change»

Nor will it prevent the biggest security threat of our age, the prospect of runaway climate change.

We're afraid of what the police might do to us, we're afraid of going to jail but nothing scares us as much as the threat of runaway climate change.

The race is on to shift from finite and costly fossil fuels to renewables swiftly enough to avoid the disastrous consequences of runaway climate change.

The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to see the latest Star Wars.

But because ocean - bed methane normally dissolves before it escapes into the air, the discovery has a number of scientists wondering whether it signals the beginnings of runaway climate change.

The Paleocene - Eocene thermal maximum also points to the possibility of runaway climate change enhanced by feedbacks.

«In our era of runaway climate change, it's critical for the Supreme Court to stop these outdated monopolies from abusing the law and trying to strangle renewable - energy development.»

A 2015 study concluded that in order to avoid the worst impacts of runaway climate change, all Arctic fossil fuels should be classified as unburnable.

In fact, we may already be witnessing the early stages of runaway climate change in the melting of the Arctic, the increase in storm intensity, the accelerating extinctions of species, the ominous, large - scale releases of methane and the prolonged nature of recurring droughts.

The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to see the latest

According to Simms, «in just 100 months» time, if we are lucky, and based on a quite conservative estimate, we could reach a tipping point for the beginnings of runaway climate change.

... if you look at the implications of climate change, of runaway climate change, we are literally talking about millions and millions of people dying, we are literally talking about famines, and flooding, and migration and disease on an unprecedented scale.

in reality if you look at the implications of climate change, of runaway climate change, we are literally talking about millions and millions of people dying, we are literally talking about famines, and flooding, and migration and disease on an unprecedented scale.