Sentences with phrase «of unchecked global warming»

The IPCC notes that it's difficult to assess the costs of unchecked global warming.

follows the very strong advice of scientists, who have told us what needs to be done to avert the catastrophic effects of unchecked global warming.

Chalk it up to global warming: Global Warming - Caused Dead Zones Could Last Thousands of Years Danish scientists have found that because of unchecked global warming, low - oxygen areas of the ocean could increase 10 times or more.

We know that the consequences of unchecked global warming would be catastrophic... We as a human species have a deep and abiding obligation to this planet and to the generations that will come after us.

But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.

Three weeks ago, presidential hopeful - turned - documentary film star Al Gore brought some Oscar - winning glamour to Capitol Hill as he testified about the perils of unchecked global warming, an issue gaining traction with both lawmakers and the public.

The limit has been set to avoid the dire and the damaging consequences of unchecked global warming activities.

This amounts to a real betrayal of all those who counted on the EU to do the right thing, and amounts to a capital crime against the environment, because millions will die as the result of unchecked global warming.

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Habitat destruction, unchecked population growth, global warming and other challenges of modern civilization have put humanity at risk.

Left unchecked, the haze could absorb solar radiation, warming the Arctic and in turn aggravating global warming by melting the ice and snow that reflect some of the Sun's rays back into space.

Mark Campanale of the thinktank Carbon Tracker Initiative said the actual financial losses from unchecked global warming could be higher than estimated by the financial model behind the new study.

We need better communication — e.g., if the Earth experiences unchecked global warming for the next 100 - 200 years, the people in Scotland may someday have weather like Germans see when tanning on a French Beach and Italians may have to learn anew what it was like live during the days of the Romans.

Gore said that if left unchecked, global warming could lead to a drastic change in the weather, sea levels and other aspects of the environment.»

He argues, astonishingly, that under unchecked emissions growth, the world will attain the same level of output by 2100 that would have been attained in 2099 without global warming — a «trivial» 2.5 percent difference in GDP.

In 2007, the Nobel - Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found that global warming is primarily caused by human activity and, if left unchecked, will threaten communities with worsening heat waves, drought, sea - level rise and extreme weather by the end of the century.

Antarctica is likely to be the world's only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the Government's chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week.

Unchecked, global warming will trash our planet and truncate our future — all because of the truly sinister and truly unconscionable pursuit of profit.

Needless to say, the true long - term threat to the economy (and everything else) is unchecked global warming, as the National Academy of Sciences warned years ago and the National Climate Assessment reiterated more urgently in 2014.