Sentences with phrase «on warming the planet»

In addition to ocean acidification, coral bleaching is another threat facing corals on a warmer planet.
That's good, because you're going to be eating a lot more of them, according to new research that finds vegetarian and vegan diets to be the most sustainable long - term option for the world's growing population on a warming planet.
I'd love to get your feedback on the Warming Planet series via a review on Amazon.
Heavier deluges are expected on a warmer planet; each temperature rise of 1 degree Celsius increases the amount of moisture the atmosphere can hold by about 7 percent.
Andrew - I do not believe that would be a likely action by Dr Curry, because in fact humans are having an impact on warming the planet.
This was the headline I woke up seeing the day after my very blissful wedding, Climate Change Kills the Mood: Economists Warn of Less Sex on a Warmer Planet.
IOW, we'd better keep on warming the planet with CO2 and whatever or nature may take over and get us back on track for an ice age.
: everybody will answer YES (100 % consensus) If the question was: does mankind has an incidence on warming the planet
Soon, our efforts will be focused on warming the planet.
He notoriously declared «I'm not a scientist» when asked his thoughts on humanity's well - documented impact on the warming planet, banned the phrase in his administration (a charge he denies) and backed up President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris accord.
chinadialogue's «Changing climates» forum brought together policy makers from China and Europe to discuss energy and climate security on a warming planet.
It says «average global temperatures could rise» dramatically, and that these videos demonstrate «potential scenarios... of what life could be like on a warmer planet» (all italics added).
On a warming planet, humanity faces a great challenge in feeding itself at reasonable cost in the coming century, as I explain in Sunday's paper.
While the rate of global warming has slowed in the past several years, possibly due to natural climate variability, the long - term temperature trend clearly shows that we're living on a warming planet.
Not to repeat myself, but what's misleading about this is that the scientific community has known for some time that that on a warming planet, sea ice in the global North (Arctic) is expected to melt while sea ice in the global South is expected to remain constant or even sightly grow.
But there are still challenges, like getting diverse crops to grow on a warmer planet.

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The EU considers itself at the forefront of the fight against climate change and as a bloc it's on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the emissions of gases that warm the planet.
With its slower pace of living, warm, welcoming climate, healthy, fresh foods and reputation as one of the «greenest and cleanest» countries in the world with little pollution, lots of clean water and fresh air... it's no wonder Costa Ricans are considered the «happiest people on the planet».
The planets orbit an «ultracool dwarf,» a star much smaller and cooler than the sun, but still possibly warm enough to allow for liquid water on the surfaces of at least two of the planets.
You mean like Obama spewing more carbon than anyone on the planet, although he once stated that global warming is the most dire threat to mankind's existence?
Is there anything better on this planet than a nice warm bowl when the weather turns cold and possibly (or more likely in Vancouver) rainy outside?
Brie is one of the best melting cheeses on the face of the planet and was absolutely meant to be eaten warm.
I changed my babies in the bed, I did like having a little changing pad to lay under them (the Planet Wise ones are perfect, thin and don't take up much space), little boys especially love to tinkle on you, and sometimes sleepy mom didn't catch it before I felt a warm dribble running down my hand.
Detergents we LIKE - Tide Original or Ultra liquid, Cheer, Sun, Tide Free ultra, Mountain Green (same as Planet, definitely HOT wash, warm rinse and be prepared for periodic stripping) Purex Free and Clear is on this list, but we don't recommend it over Tide Free.
Massachusetts Birds and Our Changing Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming planet.
In her first major environmental proposal, Nixon called on New York State to commit to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050 — a benchmark that has been something of a Holy Grail for activists concerned about the warming of the planet as a result of the burning of fossil fuels.
«I pointed out the planet has existed for four billion years,» Yeo said earlier in our interview, as he outlined his rationale on the science underpinning global warming.
A new study by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, sheds light on another, less well - known aspect of how these ecosystems, and forests in particular, can protect our planet against global warming.
Over the course of the experiment, emissions of planet - warming methane from the dung of antibiotic - dosed cows were, on average, 80 % higher than those from the manure of untreated cattle, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Today's announcement comes on the first day of Climate Week, a summit that will run through Sunday in New York City, where government and private - sector leaders will converge to talk about the warming planet and what to do about it.
Extensive valley networks spidering through the southern highlands of Mars suggest that the planet was once warmer and wetter, but new research shows that water could still have flowed intermittently on a cold and icy early Mars.
Safety concerns over fracking are overblown — but so are the boosterish claims made for its environmental and economic benefits (see «Fracking could accelerate global warming» and «Frack on or frack off: Can shale gas really save the planet?
MAVEN arrived at Mars in Sept. 2014 on a mission to investigate a planetary mystery: Billions of years ago, Mars was blanketed by layer of air massive enough to warm the planet and allow liquid water to flow on its surface.
The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.
Where CO2 takes centuries to millennia to warm the planet, methane is its cousin on steroids, working quickly over decades before decaying into less virulent gases.
He cited several studies showing that a large number of species on the planet would become extinct in a «business as usual» global warming scenario.
SEAS researchers suggest that early Mars may have been warmed intermittently by a powerful greenhouse effect, possibly explaining water on the planet's surface billions of years ago.
Darkness and heat feed on each other in new simulations that predict a 20 - year warming trend on the Red Planet
Raymond Pierrehumbert at the University of Chicago and Eric Gaidos at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu calculated the warming effect of a hydrogen blanket on Earth - sized planets, as well as on worlds a few times more massive than our own, known as super-Earths.
Besides SSCE, scientists have also been investigating stratospheric sulfur injections — firing sun - reflecting aerosols into the air, similar to the cooling effect after a volcanic eruption — and cirrus cloud thinning, where you thin the top level of clouds, which have a warming effect on the planet.
In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers found that interactions between methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the early Martian atmosphere may have created warm periods when the planet could support liquid water on the surface.
(Im) permafrost According to a 2007 global outlook from the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the frozen soil of the Tibetan plateau has warmed about 0.3 degree Celsius over the past 30 years — after the poles, faster than anywhere else on the planet.
When [T] he peninsula is [has] warmed by [an] average of 5 to 9 degrees in the last 50 years, more than anywhere else on the planet — Fahrenheit.
Brendan Kelly, chief scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, noted that the warming planet has also had dire effects on the Arctic, which unlike Antarctica, is home to 4 million permanent residents.
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Even if all the individual pledges are met, the planet will keep on warming — almost certainly past the internationally agreed threshold of acceptable risk, 2...
The dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel on the planet seemed doomed in a world of cheap gas and worries about global warming.
Global warming has replaced the China Syndrome as the number one energy worry in the United States, and Cassini is delivering a whole world of new data on Saturn: rubble - pile moons, record - groove gaps in the planet's famous rings, complex weather systems churning through the pastel cloud cover, and possible explanations for the unrelenting 900 - mile - an - hour winds.
The mystery of how water on Mars lasted for millions of years may come down to methane explosions that warmed the planet enough to melt ice and make rivers flow
«There is a certain ironic satisfaction in seeing a study funded by the Koch Brothers — the greatest funders of climate change denial and disinformation on the planet — demonstrate what scientists have known with some degree of confidence for nearly two decades: that the globe is indeed warming, and that this warming can only be explained by human - caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations,» he wrote.
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