Sentences with phrase «other dangerous impacts»

We may have just about 30 years left until the world's carbon budget is spent if we want a likely chance of limiting warming to 2 degrees C. Breaching this limit would put the world at increased risk of forest fires, coral bleaching, higher sea level rise, and other dangerous impacts.

Impacts such as SLR and heat waves and crop failures and beetles killing forests and all the other dangerous Impacts and Positive Climate Feedbacks and Tipping Points....

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Others are unconvinced, seeing in peak stuff a dangerous myth and a thinly veiled excuse to abandon efforts to limit our planetary impact.

Work was also delayed on other invasive species projects, including research on the spread of dangerous Africanized honeybees in the Southwest, invasive grass species involved in intensifying wildfires, and white - nose bat syndrome impacting bats in national parks.»

As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced in coming years, BECCS and other negative emissions technologies are looked to as a means of avoiding dangerous future climate scenarios by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

However, this in itself is not enough to define what level of warming is «dangerous,» especially since the projections of actual impacts for any level of warming are highly uncertain, and depend on further factors such as how quickly these levels are reached (so how long ecosystems and society have had to respond), and what other changes are associated with them (eg: carbon dioxide concentration, since this affects plant photosynthesis and water use efficiency, and ocean acidification).

The American Lung Association supports regular, thorough assessments of the impacts to nearby communities of sources of dangerous air pollutants, including highways, ports, industrial boilers, power plants, and other sources of air pollution.

«(3) an analysis of the status of worldwide greenhouse gas reduction efforts, including implementation of the Safe Climate Act and other policies, both domestic and international, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

«Two degrees probably allows us to avoid dangerous impacts in some parts of the world but not in others,» he says.

If emissions continue unabated, the world is on track to exceed this budget in only about 30 years — exposing communities to increasingly dangerous forest fires, extreme weather, drought, and other climate impacts.

«The bottom line for our nation is that cleaner power will cut harmful carbon pollution, protect our children from dangerous smog and other serious climate impacts, and help secure a safe and prosperous future.»

To many others, Cancun was another tragic lost opportunity for the international community to prevent dangerous climate change, as well as, the most recent in a series of moral failures of those most responsible for climate change to commit to steps necessary to protect those who are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest impacts.

From hazardous effects causing potential loss of life, injury, or other negative health impacts, to the potential exposure of social, economic, and infrastructure assets to adverse impacts, global warming places vulnerable human lives and systems in dangerous jeopardy.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a global temperature rise of great than 2C would result in irreversible damage to society, including «increasingly dangerous forest fires, extreme weather, drought» as well as other compounding climate impacts.

The rehearing petition shows how the panel decision, if allowed to stand, will let HFCs keep fueling dangerous climate change, increasing risks for the millions of Americans who are living through hurricanes and other extreme weather events, and experiencing many other climate impacts.

«The world has become a far more dangerous place when the actions of two countries on the other side of the world could have such a drastic impact on the planet.»

Fatigue impacts truck drivers in ways that can be dangerous or disastrous to themselves and other individuals on the roadways.

Others shared the view of the Bar Council that, «It would be dangerous to ask a body responsible for structured sentencing, (which is largely a judicial concern), also to oversee the assessment of the impact of policy changes (which is largely a political concern).

While some submit that the order granted is consistent with standard rules and norms of private international law, others contend that such an order sets a dangerous precedent that will enable the global restriction of information impacting other countries, all without input from the courts of those affected countries.

Side - impact collisions are far more dangerous than other accidents because they are more likely to result in catastrophic injuries and death.

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While it is often tempting to just select the lowest priced offer, this is dangerous because other factors will also impact the overall quality of the car insurance dealer policy.

Security guards face risks that others in the workforce do not; the very nature of their jobs puts them in dangerous situations, which could impact their insurance rates.

Alienating strategies include bad - mouthing or denigrating the other parent in front of the child (or within earshot), 2,3 limiting the child's contact with the other parent, 4 trying to erase the other parent from the child's mind (e.g., withholding pictures of the child with the other parent), 2 creating and perpetuating a belief the other parent is dangerous (when there is no evidence of actual danger), 2 forcing the child to reject the other parent, and making the child feel guilty if he or she talks about enjoying time with the other parent.2 The impact of these behaviors on children is devastating, but it also often has the opposite intended effect; parents who denigrate the other parent are actually less close with their children than those who do not.3

It never mentions that the research has found that men who abuse their partners are 6.5 to 19 times more likely than other men to commit incest with their children (Lundy Bancroft & Margaret Miller, «The Batterer as Incest Perpetrator,» 85, in Lundy Bancroft & Jay G. Silverman, The Batterer as Parent: Addressing the Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Dynamics, 2002), and, thus, dual allegations of DV and incest are more likely to be true and involve far more dangerous abusers.