Sentences with phrase «own warmer future»

Sometimes they think that Salvation is a sort of fire - insurance policy which guarantees that we shall not have a rather warm future beyond death.

We are basically guaranteeing an even warmer future and much more acidic oceans.

Protecting this salmon stronghold will be even more important in a warmer future, says Michael Webster of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a co-author of the paper along with the U.W. scientists.

Conservationists are increasingly considering moving plants and animals in advance of climate change to places where they might thrive in a warmer future.

This suggests that the research community has a sound understanding of what the climate will be like as we move toward a Pliocene - like warmer future caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.»

Understandably, this event has become a psychologically powerful metaphor for the frightening vision of a warmer future and our immediate need to prevent it.

The kinder, gentler model from the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in the United Kingdom estimated a wetter, warmer future: Rainfall may increase 20 percent to 25 percent, mean annual temperatures could increase 2 degrees Fahrenheit by 2030 and 4 degrees by 2100.

The findings have important implications in terms of planning for sea level rise, as ever - growing coastal communities might have to plan for even higher ocean levels in a warmer future.

The Kia Ceed at this point then is hardly an evo - centric car, but then as opposed to the influx of compact SUVs, and with the possibility of a warmer future offering in the pipeline, we'll take one of these over a dull compact SUV any day.

I wonder, e.g., if during the LGM there were much less forests than today, perhaps in a warmer future climate more of the higher latitude tundra regions will be covered by forest.

However, if either A we are simply dead wrong about the impact of GHGs and / or B we are missing the forest (solar / astronimical and tectonic things) for the trees (gas mixture things) and the actual future, among the several possible futures, turns out to be one of cooling — possibly the outright end of the current interglacial, then all those people wound up to believe in a warm future are going to be cold, hungry and out for blood.

It's a critique of one element in «Gangplank to a Warm Future,» an Op - Ed article by Anthony R. Ingraffea, a professor of engineering at Cornell who is a prominent foe of expanded gas drilling using the bundle of methods commonly known as «fracking.»

If we wait for politicians to solve the global warming issue, we should plan for a much warmer future.

The Op - Ed «Gangplank to a Warm Future» by Anthony Ingraffea contains a correct but highly misleading number — the value of the «global warming potential,» or GWP, for methane.

In a July 28 Op - Ed article in The Times, Ingraffea, a prominent foe of the drilling technique best known as fracking, challenged the widespread view of natural gas as a «bridge» from coal to a cleaner energy future, saying it was a «gangplank to a warm future.»

I will start: I want the global community to mitigate the extreme risk of the warmest future climate scenarios.

As the first nation to get adaptation money from the Least Developed Countries Fund, Bhutan is something of a pioneer among developing nations in their quest to adapt to a warmer future, and the struggles at Thorthormi glacier illustrate the enormous obstacles that adaptation efforts still face.

«Carbon - Cycle Feedbacks Increase the Likelihood of a Warmer Future.»

Pekka, you write «We are almost certainly heading towards warmer future and that will almost as certainly be seen in 2035.»

«It shows us that in a carbon - rich, warm future, ocean systems have the capacity to change in a way that has no analogue» in today's world, Moffitt said.

In the cleaner B1 scenario, this pollution and the consequent shield are expected to decline, resulting in a warmer future.

We don't know the exact path to a warmer future but the physics is pretty solid.

New Berkeley Lab research offers a way to envision a warmer future.

But scientists say that crop failures related to climatic events will be inevitable in the planet's warmer future.

It seems that every new climate scenario making the media over the past 20 years they always describe a warm future on a multidecadal scale ignoring a cool future as if variability didn't exist, but isn't scientific climatology primarily concerned with longer millenia time scales of a thousand years or more?

«Without concerted action soon, the world is on track for a much warmer future with possibly dire consequences,» said the IEA statement.

It is also likely that a warmer future climate would have fewer frost days (i.e., nights where the temperature dips below freezing).

The European heat wave of 2003 is an example of the type of extreme heat event lasting from several days to over a week that is likely to become more common in a warmer future climate.

The IPCC scientists predict that because of global warming the future will bring more and deadlier extreme weather of all kinds: more hurricanes, tornadoes, downpours, heat waves, droughts and blizzards.

Similarly, the problems that people face in a warmer future are contingent on there being no political, economic or technological developments.

I must say, though, I don't share your optimism about the ability of humanity to adapt to a warmer future with the grace you envisage.

The hyperthermals that pepper geological records are typically studied in isolation yet they share many similar features that have obvious resonance with our warm future.

Hopefully other states are inspired to do the same thing so everyone from citizens to city planners, lobbyists and politicians can have a deeper understanding and do a better job at moving towards low carbon living and planning for a warmer future.

Of course, in this case the bill to society isn't payable through the law, but via the realities of a warming future And the kids in the pictures will be the ones to pay it.

The EU has told the UK we have to decrease, drastically our reliance on fossil fuels, they have also interfered with our policies on water supplies, by claiming it will be a scarce resource in our rapidly warming future.

The fact of previous climate change due to «natural cycles» is probably the strongest evidence we have that adding the same amount of heat will warm future climate about as much as the warming following the last Ice Age.

Not exact matches

Whether you're selling a product or a societal warning like global warming, VR is the wave of the future.

Science and physics will be essential in solving our future challenges: global warming, fusion, alternative energy, and so on.

How many leaders can warm a frosty culture, produce astounding numbers, and deliver on a services - are - the - future vision, all a the same time?

While institutional asset allocators still haven't warmed up to the idea of investing in crypto, the big change that happened in December was the rollout of futures trading.

The risks associated with future toxic waste from the oil sands are, in some ways, more worrying than the much more widely known global warming ones.

The company's dividend growth streak of eight consecutive years appears to be just warming up, with a payout ratio of 29.5 % all but guaranteeing strong future dividend increases (which should drive some of that near - term and long - term total return).

If a Republican candidate would say, — yes even if a messiah is coming, people had been saying that for 2000 years, therefore, we are all obliged to preserve the planet for future generations and human activities do excessively cause global warming.

They think our obligation to be sparing in our use of resources and to avoid making the environment unhealthy, for the sake of future generations, requires us to combat global warming.

If in the 1970s we had begun a program of efficient use and switching gradually to other sources of energy, «peak oil» would remain quite far in the future and there might still be some chance to reduce global warming.

Also, if we think of our economic wellbeing as having to do with the future as well as the present, then we must consider how present activities contribute to a global warming that will be extremely costly to us and to our descendants.

The cabbie who was the last person to hear Lowell speak could not have known that the passenger hulking in his rear seat was really Druid royalty, and that future generations would warm their hands at bonfires he had built.

Although global warming may now be a serious concern, it is likely that long - term climate cycles will cause large ice sheets to return at some time in the distant future, and cataclysmic outburst floods will probably recur in this region.»

Land developers burn forests in Latin America to feed the cattle that fill the cavernous appetites of fast food chains in the United States — and the entire planet gradually warms, leaving even the experts in doubt about the future of our global ecology.

But when current growth leads to growing ozone holes, progressive global warming, the exhaustion of soils, and the disappearance of wetlands and fisheries, costs are being imposed on the future.