Sentences with phrase «planet from catastrophe»

«Messrs Gore and Macron «saving the planet from catastrophe», coming soon, for fast buck for insiders and no effect except avoidable energy poverty for the public..

Tropical cyclone activity and intensity increasing Record droughts, floods, heat waves, cold spells, high tides occurring Unequivocal warming of the climate system observed with very high confidence that human activities are to blame Temperature rising even more dramatically in Arctic, threatening ice loss and extinction of species Halving human CO2 emissions immediately might save the planet from catastrophe.

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«The bottom line is that habitable planets around red dwarfs are better protected from climate catastrophes than Earth is,» says Smith.

If there is life on the Red Planet — even just alien microbes clinging to existence in isolated refuges — any biological contamination we import from Earth could cause an ecological and scientific catastrophe

Frankly, I'm doing a huge disservice to soap science by implying that all it can do is save the planet from toxic catastrophes.

He also examines the larger lessons to be learned from such an ecological catastrophe — brought on by commercial exploitation and deforestations, among other causes — in this «planet's sixth great episode of mass extinctions.»

REFERENCE Weisman, Alan The World Without Us New York, St. Martin's Press: 2007 Diamond, Jared Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed New York, Penguin Books: 2005 McKibben, Bill The End of Nature New York, Random House, 1989 McKibben, Bill Eaarth: Making Like on a Tough New Planet New York, St. Martin's Press: 2010 Kolbert, Elizabeth Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change New York, Bloomsbury: 2006 Kolbert, Elizabeth The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History New York, Picador, 2014 Smith, Lawrence C.

As we experiment with this planet and continue to throw away the parts, we are weakening its ability to recover from the catastrophes we are forcing on it.

The whole point of the AGW movement is to save the planet from an ongoing worldwide catastrophe caused by AGW.

However, to help save the planet from this unprecedented warming catastrophe, I am obliged to give the UK government a shed load of vehicle road tax calculated purely on the amount of CO2 spewing from my car's exhaust.

Between them, these men paint a picture, from the psychology of the individual, through to the functioning of the planet's natural processes, in which humanity simply can not help but steer a course for catastrophe without their intervention.

The clock's hands «are the closest they've been to catastrophe since the early days of above - ground hydrogen bomb testing» in the 1950s, largely due to the ongoing threats to the planet from ACD.

A Guilty Liberal Finally Snaps, Swears Off Plastic, Goes Organic, Becomes A Bicycle Nazi, Turns Off His Power, Composts His Poop and, While Living In New York City, Generally Turns Into a Tree - Hugging Lunatic Who Tries to Save the Polar Bears and The Rest of the Planet from Environmental Catastrophe While Dragging His Baby Daughter and Prada - Wearing, Four Seasons - Loving Wife Along for the Ride.

But after the news that our dear green planet has been hauled back from the crevice of total catastrophe, that the world's great cities will be spared from inundation and destruction, the absence of celebration, the dull, flat, routine response of the world's population, poses a mystery.