Sentences with phrase «planet into»

This process is further fueling feedback loops that are pushing the planet into a runaway climate shift.

But the Pope's pessimistic assessment of the state of today's world — dominated by a «one - dimensional» technocratic paradigm of greed and frivolity that is causing us to transform the planet into «an immense pile of filth» — would seem to indicate that Saint Francis's message of «sublime fraternity with all creation,» as the Pope puts it, has not been widely accepted.

We have «geoengineered» the planet into its current state.

In short, we've seen about 0.8 degrees of warming globally; yes, this is significant — enough so that it is pushing more of the planet into drought; humans are responsible for nearly all of it, and we will see about 3 degrees of warming for each doubling of CO2 concentration.

To give people an opportunity to have a good time together with friends and family while being creative and creating their own Christmas presents, without being a part of the mass consumption Christmas culture that is slowly turning the planet into one big land fill — because everything in remake Christmas is a recycled and upcylced from exactly that trash.»

And to make it worse, now is perhaps last chance to act before global warming fundamentally changes the planet into a much less hospitable place for humanity.

And this is because much discussion of the Anthropocene — its essential idea, its causes, its timing — is bedevilled by readings through old disciplinary lenses, which don't account for the true implications of humankind taking the planet into a new epoch.

If you take a model for Earth and plug in all the same factors for Mars or any other planet into it, but are stuck with «we don't have that variable in this model» then your model is incomplete and inaccurate.

Rather than stewarding the planet into oblivion why not awake to our kinship with all life and leave behind a footprint we can delight in?

Pontiff says humans are turning planet into «wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth» in call for urgent action on climate change

«You want to have a nice, large - scale civilisation that does wonderful things but that doesn't push the planet into domains that are dangerous for itself, the civilisation,» said Professor Frank.

Small changes in insolation driven by changes in the Earth's orbit can push the planet into or out of an ice age through the planet's «climate feedback» mechanisms.

That book is a parable for the consequences of our current moment, in which «merchants of doubt» (the title of another successful book she co-authored) throw the planet into the trash bin in a fit of self - interest.

It could turn one third of the planet into desert and make the U.S. Southwest a dust bowl.

It's a discovery of a super-powerful lever to flip the planet into a state of total bureaucratic control.

We are going to pollute the shit out of this planet, then we are going to cut down all the trees and turn the entire planet into a desert.

Hulme: My work is as Director of the national centre for climate change research, a job which requires me to translate my Christian belief about stewardship of God's planet into research and action.

STEPHEN Hawking fears Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement could be the «tipping point» which wipes out humanity and turns our planet into a living hell.

Driessen replies: «It is absurd to suggest that non-oil and gas sources would make plastics better — or that it could be done without turning nearly the entire planet into a massive biofuel farm to provide energy and plastics.

Other changes to other parts of the system may also be equally important to human welfare, and additional amounts of CO2 added may be beneficial (to a point) or harmful (in excess), i.e. humans have done pretty well with CO2 in the 280 ppm range, but 180 ppm seems to have things a bit cold, and 400 ppm and over takes the planet into a range not seen since their Australopithecus ancestors were roaming the planet.

Under the current approach these would lock economies and the planet into a costly high carbon future and undermine a green new deal that could pave the way out of economic recession.

Environmentalists have discovered the two new things most likely to turn the planet into a molten orb of glowing red climate death.

We divide one circle into 360 degrees and one rotation of our planet into 86400 seconds.

If we have real - world evidence that temperatures were warmer than today during most of the past 10,000 years (and also during several interglacial warm periods during the past few million years), and if we also have real - world evidence that human civilization thrived during these warmer temperatures and the warmer temperatures did not trigger so - called «tipping points» sending the planet into a climate catastrophe, then we have very little reason to believe that our presently and moderately warming temperatures are now poised to send the planet into a climate catastrophe.

If INDCs and international carbon controls throw the planet into another ice age, I'm sure we will get a refund.

(Mooney concluding) «But as we steer the planet into the unknown, the default position should probably be to expect surprises — surprises not unlike those that we're seeing today.»

It's time for your annual reminder humans have pushed the planet into a state unseen in millions of years.

All available data indicates that the atmosphere is being microwaved in a desperate and unimaginably destructive attempt to mitigate the methane buildup which risks turning our once thriving planet into a lifeless rock that resembles Venus.

My work is as Director of the national centre for climate change research, a job which requires me to translate my Christian belief about stewardship of God's planet into research and action.

Massive methane releases may have already pushed the planet into a runaway greenhouse event, climate engineering has also exacerbated the overall methane scenario.

Consensus is growing that we have driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth - system processes and the living fabric of ecosystems are now dominated by human activities.

Humans are now the most significant driver of global change, propelling the planet into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.

or just maybe we decide we want to spend at least another million years right here at home, and we begin to shift the planet into a new age of clean energy technology, and sustainable ecological tactics.

This gradual removal of CO2 from the atmosphere reduces the overall greenhouse effect and thus slowly draws the entire planet into an ice age, driving further ice sheet expansion over tens of thousands of years (a complete ice age cycle is around 100,000 years)

Anthropogenic global warming apostles would have us believe the planet has never changed in all it's history, and suddenly man and his evil, capitalistic, oil - company fed industry has plunged the planet into an unprecedented warming event.

From one engineering solution to another, we progressively change this all planet into an exclusive support system for humans.

It is good that the Pope is decrying consumerism, but until he addresses the fact that rich humans are literally eating the planet into its sixth great extinction, he isn't being very effective.

Philippe Chantreau > From one engineering solution to another, we progressively change this all planet into an exclusive support system for humans.

«From the shifting perspective of a new mom, I thought a lot about the planet into which I was bringing my daughter.

A huge blue motherly curve nearly encircles a large black planet while luring a smaller red planet into the fold, calling to mind an abstracted stuffed toy.

«The GDELT Project is an initiative to construct a catalog of human societal - scale behavior and beliefs across all countries of the world, connecting every person, organization, location, count, theme, news source, and event across the planet into a single massive network that captures what's happening around the world, what its context is and who's involved, and how the world is feeling about it, every single day.»

So, now that global warming has transformed your planet into one giant jacuzzi, how are you going to keep your feet dry?

At it's most basic, Cede is a 3D Action - RPG where you control the main character Seph, and, with the help of your Lil Boi's, you're tasked with regrowing a post-apocalyptic wasteland, ruined by he death of his father and the betrayal of his five brothers, that cracked your planet into myriad pieces.

You learn that long ago, The Traveler swung by the planet and turned into lush paradise up until the Vex showed up and decided to turn the core of the planet into a giant supercomputer.

The planets are planet - sized, and you can get in your ship and fly from a planet into space with no loading screen.

Media Molecule wisely tucked all the «put goofy faces on your avatar and try other people's levels» stuff from Little Big Planet into a supporting role for their charming and inventive world - building.

If it's higher than the system's resistance then you successfully take over, integrating the planet into your own culture.

I think many people are coming to the realization that everyone uses too many chemicals in their everyday lives so turning our planet into a poisonous place.

«Offering DRM - free backups to you and our customers - to - be is another step in taking comics further, and serves our mission to turn everyone on the face of the planet into a comics fan,» stated Steinberger.

The internet has turned the planet into a global village by making communication with people all over the world effortless.