Sentences with phrase «planetary emergency»

British scientist John Nissen, chairman of the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (of which Wadhams is a member), suggests that if the summer sea ice loss passes «the point of no return,» and «catastrophic Arctic methane feedbacks» kick in, we'll be in an «instant planetary emergency.»

Listening to Navarro Llanos describe Bolivia's perspective, I began to understand how climate change — if treated as a true planetary emergency akin to those rising flood waters — could become a galvanizing force for humanity, leaving us all not just safer from extreme weather, but with societies that are safer and fairer in all kinds of other ways as well.

I can not help but wonder what knowledgeable people are to do when a species like Homo sapiens is confronted with a colossal planetary emergency that it appears to have induced.

The Coming «Instant Planetary Emergency» How will climate change affect the future of the planet?

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Al Gore (Rodale)

Given the situation of planetary emergency in which we find ourselves, we can say that it is necessary to give consistent, in line with the times that we live answers, and certainly is the model of planetary citizenship that best answers these questions.

Given the situation of planetary emergency in which we find ourselves, we can say that it is necessary to give consistent, in line with the times that we live answers, and certain lyis the model of planetary citizenship that best answers these questions.

Gore's sobering view of global warming Former Vice President Al Gore's latest treatise on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It , is a companion volume to the well - received documentary.

Mr. Gore: Mr. President, we are facing a planetary emergency, and I really think it's time that the U.S. reengages in the international debate on climate change.

-- Posted by Bruce Kluger Gore: Mr. President, we are facing a planetary emergency, and I really think it's time that the U.S. re-engages in the international debate on climate change.

All your points support AMEG's assertion that we have a planetary emergency on our hands.

[Andy Revkin — Mr. Gore appears to have shifted from his original stance that climate change alone was the «planetary emergency» of our time to the multi-pronged view that including it in a basket of reasons to undertake a nonpolluting «energy quest» makes more sense.

The truth is that those of us who believe we are in a planetary emergency are indeed desperate and frustrated and angry --- but we're not in charge, we're not blowing up people, and in fact we are leaderless and ineffective.

The annual meetings on «planetary emergencies» are organized by the Ettore Marjorana Center for Scientific Culture, which occupies several converted ancient monasteries and other buildings in the pre-Medieval hilltop town of Erice, and the World Federation of Scientists, in Geneva.

At the meeting I'm attending in Sicily on «planetary emergencies,» several sessions have touched on climate forecasting, with William Sprigg of the University of Arizona leading a push on Tuesday for a similar statement from the organizing groups.

But she, like a lot of voters, remains doubtful, disengaged, and is not quick to embrace «planetary emergency» messages when winter still follows fall.

If you don't think climate change is a planetary emergency you're a dunce — a scientific know - nothing who should keep quiet and accept the judgment of your intellectual superiors.

None of them can make arguments for courses of action that will create jobs as a worthwhile end without dressing it up in green, as a response to a «planetary emergency» — they can't even think of things that the huge number of people who are unemployed could be doing instead of claiming benefits.

UN bureaucrats say climate change is a planetary emergency and that time is running out.

Might this not explain why ITER and nuclear research are so poorly - funded, in spite of what so many politicians have described as a «planetary emergency» and «the biggest challenge ever facing humanity»?

Al Gore says climate change is a planetary emergency.

If global warming is really a planetary emergency, why won't he deliver the same talk for $ 50,000?

Hansen told the US Congress in testimony last year that: «We have reached a point of planetary emergency... climate is nearing dangerous tipping points.

After all, if climate change is a planetary emergency, why take nuclear and natural gas off the table?

In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies.

Taking these in no particular order, let's begin with the scariest part of Al Gore's «planetary emergency»: sea - level rise.

«We have a climate crisis that is a planetary emergency,» said Gore, whose movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is nominated for two Oscars.

US theatre is doing a good job of censorship of plays that attempt a new aesthetic reaction to our planetary emergency.

The key science question for citizens and their representatives is not whether most recent warming is man - made but whether climate change, as Al Gore HAS put it, is a «planetary emergency... that threatens the survival of civilization and the habitability of the Earth.»