Sentences with phrase «polar cities as»

When I first started talking about polar cities as an adaptaion strategy for future global warming problems in the far distant future, say 2500, nobody would listen to me here or anywhere else.

Just to note, the first print newspaper story about polar cities as a concept appeared on May 31 in a newspaper in Taiwan.

By the way, while Dr Lovelock says «at the end of the century, meaning 2100 AD, and in recent interviews in the Guardian and Daily Mail in the UK has mentioned the dates of 2020 and 2040 as when this will occur, my own (more naive) thinking dates these polar cities as being inhabited around the year 2500 AD.

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While perhaps lacking the variety boasted by some big - city zoos to the south, it's well - known for an impressive collection of Arctic animals, such as polar bears, snow leopards, wolves, seals, otters and more.

And, as Capital points out, the city today is basically the polar opposite of when Koch took office, its viability challenged by too much money rather than too little.

Today, as his city remained in the grip of a polar vortex, Mayor de Blasio was snared in a vortex of press skepticism, some deserved, some not.

Book a holiday to Canada and experience the natural beauty of the Icefields Parkway, abundant whale and polar bear watching opportunities as well as the cosmopolitan cities of Vancouver, Toronto and Québec.

Traditional reverence for the splendors of nature has been challenged by the highly abstract color landscapes of Toshio Shibata, which embrace man - made infrastructure in harmony with natural surroundings, as well as in Hiroshi Sugimoto's view of a polar bear in the snow, actually taken within our city's Museum of Natural History.

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

One possibility is our own generation, now, is to build a model polar city with funding from someone like Sir Richard Branson or the Google people and letting volunteer «residents» test it out during summer months in a place such as Norway or Iceland or Alaska, mostly as an educational tool and public awareness vehicle.

The polar cities website is obviously not in the same league as these professionally - done websites, and I apologize for not having a PHD or academic cred or even any climate change research experience.

So far, most newspapers in North America and Europe will not print any reportage about polar cities because such an idea is deemed to be scaremongering and doomsdayish, when in fact, it is neither: polar cities might serve as lifeboats, arks, for the human species, if worst comes to worst.

(I'm here by coincidence and actually focused on Arctic and Antarctic science, not cities, as emcee for «Polar - Palooza,» something of a traveling polar - science festival that celebrates research at both chilly ends of the Earth.)

As you know, Andy, I've created a term — polar cities — as a possible place where survivors of global warming's catastrophic events by the year 2500 might live, and I've commissioned a graphic artist to come up with some very graphic visual images of these «polar cities» (/ / pcillu101.blogspot.comAs you know, Andy, I've created a term — polar cities — as a possible place where survivors of global warming's catastrophic events by the year 2500 might live, and I've commissioned a graphic artist to come up with some very graphic visual images of these «polar cities» (/ / pcillu101.blogspot.comas a possible place where survivors of global warming's catastrophic events by the year 2500 might live, and I've commissioned a graphic artist to come up with some very graphic visual images of these «polar cities» (/ / pcillu101.blogspot.com).

Zoo officials in Chicago, also known as #ChiBeria, are keeping their polar bear indoors during the city's below - zero temperatures.

Melting polar ice caps will cause the sea level in Mangalore, officially known as Mangaluru, to rise by 14.60 cm by then, while Mumbai, one of the world's most populous mega cities with more than 10 million inhabitants, will witness its sea rising by 13.95 cm.

Whether you are traveling to Canada's culturally rich cities such as Quebec City, Montreal, and Vancouver, or whether your goal is to see a polar bear in Manitoba, there are several important things to keep in mind to make sure your travel experience is the best it can be.

Whether you are traveling to Canada's culturally rich cities such as Quebec City, Montreal, and Vancouver, or whether your goal is to see a polar bear in Manitoba, there are -LSB-...]