Sentences with phrase «potentially dangerous climate»

It's our only realistic way to limit any further potentially dangerous climate change than what we are already locked ourselves into.

And just like policies aimed at limiting potentially dangerous climate change, adaptation policies will be implemented in the face of uncertainty, both in climate impacts and variance in extreme weather.

Scientists have known for over 100 years that burning fossil fuels, especially from power plants, is warming our planet's atmosphere and triggering a potentially dangerous climate change.

Not exact matches

The Agency reminds us that small changes in the average temperature of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts in climate and weather.

• GLOBAL WARMING Physicist Richard A. Muller, although convinced that climate change is real, potentially dangerous and probably caused in part by humans, has disagreed with many climate scientists, asserting that their measurements and analyses are deeply flawed.

Further to Fred Pearce's editorial on the outcome of the Rio +20 Earth Summit (30 June, p 3), the disarray in international politics that he highlighted with regard to climate change is now so potentially dangerous that no one can affect to be a disinterested observer.

«The further we push the Earth's climate away from its natural state, the greater the risks of dangerous and even potentially unforeseen consequences,» said Robert Kopp, a report author and professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

That practice is also potentially dangerous, as countries producing rawhide in tropical climates don't have a good track record when it comes to preventing salmonella outbreaks.

CRU's published research is, and has always been, fully peer - reviewed by the relevant journals, and is one strand of research underpinning the strong consensus that human activity is affecting the world's climate in ways that are potentially dangerous.

The idea (quoted in the United Nations Environmental Programme report) that in order to be reasonably sure of avoiding dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change, a minimum of a 50 % cut in global emissions compared with 1990 levels is required by 2050, is based firmly on the IPCC - led consensus, contrary to the impression you appear to have.

But the climate is changing so rapidly that we already face volatile scenarios like the possibility of escalating international conflicts over potentially dangerous albedo hacking experiments.

And, in spite of all its complexity and uncertainties, we should not lose track of the simple fact that theory, actual observations of the planet, and complex models - however imperfect each is in isolation - all point to ongoing, potentially dangerous human alteration of climate.

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This is a central but not exhaustive component of potentially dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

They are on the front lines of the impacts of climate change in the form of sea level rise, combining with potentially more dangerous storms that threatens our coastlines.

Hence, avoiding dangerous levels of CO2 - induced warming is a necessary, albeit not always sufficient, condition for avoiding potentially dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.

The message of the latest IPCC report is clear: Climate change is real and caused by humans, and we will see far more dangerous and potentially irreversible impacts if we do not reduce global carbon emissions.

In either scenario we need to take serious action to reduce human greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid dangerous and potentially catastrophic climate change.

even in the best case scenario, business as usual fossil fuel burning will almost certainly commit us to more than 2C (3.6 F) warming, an amount of warming that scientists who study climate change impacts tell us will lead to truly dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change.

At the same time, we must also recognize that we can not mitigate away all the potentially dangerous impacts of climate change.

Lobell and NCAR scientist Claudia Tebaldi were studying the likelihood of climate change reducing yield growth by 10 % or more — potentially a «dangerous scenario».

That said, this range is large enough that it could mean that climate change will be a moderate issue (1.5 C) or potentially quite dangerous (4.5 C).

Even if the climate is not quite as sensitive to the increased greenhouse effect as current best estimates suggest, we're still not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if we want to avoid dangerous and potentially catastrophic climate change.

For a problem as potentially catastrophic as climate change, taking no action poses a dangerous risk for our planet.

Mitigation will reduce the amount of future climate change and the risk of impacts that are potentially large and dangerous.

NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute research finds that human - made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.

James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, today published a study showing that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.

the compelling strands of scientific evidence that have led almost all climate scientists to conclude that mankind is altering climate in potentially dangerous ways. . .»