Sentences with phrase «present warming trend»

So we should never allow ourselves to lose sight of the catastrophe we face if present warming trends continue.

Just prior to the 2009 COP15 climate summit in Copenhagen, then UK prime minister Gordon Brown told the world: «We should never allow ourselves to lose sight of the catastrophe we face if present warming trends continue.

Depicting life in a not - too - distant future shaped by already present warming trends, the report warns that even 20 to 30 years from now, shifting rain patterns could leave some areas under water and others without enough water for drinking, irrigation or power generation.

We can, therefore, compare the present warming trends (and warming / cooling cycles; think about the «mini-ice age» of the 19th Century) with the geological record and make statistical extrapolations about changing rates and develop hypotheses about causes (whichh, basically, is what current climate scientists have been doing).

Satellite records, the best available information we have, show the present warming trend — half a degree Celsius by century — is well within the range shown for the last few hundred years.â $ ™

The number of governments, private corporations, organizations, scientists and technologies concerned with meeting the challenge of climate change and global warming have increased beyond expectations in the past decade and continues to create an army of «green fighters,» like Green Peace, but the impact on large numbers of people have not reached a critical mass to reverse the present warming trends.

As the present warming trend is expected to continue, global mean sea level will continue to rise.

We can not avoid trouble by merely cutting down on our present warming trend, though that's an excellent place to start.

Dennis «A&L» Dutton, who is sceptical about the idea that the present warming trend is mostly anthropogenic, has got together with Douglas Campbell, a philosopher / biologist / computer scientist who isn't.