Sentences with phrase «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.

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This hiatus could persist for much of the present decade if the trade wind trends continue, however rapid warming is expected to resume once the anomalous wind trends abate.
3) In order to assert human causation, I would think the data would have to show that, for example, Rocky Mountain National Park had continued unabated to the present day the cooling trend established from approximately 1750 through 1850, while the Houston Ship Channel area exhibited the warming trend since the onset of industrial activity.
By continuing this trend, we can make a rough guess for how near - future climate may develop if the forces driving global warming continue at their present rate.
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.
So if we emit — or if we continue to emit these greenhouse gases at the present rate, you know, then the warming trend will be faster.
If present trends in the emission of greenhouse gases continue for 100 years, the group concludes, then resultant human - induced global warming will raise the Earth's average surface temperature between 1.4 and 5.8 degrees Celsius (2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
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