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.
Not exact matches
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).