Mastering carbon capture and storage will be a big part of that if the world continues to rely on coal as expected, perhaps
preventing catastrophic global climate change.
Not exact matches
The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to
prevent a sudden leap in average
global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the
climates ability to regulate itself and lead to
catastrophic changes on the land and sea.
For the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a
climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the
global agreement to
prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the
catastrophic implications of
climate change.
The US obligation to reduce its emissions is terminated only when it is below levels required by fair
global allocations that will
prevent dangerous
climate change although even in this case an argument can be made that any nation that could reduce emissions further should do so to avoid
catastrophic harm to others.
This is so because the world will need to reduce
global greenhouse gas emissions from current levels by 80 % or greater by the middle of this century to
prevent catastrophic climate change as greenhouse gas emissions increase world wide increase at 2 % per year under current trends.
Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of
climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and the enormity of
global emissions reductions needed to
prevent catastrophic climate change.
(9) Innovative clean technologies, including U.S. and multilateral financing mechanisms for their deployment, are critical to mitigating
global warming pollution,
preventing catastrophic changes to the
climate, and developing robust economies around the world.
Unfortunately, the international community of governments and politicians has failed to reach an effective
global agreement that requires every country to do what is necessary to
prevent catastrophic climate change.
NCSE isn't composed of scientists or science teachers; it's an activist group devoted, in part, to expounding
global warming alarmists» dogma: Humans are causing
climate change; the results will be
catastrophic; and governments must force people to use less energy and live simpler to
prevent future disasters.
The people facing the worst impacts of
climate change have virtually no voice in western debates about whether to do anything serious to
prevent catastrophic global warming.
This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of
climate change are potentially
catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from
climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe
global emissions, and, (e)
climate change is
preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.
This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of
climate change are potentially
catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from
climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe
global emissions, and, (e)
climate change is
preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.
Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of
climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and individuals and the enormity of
global emissions reductions needed to
prevent catastrophic climate change.
In previous entries, Ethicsandclimate.org examined the failure of the US media to communicate about: (a) the nature of the strong scientific consensus about human - induced
climate change, (b) the magnitude of greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to
prevent catastrophic climate change, (c) the practical significance for policy that follows from understanding
climate change as essentially an ethical problem, (e) the consistent barrier that the United States has been to finding a
global solution to
climate change in international
climate negotiations, and (f) the failure of the US media to help educate US citizens about the well - financed, well - organized
climate change disinformation campaign.
The game has a fantastic premise: You're in charge of
global decision - making, and you have to figure out how to reduce emissions enough to
prevent catastrophic climate change, and prepare humanity to adapt to the warming we'll see irregardless.
SecularAnimist (# 206) ``... the legitimate scientific question as to whether it is in fact too late to
prevent global warming and
climate change that will be
catastrophic to human civilization, not to mention the entire Earth's biosphere.»
What I am talking about is, that it seems to me that with regard to
climate science, this blog spends far too much time responding to the phony, trumped - up «debate» fueled by denialist drivel, and not enough time addressing the legitimate scientific question as to whether it is in fact too late to
prevent global warming and
climate change that will be
catastrophic to human civilization, not to mention the entire Earth's biosphere.
Groups are urging the coalition negotiators to support European
climate targets that would make a fair and adequate contribution to the
global efforts of
preventing catastrophic climate change, while putting the EU on track to become a
climate friendly economy.
UK About Blog Campaign against
Climate Change (CCC) pushes for the urgent and radical action we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of the global c
Climate Change (CCC) pushes for the urgent and radical action we need to
prevent the
catastrophic destabilisation of the
global climateclimate.