Sentences with phrase «preventing climate change in the future»
So while CDR solutions might be ineffective today, CDR solutions could prove to be an absolutely critical option to preventing climate change in the future.
http://www.centerforcarbonremoval.org/ Not exact matches
Researchers state that jackfruit could prevent millions suffering from hunger in the future, as a replacement for wheat, corn and other crops under threat due to climate change.
Um, because global climate change mitigation causes real harm now to prevent imagined harm in the future.
Like my post on how many greenhouse gasses humanity can safely emit and my post on the (absent) long - term future of the fossil fuel industry, it highlights how preventing catastrophic climate change obliges humanity to keep a significant proportion of all available fossil fuels in the ground.
This can lead to a built - in assumption that the future will repeat the past — something that does not match - up with either preventing climate change or adapting to it.
«Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change...», ``... a virus called Homo sapiens...», «Homo rapiens is only one of very many species, and not obiously worth preserving», are not statements about something that is going to happen in the future; they are statements about the moral value of humanity.
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.
How about this question: How many American jobs are you willing to sacrifice now in an attempt to prevent what is still an unknown amount of climate change in the future?
• The readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population
For example, first work on preventing catastrophic climate change, and use the research from that to address the more general problem of getting shaved monkeys to worry about threats they can't see that will kill them in the impossibly far distant future (viz, later than next fiscal quarter).
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.
Climate change could make weather hazards more frequent and more intense but will not prevent them from occurring in the future.
This idea may seem as futuristic today as the automobile did in the 1879, but carbon removal likely will play a large role in preventing the adverse effects of climate change in the near future.
However, without the scientific community providing expertise and authority in policy prescriptions, anti-science campaigns, driven by conflicts of values (as in evolution) to conflicts of investment and wealth (as in climate change) subvert real scientific knowledge, prevent the implementation of responsible policy, and put the future of our country in jeopardy.
When pressed by panelists on how much sea - level rise the area will confront in the future, Rear Admiral John White explained that we can prevent the worst consequences if we address the root of climate change and «stop putting CO2 in the atmosphere.»
This conference will gather representatives of Asian and Pacific countries, stakeholder groups and development and humanitarian partners to to discuss acceleration of efforts vital for the sustainable future of the region including how to prevent disasters and tackle climate change while reviewing progress in reducing disaster losses.
Limitations with climate models have previously prevented accurate diagnosis of future changes in mesoscale convective systems (MCSs).
«While we are responsible for playing our part in preventing dangerous climate change,» says Uday Gupta, the company's Managing Director, «we also future - proof our growth and profitability by taking climate action in collaboration with our partners in the value chain.»
And, according to author and environmental activist Amy Larkin, the environmental impact of climate change is an actual financial issue: «Would you rather federal, state, and local governments spend our money on preventing extreme weather in the future or on recovering from extreme weather?