Sentences with phrase «prospect of a warm climate»

However, the prospect of a warm climate seemed a perfect opportunity to build a business around the kinds of products that could be consumed year round.

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The piece caught my eye because, in sifting through New York Times archives a few years ago while researching my book on the changing Arctic, I found what I believe is our first substantial newspaper coverage of research pointing to the prospect that humans could substantially warm the climate — a 1956 article on Plass's work by Waldemar Kaempffert.

For years, there's been a building chorus of warnings on the looming prospect of «climate conflict» and «global warring» that might be set off as greenhouse - driven warming disrupts longstanding weather patterns in already - turbulent parts of the world (think sub-Saharan Africa) or rising seas dislocate coastal populations (think Bangladesh).

That doesn't obviate the need to curb such emissions and the prospect of dangerous climate warming in the short run, Dr. Crowley said.

This raises the prospect that, as hurricane activity increases for whatever reason, the threat of wildfires in the Southeast and Gulf Coast regions could grow as the climate continues to warm, some researchers say.

With the prospect of a warmer world, the imperative to adapt to a changing climate further emphasizes the need to scale up support for climate - resilient, low - carbon development.

A world in which all human beings were equal, rational, and perfectly governed, when confronted with the prospect of global warming, might reach an optimal decision based on compelling climate science.

Then there's the bleak prospect of a warm northern hemisphere climate melting all the ice in the Arctic, such that polar bears would have no more ice floes to rest on — they could drown from being too fatigued to swim any farther!

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

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That's a lot scarier than the prospect of global warming (excuse me, climate change).