Sentences with phrase «prospect of a warmer world»

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.

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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).

While the influence of Arctic sea - ice on weather much further south is an intriguing prospect, the new research suggests a warming world looks likely to be more of a factor in mid-latitude winters.

Now with the U.S., the world's second largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions after China, walking away from the accord, other countries would presumably have to ramp up their ambitions still further if they want to avoid the prospect of dangerous warming.

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.

With the possible prospect of the world warming dangerously and uncontrollably, half of one degree Celsius may sound like a negligible temperature change unlikely to make much difference to life on Earth.

There is no doubt, therefore, that the subject of adaptation in a «4 °C world» (here, we use this shorthand to refer to the world with a serious prospect of average global warming of 4 °C or more) will become an increasingly urgent concern.