Sentences with phrase «rapid warming of the planet»

We know, however, that rapid warming of the planet increases the risk of crossing climatic points of no return, possibly setting in motion large - scale ocean circulation changes, the loss of major ice sheets, and species extinctions.

The activists say that «rapid warming of the planet increases the risk of crossing climatic points of no return,» but there is no evidence for rapid warming of the planet today.

Scientists around the world have now amassed a virtually unassailable body of evidence to support the conclusion that a rapid warming of our planet - caused principally by greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning - is under way.»

Not exact matches

«Despite colder than average temperatures in any one part of the world, temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we've seen over the last 40 years,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, at the press conference.

The rapid disappearance of species was ranked as one of the planet's gravest environmental worries, surpassing pollution, global warming and the thinning of the ozone layer.»

This began roughly 150 years ago and, with the exception of a few short intervals of steady (or even very slight decreases in) temperatures, the planet continues to warm at an even more rapid rate.

Political realities indicate only unusually rapid development of this (and parallel) revolutionary science and technology can improve the odds for human survival on this dangerously warming planet.

I asked for persuasive evidence that warming, even rapid warming (from the relatively cool temperatures the planet is now at) would be catastrophic of dangerous.

The warming of the planet is so rapid that it is more correctly categorized as a «climate shift» (abrupt climate change).

Under rapid greenhouse warming, the different parts of the planet have warmed at very different rates, leading to the scatter in the zonal anomalies since 1980.

Brooke C. Medley, a postdoctoral fellow with NASA who contributed to one of the new papers on Antarctic ice loss, said the findings demonstrate that the planet's large ice sheets, which were once thought to be stable, are responding to global warming and other influences at a rapid rate.

«Despite colder than average weather in any one part of the world,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt, «temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we have seen over the last 40 years.»

It looks likely that the rapid warming of the Arctic has broken the thermometer temperature record in two different ways - firstly by violating the assumption that unobserved regions of the planet warm at a broadly similar rate to observed regions, and secondly by violating the assumption that neighbouring regions of the planet's surface warm at a similar rate.

Fueled by seemingly endless United Nations Eco-Summits, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rapid rise of dark green nature spirituality in the west, politicians and scientists warmed to the idea that humans are causing unprecedented heating of the planet.

If there is a «ticking time bomb» on our planet that could lead to a global warming so rapid and sudden that we would have no way of dealing with it, it's methane.

Quigley: «95 % of all species on Planet Earth went extinct with the great rapid warming at the end of the Paleozoic!»

Projections for the way in which our planet will be affected by the current trend of rapid planetary warming are dire.