Sentences with phrase «rapidly warming future»

The EU has told the UK we have to decrease, drastically our reliance on fossil fuels, they have also interfered with our policies on water supplies, by claiming it will be a scarce resource in our rapidly warming future.

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Winters have been warming more rapidly than summers, and while less extreme cold sounds appealing, the future effects of blistering summer heat are expected to outweigh the benefits of milder winters.

It's unlikely that the fossil fuel companies will deny in court what is widely accepted by authoritative scientific bodies around the world: that human emissions have already begun to warm the planet, that the harm is already being felt, that the risks of future harm are significant, and that to head them off emissions have to be rapidly reduced.

What might the future ecological consequences be for wild species as the globe continues to warm rapidly?

It is of interest to scientists because it is changing rapidly; it is thinning, accelerating and receding3, all of which contribute directly to sea level, and its future under a warming climate is uncertain.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

Computer model simulations tend to capture the slow rate of warming in the western Pacific over the last few decades, but they show the warm pool heating rapidly in the future.

It pays to look at the rapidly disappearing scientific rationale for trying to mitigate a putative future global warming.

In Northeast Land and Svalbard, the melting waters on the ice caps are the tears of the Earth mourning the future death of men and civilizations as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere spikes and global warming proceeds rapidly, killing millions of marine organisms, and increasing the acidification of the oceans.

You have all spent much of your life's work talking about a perilous future that is threatened by a rapidly warming climate.

EIA is working to ensure protection for the white beluga whale, a species that faces an uncertain future in a rapidly warming and increasingly industrialized Arctic.

«As we rapidly warm the Arctic, we can expect that future years will bring us even more examples of unprecedented weather.»

While Grantham acknowledged it was still tough to know how to make money out of climate change, he made the case that investors need to rapidly answer that question because «global warming will be the most important investment issue for the foreseeable future.»

Because the basics of anthropogenic global warming are fairly straightforward — CO2 is a greenhouse gas, because of the lapse rate water vapor condenses or freezes out in the troposphere and acts mainly to amplify the effect of CO2, humans are burning a lot of fossil C and increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere, the surface of the earth is warming, the cryosphere is retreating, the climate that supports civilization is rapidly changing, and consequently we are facing an uncertain future — but the details are complex, it's easy to «misunderestimate» the way climate works in detail.