Sentences with phrase «risk of dangerous climate change»

The 1993 tax was pursued mainly as a source of revenue to cut the deficit, not a means of reducing American dependence on foreign oil and cutting risks of dangerous climate change.

On the eve of the release today of his interim report on climate change, Professor Garnaut told a conference in Adelaide yesterday that without intervention before 2020, it would be impossible to avoid a high risk of dangerous climate change.

«I am worried that the risks of dangerous climate change are too high on our current emissions trajectory,» she said in a statement.

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

«Tiny, but positive policy moves, like increasing automobile efficiency, certainly help, but if we are to get serious about avoiding the risk of dangerous climate change, we need to up our game by somewhere between a factor of 10 and 100 over what we are doing now.»

«You may well feel that there is not a quality of science to support non-belief in evolution that is similar in quality to the science that supports non-belief that ACO2 poses a risk of dangerous climate change...»

You may well feel that there is not a quality of science to support non-belief in evolution that is similar in quality to the science that supports non-belief that ACO2 poses a risk of dangerous climate change, but many people who don't «believe» in evolution feel their viewpoint is absolutely supported by «quality» science.

The Met Office has since released yet another analysis — Risks of Dangerous Climate Change.

In November of 2006, Dr. Paul Baer, EcoEquity's Research Director, working together with Dr Michael Mastrandrea, published High Stakes: Designing emissions pathways to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change.

The benefits of an intensified energy quest would go far beyond cutting the risks of dangerous climate change, said Roger H. Bezdek, an economist at Management Information Systems, a consulting group.

To avoid, or at least reduce, the risk of dangerous climate change with impacts such as these, it is necessary to:

I agree, both on your analogy and on the real - world example of dealing with the risk of dangerous climate change.