Sentences with phrase «runaway climate change»

Nor will it prevent the biggest security threat of our age, the prospect of runaway climate change.

No, the science... It doesn't matter what I'd like... If we're going to prevent runaway climate change, which is the goal.

They're much more likely to go extinct from runaway climate change than they are from wind farms.

A new study suggests the idea, seen as a last - ditch way to deal with runaway climate change, could cut rainfall in the tropics by 30 %.

But far more ambitious plans than those contained in the coalition agreement are needed to tackle runaway climate change.

In other words, I was not terribly worried about runaway climate change before this.

In the race to transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy and avoid runaway climate change, wind has opened a wide lead on both solar and geothermal energy.

We're afraid of what the police might do to us, we're afraid of going to jail but nothing scares us as much as the threat of runaway climate change.

Nick Henry, CEO and Founder of Climate Action, commented on the outcome of this year's extremely successful Sustainable Innovation Forum by saying: «The event has highlighted the journey taken, but also the road we need to build in order to stop runaway climate change in its tracks.

In fact, we may already be witnessing the early stages of runaway climate change in the melting of the Arctic, the increase in storm intensity, the accelerating extinctions of species, the ominous, large - scale releases of methane and the prolonged nature of recurring droughts.

Preventing runaway climate change means getting out of fossil fuels.

«Runaway climate change threatens to sweep away our stable, familiar world and replace it with a terrifying chaos of famine, mass migration and war that could cut the human population to a fraction of its present numbers by the end of this century.»

And put the brakes on runaway climate change.

«Trump has pledged to take actions to round up and deport millions of Americans, decimate unions, take health care coverage away from millions, threaten women's reproductive rights, and allow runaway climate change to continue — all while deregulating the economy and cutting taxes for the wealthy.

The Paleocene - Eocene thermal maximum also points to the possibility of runaway climate change enhanced by feedbacks.

U.S. Energy Policy must be guided by two intertwined goals: guaranteeing the security of the nation's energy supply and limiting runaway climate change.

«The world has just ten years to reverse surging greenhouse gas emissions or risk runaway climate change that could make many parts of the planet uninhabitable.»

[9] Randers is more precise, and predicts that we will by 2052 wake to find ourselves on a dark and frightening shore, knowing full well that our planet is irrevocably «on its way towards runaway climate change in the last third of the twenty - first century.»

It's time for an equally serious strategy to arrest and subdue runaway climate change that's driving them.

Rather than replacing this energy source with fossil fuels, thus boosting carbon emissions and encouraging runaway climate change, the world can use this opportunity to pursue a much safer electricity sector powered largely by wind, solar, and geothermal energy.

Achieving a binding agreement by Paris next year in order to prevent runaway climate change later this century is looking far less likely than when we arrived in Lima at the end of November.

But, as Stephen Hawking recently said, runaway climate change poses «a more immediate danger» to America and the world than even Trump's neo-isolationism.

The Paris Agreement does not call out against «fossil fuels» but allows room for greenwashing of mainstream fuel sources (remember we need to keep at least 80 percent of known fossil fuels in the ground if we want to be in line with what science tells us is safe to burn before runaway climate change becomes a reality).

With runaway climate change now jeopardizing the stable, prosperous and civilized community that our laws are designed to protect, some are now asking whether the time has arrived when their obligations to their fellow humans and the wider natural world entitle them to break laws that protect those who continue to pollute the atmosphere in a way that threatens our survival.

«The latest scientific assessments tell us the risks of crossing critical tipping points, capable of triggering runaway climate change, rise very significantly between 1.5 ˚C and 2 ˚C warming.

-RSB- production, transport, and consumption represent continued fossil fuel addiction that guarantees runaway climate change...

They are meeting to try and agree to a global legally binding climate treaty to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, which is the agreed upon target that scientists say the world can not exceed if we are to avoid catastrophic runaway climate change.

We need those using the «game over» rhetoric to lay out the climate crisis's root causes — because just as one project is not the end of humanity, stopping one project will not stop runaway climate change.

On the right, runaway climate change causes warming of more than 10 °C in some regions, extreme rainfall and droughts become the norm, the Arctic becomes ice - free in the summer, and the ocean becomes much more acidic:

Preventing runaway climate change by mitigating emissions of super greenhouse gases — hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)

He says that it is essential that we reduce and stabilize greenhouse gas emissions to avoid runaway climate change in the Arctic, but even our best efforts are unlikely to prevent changes that are likely to be dangerous for Inuit.

He found that atmospheric concentration of CO2 will peak in 2070 at 460 parts per million, fractionally above what many scientists believe is the threshold for runaway climate change.

«This is a crucial book to read before runaway climate change is truly beyond our control.

The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to see the latest Star Wars.

Democrats, environmentalists, and other protesters demonstrated outside the White House after Trump signed the executive order in March, declaring it would lead to runaway climate change, while many Republican members of Congress applauded the action for promoting energy independence.

The idea that the sunny weather they enjoy may be a harbinger of runaway climate change, that their beloved happy meal hamburgers are responsible for the release of dangerous methane gases and the unjust monopolization of vital water sources, and that the plastic refuse from their picnics might end up endangering the dolphins they idolize from afar — well, it's a lot to lay on a child who's still not old enough to see the latest

A new report confirms that coal has a large role to play in meeting the world's energy demands, but to avoid runaway climate change, technologies to sequester its carbon need to advance quickly

The world's small islands have more to lose from runaway climate change than perhaps anywhere else on Earth.

This is crucial to preventing «runaway climate change,» Howarth says.

Adaptive measures for developed countries may be implemented in time, but many nations in the world will be vulnerable to runaway climate change.

These abusive probes do nothing to advance a constructive dialog on solutions to runaway climate change.