Sentences with phrase «runaway warming beyond»

The longer global warming continues, the greater the risk of «waking the sleeping giants» — major feedbacks such as ice sheet collapse, methane «burps,» or ecosystem collapse — that could ignite abrupt or runaway warming beyond our control.

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Climate forecasts have long noted that every increase in global temperature heightens the odds of runaway global warming, beyond any human control.

Surely what matters are (i) the effects on future generations over tens of thousands of years if runaway warming of several C is allowed to occur (ii) loss of biodiversity forever (iii) effects on developing world in our lifetime as well as beyond.

If you get beyond the hard core of near religious believers in the massive warming scenarios, the average global warming supporter would answer this paper by saying: «Yes there is a lot of uncertainty, but though the doomsday warming scenarios via runaway positive feedback in the climate can't be proven, they are so bad that we need to cut back on CO2 production just to be on the safe side.»