Sentences with phrase «runaway warming of the planet»
This will, in turn, trigger runaway warming of the planet and fractured weather patterns like extra-prolonged droughts or sudden, torrential rains as the entire world begins to sizzle!
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ Not exact matches
It may seem surprising to people, but you can look at something like Mars, which has a very thin atmosphere, and you can look at something like Venus which we tend to think of as sort of having this rather heavy, clouded atmosphere, which [is] hellishly warm because of runaway greenhouse effect, and on both of those planets you are seeing this phenomenon of the atmosphere leaking away, is actually what directly has led to those very different outcomes for those planets; the specifics of what happened as the atmosphere started to go in each case [made] all the difference.
Like hundreds of millions of people, I share the fear of runaway global warming and ocean acidification, of losing the richness of life forms we humans share the planet with, of plastic and other toxics substances contaminating the biosphere.
However the basic question of runaway global warming seems countered by the fact that the planet has sustained life for 4.5 billion years, despite periods in the past when CO2 levels were many times higher than they are now.
What they are skeptical of is the prediction that not only is this current situation mostly man made unlike every other warm up in history, but that we will have a runaway warming devastating our ecosystem planet wide and causing unimaginable human suffering.
Just a nit, but Venus is an example of what happens to planets close to the sun - it is more likely that the added heat input caused the CO2 release than that a sharp rise in CO2 caused a runaway warming trend.
In light of the consequences that runaway global warming poses to human civilization and life in all forms on the planet, this is unconscionable.
As the planet warmed, large amounts of frozen methane gas under the ocean might have been released to trigger runaway greenhouse warming, Ward said.
Dr. Lovelock, honored in 1997 with the Blue Planet Prize, which is widely considered the environmental equivalent of a Nobel award, has now come under attack from some environmentalists for his support of nuclear power as a way to avoid runaway «global heating» — his preferred alternative to «global warming.»