Sentences with phrase «severe climate crisis»

«Once again ignoring the severe climate crisis facing our nation, this administration is turning its back on reality and science, in favor of its polluter buddies,» said Seth Johnson, Earthjustice attorney who is co-counsel for the Sierra Club, «These standards are making big cuts in the carbon pollution that drives climate change, and a detailed technical review confirmed they're workable.

Once again ignoring the severe climate crisis facing our nation, this administration is turning its back on reality and science, in favor of its polluter buddies.

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Most of these severe crises are linked to massive volcanic activity, global climate changes and sea level lowstands.

REDD and the carbon trade market have already come under severe criticism for doing the opposite of what they are meant to do: exacerbating instead of diminishing the climate crisis.

In the midst of the most severe global financial crisis in decades, the CJP urged the international community to look for innovative solutions to avert a climate crisis.

Even if the global climate were not disrupted, the world would likely face a severe food security crisis in the coming years.

As Wall Street profits remain sky high and fat cat bonuses are doled out on silver spoons, the world's poor are struggling to deal with a climate crisis that they did not cause, facing increasingly severe droughts, floods, crop losses and water shortages.

The effects of climate change are severe and demand immediate international cooperation to avoid humanitarian and economic crises.

Several authors suggest that the extinction crisis is already so severe, even without climate change included as a driver, that a mass extinction of species is plausible within decades to centuries.

And, in all conversations about Keystone XL, we need to make the connection between the pipeline and our climate — something that is so vulnerable amid a crisis so severe that we can't afford to disrupt it any more.

Right now, however, we are lead to believe that the complexity of the Earth's climate is such that any type of short - term prediction is an ineffective measure, but simultaneiously, the center of a severe crisis.