Sentences with phrase «severe global warming»

The last factor in our catalog of likely consequences of severe global warming is increased health risk — a topic close to the hearts of most people and nearly every politician.

It was much more likely than not, the panel announced, that our civilization was headed for severe global warming.

They announced that although the climate system was so complex that scientists would never reach complete certainty, it was much more likely than not that our civilization faced severe global warming.

And the real concern that at that point you start to get not just severe global warming effects, but you start to see kind of an irreversible trend.

The most severe global warming predictions are more likely to be accurate than current predictions.

The basic premise is that a man - made experiment to «fix» severe global warming change goes bad, leaving the earth as an uninhabitable frozen tundra... even worse than Green Bay.

«Our results suggest that it doesn't make sense to dismiss the most - severe global warming projections based on the fact that climate models are imperfect in their simulation of the current climate,» Brown said.

In September, Brown signed SB 32, a bill committing the state to far more drastic emission cuts to prevent severe global warming than any other state in the country.

``... even if severe global warming is not certain it is worth preparing for the higher temperature projections.»

«What we are doing in these tropical forests is really a massive problem,» said Kurz.Bruce McCarl, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M; University, argues that simple changes in forest management and agricultural practices could lower the risk of severe global warming much more rapidly than proposed technological solutions like carbon sequestration.

«Given the weakening evidence for severe global warming and the counterproductive consequences of climate policies, surely increased economic growth offers the better bet for adaptation to whatever change in our climate may lie ahead.»

«There is much evidence of severe global warming, ocean acidification and a lack of oxygen.

Our current research in this area focuses on understanding the paleoenvironmental implications of a radical change in sedimentary iron biogeochemistry in the mid-Atlantic U.S. during the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a severe global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago.

Summary: Each month brings forth a crop of cherry - picked news from climate alarmists about rapid and severe global warming, usually with little or no reference to any historical context.

Severe global warming will render half of world's inhabited areas unliveable, expert warns Severe global warming could make half the world's inhabited areas literally too hot to live in, a US scientist warned today.

To pluck just one of Adam's stories from the pile, on the Thursday he was claiming that «severe global warming could make half the world's inhabited areas literally too hot to live in» and that «people will not be able to adapt to a much warmer climate as well as previously thought».

The geological record gave a striking verification, with wholly independent methods and data, of the processes that computer models were predicting would bring a rapid and severe global warming — a disruption of climate exceeding anything seen since the emergence of the human species.

But now California is taking on a far, far more audacious task: trying to prove to the world that it's possible — desirable, even — to pursue the really drastic emission cuts needed to stave off severe global warming.

It's just more complicated than cleaning up power plants, and will remain one of the biggest challenges as the US tries to push down emissions to fend off severe global warming.