The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, just after saying that countries should avoid
such dangerous interference with the climate, adds that atmospheric greenhouse gas levels should be stabilized «within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change.»
Not exact matches
In a 1989 commentary for the New York Times, she wrote that, while «censorship and government
interference in the directions and standards of art are
dangerous and not part of the democratic process», she worked against the delivery of grants to controversial artists
such as Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe, concerned that the NEA was supporting work «of increasingly dubious quality.
Reports
such as those of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) demonstrate that science is far too immature to know what, if any, GHG concentrations would cause «
dangerous anthropogenic
interference with the climate system.»
Such documents could demonstrate companies» knowledge, for instance, that the use of their products damages human health and well - being by contributing to «
dangerous anthropogenic
interference with the climate system.»
Defining what is
dangerous anthropogenic
interference with the climate system and, consequently, the limits to be set for policy purposes are complex tasks that can only be partially based on science, as
such definitions inherently involve normative judegments.
Although any definition of «
dangerous interference» is by necessity based on its social and political ramifications and, as
such, depends on the level of risk deemed acceptable, deep emission reductions are unavoidable in order to achieve stabilization.
Concerned about appropriate temperature targets to avoid the impending climate Apocalypse; well, we'll just post an article by Knopf stating «many of these issues can not be answered solely by science,
such as the question of a temperature level that avoids
dangerous anthropogenic
interference with the climate system».
The range of 1.4 °C to 4.3 °C in the committed warming overlaps and surpasses the currently perceived threshold range of 1 °C to 3 °C for
dangerous anthropogenic
interference with many of the climate - tipping elements
such as the summer arctic sea ice, Himalayan - Tibetan glaciers, and the Greenland Ice Sheet.