Sentences with phrase «supporting human civilization»

Because CO2 was trapped in oil, tundra, etc., an ecosystem supporting human civilization could exist.

Awakening to the fact that human activity overall was on a collision course with the capacity of the Earth to support human civilization was a terrible jolt.

Not exact matches

«Just what's on the near - Earth asteroids can support the rest of human civilization for the lifetime of the sun.

Contrary to the authors» claim that the Holocene is the «only state of the planet that we know for certain can support contemporary human societies,» the human - altered ecosystems of the Anthropocene represent the only state of the planet that we know for certain can support contemporary civilization.

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

Research now demonstrates that the continued functioning of the Earth system as it has supported the well - being of human civilization in recent centuries is at risk.

BUt human civilization, carefully built to support 8 billion people in a relatively stable climate, would not survive a rise of 4C in less than 100 years.

Our worldview will have shifted toward building a thriving human civilization capable of, and eager to, preserve substantial tracts of wilderness supporting robust, generally unperturbed biodiversity.

Because the basics of anthropogenic global warming are fairly straightforward — CO2 is a greenhouse gas, because of the lapse rate water vapor condenses or freezes out in the troposphere and acts mainly to amplify the effect of CO2, humans are burning a lot of fossil C and increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere, the surface of the earth is warming, the cryosphere is retreating, the climate that supports civilization is rapidly changing, and consequently we are facing an uncertain future — but the details are complex, it's easy to «misunderestimate» the way climate works in detail.