Sentences with phrase «unchecked climate»

Every square foot of building in a 2030 District that is committed to meeting energy, water and GHG reduction targets; every planner and designer who participates in the AIA +2030 Series; and every student, professional, and policymaker who turns to the 2030 Palette, helps mitigate the ugly threat of devastation projected to result from unchecked climate change.

In an interview with BBC, Office of Science and Technology Policy director John Marburger made some welcome straightforward statements, for a change, based on scientific assessment of the danger of unchecked climate change.

New Research Warns Of Catastrophic Food Shortages Due To Unchecked Climate Change.

Unchecked climate change may cause economic dislocations that substantially alter the course of GDP.

And open and informed conversation seems crucial to Randers's project — indeed, he posits that unchecked climate change is not a technological problem, but a political one.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health are threatened by the specter of far - reaching effects of unchecked climate change, including community and global instability, mass migrations, and increased conflict.

The most far - reaching effects are a result of broad societal impacts of unchecked climate change and can be categorized as tertiary effects.17, 18

The science is clear: Unchecked climate change will be devastating for humanity and our fellow species.

What I think he pinpoints is that a sense of fairness and human dignity is a more powerful political motivator than the promise of an infinitely expanding supply of material goods (a promise that anyway looks increasingly hollow in the light of what scientists tell us of the likely impacts of unchecked climate change).

Large - scale consequences of unchecked climate change.

«The widespread ramifications of unchecked climate change require that more leaders in our society understand its implications.»

Those who have steered Obama in the tactical direction of talking about the need for a clean energy transformation as if this challenge could be addressed without recognizing that it is intertwined with climate science and the consequences of unchecked climate change have put things on the wrong track.

And instead of «almost legitimizing denialists,» by failing to confront them aggressively and by the way he has ducked serious discussion of the threat of unchecked climate change, Hansen says: «The president should unequivocally support the climate science community, which is under politically orchestrated assault on the legitimacy of its scientific assessments.

He discussed the escalating scale of impacts we could expect from unchecked climate change: from deaths and injuries from heat, to pollution, food - related illnesses, altered vectors for diseases such as malaria, crop failure and water shortages, mass migration, resource wars, economic collapse, and ecosystem collapse with mass extinctions.

With unchecked climate change and air pollution, the very fabric of life on Earth, including that of humans, is at grave risk.

«Examining the Threats Posted by Climate Change: The Effects of Unchecked Climate Change on Communities and the Economy» (PDF), The Senate EWP Committee, Subcommittee on Clean air and Nuclear Safety.

The new study, published in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Climate Change, used economic modelling to estimate the impact of unchecked climate change.

The report warns that unchecked climate change would hit hard at Queensland's biggest industries: mining, cattle and potentially tourism, through impacts on the Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics.

My article cites a morning speech delivered to the gathering by Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain in which he stressed that the atmosphere does not negotiate: «We can not compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another,» he said.

«In 2015, unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity,» the group said in a statement.

The CGF recognizes that unchecked climate change will have a huge impact on the consumer goods sector, its customers and employees.

Instability will lead to global conflict, and that in turn may lead to what in a 2007 essay he referred to as» secular apocalypse» — total extinction of the human race through either thermonuclear war, biological contagion, unchecked climate change, or an array of competing Armageddon scenarios.

Not exact matches

«If left unchecked,» the United Nations warned this month, «climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

While the public expression of anti-Semitism need not indicate an increase of anti-Semitism, it could, if it goes unchecked, create a climate conducive to such an increase.

Steve Webb, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change spokesman, said: «If the Department for Transport continues to allow unchecked airport expansion we could find that growth in aviation will gobble up all of the available emissions, forcing the rest of the economy to make even more drastic cuts.»

Organizations worried about climate change have long drawn comparisons between the petroleum and tobacco industries, arguing that each has minimized public health damages of its products to operate unchecked.

They've been the moral conscience of U.N. climate talks for decades, reminding reluctant nations of the damage they would feel if rising temperatures are left unchecked.

In the 8 January issue of Nature, a team of researchers concludes that if climate warming proceeds unchecked, 15 % to 37 % of the 1103 plant and animal species they examined will disappear by 2050.

The World Conservation Union ranks the loss of native habitat and the introduction of invasive species as the most crucial problems, but unchecked activities like fishing, hunting, and logging play a role — as does human - induced climate change.

The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

A new report from the IPCC says that climate change — if left unchecked — will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

Up to half of plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

In the case of unchecked emissions, «we are going to be seeing climates that certainly are completely outside the range of modern human experience,» Jackson says.

Globally, climate change and unchecked urbanization are creating conditions in which diseases emerge faster and spread farther.

Unchecked development, thousands of invasive species, climate change, and reduced budgets and staff all threaten America's national parks, says a decade - long study released earlier this week by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), a Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group.

If climate change continues unchecked, the virus could even spread to southern Europe and the United States.

By contrast, the second scenario assumes that climate change will be left unchecked to a large extent.

Results: A strikingly large increase in the number of atmospheric river days awaits the U.S. west coast if climate warming remains relatively unchecked.

In one sentence: A strikingly large increase in the number of atmospheric river days awaits the U.S. west coast if climate warming remains relatively unchecked, according to researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

If climate change continues unchecked, we could see similarly high temperatures in the Arctic every other year by the second half of this century, today's analysis suggests.

Oh, and if climate change continues unchecked, sea levels will rise enough to devour Venice and New Orleans, not to mention Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, and many hundreds of other cities that are located on coastlines at low elevations.

But it's a frame that, left unchecked, could be a source of deepening anger at the West and a sense of victimhood: Why should Indians do anything about climate change when the average American pollutes nearly 20 times as much as the average Indian?

It's a quiet anger now, but unchecked, one can envision a thumping rage emerging from any climate - related dislocation that is at least attributed to this problem initiated by the West.

It always surpises me when people interested in a dispassionate search for truth allow these characterizations to go on unchecked by any call for more reasoned discourse on the part of climate researchers.

Unchecked, climate change will pose unacceptable risks to our security, our economies, and our planet.

The food system can not sustain prolonged impacts from climate change and unchecked population growth.

But Tolstoy knew better: Put simply: I think that climate change was one of many causes contributing to the rise of IS in Iraq and Syria, and that if we permit climate change to continue unchecked we will see more such instances in the future.

Most of the studies on the Arctic climate and ice trends cited to support the proposed listing assumed that the buildup of heat - trapping gases was probably contributing to the loss of sea ice, or that the continued buildup of these gases, left unchecked, could create ice - free Arctic summers later this century, and possibly in as little as three decades.

The unchecked emission of climate pollutants such as carbon dioxide and methane threatens to make our planet unfit for life.