Sentences with phrase «unchecked climate change»

Human populations are more mobile than ever, and our travel patterns combined with unchecked climate change only exacerbate the risk of outbreaks.

Temperature rises resulting from unchecked climate change will be at the severe end of those projected, according to a new scientific study.

Left unchecked climate change could lead to profound human and ecological disruption.

He points out that «it is in their best interests to collaborate on climate restoration, since they would suffer the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change just as much as everyone else.

California already has one of the most variable climates and the swings between extremes will become more pronounced with unchecked climate change, say the authors of a new report.

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.

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

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.

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

«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.

Recently released research from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill projects that unchecked climate change will significantly impact premature deaths associated with air pollution.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Large - scale consequences of unchecked climate change.

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).

The consequences of unchecked climate change will be dire.

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

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

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.

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

New Research Warns Of Catastrophic Food Shortages Due To 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.

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.