Sentences with phrase «unchecked global»

The IPCC notes that it's difficult to assess the costs of unchecked global warming.

follows the very strong advice of scientists, who have told us what needs to be done to avert the catastrophic effects of unchecked global warming.

Needless to say, the true long - term threat to the economy (and everything else) is unchecked global warming, as the National Academy of Sciences warned years ago and the National Climate Assessment reiterated more urgently in 2014.

Chalk it up to global warming: Global Warming - Caused Dead Zones Could Last Thousands of Years Danish scientists have found that because of unchecked global warming, low - oxygen areas of the ocean could increase 10 times or more.

We know that the consequences of unchecked global warming would be catastrophic... We as a human species have a deep and abiding obligation to this planet and to the generations that will come after us.

We agree: the enormous and difficult project of decarbonizing the global energy system during this century is necessitated by the prospect of unchecked global climate disruption and its potentially disastrous consequences.

Unchecked global warming would leave ocean dwellers gasping for breath.

But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.

This period also predated warnings issued by US military leaders that unchecked global warming and disruptions in our climate system represent a serious threat - multiplier worldwide, and thus a serious risk to national security.

The need to limit global warming is urgent, according to two experts from the Harvard Medical School and Duke University speaking for the nonprofit Civil Society Institute, who expressed their concern earlier this month that droughts fueled by unchecked global warming would touch off more wildfires and a rise in related public health problems.

We need better communication — e.g., if the Earth experiences unchecked global warming for the next 100 - 200 years, the people in Scotland may someday have weather like Germans see when tanning on a French Beach and Italians may have to learn anew what it was like live during the days of the Romans.

Three weeks ago, presidential hopeful - turned - documentary film star Al Gore brought some Oscar - winning glamour to Capitol Hill as he testified about the perils of unchecked global warming, an issue gaining traction with both lawmakers and the public.

Mark Campanale of the thinktank Carbon Tracker Initiative said the actual financial losses from unchecked global warming could be higher than estimated by the financial model behind the new study.

The limit has been set to avoid the dire and the damaging consequences of unchecked global warming activities.

This amounts to a real betrayal of all those who counted on the EU to do the right thing, and amounts to a capital crime against the environment, because millions will die as the result of unchecked global warming.

«If we continue on the trajectory that we're currently at,» says Kline, referring to unchecked global emissions, «we will lose reefs as we know them.

Not exact matches

Now, civilization is at a crossroads, Grinspoon says: If global warming and other Earth - altering phenomena continue unchecked, humanity could die out.

Habitat destruction, unchecked population growth, global warming and other challenges of modern civilization have put humanity at risk.

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.

And with the global population forecast to swell to over 9 billion by 2050, left unchecked, this drain will become significant.

In other words, oil price increases that economists and investors do not see coming spell trouble for global markets if left unchecked.

Christianity's witness to a self - emptying, vulnerable God confronts the ethics of self - interest and unchecked consumption that prevails in global capitalism.

But now due to global warming over the past 100 years, methane release in the Arctic seems to be accelerating, Walter says, and left unchecked, it will continue to rise well above the levels found 10,000 years ago.

«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 virus remains unchecked because of the lack of a global effort to implement emergency public - health measures

LUSH mountain meadows brimming with lilies, larkspur, lupins and wild sunflowers may disappear forever if global warming proceeds unchecked, warn researchers in California.

Left unchecked, the haze could absorb solar radiation, warming the Arctic and in turn aggravating global warming by melting the ice and snow that reflect some of the Sun's rays back into space.

They considered scenarios of either unchecked greenhouse gas emissions or a global reduction in the rate of emissions growth.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognized antibiotic resistance as one of the three major threats to global health, and is predicting a forthcoming disaster due to the rapid, unchecked increase in antimicrobial resistance largely as a consequence of the paucity of new classes of antibacterials in development.

It's been a while since we've had a bomb - throwing anonymous insider turning the unchecked vanity of this global art circus into vicious, hilarious commentary.

The drastic changes that happened in the 20th Century led to the unexpected worldwide migration, global conflict, warring, unchecked materialistic consumption and environmental issues.

«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»

From my humble perspective, many leaders of the global economy are turning a blind eye to unchecked over-consumption, unbridled overproduction and unregulated overpopulation activities of the human species that can be seen recklessly dissipating the natural resources and dangerously degrading the environs of our planetary home.

Regardless of the human - forced calamities — the ones derived from unchecked consumption, unbridled dissipation of resources bound up in the process of economic globalization, and skyrocketing global human numbers — that might befall coming generations, we live on in a patently unsustainable fantasy world (we call it reality) of idle comforts, effortless ease, conspicuous consumption, secret handshakes, exclusive clubs, exotic hideaways and thousands of private jets, having abandoned our regard for the less fortunate among us, for the maintenance of life as we know it, and for the preservation of the integrity of Earth.

Hotter temperatures: If emissions keep rising unchecked, then global average surface temperatures will be at least 2ºC higher (3.6 ºF) than pre-industrial levels by 2100 — and possibly 3ºC or 4ºC or more.

Many of the world's leading scientists believe that increased emissions of carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution have led to increased global temperatures and if left unchecked, they threaten to wreak havoc on Earth.

If left unchecked, rising global temperatures could lead to unpredictable extreme weather events, mass famine, pandemics, political instability, and resource wars.

As reported by Chris Mooney at Mother Jones at the time (now a journalist at the Washington Post), the draft report warned unequivocally that unchecked greenhouse gas emissions would cause the global warming trend to «accelerate significantly,» bringing more heat waves and weather extremes, severe storms, rising seas, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and more.

Researchers warn that unchecked fossil fuel emissions would raise global temperatures to catastrophic levels.

In all, the UBC researchers found that global fisheries could lose approximately $ 10 billion in annual revenue by 2050 if climate change continues unchecked — a 10 percent decrease, which is 35 percent more than has been previously estimated.

In the short term, better management of overfishing and local stressors may increase resilience of reefs to climate threats, but rising global CO2 emissions will rapidly outstrip the capacity of local coastal managers and policy - makers to maintain the health of these critical ecosystems if the emissions continue unchecked, the authors stress.

Gore said that if left unchecked, global warming could lead to a drastic change in the weather, sea levels and other aspects of the environment.»

In this case, global warming would also then continue unchecked.

«The chief concern has to be that global warming, if left unchecked, will mean more intense weather extremes, including drought.

He argues, astonishingly, that under unchecked emissions growth, the world will attain the same level of output by 2100 that would have been attained in 2099 without global warming — a «trivial» 2.5 percent difference in GDP.

In the other scenario, fossil fuel emissions continue at current rates unchecked and the global temperature increases 3.4 degrees Celsius.

The US economy may not be able to afford global warming if it continues to go unchecked, according to a major new bipartisan report released Tuesday.

If global warming continues unchecked, it will cause significant climate change, a rise in sea levels, increasing ocean acidification, extreme weather events and other severe natural and societal impacts, according to NASA, the EPA and other scientific and governmental bodies.

Once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement in some future period can undo that choice.

If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement in some future period can undo that choice.