Sentences with phrase «unchecked global warming»

The limit has been set to avoid the dire and the damaging consequences of unchecked global warming activities.
As the number and intensity of tropical cyclones is projected to increase under unchecked global warming, by the end of the century average hurricane losses with respect to national GDP could triple.»
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.
But that is on a national and even global scale, after taking into account the many ways in which unchecked global warming could affect public health and productivity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A team of Danish researchers have now shown that unchecked global warming would lead to a dramatic expansion of low - oxygen areas zones in the global ocean by a factor of 10 or more.
Unchecked global warming would leave ocean dwellers gasping for breath.
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.
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.
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.
The UN estimated last week that by 2020, unchecked global warming will devastate 250 million Africans through increased drought and water stress.
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.
The IPCC notes that it's difficult to assess the costs of unchecked global warming.
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