Sentences with phrase «warming continues unchecked»

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.

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

«But if the current trajectory of carbon pollution levels continues unchecked, the world is on track for at least three degrees of warming.

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.

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

Lam and team used climate models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to examine the economic impacts of climate change on fish stocks and fisheries revenues under two different emissions scenarios: a high - emission scenario, in which the rates at which greenhouse gases are pumped into the Earth's atmosphere continue to rise unchecked, and a low - emission scenario under which ocean warming is kept below two degrees Celsius.

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

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.

Right now, I do not believe humanity can continue with unchecked warming while confidently assuming that sea - level rise will be limited to roughly 3 feet in a century.»

If the rise in CO2 continues unchecked, warming of the same magnitude as the increase out of the ice age can be expected by the end of this century or soon after.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, the world may warm by 8 — 10 ℃ by 2300.

The warming of recent decades, if continued unchecked, could lead to the polar regions becoming green again.