Sentences with phrase «world of the warming planet»

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With its slower pace of living, warm, welcoming climate, healthy, fresh foods and reputation as one of the «greenest and cleanest» countries in the world with little pollution, lots of clean water and fresh air... it's no wonder Costa Ricans are considered the «happiest people on the planet».

Whether it is the sprawl of deserts or the loss of tropical forests as the world's poor cut trees for firewood and clear land for agriculture, or the ineluctable warming of the planet as vehicles and factories deposit millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, «economic pressures lie behind them all» (Tolba 1991, p. 10).

As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

There's no value at all from using enormous land and water resources and warming the planet in order to produce a billion tons of food that ultimately don't get eaten — particularly when one in nine people is malnourished in the world.

Dan Hooper and Jason Steffen of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, calculate that the dark matter that lies at the heart of the galaxy could heat an alien world enough to make it habitable, even without the warm glow of starlight (see «Dark matter could make planets habitable»).

Raymond Pierrehumbert at the University of Chicago and Eric Gaidos at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu calculated the warming effect of a hydrogen blanket on Earth - sized planets, as well as on worlds a few times more massive than our own, known as super-Earths.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

The dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel on the planet seemed doomed in a world of cheap gas and worries about global warming.

Global warming has replaced the China Syndrome as the number one energy worry in the United States, and Cassini is delivering a whole world of new data on Saturn: rubble - pile moons, record - groove gaps in the planet's famous rings, complex weather systems churning through the pastel cloud cover, and possible explanations for the unrelenting 900 - mile - an - hour winds.

And if such an «off the chart» event can occur when the world has warmed by less than 1 °C, what sort of extreme events will occur by 2050, when the planet could be as much as 3 °C hotter?

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

The planets of the TRAPPIST - 1 system could be complex worlds with volcanoes, atmospheres and warm subsurface oceans.

A can of white paint should be part of the planet's arsenal against global warming, say California researchers, who have calculated that installing white roofs in the world's cities could offset 1.5 years of man - made carbon emissions.

Yet, chlorofluorocarbons, to give them their proper name, are potent molecules that both exacerbate the blanket of greenhouse gases warming the world as well as chew up the stratospheric ozone layer protecting the planet's inhabitants from excess doses of ultraviolet sunlight.

The loss of so much gas may explain how the planet morphed from a wet, warm world to a dry, icy one.

When it comes to slowing down global warming, the world's oceans — 70 percent of the planet's surface — may be Homo sapiens» best hope for a stable future.

By then, the world has warmed to an average temperature of about 57 ˚C — similar to the endpoint for a planet exposed to a brightening sun, and hot enough to lose water.

Glaciers retreated and the world warmed, and by 11,500 years ago, the planet had entered the constant summer of today's Holocene Epoch.

But Baker suggested that the world also needs new proteins to meet new challenges that loom on the human timescale, such as the diseases of old age, dwindling energy supplies, and a warming planet.

When world leaders reached a deal last month in Kigali to curb the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)-- planet - warming chemicals widely used in air conditioners and refrigerators — many boasted the move would prevent nearly 0.5 °C in warming by 2100.

The planet has also been running abnormally warm, including record heat in much of the world's oceans.

Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the world's use of fossil fuels would warm the planet and could eventually endanger humanity.

It's unlikely that the fossil fuel companies will deny in court what is widely accepted by authoritative scientific bodies around the world: that human emissions have already begun to warm the planet, that the harm is already being felt, that the risks of future harm are significant, and that to head them off emissions have to be rapidly reduced.

As humans release ever - larger amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, besides warming the planet, the gas is also turning the world's oceans more acidic — at rates thought to far exceed those seen during past major extinctions of life.

At the broadest scale, Méndez distinguishes planets according to their temperature, or distance from the host star, placing worlds in one of three zones: the Hot Zone, Warm Zone, or the Cold Zone.

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, because as ice melts at the top of the world, there is less of it to reflect sunlight back into space, so more of it is absorbed by ocean waters; more absorbed sunlight means even warmer temperatures, which means more ice melt a circular process known as Arctic amplification.

«Despite colder than average temperatures in any one part of the world, temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we've seen over the last 40 years,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, at the press conference.

The long - term warming of the planet, as well as an exceptionally strong El Niño, led to numerous climate records in 2015, including milestones for global temperatures, carbon dioxide levels and ocean heat, according to the World Meteorological Organization's annual State of the Climate Report.

That's good, because you're going to be eating a lot more of them, according to new research that finds vegetarian and vegan diets to be the most sustainable long - term option for the world's growing population on a warming planet.

Following on a decade from when former American Vice President, Al Gore alerted the world about the threats of Global Warming and their impacts on our planet and our lives, it seems all too real now that another one of these films didn't really need to be made.

Here's the list of the 128 new movies Inside Llewyn Davis Grudge Match Drew: The Man Behind the Poster Her Safety Not Guaranteed Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Thanks for Sharing Cutie and the Boxer On the Waterfront That Awkward Moment Warm Bodies Lone Survivor Ride Along Eraserhead Dirty Wars Badlands Labor Day The Lego Movie 3 Women About Last Night Remember Me RoboCop (2014) The Square 20 Feet From Stardom Non-Stop Bottle Rocket The Monuments Men The Grand Budapest Hotel Mulligans Everything or Nothing Veronica Mars Bad Words Elaine Stritch Shoot Me Divergent Muppets Most Wanted Noah Sabotage Captain America: The Winter Soldier Draft Day The Railway Man Transcendence Heaven is for Real Suspicion The Other Woman Short Term 12 Eating Raoul The Amazing Spider - Man 2 Le Week - End Neighbors Million Dollar Arm Godzilla X-Men: Days of Future Past How to Survive a Plague The Normal Heart The Killing Chef A Million Ways to Die in the West Maleficent The Fault in Our Stars Edge of Tomorrow 22 Jump Street How to Train Your Dragon 2 Jersey Boys Transformers: Age of Extinction Tammy Life Itself A Hard Day's Night Begin Again Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Carrie (2013) Sex Tape Snowpiercer Boyhood I Origins You're Next A Most Wanted Man Guardians of the Galaxy The Hundred - Foot Journey Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Only Lovers Left Alive 42 The Giver If I Stay Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Let's Be Cops Sinister Get On Up The Trip to Italy The Drop This Is Where I Leave You The Maze Runner Hector and the Search for Happiness Breathless The Equalizer Gone Girl Annabelle The Sacrament The Judge Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Fury In a World... Men, Women & Children The Last Time You Had Fun V / H / S: Viral Just Before I Go St. Vincent Birdman Kumiko The Treasure Hunter The Imitation Game Wild Whiplash Nightcrawler Foxcatcher The Orphange Interestellar Big Hero 6 Rosewater Dumb and Dumber To The Theory of Everything The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Into the Woods Exodus: Gods and Kings Big Eyes The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Stranger By the Lake Top Five The Babadook Annie (2014) Unbroken The Interview

Knight of Cups stars Christian Bale (Exodus: Gods and Kings), Natalie Portman (Thor: The Dark World), Cate Blanchett (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), Antonio Banderas (The Skin I Live In), Wes Bentley (Interstellar), Imogen Poots (The Look of Love), Freida Pinto (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies), Ryan O'Neal (Bones), Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Joe Manganiello (True Blood), Joel Kinnaman (The Killing), Shea Whigham (Silver Linings Playbook) and Ben Kingsley (Iron Man 3).

Knight of Cups stars Christian Bale (Exodus: Gods and Kings), Natalie Portman (Thor: The Dark World), Cate Blanchett (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), Antonio Banderas (The Skin I Live In), Wes Bentley (Interstellar), Imogen Poots (The Look of Love), Freida Pinto (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies), Ryan O'Neal (Bones), Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Joe Manganiello (True Blood), Joel Kinnaman (The Killing), Shea Whigham (Agent Carter) and Ben Kingsley (Iron Man 3).

«Admission,» Stephen Trask, composer «Ain't Them Bodies Saints,» Daniel Hart, composer «All Is Lost,» Alex Ebert, composer «Alone Yet Not Alone,» William Ross, composer «The Armstrong Lie,» David Kahne, composer «Arthur Newman,» Nick Urata, composer «At Any Price,» Dickon Hinchliffe, composer «Austenland,» Ilan Eshkeri, composer «Before Midnight,» Graham Reynolds, composer «The Best Man Holiday,» Stanley Clarke, composer «The Book Thief,» John Williams, composer «The Butterfly's Dream,» Rahman Altin, composer «The Call,» John Debney, composer «Captain Phillips,» Henry Jackman, composer «Closed Circuit,» Joby Talbot, composer «The Company You Keep,» Cliff Martinez, composer «The Conjuring,» Joseph Bishara, composer «Copperhead,» Laurent Eyquem, composer «The Counselor,» Daniel Pemberton, composer «The Croods,» Alan Silvestri, composer «Despicable Me 2,» Heitor Pereira, composer «Elysium,» Ryan Amon, composer «Ender's Game,» Steve Jablonsky, composer «Enough Said,» Marcelo Zarvos, composer «Epic,» Danny Elfman, composer «Ernest & Celestine,» Vincent Courtois, composer «Escape from Planet Earth,» Aaron Zigman, composer «Escape from Tomorrow,» Abel Korzeniowski, composer «Evil Dead,» Roque Baños, composer «47 Ronin,» Ilan Eshkeri, composer «42,» Mark Isham, composer «Free Birds,» Dominic Lewis, composer «Free China: The Courage to Believe,» Tony Chen, composer «Fruitvale Station,» Ludwig Goransson, composer «G.I. Joe: Retaliation,» Henry Jackman, composer «Gangster Squad,» Steve Jablonsky, composer «Gravity,» Steven Price, composer «The Great Gatsby,» Craig Armstrong, composer «The Hangover Part III,» Christophe Beck, composer «Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters,» Atli Örvarsson, composer «Haute Cuisine,» Gabriel Yared, composer «Her,» William Butler and Owen Pallett, composers «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,» Howard Shore, composer «Hollywood Seagull,» Evgeny Shchukin, composer «Hours,» Benjamin Wallfisch, composer «How Sweet It Is,» Matt Dahan, composer «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,» James Newton Howard, composer «Identity Thief,» Christopher Lennertz, composer «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,» Lyle Workman, composer «Insidious: Chapter 2,» Joseph Bishara, composer «Instructions Not Included,» Carlo Siliotto, composer «The Internship,» Christophe Beck, composer «The Invisible Woman,» Ilan Eshkeri, composer «Iron Man 3,» Brian Tyler, composer «Jack the Giant Slayer,» John Ottman, composer «Jobs,» John Debney, composer «Kamasutra 3D,» Sreejith Edavana and Saachin Raj Chelory, composers «Labor Day,» Rolfe Kent, composer «Lee Daniels» The Butler,» Rodrigo Leão, composer «Live at the Foxes Den,» Jack Holmes, composer «Love Is All You Need,» Johan Söderqvist, composer «Mama,» Fernando Velázquez, composer «Man of Steel,» Hans Zimmer, composer «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,» Alex Heffes, composer «The Missing Picture,» Marc Marder, composer «Monsters University,» Randy Newman, composer «The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones,» Atli Örvarsson, composer «Mud,» David Wingo, composer «Murph: The Protector,» Chris Irwin and Jeff Widenhofer, composers «Now You See Me,» Brian Tyler, composer «Oblivion,» Anthony Gonzalez and Joseph Trapanese, composers «Oldboy,» Roque Baños, composer «Olympus Has Fallen,» Trevor Morris, composer «Oz The Great and Powerful,» Danny Elfman, composer «Pacific Rim,» Ramin Djawadi, composer «Pain & Gain,» Steve Jablonsky, composer «Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,» Andrew Lockington, composer «Philomena,» Alexandre Desplat, composer «The Place beyond the Pines,» Mike Patton, composer «Planes,» Mark Mancina, composer «Prisoners,» Jóhann Jóhannsson, composer «R.I.P.D.,» Christophe Beck, composer «Reaching for the Moon,» Marcelo Zarvos, composer «Romeo & Juliet,» Abel Korzeniowski, composer «Runner Runner,» Christophe Beck, composer «Rush,» Hans Zimmer, composer «Safe Haven,» Deborah Lurie, composer «Salinger,» Lorne Balfe, composer «Saving Mr. Banks,» Thomas Newman, composer «The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,» Theodore Shapiro, composer «Short Term 12,» Joel P. West, composer «Side Effects,» Thomas Newman, composer «The Smurfs 2,» Heitor Pereira, composer «The Spectacular Now,» Rob Simonsen, composer «Star Trek Into Darkness,» Michael Giacchino, composer «Stoker,» Clint Mansell, composer «Thor: The Dark World,» Brian Tyler, composer «Tim's Vermeer,» Conrad Pope, composer «Trance,» Rick Smith, composer «Turbo,» Henry Jackman, composer «12 Years a Slave,» Hans Zimmer, composer «2 Guns,» Clinton Shorter, composer «The Ultimate Life,» Mark McKenzie, composer «Unfinished Song,» Laura Rossi, composer «Wadjda,» Max Richter, composer «Walking with Dinosaurs,» Paul Leonard - Morgan, composer «Warm Bodies,» Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, composers «We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,» Will Bates, composer «We're the Millers,» Theodore Shapiro and Ludwig Goransson, composers «What Maisie Knew,» Nick Urata, composer «Why We Ride,» Steven Gutheinz, composer «The Wind Rises,» Joe Hisaishi, composer «Winnie Mandela,» Laurent Eyquem, composer «The Wolverine,» Marco Beltrami, composer

However, the increasing signs of a warming planet were enough to push most of the world's governments into action by 1992, when the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was ratified.

«We know that many billions are required over the next few years to fill the gap in climate finance, but the money pledged today is vital to help some of the most vulnerable people on the planet cope with the immediate impacts of our rapidly warming world,» Ishii continued.

To research his latest book, How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate, he spent several years with some of the world's top climate modelers, as well as Cold War physicists, philosophers, politicians, and crackpot entrepreneurs, all of whom are involved with the development of new technologies that might someday be used to manipulate the earth's climate to reduce the risks associated with global warming.

Curated by David Buckland, Founder and Director of Cape Farewell, Carbon 13 features eight international artists who have ventured alongside scientists to some of the world's geographic tipping points, places profoundly stressed by our warming planet, and whose work aims to stimulate a wider engagement with the climate debate.

Isn't this a surreal transition time when many people continue with business as usual, chomping up the comforts of our world and choosing to ignore every trend except maybe global warming, and others feel that the life signs of our planet are declining so fast that it's already too late no matter what we do.

If the world's foremost climate scientists didn't know whether man's activities were warming or cooling the planet, how could any responsible government condone scaring its people with «descriptions of climate - related health risks»?

Building cities along coastlines as we have throughout our so - far short modern history, short though it has been from the standpoint of our climate history, should be recognized as the kind of short term planning that has gotten us into this trouble whether it happens now or a few decades or centuries down the road, and this concern over atmoshperic warming is just one of a multitude of possible planet - affecting scenarios that could have devastating effects on our world's societies.

Never before has it been possible for people from all over the world to access the latest information and collectively seek solutions to the challenges which face our planet, and not a moment too soon: the year 2015 was the hottest in human history, and the Great Barrier Reef is suffering the consequences of warming oceans right now.

According to data from the World Health Organization, rising temperatures on the planet are killing off the equivalent of a mid-sized city every year; about 150,000 annual deaths can be attributed to global warming, from causes including heat waves, air pollution, infectious disease, food safety and production, flooding and more.

After years of resisting efforts to define a dangerous level of warming in international climate discussions, the United States joined with the rest of the world's major industrial powers on Wednesday in a (non-binding) pledge to avoid warming the planet beyond a threshold long favored by European governments and many climate campaigners as a no - go zone.

The driving force of the environmental movement is not a cleaner planet — or a world that doesn't get too hot, in the case of the global warming issue — but a leftist, egalitarian urge to redistribute wealth.

Because the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, with grave consequences for local biodiversity and cultures, and for low - lying communities around the world at risk from climate change.

During 24 Hours of Reality, you heard 24 presenters say we expect more floods and droughts around the world as the planet warms.

I refer, not to any warming of the planet that may or may not be occurring, but to the world's apparently serious and broadly shared belief in dangerous, man - made global warming and of equally serious attempts to implement policies of enforced decarbonisation to deal with it.

But when policymakers from around the world gather at a key U.N. climate meeting in Poland later this year, countries will be forced to reckon with the difference between how much they say they want to limit the warming of the planet and how little they actually are doing to make that happen.

U.S. National Academy of Sciences founded by Abraham Lincoln back in the 19th century, all the national academies of all of the major industrial nations around the world have all gone on record as stating clearly that humans are warming the planet and changing the climate through our continued burning of fossil fuels.