Climate in sentence

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Last year on climate, for example, we had the highest global emissions ever.

The story on food, on water, on soil, on climate is all much the same.

Imagine our economy when the carbon bubble bursts, when the financial markets recognize that, to have any hope of preventing the climate spiraling out of control, the oil and coal industries are finished.

Imagine China, India and Pakistan going to war as climate impacts generate conflict over food and water.

I worked with other scientists to analyze Earth climate observations.

We also said that the 21st century would see shifting climate zones, creation of drought-prone regions in North America and Asia, erosion of ice sheets, rising sea levels and opening of the fabled Northwest Passage.

I had the privilege to speak twice to the president's climate task force.

Over the next few years I was drawn more and more into trying to communicate the urgency of a change in energy policies, while still researching the physics of climate change.

This imbalance, if we want to stabilize climate, means that we must reduce CO2 from 391 ppm, parts per million, back to 350 ppm.

Climate change deniers argue that the Sun is the main cause of climate change.

This shows that the effect of the Sun's variations on climate is overwhelmed by the increasing greenhouse gasses, mainly from burning fossil fuels.

Now consider Earth's climate history.

So CO2, methane, and ice sheets were feedbacks that amplified global temperature change causing these ancient climate oscillations to be huge, even though the climate change was initiated by a very weak forcing.

What may be more reprehensible, if climate denial continues, is extermination of species.

It would be immoral to leave these young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Now the tragedy about climate change is that we can solve it with a simple, honest approach of a gradually rising carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies and distributed 100 percent electronically every month to all legal residents on a per capita basis, with the government not keeping one dime.

Sounds like a conservative climate plan."

If we had started in 2005, it would have required emission reductions of three percent per year to restore planetary energy balance and stabilize climate this century.

So you believe in the threat of climate change.

This really shows you, we have not seen good economic and health progress anywhere in the world without destroying the climate.

So in the industrialized world, we built walls that protect us from the externalities of our energy use; we can afford to clean up acute environmental disasters; and we can also afford to adapt to chronic conditions like climate change.

Usually when we think about the atmosphere, we think about climate change and greenhouse gases, and mostly around energy, but it turns out agriculture is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases too.

And it rivals climate change in importance.

This is an analysis we've done, where on the left is where the crops are today, on the right is where they could be based on soils and climate, assuming climate change doesn't disrupt too much of this, which is not a good assumption.

The green areas here show where corn yields, just showing corn as an example, are already really high, probably the maximum you could find on Earth today for that climate and soil, but the brown areas and yellow areas are places where we're only getting maybe 20 or 30 percent of the yield you should be able to get.

We already know climate change is a big problem.

Surprisingly, agriculture is the biggest contributor to climate change.

But I would go further and say that making systems work, whether in health care, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty, is the great task of our generation as a whole.

America's public energy conversation boils down to this question: Would you rather die of A) oil wars, or B) climate change, or C) nuclear holocaust, or D) all of the above?

And whether you care most about profits and jobs and competitive advantage or national security, or environmental stewardship and climate protection and public health, reinventing fire makes sense and makes money.

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