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165 examples of Planetary in a sentence

Can you take this biosphere, that has evolved on a planetary scale, and jam it into a little bottle, and will it survive?
They defined nine planetary boundaries vital to our survival, then they measured how far we could go before we cross over the tipping points or thresholds that would lead us to the irreversible or even catastrophic change.
This is an actual group of people that sit around naming planetary objects.
What is the exact relationship between levels of greenhouse gases and planetary temperatures?
And this is a measure of how much well-being we get for our planetary resource use.
It's also good news, because the planetary risks we're facing are so large, that business as usual is not an option.
And could we even define a planetary boundary, a fence, within which we then have a safe operating space for humanity?
This work, which was published in "Nature," late 2009, after a number of years of analysis, led to the final proposition that we can only find nine planetary boundaries with which, under active stewardship, would allow ourselves to have a safe operating space.
Now this is the Big Bang equivalent then of human development within the safe operating space of the planetary boundaries.
We cannot expand anymore, because it erodes the planetary boundaries.
What are the planetary boundaries within which we can safely operate?" and then backtrack innovations within that.
It's a kit rather than a planetary thing, so a small solar system, and her small solar system allows her to have a couple of lightbulbs, and she's made this transition, this jump, from kerosene into light.
This bacteria was discovered several years ago by a team of planetary biologists hoping to find clues to life on other planets by looking at one of the harshest conditions on ours.
The Enterprise is in route to deliver emergency medical supplies to a plague-decimated planet and passes near a quasar-like planetary system.
It's got it all, inter-dimensional(or planetary?..you decide)travel, unrequited homosexual love, heterosexual love, journeys of self awakening, the apocalypse, great music played by weird organists with a devilish pact, oh and of course Sting as the good angel(spirit) Helith.
Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" always had a special lure to me since I am very interested in planetary astronomy and have always enjoyed a writers interpretation of what our future in space may hold.
Some of these scenes were actually pretty scary to me as an 8-year-old viewer; all that planetary fog or mist and those lumbering beast-men made me re-think my plans to become an astronaut.
It's a direct-to-video attempt to capitalize on the latest string of planetary catastrophe movies.
Climate research dates back at least two centuries, to Joseph Fourier’s discovery of the effects of greenhouse gases on planetary climates; in 1859, John Tyndall demonstrated in his laboratory which gases cause this effect.
She will strive to enter the Oval Office – the theater of her inner, outer, and planetary misery – on her own terms.
There, the global public will be presented with a narrative premised on two unproven forms of “geoengineering,” proponents of which seek to manipulate the planetary system.
The technology could buy time, but it surrenders control of the planetary thermostat to those who hold the hoses.
SRM might be needed in a planetary emergency – say, if continued warming rapidly accelerates ice-sheet melting and sea-level rise, or if it accelerates methane and CO2 emissions from thawing tundra, which would then accelerate the warming itself.
The only way out of this political trap is progressive internationalism, based on solidarity among large majorities around the world who are prepared to rekindle democratic politics on a planetary scale.
And only cooperation can enable humanity to face up to urgent planetary challenges, including the destruction of biodiversity, the poisoning of the oceans, and the threat posed by global warming to the world’s food supply, vast drylands, and heavily populated coastal regions.
The challenge will be to provide for the needs of more than ten billion people while safeguarding our planetary life-support systems.
It draws on the best science to identify the key planetary processes regulating the earth’s ability to sustain Holocene-like conditions.
Between these planetary and social boundaries lies humanity’s safe and just operating space: the limits we must respect if we are to create a world that is ecologically resilient and free of poverty.
Connectivity for AllNEW YORK – It is not every day that one gets to join two global powerhouses to promote a planetary breakthrough, but that is the reality with Connect to Learn (www.connecttolearn.org),
But to defer to markets to overcome the environmental woes of capitalism is a blueprint for disappointment – and a recipe for planetary suicide.
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