By the time the populace wise up, the climate damage is done.
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Indeed, climate change mitigation measures may make the damage and disruption caused by climate change considerably worse in some circumstances.
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At heart it is an argument over the probability of serious damage as a result of climate change and the probability of serious damage as a result of trying to avoid it.
The Met Office, a world-leading purveyor of climate information, recently suffered reputational damage that will increase public confusion over whether climate change is important at all.
The Doha conference produced one advance for climate activists by establishing the principle that developed nations have a responsibility for compensating poorer ones for damage due to climate change.
When someone says expanded U.S. production will lead to greatly increased global consumption and cause intolerable climate change, you have to ask what kind of increased global consumption do you need so that damage to the climate occurs.
Heogh-Guldberg was one of the first marine biologists to link coral damage to climate change.
Most sober estimates of damage from climate change are in the trillions of dollars over the next decades.
Most important, they would diminish future hurricane damage, whether climate-induced or not.
The view in our Treasury and governments round the world is that it's not for governments to compensate people against damage arising from climate change.
We understand that to reduce our dependence on oil and the damage caused by climate change, we're going to need more production in the short term, we're going to need more efficiency, and we need more incentives for clean energy.
And yet--if only to insure against catastrophic global climate change that could irreversibly damage the world's human, natural and physical capital--an effective global agreement on mitigation must be achieved and put into force by the time the Kyoto Protocol's implementation period ends in 2012.
"The level of damage - in this climate - bleaching does is irreparable, " she added.
Some people will be surprised, even dismayed, that comparatively modest climate changes are already doing measurable damage.
And many agronomists hold that relying on year-to-year yield changes for modelling exaggerates the damage due to longer climate shifts.
Refusing to address climate change may bring unprecedented environmental damage to the health and well-being of people throughout the world.
Previous studies have suggested pollution, destructive fishing practices and climate change have already caused major damage to many of the colonies of sealife colonies that were built up over thousands of years.
Foreign Minister HASSAN WIRAYUDA (Indonesian Foreign Minister): Although the cost will be significant, it should be bearable in relation to estimated GDP and global investments, and certainly insignificant compared to the damage the yet uncontrolled climate change will wreak.
Doctors estimate that someone refusing all liquids, depending on factors such as climate and metabolism, could suffer irreversible damage or even die "within five or six days".
Father Sena argues that his campaign is not just important for his local community in Santarem but for everyone, as damage to the Amazon affects climate change, and this, he says, affects all of us.
In a recording from Clarence House, the prince said he remains concerned about climate change and possible long-term environmental damage.
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Yes, we reduce our resources now but we increase them by more in the future as a result of reducing climate change and thus avoiding some of the damage from it.
But much of the environmental damage in Africa is being brought about by global climate change.
The combined impacts of projected climate change and socio-economic development is set to see the damage costs of extreme weather events continue to increase.
The World Wide Fund for Nature says climate change threatens a massive growth in infectious disease, and may also damage world harvests.
We may never fully know how much damage was done as a direct or indirect result of the climate of insecurity and dysfunctionality created in the nuclear weapons complex by O'Leary and Company.
While it is likely that we will see somewhat stronger (but fewer) storms as climate change continues, a March 2012 Nature study shows that the global damage cost from hurricanes will go to 0.02% of gross domestic product annually in 2100 from 0.04% today a drop of 50%, despite global warming.
"The damage from Irene and Lee has resulted in an opportunity to do this kind of work focusing on climate change resilience for both the human community and for fish and wildlife, " Brown said.
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