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...Marc Jancovici have come to believe that terms like global warming or climate change fail to convey the seriousness and urgency of the problem—what we are experiencing is truly climate shock. It is time to develop aggressive national energy plans that reduce our economic dependence on fossil fuel. In addition, we must begin serious planning for adaptive measures that will be needed to minimize harmful aspects of future climate change on natural and societal systems...
...most dangerous and intractable of all of the impacts of human activities on the environment is the disruption of the global climate by anthropogenic greenhouse gases, above all carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels. This is the most dangerous of environmental impacts because climate is the “envelope” within which all other environmental conditions and processes must operate. If the envelope is distorted too much, as we appear to be well on our way to doing, every part of the environment is at risk. And the disruption of climate by greenhouse gases...
...seeking samples of air that was sealed off decades or even centuries ago. Reason: to determine whether the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased in the two centuries since the start of the industrial revolution. By some calculations, the extensive burning of oil and other fossil fuels has added to the shield of carbon dioxide around the earth, resulting in a heightened greenhouse effect that traps heat and changes weather patterns...
...come to be known as the Permian Basin developed in what would come to be known as West Texas. Then, to make a long story short (the demands here are somewhat more telescopic than those Big Jim labors under), there would be dinosaurs and much later there would be fossil fuels. Cow towns called Midland and Odessa would be established, their commercial cornerstones eventually to shift from cattle to the petroleum that lay beneath the desert pocked by what the Spanish speakers called playas and the English speakers called buffalo wallows. This would be known as the oil business, pronounced...
...after some limited success as a Bollywood actor and director of TV ads), Kapur worked for Burmah Oil in London."There aren't too many feature-film directors who began life as accountants," observes Blanchett. Today, Kapur is as comfortable at a business conference or giving a speech about fossil fuels as he is attending a film festival. "Actually, I believe that all creative people are schizophrenic," he says. Kapur's interest in the business of show biz runs to helping set up the Indian Film Festival and speaking for the Confederation of Indian Industry, for which he champions Asia...