Sentences with phrase «earth from the catastrophe»

You see, we still have these regulations, pacts and plans that have evolved over the years — and are still evolving — to save the Earth from the catastrophe that was supposedly on the horizon.

Not exact matches

«This tit - for - tat will mean eventual catastrophe for everyone on earth, unless we finally get some sanity in US leadership, to pull back from the brink,» said Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at New York University.

«The bottom line is that habitable planets around red dwarfs are better protected from climate catastrophes than Earth is,» says Smith.

Heather Birch, a Cardiff University PhD from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences who led the study, said: «The global catastrophe that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also devastated ocean ecosystems.

The release of carbon and sulphur - rich gases from the blasted rock layers precipitated a global catastrophe in which fires raged, the sky darkened, Earth cooled and acid rain showered down.

If there is life on the Red Planet — even just alien microbes clinging to existence in isolated refuges — any biological contamination we import from Earth could cause an ecological and scientific catastrophe

Seen from Earth — and our hominid ancestors would very likely have seen it — that stellar catastrophe would have been as bright as the full moon.

The gauntlet Juno ran at Jupiter held many chances for catastrophe: The spacecraft might have been knocked out by intense magnetic fields (at that distance, 20 times stronger than Earth's), ionizing radiation (a total dose of 265 rads — more than enough to kill a human being), dust particles from Jupiter's rings (from which the main engine was completely unshielded) or loss of power if the solar arrays were unable to reorient to the sun.

They are a common measure of solar activity — the higher the number of sunspots, the higher the probability of a major storm that could wreak havoc on Earth (see Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe).

I think he started out with good intentions and a laudable goal, to save the earth from climate catastrophe.

This also created a grand illusion in the public mind about the magnitude and drivers of climate change, which fueled a new religion (moral norm) in society toward «saving» Earth's climate from an «imminent» catastrophe.

Direct warming from the greenhouse gas effect of CO2 does not create a catastrophe, and at most, according to the IPCC, might warm the Earth another degree over the next century.

Author says the event to be the first in a series intended to avert a planetary catastrophe resulting from increasing levels of carbon - dioxide in the earth's atmosphere dangerously approaching a «critical mass.

Scientists from the Arizona State University describe the episode as the «greatest catastrophe in the history of life on Earth.»

The approval comes after long - term campaigning from Maan ystävät / Friends of the Earth Finland, who, through the Big Ask Finland campaign, has put pressure on the Finnish government to «save them from climate catastrophe».

When the plume in Jupiter's 8G gravity was as large as the entire Earth, geologists and astronomers knew our safe little world wasn't safe at all, and that catastrophe could rain from the sky at any moment.