Sentences with phrase «about catastrophe»

Could it be that, following a barage of criticism from the likes of the MET office about catastrophe - mongering by scientists and the media, and following a bout of outlandish claims of the worse - than - previously - thought variety from the likes of Chris Field, James Hansen and James Lovelock, journalists are counting to ten before regurgitating such empty rhetoric?

In other words, you can use the ambiguous «peer reviewed scientific consensus» to construct dramatic stories about catastrophe, and you can use this urgency to develop political arguments with the blessing of «science».

I also learned more about palaeoclimate and this reinforced my skepticism about catastrophe.

Imagine there are a few papers in the green area about a catastrophe, saying that such - and - such catastrophes are almost impossible.

No, Nature self evidently didn't go that extra yard to make any OTT specials about catastrophe, but why should that «spectre» equate to the rather mild interest in a pause now?

The talk about catastrophe that lies ahead due to global warming is no more than fear - mongering.

When the puppy peddler does call, he is very apologetic and tells you about some catastrophe involving his dog, his family, his job or another breeder.

At the time, she was on a trip to San Francisco and learned about the catastrophe from the newspaper.

The best thing about Catastrophe is the brutal honesty combined with loyalty and laughter and how they ebb and flow together... even when they're covering tricky topics like what parents fight about.

If he is optimistic about the catastrophe that our club is these days, he probably thinks it has been dry in Houston and surrounding areas recently.

It could lead to complacency about catastrophes in which large numbers of people perish.

The somber yet hopeful film begins with a quote from Walter Benjamin about catastrophes blowing us into the future.

Regarding your concerns about catastrophes to biosphere: since the climate in known to catasrtophically swing between ice ages and warm ages, the part of biosphere that was not fit to adapt to these changes has only one way - to die.

He claimed that environmental pessimists are always warning about catastrophes that never come.

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You can purchase a contingent policy, which is about half the price of regular insurance and will serve as backup insurance in the event of a catastrophe.

Intact Financial Corp. (TSX: IFC) reported it paid out about $ 300 million to customers in Alberta due to storms and the floods in 2013, and analysts have speculated insurance costs are likely to rise as weather - related catastrophes occur more frequently.

«It's not the run - of - the - mill loss you should be thinking about, but the home run, out - of - the - park catastrophe,» says David Young, a former insurance broker and risk manager now advising at the Small Business Development Center in Seattle.

Still, there is no harm in thinking about the lessons of that catastrophe.

Jim Cramer lists some of his top worries about the market that investors should prepare for in the event of catastrophe.

It estimated losses of about $ 1 billion each from Harvey and Irma, up to $ 700 million from Maria and additional catastrophe losses, including earthquakes in Mexico, of about $ 150 million.

But, as inevitable problems arise, the older and more experienced investors treat these things as business as usual: problems to be dealt with rather than major catastrophes that are about to kill the company.

It's likely some people will feel the same way about funds that seek to make money off cyber catastrophes.

If we consider how increasingly weaponized ad targeting has become, especially since this past summer when Google and Facebook consolidated our browsing histories into their user IDs, and we think about how anybody in the world could target anyone else in the United States with surgical precision by their susceptibilities and propensities, maybe this election was similar to a 9/11 moment, but non-violent and invisible, where we realize that our commercial infrastructure was used against us, and we don't realize it until after the catastrophe?

For Toccarra Thomas, a small - business owner and graduate student in Knoxville, Tennessee, putting together that kind of generous emergency fund wasn't just about avoiding catastrophe, it was also about freeing herself up to seize a high - risk, high - reward opportunity.

About a third of the increase was related to the cost of our aggregate catastrophe program which will help reduce the volatility of our earnings.

While the Bermuda - based company provides a wide array of products, about 80 % of its written premium base consists of property and catastrophe reinsurance.

But what is most striking about this image is again its similarity to Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, where a religious order like the Benedictines is what keeps at least a fragmentary knowledge of science alive after a nuclear catastrophe.

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

Since, even now, when debates about the fact of global warming is largely over, no nation is considering taking the really drastic actions that might significantly reduce the catastrophes that lie ahead, it seems that we are all too likely to experience judgment for our collective sins.

For to Jews the Holocaust is not an event to read about in a few books, or to remember on a few special occasions; it is for them to confront, to agonize over, to reject and resist, to search deeply and widely for a glimmer of hope - all this with a view to a Jewish self - understanding, of which an essential part is being heir of the murdered millions, the remnant of the catastrophe.

Kasper thinks that the Catholic theological tradition doesn't talk about mercy enough and that the classical concept of God, which sees God as perfect and unchanging, is «pastorally... a catastrophe.»

a commentary in Austria's Der Standard regretting the «demographic catastrophe» which his original home country is now experiencing, and reminding the populace that they would need to produce about 3 children per family to reverse the trend towards a shrinking population.

In the repeated phrase «yet have you not returned unto me» Amos makes it clear that the very catastrophe which Yahweh visits upon his people is itself an expression of his love and faithfulness, since out of this negative action he seeks to bring about a reconciliation with prideful rebellious Israel.

In such ideas may lie the ancient meaning of the baptismal bath, which gave John the Baptist a right to employ it in connection with his preaching about the coming judgment: a voluntary and therefore precautionary forestalling of the great catastrophe which God had determined shortly to bring upon the world.

In an older day, insurance policies used to express this idea when they spoke about natural catastrophes and other such happenings as «acts of God.»

I will assume that we are agreed about the already occurring catastrophes and the threat of more terrible ones in the next century.

Not only does Siemon - Netto think these charges are false, but he believes that interpretations and actions based on stereotypical thinking about» The Fabricated Luther» have contributed to the real catastrophes of the twentieth century.

Doesent the bible make all kinds of positive assertions about the poor, so why cant he help them avert a catastrophe?

While there has been controversy about testing, there is no dispute as to the magnitude of the catastrophe of actual nuclear warfare.

Doubling time worldwide, apart from catastrophes far greater than any that have occurred in recent centuries, is likely to be about thirty - five years.

As I conducted world view interviews I was surprised how infrequently, in even conservative Protestant congregations, the name of Christ was mentioned in response to questions about crises such as death, family instability, or world catastrophes.

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I have an idea for this article and it is supposed to be about finding the positives and moving on after Arsenal's seasonal Chelsea catastrophe.

But the one thing I will never understand is why some people refuse to believe this, it seems to me as if most people on this site may genuinely have «Stockholm syndrome», because the fact that you say «in Arsene we trust» despite the fact that the last 6 six seasons (I'm talking about the premier league only) have been a complete and utter catastrophe and in which he has done nothing but; completely ignore fans frustrations; fail to address squad needs on numerous occasions; ignored the advice from other footballing experts, and yet you still want him in a job.

These processes are mysterious, inscrutable, so much so that the more one learns about them, the more one becomes reluctant to step on an ant or swat a fly for fear that some dire ecological catastrophe will ensue.

What Kate Adamick was addressing were frustrations from colleagues that JO was getting credit for something (raising awareness about «the catastrophe that is school food») that grassroots reformers had been working on for years.

Catastrophes can also give people a push into the next stage of their lives and provide a reality check about what's important.

Have you watched Catastrophe, the Amazon Prime series about a couple who are brought together quickly when their one - night stand results in a pregnancy?