Sentences with phrase «alarmist scenarios in»

The system faces bankruptcy, but talk of reform always stirs up alarmist scenarios in which seniors will be made to surrender some of their benefits.

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This is distinctly alarmist... It is common ground that if indeed Greenland melted, it would release this amount of water, but only after, and over, millennia, so that the Armageddon scenario he predicts, insofar as it suggests that sea level rises of 7 metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus.

Since we (you, me, the IPCC) all are in agreement as to the likelihood of the rate of (near) future temperature change, the real impetus in your call for a wager should be geared towards calling out the alarmists — those folks who entertain the idea that the IPCC extreme temperature change scenarios are the most probable.

Paul D... As a part - time alarmist I would answer that with a little bit of extrapolation added to some warnings of climate scientists I guess the worst case scenario at least includes the total collapse of the WAIS, creating tsunamis at least all over the Pacific rim, the subsequent sea level rise of c. 7m will destroy most of the remaining harbours, communication centers near coasts, next up would be the melting of the collapsed ice in the southern ocean altering the climate of the entire southern hemisphere, making it near - impossible to guess what areas are good for similar agriculture as before, leading to massive movements of people.

THE only place where such catastrophic scenarios exist are in the warped minds of alarmist hysterics who occupy the climate controlled offices of NASA, NOAA, BoM, National Geographic and the New York Times et al..

In fact, there are far more documented instances of the AR4 being too conservative, rather than too alarmist, on emissions scenarios, sea level rise, and Arctic sea - ice melt.

Even if future industrial CO2 production does exceed even the upper limits in the alarmists» computer projections, that's by no means necessarily a disastrous scenario.

Like Pinkers, Boisvert tries to factor in what climate alarmists ignore: the capability of human beings to react to changing scenarios in remarkably ingenious ways.

You will be used to push Moore's view that America is the source of all evil in the world, as well as the usual crazy alarmist scenarios (runaway greenhouse, etc).

I find this particularly ironic, as the only thing that the Hard Fork was successful in demonstrating was that the worst case scenario that the hard fork alarmists have been droning on about for more than a year was completely unfounded, and that two chains can exist without any fire and brimstone falling from the skies.