Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic scenarios»

All the while, gleeful that their scientists were giving them ammunition to concoct apocalyptic scenarios to scare the public into paying ever higher taxes, the politicians went along with the scam.

An Alarmist position may include apocalyptic scenarios, threats to our children and future progeny, dismisses any evidence as anti-science that contradicts the alarmist position..

People have grown weary of the never ending apocalyptic scenarios that the real world reality constantly slaps down.

In recent years, the political environmental movement has been successful in presenting the precautionary principle as a «scientific» response to uncertainty, while greatly exaggerating the scientific plausibility of imaginary apocalyptic scenarios to elicit a response in their favor from a terrified public.

We should stop trying to use apocalyptic scenarios to scare people — the science doesn't support it and it doesn't work anyway.»

A false climate certainly stimulates inchoate fears and ever more apocalyptic scenarios which in turn support social engineering ambitions up to and including the overthrow of capitalism and democracy.

As the IPCC emphasizes, climate change is a problem; but the report contains none of the media's typical apocalyptic scenarios, no alarmism, and no demands from natural scientists to cut emissions by X-percent or to lavish subsidies on solar panels.

John Michael Greer, one of their premier writers, has consistently and vigorously denounced apocalyptic scenarios.

Where do such numbers — and associated apocalyptic scenarios — come from, what do they mean, and is ambitious action a recipe for a significant hit to the economy and our living standards?

While I reject most apocalyptic scenarios as unfounded or unduly speculative, I am convinced that the human contribution to climate change will cause or exacerbate significant problems in at least some parts of the world.

paul s, you had written, «The skepticism comes from the apocalyptic scenarios continually laid out by AGW proponents, none of which have come true to date (though they should have).»

What apocalyptic scenarios are you talking about that should have come true to date?

That provided a credible vision for delivering a world where warming is limited to less than 1.5 degrees C, a vision that is even more compelling than Wallace - Wells» apocalyptic scenarios?

I asked, «What apocalyptic scenarios are you talking about that should have come true to date?

«Environmentalists should reduce their over-reliance on apocalyptic scenarios «that tend to create feelings of helplessness and isolation among would - be supporters,» Shellenberger advises.

Once the politicians started making grandiose claims and issuing apocalyptic scenarios,»

Once the politicians started making grandiose claims and issuing apocalyptic scenarios, climate change became — in the minds of the public — a political excuse for social engineering and taxation.

But recent films all present apocalyptic scenarios, set in times that are increasingly near.

Beyond apocalyptic scenarios or utopian visions, the artists included propose a reassessment of our current condition and look towards the future - present from an empowering stance that challenges boundaries.

Four characters, each fulfilling their own niche, slaughter their way through apocalyptic scenarios.

Of course, I don't advise this strategy because it is predicated on apocalyptic scenarios that are unlikely.

Eventually, however, we work our way into the more apocalyptic scenarios — aliens and zombies top the list.

But it trades at 0.94 times book value and seven times earnings, which indicates that it could do quite well in less apocalyptic scenarios.

For the last century, filmmakers have explored countless apocalyptic scenarios on screen, with everything from natural disasters (2012) to planetary collisions (Melancholia), and technological advancement (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) to nuclear warfare (The Sum of All Fears) seen as catalysts for the destruction of humanity.

A new analysis of various apocalyptic scenarios suggests that we may be able to detect distant worlds where life has been wiped out by nuclear war or nanotechnology run amok.

Creative authors throughout the centuries have imagined lots of spectacular apocalyptic scenarios.

For some time now many scientists, even and perhaps especially those connected to the climate alarmism movement, have worried about the exaggerations and downright apocalyptic scenarios which have come out of the writings of some of their scientific colleagues like James Hansen or James Lovelock,....

For many Christians today, apocalyptic scenarios are coming closer and closer, and kindling a fire of anticipation as they do.

Perhaps the most insidious by - product of modern apocalyptic scenarios is that grief is shoved right off the table.

I was both fascinated and fearful of various apocalyptic scenarios.

While most discussions of this topic focus on potential lost jobs or apocalyptic scenarios, these authors — Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson — see the glass as decidedly more than half full.

Drawdown focuses on small, practical steps, not apocalyptic scenarios and impossible solutions.

He has spoken out against A.I. throughout the last several years, sometimes describing apocalyptic scenarios in which even seemingly harmless technology, like a system used to pick strawberries, can have catastrophic outcomes for humans.

We are nowhere near the apocalyptic scenario in which smart evil robots turn on humans, said Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet.

His thesis, fiercely argued, and indeed with an extreme of rhetoric faintly reminiscent of Nietzsche, was that the culture of his day, both bourgeois and modernist, was in fact so thoroughly feminized as to make the redemption of masculinity impossible outside of an apocalyptic scenario; and that this, and not some alleged patriarchal bias, was the root of all modern decadence (and violence).

No one can really know how any of us would face an apocalyptic scenario, but it's safe to say that the average person, let alone a minister, would simply open the door to save longtime friends and fellow Christians from being eaten alive.

The letter responds by invoking an apocalyptic scenario of what must still happen before the end.

They painted an apocalyptic scenario of blood calcium getting elevated, free radical production accelerating, and calcium being pushed up further to create a «feedforward, self - amplified loop».

It's in this greyed - out, apocalyptic scenario that Bryan Singer's film lays out its basic plot line: with their backs against the wall in the present tense, the X-Men (or what's left of them following a series of Sentinel raids) opt to send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)-- or at least his consciousness — back in time 50 years so that his younger self can try to alter this chronology — a scheme that nods to H.G. Wells and Harlan Ellison (as well as the X-Men comics series).

Turns out, two percent is still enough to create an apocalyptic scenario for Earth.

Not to mention, the number of alien films released in recent years — a handful of which proved to be mediocre or worse — make it harder to get enthused about yet another blockbuster that feature extraterrestrials in an apocalyptic scenario (the end - of - the - world sub-genre is, likewise, starting to feel over-saturated at this point).

An unwelcome addition, and one made more galling by his ocker tones, is a newfound need to inject quips and wisecracks into the dialogue, modern banter at odds with the seriousness of both the film's apocalyptic scenario and source material.

With a new cast of characters and an expansion of the potentially apocalyptic scenario, 28 Weeks Later is harrowing when it needs to be, and delivers quite well during some of the scarier parts.

Despite Ms. Inouye's apocalyptic scenario, many teachers (especially younger ones) actively avoid unionization.

All that, and you'll still be able to lock the differentials and escape through the woods if some apocalyptic scenario strikes.

The premise is a bit thrown together, with the world being in some sort of apocalyptic scenario.

However, despite the horror elements and the apocalyptic scenario; there is still room for light hearted humorous or sarcastic dialogue and expressions, which certainly lifts the standard of the dialogue to a new level as it changes the pacing and tone when appropriate, resulting in an even better game that never tires and instead manages to remain fresh from the outset.

Zombies imbued with Dark Elf magic is enough to bring any world to an untimely end, and Zombasite lets us experience the apocalyptic scenario for ourselves.

This year's line - up includes a creepily disorientating fake apartment from Gregor Schneider; a decaying former skating rink that Pierre Huyghe has transformed into an epic apocalyptic scenario inhabited by swarms of bees, mutating cancer cells and chimera peacocks; and Nicole Eisenman's wonderfully dysfunctional fountain, with its lumpen, slouching figures dribbling water from clutched beer cans and various bodyparts.

During her time at SOHO20, she will invite visitors to participate in a military training exercise that outlines a hypothetical apocalyptic scenario in which ten people of diverse backgrounds occupy a fallout shelter.