Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic scenarios of»

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».

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

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.

The scenarios used by the Bank of England are pretty apocalyptic, setting out major collapses in a whole heap of asset classes and a massive worsening of economic conditions.

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).

I was both fascinated and fearful of various apocalyptic scenarios.

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.

Mark Allan Powell has suggested that biblical critics have mined the apocalyptic by fixing it in a context of long ago and thus «depriving everyday Christians of the heartfelt expectation of their Lord's return,» I feel the opposite: it's because the biblical scenarios speak to a situation long ago that they provide bearings for my life now.

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

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

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,....

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

Granted, the picture's early scenes are comfortable enough, happily building the suspense as the ground splits open, scientists stare feverishly at apocalyptic forecasts, and Jackson slowly grasps the frightening end of the world scenario standing before him.

In popular culture, there have been positive depictions of robots and artificial intelligence, such as in Star Wars and Star Trek, and there have been the not - so - positive — even apocalyptic — machine scenarios of The Terminator, The Matrix, and the revised Battlestar Galactica saga.

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

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.

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.

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.

In expanding arid zones, these emerging characters risen from the river, like secret messengers, or carriers of long forgotten mysteries are sharing a dense space with camouflaged creatures, soldiers, dead or alive, beaten, fucked up and left to dangle in the wind in an intense scenario reminding of post apocalyptic wastelands.

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.

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.

In your apocalyptic scenario that removes the cause of the atmospheric imbalance and the earth can go back to some more hospitable equilibrium — no?

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

However, I would say that a feature unifying all the apocalyptic GW scenarios is that none of them are happening (but if the trends — increasing temperature, decreasing pH, increasing sea levels — continue for centuries, then we will face significant challenges).

Would you crosswalk the almost imperceptible SLR rate of.07 mm / yr to the apocalyptic scenario that is included in your link?

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).»

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.

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

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.

more interest in hyping apocalyptic environmental scenarios to raise money for raw political purposes rather than working together to improve our environment for the benefit of all Americans.»

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.

This apocalyptic scenario illustrates why the goal of limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius is not the safe «guardrail» most politicians and media coverage imply it is, argue Hansen and 16 colleagues in a blockbuster study they are publishing this week in the peer - reviewed journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

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.

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

If you want disaster movie scenarios I read one version of what might have happened at the Permian extinction that was truly apocalyptic.

I assumed we're discussing a looming apocalyptic scenario given our inability to reduce emissions and that we're seeing the effects of emissions from decades ago catching up with us now.

CN, but isn't that apocalyptic scenario you lay out perfectly consistent with the traditional role of the judge as sentencer?

Following predictions of apocalyptic Hurricane Irma insurance losses, it appears as though the storm may be costly, but nowhere near the worst case scenario.