The phrase
"cataclysmic consequences" means that something has happened or will happen that will cause severe and disastrous results or outcomes.
Full definition
In this special - effects packed, highly anticipated event motion picture, an abrupt climate change has
cataclysmic consequences for the entire planet.
The fact that the Earth's climate has changed over its history - sometimes
with cataclysmic consequences, called mass extinctions, for many of the planet's inhabitants - is not disputed.
«By midcentury, possibly before, the average global temperature is projected to rise by more than 2 degrees Celsius; scientists and world leaders agree this point would
trigger cataclysmic consequences.
There is also a possibility that we have grossly underestimated those impacts, and will therefore undercorrect our behavior and
suffer cataclysmic consequences.
The settled science assertion that rising CO2 will quickly and assuredly result
in cataclysmic consequence is necessesary so as to demonize human carbon emission.
«The history of the circumstances that engendered the outbreak of militant insurgency in the past,
with cataclysmic consequences that Nigeria is yet to recover from, should not be allowed to repeat itself.
«A favourite ploy by [Anthropogenic Global Warming] alarmists is to repeat ad infinitem that the science about AGW has been settled and that there is consensus among scientists that it is happening and that it will have
cataclysmic consequences for our planet,» writes Gerrit J. van der Lingen in the National Business Review.