Sentences with phrase «catastrophe as a trigger»

I think it would be very bad to wait for an ecological catastrophe as a trigger.

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When ecosystems are lost, as they have been through felling of forests and conversion of landscape to agriculture on a vast scale, havoc ensues, triggering human and natural catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.

Blakelock's catastrophe, Tomiewicz and her colleagues believe, was probably triggered in part by his use of a synthetic pigment known as Van Dyke brown.

Since methane is a greenhouse gas 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide, such a scenario would trigger a «climate catastrophe», they say, increasing the methane content of the planet's atmosphere twelve-fold, and raising temperatures by 1.3 ˚C.

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The fact that CO2 has been almost twenty times higher in the past, for millions of years at a time without triggering a catastrophe is completely ignored due to the cognitive dissonance of the true believers in Al Gore's movie fantasies — as is everything else that can be explained by natural climate variability.

The implicit value system of «catastrophe», a powerful side topic worthy of whole bodies of work surely can't be lightly entered into under the terms of their paper; yet no, they use that example as a guidance trigger phrase for qualifying as: