Sentences with phrase «catastrophe for»

Any one of the restrictions passed in the last several years would be bad, but taken together, we are witnessing a catastrophe for Texas women.

Even if you are fully qualified for the position, spelling or grammar errors could still spell catastrophe for your cover letter and attached resume.

Coaching is incredibly individual, and a definite identity may function admirably for your associate or companion however could be a catastrophe for you.

It's a catastrophe for a smartphone maker that prides itself on offering among the best camera experience.

Valve CEO Gabe Newell called it «a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.»

Some users have responded by saying they would delete their accounts, a potential business catastrophe for Facebook, while government regulators and lawmakers promised to investigate and possibly toughen privacy laws.

«Facebook has been on the edge of this catastrophe for a long time,» said Josh Crandall, principal analyst at Netpop Research.

Damage or loss of expensive machinery could be a catastrophe for a small construction contracting business because these machines represent such a large investment.

SPOKESPERSON: Campbell Fuller, General Manager Communications, Insurance Council of Australia ----------------------------------------- The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared a Catastrophe for areas of Victoria's Great Ocean Road region affected by Christmas Day bushfires.

«Economist Gary Becker says, «Hurricane Katrina and now the danger of an avian flu pandemic — one an actual, the other a potential, catastrophe for which the nation failed or is failing to prepare adequately — underscore the need for institutional reforms that will overcome policy myopia based on inability to plan seriously for responding to catastrophes of slight or unknown probability but huge potential harm,» Judge Richard Posner responds.»

They have firmly linked glacial loss to global warming driven by profligate human fossil fuel combustion and they have warned that such loss risks social change and potential catastrophe for millions.

Government plans to open up forests to allow the construction of wind parks is a catastrophe for most species of predatory birds and bats and the surrounding ecosystem.

But even if it isn't responsible for serious seismic disturbances, a large dam - damaging earthquake in the area could mean catastrophe for millions of people.

Thanks to publications such as ABC's report: Sudden Death on the High Seas — Longline Fishing, a Global Catastrophe for Seabirds and subsequent advocacy efforts by ABC and others seabird deaths in Hawai'i and Alaska are down by up to 85 %.

It is the promotion, by whatever means necessary, of the idea that we humans are endangering all life on Earth by burning excessive quantities of fossil fuels and altering the terrain to reduce the albedo of the Surface in a way that will lead to a «tipping point» and near - term catastrophe for all of us.

«The United Church of Canada has voiced its concern about human - induced climate catastrophe for decades.

While it has put the region under tremendous stress, the melting ice also has renewed oil companies» interest in drilling in the Arctic Ocean, which would risk catastrophe for the region and would further exacerbate reliance on dirty fossil fuels we can not afford to burn if we are to avert the worst effects of climate change.

In short, anthropogenic climate change embrittles the resiliency of an already stressed global environment, thereby increasing the risk of catastrophe for humans and other species.

But it's not a catastrophe for my insurance company, it's just another standard homeowner claim to be processed.

Together with other anthropogenic changes in the Earth system that may herald the emergence of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene (9, 10), the global changes caused by human use of land are generally portrayed as the result of an unchecked and accelerating process that is mostly recent in origin (11) and therefore presents an impending catastrophe for humanity, the biosphere, and the Earth system in general (3, 12).

That would be a catastrophe for the resulting climate refugees, but is it «catastrophic» in a scientifically objective way?

If my home burns down, it would qualify as a catastrophe for me and my family.

The latest in the series puts the gap between emissions trends and what is actually required to keep the rise in global temperature at a level which does not spell catastrophe for the planet at between 8 - 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) by 2020 — less a gap than a gaping chasm!

I imagined a terrifying catastrophe for polar bears and rightly called it fiction (a polar bear attack thriller — EATEN).

As the potential losses for oil companies could lead toward perilous catastrophe for the fossil fuel industry, how will oil companies engage in preparation to COP21?

The «doctored» results have been predicting a global climate catastrophe for many years.

What a catastrophe for the Luddites!

Our continuing uneconomic growth makes us complicit in a process that is triggering an ecological catastrophe for our children and generations beyond them.

The latter is a politico -(pseudo) scientific construct, developed since the late - 1980s, in which the human emission of «greenhouse gases», such as carbon dioxide and methane, is unquestioningly taken as the prime - driver of a new and dramatic type of climate change that will inexorably result in a significant warming during the next 100 years and which will inevitably lead to catastrophe for both humanity and the Earth.

They often want government to intervene to avoid what they claim is a horrible catastrophe for modern civilization in the making — which never seems to happen (consider, for example, how badly their predictions of future global warming have worked out).

This pause or so - called pause will only delay the catastrophe for 10 years anyway.

And, as Hansen repeatedly cautions, these changes will only be avoidable with rapid coordinated action — far exceeding current efforts — and could spell catastrophe for low - lying regions such as Bangladesh and the Netherlands.

While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures, global warming's impact in the tropics threatens catastrophe for food security.

It took a catastrophe for the world to come together and agree to protect the planet.

The central issue is whether or not you believe there is data to show that increasing CO2 emissions will result in a catastrophe for humanity or not.

Now it seems to me that people might be debating whether there is a 95 %, 90 %, or even jusdt a 50 % chance of a catastrophe for all mankind.

If I am being told that they they can not say for certain that there is a real risk, say 1 % of a catastrophe for us all, then I am not interested at all.

In the previous century, there was the bitter drought of 1862 - 65, which was a catastrophe for the state of California — made worse by a smallpox epidemic.

However, at this level, this warming is «extremely unlikely» (< 5 %) to be a catastrophe for humanity or our environment

Quantitatively, Vasskog et al. estimate that during this time (the prior interglacial) the GrIS was «probably between ~ 7 and 60 % smaller than at present,» and that that melting contributed to a rise in global sea level of «between 0.5 and 4.2 m.» Thus, in comparing the present interglacial to the past interglacial, atmospheric CO2 concentrations are currently 30 % higher, global temperatures are 1.5 - 2 °C cooler, GrIS volume is from 7 - 67 % larger, and global sea level is at least 0.5 - 4.2 m lower, none of which observations signal catastrophe for the present.

(Read more: Science, The Guardian, «Trump's Budget Would Mean Catastrophe for U.S. Climate Programs, ««The Paris Climate Pact Is in Effect, but It's Not Enough,» «Obama Says the World's Move Toward Renewables Is «Irreversible»»)

In the words of Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic magazine, the video was «a complete catastrophe for environmentalism.»

Already, people here are realizing after this decade of 1980 to 1990, which was a catastrophe for the glaciers, they are really concerned, very concerned.»

Thinking big about our destiny, think of this: the ultimate habitability catastrophe for Earth is when the Sun leaves the main sequence and turns into a Red Giant.

A repeat of this entirely natural event would be a large - scale catastrophe for the western U.S., to say the least.

It is now six minutes to midnight rather than five, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday as it adjusted its Doomsday Clock, a symbolic timepiece created in 1945 that weighs chances of catastrophe for the human species from a variety of causes.

I can assure them that their efficiency / renewable energy solution arguments have signally failed to convince me that they will do more than ameliorate catastrophe for a minority of those who are projected to be filling the planet by 2050.

One doesn't need to certify future coral reef destruction to realize that overpopulation is bad for human health and dignity, not to mention a catastrophe for wild living systems.

The road has been a catastrophe for the indigenous people, rubber tappers and the rain forest.

The Charity Commission's verdict that Tate broke the law when it bought The Upper Room from its trustee Chris Ofili is a catastrophe for art in Britain.