The phrase
"catastrophic effects" refers to extremely severe and destructive outcomes or consequences. It implies that something bad or disastrous has happened, and it has caused significant harm or damage.
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Held advocates shifting resources from fire suppression to fire prevention, including managed fires, which are scientifically proven to be the best way to minimize
catastrophic effects on communities and natural resources.
But given the potentially
catastrophic effects of global warming, scientists have an obligation to study the idea, he says.
The science indicates that we have no more than ten or fifteen years to put total global emissions on a downward slope to avoid the
most catastrophic effects of climate change.
More significantly, many school leaders do not understand the potentially
catastrophic effects of a bomb incident or do not have the requisite skills to respond appropriately and effectively.
Nutrition is so important, that the wrong type of diet can
cause catastrophic effects possibly even leading dogs to become malnourished and sickly.
In recent decades their concerns have centered on energy use, epitomized by the peak oil hypothesis and the alleged inability of the environment to absorb increased human caused CO2
without catastrophic effects.
some words of wisdom from Dr James Hansen Feb 2014 — regarding Nuclear power and «merchants of doubt» — eg «Climate scientists have long warned of
potential catastrophic effects of unchecked fossil fuel use.»
The senators and area community health center officials and patients discussed the potentially
catastrophic effects if Congress does not vote to restore community health center funding nationally.
«These areas can give rise to the only eruptions that can have global
catastrophic effects comparable to major meteorite impacts,» Giuseppe De Natale from Italy's National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, told Reuters back in 2012.
The authors of the study warn that, if not well planned, the construction of these dams and other infrastructure development in the Andes headwaters could have
catastrophic effects across the entire Amazon River basin and threaten the food security of millions of people.
«More than 10,000 million metric tons of carbon emissions were reported in 2010 from conventional fossil fuels and chemicals, which has a long -
term catastrophic effect on our environment.»
There are many different types of BCPs... my insurance company forced a change to LoEstrin many years ago with
catastrophic effects regarding my PCOS.
Cleave pulls no punches in describing the devastation of war, depicting violent acts, horrific circumstances, and the
equally catastrophic effects they have on people's lives both on the battlefield and at home.
At a news conference in Paris on Friday, United Nations officials quickly called for action to cut emissions and
limit catastrophic effects, particularly on the poorest countries.
I have no doubt that Bill Nye could out - debate Marsha Blackburn — or indeed pretty much any Republican elected official — on the subject of humanity's responsibility for climate change and its
probably catastrophic effects.
«Such a change in the carbon dioxide level might, therefore, produce major consequences on the climate — possibly even
triggering catastrophic effects such as have occurred from time to time in the past,» Hornig said.
If the countries make good on their pledges, they will dramatically reduce the emissions scientists link to global warming, but not enough to hold temperatures to levels scientists say are needed to minimize risks of drought, flooding and
other catastrophic effects.
Novel human - induced subsidence caused by the withdrawal of ground water on a river delta could
produce catastrophic effects in exactly these areas that the authors are concerned about.
A much wiser approach would be to allow the US market for electricity to determine whether more or fewer solar panels are needed without any subsidies or coercion since the basis for
fearing catastrophic effects from increasing levels of carbon dioxide is scientifically invalid.
The
ongoing catastrophic effects of the global atmospheric spraying and radio frequency transmissions related to geoengineering programs are so massive in scope and scale that the overall destruction and death they are inflicting is impossible to quantify.
Last year, we passed SB32, which tries to reduce emissions even further to a sustainable level to avoid
catastrophic effects like massive sea - level rise, temperature change and dramatic changes in ecosystems.
'' All of the
supposed catastrophic effects of global warming have been rebutted by scientists, including melting ice, hurricanes, other extreme weather, and extinction of wildlife.
This Catallaxy thread has it all, if you can stomach it — bogus statistical claims from fools too ignorant to estimate a trend line and too lazy to learn how, silly IPCC and BOM conspiracy theories, absurd economic alarmism about the
allegedly catastrophic effects of the carbon price, CO2 as plant food, and so on.
Predicting a global average of 2.5 degrees C rise expected by 2038 with «major economic consequences» and a 5 degree C rise by 2067 with «
globally catastrophic effects,» the report concludes that there is «no leeway» regarding the «time for action.»
Set just a few years from now, it imagines that the world's nations have collaborated to build a vast system of satellites that somehow prevent the
most catastrophic effects of climate change.
In the face of potentially
catastrophic effects on global food production, some have proposed drastic solutions to counteract climate change such as reflecting sunlight away from the Earth.
Beyond preparing for the inevitable, the report also calls for climate mitigation, including implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement in order to have «any hope of
avoiding catastrophic effects from sea - level rise and other outcomes of global warming.»
The constraint, of course, is alleged to be the ability of the environment to absorb the relatively minor (compared to natural sources) man - made CO2
without catastrophic effects.
«Radiative forcing in the past appears to have had
catastrophic effects in extending droughts,» says MacDonald, an international authority on drought and climate change.
Friends of the Earth Europe calls on the European Union to show leadership at these negotiations, ensuring a robust framework for the future that delivers real emission cuts in order avoid the
more catastrophic effects of climate change.