Sentences with phrase «catastrophic natural causes»

While it's not as widely known what caused the planet's destruction, it's usually some combination of catastrophic natural causes, depending on the era.

Not exact matches

The recognition that economic growth has caused natural disasters and is leading toward far more catastrophic ones has had a different kind of effect.

The research by hydrologists and land - use experts at Rice University and Texas A&M University at Galveston was published in the journal Natural Hazards Review just days before Hurricane / Tropical Storm Harvey inundated the Houston region and caused some of the most catastrophic flooding in U.S. history.

Issue: 23 U.S.C. 125 authorizes an Emergency Relief (ER) program for the repair or reconstruction of Federal - aid highways and of roads on Federal lands that have suffered serious damage as a result of natural disasters or catastrophic failures from an external cause.

Despite the climate alarmists» misplaced concerns about the alleged risk of catastrophic human - caused climate change, the Earth has long had very effective natural systems to control excessively high temperatures.

How about one compare catastrophic outcomes of natural causes and human caused.

Even if natural gas combustion creates approaching 50 percent less CO2 equivalent per unit of energy produced, an amount which is well beyond best case on ghg emission reductions, it will not create the much greater emissions reductions necessary in the next 30 years to give any hope of limiting warming from exceeding levels that will cause catastrophic impacts.

We must see climate change as an ethical problem because: (a) it is a problem caused by some people in one part of the world that puts others and the natural resources on which they depend at great risk, (b) the harms to these other people are not mere inconveniences but in some cases catastrophic losses of life or the ability to sustain life, and (c) those who are vulnerable to climate change cant petition their governments to act to protect themselves but must rely upon a hope that a sense of justice and responsibility of those causing the problem will motivate them to change their behavior.

if you will argue with me on my results that we did not see anything catastrophic happening around 1972, when we also had a standstill, in the speed of warming, I would agree with that but remember this was at the height of warming causing more natural clouds and moisture.

Warming to date, even if not exaggerated and all attributed to man - made and not natural causes, is consistent with far less catastrophic, and more incremental, future warming numbers.

E.g., research assumes greenhouse gas emissions cause warming without explicitly stating humans are the cause»... carbon sequestration in soil is important for mitigating global climate change» (4a) No position Does not address or mention the cause of global warming (4b) Uncertain Expresses position that human's role on recent global warming is uncertain / undefined «While the extent of human - induced global warming is inconclusive...» (5) Implicit rejection Implies humans have had a minimal impact on global warming without saying so explicitly E.g., proposing a natural mechanism is the main cause of global warming»... anywhere from a major portion to all of the warming of the 20th century could plausibly result from natural causes according to these results» (6) Explicit rejection without quantification Explicitly minimizes or rejects that humans are causing global warming»... the global temperature record provides little support for the catastrophic view of the greenhouse effect» (7) Explicit rejection with quantification Explicitly states that humans are causing less than half of global warming «The human contribution to the CO2 content in the atmosphere and the increase in temperature is negligible in comparison with other sources of carbon dioxide emission»»

Peter Whale says: August 14, 2010 at 11:25 am Could someone on either side of the debate give me what weather conditions over an agreed period of time, that would then turn the observations so that they could be called climate, which would then either confirm catastrophic warming or confirm natural cause and variation =======================================================

Could someone on either side of the debate give me what weather conditions over an agreed period of time, that would then turn the observations so that they could be called climate, which would then either confirm catastrophic warming or confirm natural cause and variation.

He has defended cases involving a natural gas fire at a compression station, catastrophic injuries caused by a broken leaf spring from a tractor - trailer, and brain damage caused by a wayward trailer that detached from its towing vehicle.