Sentences with phrase «catastrophic outcomes»

Meanwhile the intriguing affairs of human politics will surely produce more catastrophic outcomes from other causes, unrelated to climate.

Why especially considering the «irreversible» «4C by 2100» etc catastrophic outcomes promoted by the synthesis report are utterly dependent on the same numbers?

Our trial lawyers are devoted to helping families and individuals who have suffered accidents or catastrophic outcomes following birthing injuries, strokes, surgical mistakes, and errors in diagnosis.

He has spoken out against A.I. throughout the last several years, sometimes describing apocalyptic scenarios in which even seemingly harmless technology, like a system used to pick strawberries, can have catastrophic outcomes for humans.

Sanguine adaptationists should bear in mind that without consequences having catastrophic outcomes when examined and evaluated in detail, adaptation is neither required nor necessary.

Environmental campaigners make much of the potentially catastrophic outcomes of increased atmospheric CO2 levels, often exaggerating their claims in order to gain public support for policies designed to tackle anthropogenic climate change.

If so, would catastrophic outcomes persist?

It can be a matter of life and death or other possible catastrophic outcomes.»

It is obvious from the figure that the probability of a truly catastrophic outcome increases with uncertainty; from a small.07 % in the top left to a concerning 14 % in the bottom right.

He spends a great deal of time discussing their arguments about catastrophic outcomes and referenced it (along with several other of their arguments) as «a singular contribution» to the climate debate that is «worth careful study.»

But despite promising to inform us as to «what the science is showing,» the AAAS report largely sidesteps the best and latest science that points to a much lowered risk of extreme climate change, choosing instead to inflate and then highlight what meager evidence exists for potential catastrophic outcomes — evidence that in many cases has been scientifically challenged (for example here and here).

As Robert Pindyck demonstrates, the climate models projecting future warming and associated environmental impacts are crippled by what we don't know about a host of things, including — most importantly — the feedback loops that might produce catastrophic outcomes.

And sometimes those well - meaning goofs lead to catastrophic outcomes because football is cruelly engineered.

It's hard for kids to feel mentally strong when they're bombarding themselves with put - downs or when they're predicting catastrophic outcomes.

Contrary to what the authors suggest, Nordaus (who, they neglect to mention, supports a robust carbon tax) does not reject Weitzman's concerns about fat - tailed catastrophic outcomes and does not think that embracing Weitzman's argument necessary leads us down a path of expensive hedges against extreme scenarios.

Yes, it would certainly be better for corporations like ExxonMobil, which alone makes about ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY IN PROFIT from fossil fuels, if climate scientists who understand that a rapid phaseout of fossil fuel consumption is urgently needed if we are to have any hope of averting the most catastrophic outcomes of AGW, would just stick to the science and keep their mouths shut about that so as not to «spur political action» to save civilization from destruction.

After catastrophic outcome of the recall of Firestone tires on Ford Explorers, Congress quickly enacted the TREAD Act of 2000, which required the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration («NHTSA») to adopt a test to rate a vehicle's propensity to roll over.

If so, would catastrophic outcomes persist?

«Our government needs to be taking greater responsibility to defend its citizens in both the physical and cyber worlds, now, before a cyberattack produces an even more catastrophic outcome than we have already experienced,» McFaul said.

The consequences of this increase in uncertainty are as obvious as they are inescapable: As uncertainty increases, the probability of a truly catastrophic outcome (defined as climate sensitivity exceeding the highly conservative 5 °C mark; indicated by red lines in the figure) increases from a small.07 % in the top left panel to a concerning 14 % in the bottom right.

«Alarmism» encourages the idea that the case for relatively aggressive climate policy rests on the claim that climate change is more likely than not to produce catastrophic outcomes.

Is «suddenly» as in within 10 to100 year period, entering an Ice Age, a climate change catastrophic outcome.

Pentland's «fat tail» argument that «that the risk of catastrophic outcome is more than forty thousand times more probable than that from an asteroid collision with the earth» sounds scary at first.

Though not trivial, it's far from the catastrophic outcome some might suppose.

I have suggested previously that the academic witch - hunters are responding to a catastrophic outcome among minority students: «Little more than a third of black male college students obtain a bachelor's degree (ideally a four - year program) after six years of university attendance.

Although the canonic narrative develops along a tragic course, its beginning may give no forecast of catastrophic outcome.

«Even though it's a rare outcome, it is a catastrophic outcome.

Fear surrounding vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) is related to the high level of medical interventions common within hospital birth, all which increase the risk of uterine rupture and catastrophic outcomes.

«If somebody deployed a sulfur layer in the atmosphere, that could have catastrophic outcomes,» like changing rainfall patterns over India that farmers rely on, adds Caldeira, who also served on the committee.

And while the documented cases of escapees suggest that regulatory agencies need to apply more caution regarding where GM plants can be grown, there haven't been any catastrophic outcomes, she says.

However, since many complications can lead to catastrophic outcomes, it is important that physician anesthesiologists remain vigilant and prepared to rapidly diagnose and treat any complication, should it arise.»