Sentences with phrase «catastrophic risks»

While investors are often concerned about catastrophic risks, failing to allocate enough to risky assets can lead investors to «fail slowly» by not maintaining pace with inflation or supporting withdrawal rates.

The judge in the case did not, in his specific questions to the parties, ask if there was a consensus on the science, or whether climate change would present catastrophic risks.

I also work on reducing global catastrophic risk, which is anything that could end human civilization or even cause human extinction.

In the years since these cases were argued, the science has become much clearer and the international consensus stronger: climate change is creating catastrophic risks.

But a good insurance plan will still cover you for so - called catastrophic risks — those that could really sink your finances.

While investors are often concerned about catastrophic risks, failing to allocate enough to risky assets can lead investors to «fail slowly» by not maintaining pace with inflation or supporting withdrawal rates.

Next Tuesday, on the anniversary of the Tunguska blast, a group led by astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian May and film - maker Grigorij Richters will host Asteroid Day, a celebrity - studded event in San Francisco and London designed to raise awareness of the potentially catastrophic risk of an impact.

The IPCC's assessments of the potential costs of climate change «is probably an underestimate,» argued Zenghelis, «because it omits consideration of many of the impacts of climate change, including potentially catastrophic risks.»

Yet the very technologies Bostrom and other transhumanists propose to overcome human limits pose catastrophic risks.

As one of the world's leading experts in catastrophic risk management, the former Shell Oil Co. executive sifts through the wreckage to unravel the chain of events that triggers accidents.

Bostrom's effort is to supply artificial limitation to artificial intelligence, through providing AI methods of decision - making that limit catastrophic risk.

Separating true financial priorities from flash impulses is an increasing challenge, even when you're trying to do the right thing with your moola — like saving for the future, insuring against catastrophic risks and otherwise improving your financial standing.

Keeping stop losses in at night can manage catastrophic risk but gives up some profit over time since we would miss profiting from the big overnight gaps in the direction of the trade that would be capture if only traded on 24 hour session data.

«Warming of the oceans... affecting... large - scale climate patterns... however, due to the long time scales of ocean dynamics... and the relatively short length of observational data... the effects of those changes on catastrophic risk... unclear.»

The good news is that we could insulate ourselves from catastrophic risk at relatively modest cost by enacting a steep carbon tax.

Warning: «in some high - risk areas, ocean warming and climate change threaten the insurability of catastrophic risk more generally.»

Various options include: profit / opportunity options, win - win options, low - regret or no - regret options, options averting catastrophic risk, and / or options that avoid unsustainable investments.

Pumping liquids into the earth involves catastrophic risks that are so self evident I won't bother to list them all.

The report states that climate change factors could make it impossible to issue catastrophic risk insurance in some regions, such as Florida and the U.K.

Whether you are a penny - pinching ASU student, a retiree living off a fixed stipend, or a wealthy U.S. Airways executive, you can take several smart steps to minimize catastrophic risk and save some money at the same time.

Village green applications pose catastrophic risk to development sites.

Sekendiz suggests that health and sports facilities must face up to their responsibilities in order to avoid problems associated with irresponsive practice, such as the low but catastrophic risk of new users suffering heart failure, for instance, when given an overly vigorous workout.

The Wagner & Weitzman book is a popularization of the arguments that Weitzman has forwarded in the academic literature about catastrophic risks and other matters.

This wouldn't do: if big investors were going to be persuaded to take billions of dollars in catastrophic risk, they would need to feel there was some reason in the pricing of that risk.

Mr. Geithner warned that the EU crisis was a «CATASTROPHIC RISK TO FINANCIAL MARKETS.»

Those areas face «catastrophic risk» that could be increased by global warming, the company told California insurance regulators this month.

Vaginal birth after a Cesarean (VBAC), which used to be widely available, is rarely performed these days, after a 1999 study showed a slight chance that the scar could give way, posing «a catastrophic risk to the mother and baby,» Dr. Ricciotti says.

When I sell options, I never expose my subscribers to any catastrophic risks.

Through insurance, we transfer these catastrophic risks we can not bear to insurance companies, but knowing HOW INSURANCE WORKS is vital to understanding why, how and what we need to insure.

«We are creating a prehistoric climate in which human societies will face huge and potentially catastrophic risks,» said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics.

Additionally, she utilizes specific theoretical approaches regarding the social denial of catastrophic risk.

This «chronic» source may increase over time, and affect climate, but for the reasons you discussed it is likely to be slow, and not a catastrophic risk.

Description: There are different kinds of risks associated with insurance like changes in mortality rates, morbidity rates, catastrophic risk, etc..

«Flooding poses catastrophic risks to B.C.'s economic vitality, safety, environment, property owners and communities, so flood protection is an important issue for the association,» says BCREA CEO Robert Laing.