Sentences with phrase «caused catastrophe»

First, how is this relevant to the discussion about trust in climate models or — to extend the thought — of anthropogenically caused catastrophe, considering that the sea has been rising at approximately the same rate for about 7,000 years?

The Big Short examines the 2008 economic collapse, and how it was spurred by predatory financial institutions taking advantage of people's hopes and dreams of succeeding in America, from the point of view of the banks that caused the catastrophe; The Florida Project shows us the swampy, brightly - colored, half - decayed Florida landscape briefly glimpsed in The Big Short, and centers on the very people who are struggling the most financially as a result of the greed of others and the desire to achieve the vaunted American Dream.

You have warned that the risk of a tornado - caused catastrophe in this country is underestimated, or even overlooked altogether.

Of course, it was neither non-believers or believers who caused this catastrophe.

Instead, his shortsightedness caused a catastrophe that we as a civilization are still paying for.

It wouldn't cause catastrophe, but by lowering revenues or widening the already yawning deficits, it would train the spotlight on the potentially disastrous outlook.

Fortunately, the flooding from rapid snow melt did not cause a catastrophe.

A next - generation global air traffic control system is vulnerable to malicious hacks that could cause catastrophe

Although it would take a truly massive space storm to cause a catastrophe, it is becoming clear that even modest solar activity poses a threat in our technology - dependent world.

No one factor, by itself, is enough to cause the catastrophe.

Of the special forces trainees, only two have come back alive, and with West being especially hated by his men, there's lots of potential developments which may have emerged to cause a catastrophe.

From 1933 to 1940, the US government bought 1.3 million metric tons of gold — draining the global system of the precious metal and causing catastrophe for most gold - backed currencies due to a shortage of gold to redeem for whatever notes backed by it.

Did your cat cause a catastrophe?

While I completely agree with your assertion that prediction of complex systems is done but poorly, I would take issue with the use of the $ 100 / bl price of oil causing catastrophe in the economy as not having proven the case.

CO2 does not drive climate to anything approaching the amount required to cause catastrophe, or a tipping point, or any of the fantastic scenarios we're constantly bombarded with daily.

See the video of Prof. Mike Hulme for a resounding challenge to political arguments for action on climate change, based on the idea that the consensus is that global warming will cause catastrophe.

This is not a careful argument, because people — sceptical and not — have been questioning the leaps between observing that the earths temperature changes, the attribution of that change to humans, the conclusion that it will cause catastrophe, and that the only way to confront that catastrophe is by mitigating climate change through reduction in emissions.

Over the next two years, countries will draw up a framework that will shape the responses of the poorest countries to climate - caused catastrophes.

The jury is not being tasked to decide whether it is more probable than not that at least 50 % of the warming since 1880 or so was caused by anthropogenic CO2 (or that such warming has been bad, or that future warming will cause catastrophes by 2050, etc).

The scientific proposition that CO2 causes or will cause catastrophe has formed the basis of a system of ethics and a system of politics.

This system is environmentalism...» The proposition that CO2 causes or will cause catastrophe is difficult to find in the science.

Are you still going to argue that the «whopping» human contributed 20ppmv of CO2 that we have pumped into the atmosphere (according to you) is going to cause a catastrophe?

The already proven fact that CO2 does nt cause a catastrophe, doesn't mean that we should not look critical at the other aguments against IPCC, and some of these 22 «truths» presented here are very very very poor science.

Unless of course you can prove there won't be much warming and you can prove it won't cause catastrophe.

In fact, according to the IPCC, it is feedback, not greenhouse gas theory, that causes the catastrophe.

The issue for us is whether man is causing a catastrophe (mainly due to large positive feedbacks in the climate system), and whether past warming has been consistent with catastrophic rates of man - made warming.

Writing them down can be risky and possibly lead to a security breach, which will cause catastrophe.

Not exact matches

Catastrophes can be caused by various natural events, including, among others, hurricanes, tornadoes and other windstorms, earthquakes, hail, wildfires, severe winter weather, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and other naturally occurring events, such as solar flares.

In the opinion of the Company's management, this measure is meaningful to users of the financial statements to understand the Company's periodic earnings and the variability of earnings caused by the unpredictable nature (i.e., the timing and amount) of catastrophes and loss reserve development.

Obviously, it's best to forestall a PR catastrophe by preventing situations that might cause them in the first place.

Oct 30 (Reuters)- Hurricane Sandy appears to have easily caused more losses than last year's Hurricane Irene, but final totals will be hard to come by for some time because of the scale of the disaster, catastrophe forecasting companies said on Tuesday.

Although the recent report of the National Commission on the catastrophe (http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/) purports to provide «thorough analysis and impartial judgment» on the «causes» of the explosion and «the lessons -LSB-...]

The estimated impact of historical catastrophes on today's exposures», a repeat of Donna in 2005 would have caused $ 26 billion in insured losses.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned against such military build - up, saying it could cause a global catastrophe.

That word «teleological» is the key to MacIntyre's solution, the loss of which is the cause of the catastrophe described in his science - fiction parable.

There would be damage caused by slowing down so rapidly, but there would not be catastrophe.

A single catastrophe, bringing the whole of that secular edifice down in ruins, could cause Man to revert to his earliest state, when Thought was first born on earth.»

But it was all in the good cause of finding a way to «move on,» as it is said, from an undoubted catastrophe.

Or are the pessimists right in protesting that technology itself is a major cause of potential catastrophe?

If population increase by itself were the cause of catastrophe, the situation would be hopeless.

Kri Kri's new state - of - the - art production and packing line was borne out of an initial catastrophe when a fire on Christmas Eve 2013 caused severe damage to its dairy production plant.

This is a convenient (and easily cleanable) surface on which your child can learn feed himself more independently, and make a mess without causing a dining table catastrophe.

But the APC's Administration has frittered away all the good policies and programmes which the PDP put in place, thereby crumbling the Aviation Sector in the country amongst other catastrophes it has caused.»

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Thursday killed a 3 - year - old proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal 19 miles off Jones Beach amid fears that it could cause an environmental catastrophe or become a terrorist target.

Cuomo killed a 3 - year - old proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal 19 miles off Jones Beach on Long Island amid fears that it could cause an environmental catastrophe or become a terrorist target.

The threat to our security is in the form of asteroids too small to be detected at long range but large enough to cause major catastrophes; NASA is now searching for asteroids one kilometer or larger in diameter, the impact of which could have global consequences.

Heather Birch, a Cardiff University PhD from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences who led the study, said: «The global catastrophe that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also devastated ocean ecosystems.

If there is life on the Red Planet — even just alien microbes clinging to existence in isolated refuges — any biological contamination we import from Earth could cause an ecological and scientific catastrophe

It arrives via catastrophe, or a whim of nature, or as a result of human - caused changes to the environment.

Extracting carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust and storing it underground may be the only hope to avoid a climate change catastrophe caused by burning fossil fuels