Sentences with phrase «dire future»

But should we trust dire future predictions from models that totally failed to simulate the extreme droughts of the 20th century.

Global warming presents a potentially dire future for Winnetka, warns a Park District report.

There have been any number of urgent scientific reports in recent years emphasising just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act.

To avoid a couple dire future scenarios.

The unnamed writer nicely frames his piece around his reader's profession, says he's seen plenty of information pointing to potential cataclysmic global warming, and then poses five reasons why the public don't see the same dire future he does.

I hope this is not too political — but I would appreciate knowing how you find optimism in what I view as a dire future for my adult children and grandson — even if it doesn't really impact me.

«Predictions of a dire future for lower Manhattan — nine years of predictions — consistently have been proven wrong,» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said.

Others have predicted a dire future.

It takes a little concentration and forces you to stop prognosticating your dire future.

Shatzkin outlines the dire future if the agency model goes into the scrap heap of history, where it belongs.

Is this the dire future staunch supporters of physical media have warned us about?

Lex Luthor has traveled back through time with news of a dire future: While the heroes and villains spent years battling amongst themselves, Brainiac has been feeding on their powers, building strength to return to Earth and destroy humanity.

Avoiding spoilers, the end of Modern Warfare 2 set up a dire future for America, and the urban, on - our - doorsteps combat is said to continue, with tanks and such roll down suburban streets.

«I went in to try and prevent a murder, but I arrived to find a corpse,» Kevin Slavin, a trustee who tried to keep the college free, said in an online post after Friday's vote, in which he blamed years of poor management and predicted a dire future.

After all, the computer models used to predict a dire future for polar bears combined the Chukchi Sea with the Southern Beaufort, as having similar ice habitats («ice ecoregions»).

«I think it's naive and presumptuous,» Taylor said, referring to a recent report by the U.S. government warning that computer models predict a dire future for the bears due to projected ice loss...

While future projections of sea level rise and flooding are important to help with proactive planning, the data from the past 10 years provides the most compelling need to curb climate change to mitigate a dire future.

The findings of Severinghaus and his colleagues are good news for the Greenland ice sheet but suggest a dire future for Antarctica.

Those gains have led some observers to predict a dire future for many of these smaller coins that may not offer any new value already provided by the more established coins.

It wasn't our personal prospective of palliative care we looked at, but the situation of Aboriginal people in remote areas of the Northern Territory, South and Western Australia who face potential life sentences with end stage kidney disease; people who as young as 22 years old face a dire future.