Sentences with phrase «dire predictions from»

Stoknes explains why so many people have laissez - faire attitudes to dire predictions from the scientific community, and he reveals tactics employed by those wishing to conduct business as usual.

This is dramatically worse than even the dire predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which predicts at least a 5 - degree Celsius increase by 2100 as its worst - case scenario.»

This would explain why dogs manage to do so well eating dog food despite dire predictions from people who prefer to feed raw diets or cook meals for their dogs.

A dire prediction from the Dame Ellen MacArthur Foundation says there will be more plastic by weight than fish in the oceans by 2050; whether or not this turns out to be true, we do know that marine wildlife is suffering greatly from the effects of plastic pollution right now.

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Facing opposition from internet pioneers, online companies, members of Congress and the vast majority of Americans — all of whom are worried about broadband providers offering cut - down packages of services rather than the full internet — he released a jokey video scoffing at their dire predictions.

My doom - and - gloom stems from the dire predictions of Aviv Ovadya, the technologist who predicted the fake news epidemic, and now fears an «information apocalypse» as the trolls turbo - charge their efforts with AI.

Professionals in B2B Sales must feel like they under assault from the constant dire predictions of outright dissolution in organizations as well as the constant pressure to squeeze more revenue out of the pipeline.

The unusually high percentage of school budgets that passed yesterday in spite of dire predictions by everyone from Gov. David Paterson on down has become fodder for the teachers union and its allies in the fight to restore $ 1.4 billion worth of education cuts proposed by the governor.

Burnham's comments suggest a shift from his previous position, coming weeks after he criticised Blair for making «dire predictions» about what would happen to the party under a Corbyn leadership.

Xanthakis believes the findings may serve as a dire prediction of a substantial rise in the morbidity and mortality resulting from HF in the community in the future.

The first half of 2016 brought high stakes and high drama to Los Angeles» education scene, from dire budget predictions to heated charter debates to attempts at overhauling teacher tenure laws.

My second thought was that the two articles I read, and the dire predictions and «woe - is - me» lamenting therein, were mostly coming from those same middlemen: publishers and agents.

«Then we've had an inflection point, and went into a moderate positive trend since the beginning of 2013,» said Mathieu Laberge, deputy chief economist at CMHC... which would be the «softlanding» policy makers want and a long way from dire predictions of a 10 - per - cent to 25 - percent price crash... «I'd say we feel good.

The continued growth in movie streaming (read continued success of Netflix) and a more balanced view of the power of the «last milers» has moved sentiment away from last December's dire predictions.

Nintendo should take comfort from predictions yesterday that their next console will do markedly better than the dire sales achieved over the last three years.

Amid all the doom and gloom surrounding the Wii U, Nintendo can at least draw consolation from the success (little remarked upon) of the 3DS handheld — achieved despite dire predictions at its launch that handheld games consoles would no longer be able to cope with the rise of mobile phones as gaming platforms: «Some indie developers have told us that when they offer the same software on iOS and Android, and in the eShop on Nintendo 3DS, the 3DS eShop version sells most.

Since we aren't yet past the tipping points, or if we are past them, the evidence has not emerged unambiguously from the background variance, it is difficult to maintain the truth of dire predictions in the future.»

Motivation can come from gut - level agreement that experimenting with our climate is bad instead of predictions of specific dire outcomes if we don't meet the challenge.

The IMF and World Bank officials made dire predictions about the crisis, which derives mainly from food crop land being switched to biofuels.

That said, the scientific case is not helped at all when exaggerations are made by some of the «green» movement, or by people who claim they understand the climate science and then make dire predictions, probably well beyond the 90 % confidence limits derived from the actual climate modelling.

These dire predictions were refuted by Breitbart contributor James Delingpole, who observed in a March 26 report that cited leaked reports from Working Group II of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report stating that a 2.5 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures by the end of the century will cost the world economy between just 0.2 and 2 percent of its GDP.

With this in mind, no matter how dire predictions are under the current course of our species, the most major consideration of all is being completely omitted from the equation, what would occur if there was a complete cessation of the climate engineering juggernaut of destruction?

Even if human - caused global warming could be proven, such dire predictions ignore the marvelous historic adaptability of humans, who have thrived in climates ranging from the Arctic to the Sahara.

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

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Pennsylvania State University and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines and the recently updated and expanded Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change.

He is author of more than 160 peer - reviewed and edited publications, and has published books include Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines in 2012.

«Mann is author of two books, «The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines» (Columbia University Press, 2012), which will soon to be available inpaperback with an update and a new guest foreword by Bill Nye «The Science Guy», and «Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming» (DK Publishing, 2008).

Perhaps by then it will turn out to be only 0.1 C warming / decade and that would be a considerable change from the dire predictions of today.

Only slightly off - subject: the Guardian's environment editor John Vidal has just published dire predictions of future temperatures worse than Monbiot's worst wet dreams, issuing from an MIT Global Change (that's what they call themselves) thinktank, which is financed by ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Electricité de France, among others.

Spencer is a member of a vulnerable and demonized community — climate researchers whose opinions diverge from the dire, catastrophic global warming predictions that now emanate from government, pop culture, and mass media.

«The climate models making dire predictions of warming in the 21st century are the same models that predicted too much warming in the early 21st century, and can't explain the warming from 1910 - 1945 or the mid-century grand hiatus,» Dr. Judith Curry writes in a Wednesday op - ed published in The Financial Post.

Reactions from NGOs and the environmental community were almost universally critical but also striking in their predictions of dire consequences based largely on exaggerated assessments of the protocol's effectiveness.

In the current cryptocurrency market, it is easy to make dire predictions on the likes of Bitcoin, which is struggling to make it back from its drop.