Sentences with phrase «from catastrophic risk»

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

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In a letter, committee chair Damian Collins said Facebook officials had previously misled the lawmakers about risks in the site's data - sharing practices, and said it was «now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process.»

Even a great team can have enough of those to affect a particular game, but the results at the end of the season represent the return from hundreds or even thousands of individual risks - all important contributions, but none decisive nor catastrophic.

While injuries - even of the catastrophic variety - can not be completely eliminated from football, there are lots of things pro-active parents can do to minimize the risk.

In most cases, athletes immediately removed from contact or collision sports after suffering a concussion will recover without incident fairly quickly (seven to ten days), but if they are allowed to keep playing, their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems, and even catastrophic injury or death.

Because they can detect subtle signs of cognitive impairment indicating that an athlete's brain has not fully healed, even where the athlete claims his symptoms have cleared, the tests are designed to help to protect young athletes against the risk of suffering a second concussion by returning too soon, which can lead to short - and long - term cognitive problems, and catastrophic injury or even death from second impact syndrome.

We know that athletes who are allowed to continue playing with concussion risk, at the very least, a slower recovery from concussion, and, in rare cases, catastrophic injury or even death from second impact syndrome.

Warnings from the head of MI6 lead the committee to conclude: «There has to be a significant risk that some of the country's chemical weapons stockpile could fall into the hands of those with links to terrorism, in Syria or elsewhere in the region — if this happens, the consequences could be catastrophic.»

The risk of catastrophic danger to the environment, the health of New York State residents and adverse economic impacts that result from hydraulic fracturing far outweigh the potential for job creation and promotion of a natural gas alternative to oil.

The question boils down to the accumulating impacts of daily incremental pollution from burning coal or the small risk but catastrophic consequences of even one nuclear meltdown.

In the 1980s, engineering measures were implemented to manage catastrophic and chronic flooding risks — including a tunnel to drain and help manage water levels in Spirit Lake, and a sediment retention structure to prevent sediment from flowing downstream.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, reviewed all U.S. pain malpractice claims from 2004 to 2010 to identify key risk factors for catastrophic payouts, defined as claims of more than $ 1million.

I'm not suggesting that investors eschew stop losses; good risk management is essential to prevent small losses from becoming catastrophic ones.

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.

It's just good risk management to spread out the risk from different types of business among different companies that are subsidiaries of the insurance company, in order to prevent one large catastrophic loss from impacting the entire company.

This built - in risk limitation — without the risk of being stopped out of the trade — protects you from catastrophic surprise movements.

Unlike stocks, when investing in bonds there is greater ability to separate out the risks from catastrophic events versus overall market fluctuations.

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.

Folks who have invested in fossils have known for decades that their purchase was at risk from action to make climate change somewhat less catastrophic.

The international seismological community has long recognized that the best approach to defending populations from catastrophic earthquakes is not through earthquake prediction, but through risk mitigation and the application of appropriate safety measures to prevent buildings from collapsing.

We acknowledge that global warming can produce a wide range of possible outcomes — ranging from modest to catastrophic — but we believe that any reasonable risk management exercise points toward immediate decarbonization as the optimal response.

As long as the 2009 EF exists, the risk of catastrophic damage to the economy from implementation of the EF by future extreme «environmentalist» administrations will remain very real.

«(5) That some of the adverse and potentially catastrophic effects of global warming are at risk of occurring and not a certainty does not negate the harm persons suffer from actions that increase the likelihood, extent, and severity of such future impacts.

«To put the significance of this fat tail in perspective, the «probability distribution representing the uncertainty in expected climate change implies that the risk of catastrophic outcome is more than forty thousand times more probable than that from an asteroid collision with the earth»

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

«I continue to believe that warming of Earth's surface temperatures from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases carries risks that society must take seriously,» he wrote, «even if we are lucky and (as my work seems to suggest) the most catastrophic warming scenarios are a bit less likely.»

These features include: (a) it is a problem caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of ghgs in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people and who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, and, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people, nations must act quickly to limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions.

Michael is concerned for his children and grandchildren and I get that, but I believe there is a greater risk to humanity via outlandish policies created in the name of «saving the planet» from a problem which may or may not prove to be catastrophic.

From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale.

For example, the paper includes the following: «greenhouse gas pollution can impose great harms», «significantly increased risks of severe harms», and «A handful of geographic regions may experience short - term benefits from climate change, such as temporary agricultural gains in colder regions, but even in those areas, long - term, catastrophic scenarios would bring significant harms.»

Because it has been scientifically well established that there is a great risk of catastrophic harm from human - induced change (even though it is acknowledged that there are remaining uncertainties about timing and magnitude of climate change impacts), no high - emitting nation, sub-national government, organization, business, or individual of greenhouse gases may use some remaining scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts as an excuse for not reducing its emissions to its fair share of safe global greenhouse gas emission on the basis of scientific uncertainty.

The 2009 EPA endangerment findings took into account the public health implications of a warming climate caused by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, which include more deaths from heat - related illnesses, more serious (and potentially fatal) respiratory illnesses, and more people at risk from catastrophic flooding.

There will always be irreducible uncertainty and a continuum of risk from some would say beneficial — I am sure I am not interested in quibbling about minutiae — to catastrophic.

Do you believe that the risk of catastrophic damage from anthropogenic caused global warming justifies the decarbonization of the economy.

However, when faced with the mere possibility of a catastrophic scenario, the proper risk management approach is to take steps to prevent that scenario from happening.

We don't know much about tipping points, but, as Howarth observes, «'' the world runs a high risk of catastrophic climate change in the period of 15 to 35 years from now.

[W] e could insulate ourselves from catastrophic [climate] risk at relatively modest cost by enacting a steep carbon tax.

* Insurers and regulators currently do not have a comprehensive capacity to assess the cumulative weather - related risks from both catastrophic events and the growing number of small - scale events.

Additionally, Dr. Chichilnisky is a Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics and a University Senator at Columbia University, and Director of the Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (www.columbiariskmanagement.net), where she has developed a landmark methodology, with support from the U.S. Air Force, for a new foundation of probability and statistics in an approach to catastrophic risks that allows more realistic treatment of rare but important events.

Trump is planning to open our oceans to the fossil fuel industry, putting marine life and coastal communities at risk of catastrophic damage from an oil disaster.

Aviation accidents fall under the umbrella of catastrophic accidents, meaning accidents that carry a strong risk of leaving victims to suffer from lifelong injuries or disabilities.

This includes the risk of concussion and other catastrophic injuries from performing flips and being tossed into the air.

It's just good risk management to spread out the risk from different types of business among different companies that are subsidiaries of the insurance company, in order to prevent one large catastrophic loss from impacting the entire company.

In a letter, committee chair Damian Collins said Facebook officials had previously misled the lawmakers about risks in the site's data - sharing practices, and said it was «now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process.»

«Enabled identification of potentially catastrophic failures early in the product life cycle, thus reducing risk, slashing remedial costs downstream, and avoiding billions of dollars in possible losses from warranty claims.»

These difficult behaviours put those children and young people at risk of being excluded from the benefits of a stable family environment, creating a cycle of worsening behaviours and catastrophic outcomes.

Buying a home involves all types of risks — from structural damage caused by termites or water infiltration to catastrophic events.