Sentences with phrase «from global catastrophe»

Byrne stars alongside Dwayne Johnson to save the world from global catastrophe in the action film Rampage loosely based on the video game of the same name.

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The hard truth is that in coming decades the oil industry must be phased out in Canada and around the world if we are to avoid catastrophe from global warming.

He has pledged to undo American efforts to prevent a global warming catastrophe, including retreat from the Paris Agreement on Climate, Clean Power Plan, and new EPA

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.

The release of carbon and sulphur - rich gases from the blasted rock layers precipitated a global catastrophe in which fires raged, the sky darkened, Earth cooled and acid rain showered down.

In a previous paper written in 2014, Howarth painted methane emissions from oil and gas production in dire terms, saying that ignoring fracking - related methane emissions would lead to a climate change tipping point and «global catastrophe» from which there is no return.

World War Z takes a calculable, routine zombie script (take your pick from any of the «Dead» movies) and molds it with a thriller where a protagonist has to laboriously unearth a fixture to a global catastrophe (think «Contagion») to create a must - see summer blockbuster.

The cast felt as if it was restraining itself before, but now these actors appear to be going through the motions, content simply to be participants in a globe - trotting plot about espionage gone wrong, various and dangerous government agencies from around the world attempting to cover up their mistakes with extreme prejudice, and, of course, the possibility of a weapon of mass destruction getting into the wrong hands and setting off a global catastrophe.

From global warming to pollution to vanishing wildlife, children face a world profoundly threatened by environmental catastrophe.

Many parents have long objected to what is being taught in schools — from belief in an anthropogenic global warming catastrophe to banning acknowledgment of American exceptionalism — but fearing the power of teachers to hurt their children's futures, parents keep their mouths shut.

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.

From Daedalic Entertainment, the makers of The Whispered World, comes a new, thrilling adventure: A New Beginning takes you to a dark and frightening vision of a future, where a global climate catastrophe threatens the existence of humanity.

Eske's preoccupation with catastrophe echoes the images that circulate frequently in global media today, and his work openly references topical events, such as the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico from earlier in 2010.

Proceeds from the sale — expected to reach $ 5 million — will be contributed to The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Global Giving, and International Medical Corps, providing relief to the survivors of the catastrophe.

LOL Bart... I did not say nothing has changed, but it is not all from AGW and it is certainly not a global catastrophe either; no way near yet.

Between the poles of real - time catastrophe and nonevent lies the prevailing scientific view: Without big changes in emissions rates, global warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to lead to substantial, and largely irreversible, transformations of climate, ecosystems and coastlines later this century.

It's no wonder that a large body of the public remains skeptical about the global warming community's projections of catastrophe 30 years from now.

Not a single scientific authority or reference is cited in the «Report» for any of the supposed catastrophes arising from «global warming» that it mentions.

Fewer deaths seems like a good thing to us, but the enviro - fascists have not wavered from their unrelenting rhetoric that global warming is a catastrophe in the making.

After 25 years of close to a trillion dollars of treasure being expended, thousands of avoidable deaths from hypothermia related health problems amongst the elderly, the destruction of entire industries and large parts of some national economies, science, very expensive science at that has been sent down an innumerable number of dead end paths and rabbit holes in pursuit of the unpredictable non existent global warming and it's totally failed predictions of catastrophes always still to come but which never do.

As the scientific case for a climate - change catastrophe wanes, proponents of big - ticket climate policies are increasingly focused on punishing dissent from an asserted «consensus» view that the only way to address global warming is to restructure society — how it harnesses and uses energy.

The end - of - the - world prognostications from the Left of global warming catastrophe that never came but, the Left never cared if they were right or wrong about that and it does not worry them that the EPA prefers politics to science.

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of «Field Notes from a Catastrophe» (2006) writes about global warming for The New Yorker.

We encourage you to join your peers from California, New York and Washington and lead in combating global warming, drought, stronger storms and other catastrophes that would decimate Illinois» economy from Southern and Central Illinois farms to Chicago's lakefront.»

Quantitatively, Vasskog et al. estimate that during this time (the prior interglacial) the GrIS was «probably between ~ 7 and 60 % smaller than at present,» and that that melting contributed to a rise in global sea level of «between 0.5 and 4.2 m.» Thus, in comparing the present interglacial to the past interglacial, atmospheric CO2 concentrations are currently 30 % higher, global temperatures are 1.5 - 2 °C cooler, GrIS volume is from 7 - 67 % larger, and global sea level is at least 0.5 - 4.2 m lower, none of which observations signal catastrophe for the present.

Frequent readers of this site know that I believe that feedbacks in the climate are the key issue of anthropogenic global warming, and their magnitude and sign separate mild, nearly unnoticeable warming from catastrophe.

Over on the Energy from Thorium forum (where believers outnumber sceptics, but not hugely so) the preferred abbreviation is AGWCC (Anthropogenic Global Warming Climate Catastrophe).

Primarily republicans, apparently they had «more important» work to attend to than helping America become energy independent while fighting to prevent the fat tail of global climate catastrophe from crashing down on their constituents like a 1960s Godzilla on a mad romp in Tokyo.

A global catalogue of catastrophe losses was constructed (MuirWood et al., 2006), normalised to account for changes that have resulted from variations in wealth and the number and value of properties located in the path of the catastrophes... Once the data were normalised, a small statistically significant trend was found for an increase in annual catastrophe loss since 1970 of 2 % per year.

Scientists and experts skeptical that human activity will cause a climate catastrophe have filed briefs with the court, likely disputing claims from cities and oil companies about global warming.

While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures, global warming's impact in the tropics threatens catastrophe for food security.

Experts agree that a shift in our energy and consumption is necessary to avert catastrophe brought on by global warming, yet there is strong resistance to a major move away from a coal - fired electricity and oil - based economy to one based on alternative sources of renewable energy.

Many of you know that I consider questions around positive feedback in the climate system to be the key issue in global warming, the one that separates a nuisance from a catastrophe.

Indur Goklany, a US - based expert on weather - related catastrophes, charted global deaths through the 20th century from «extreme» weather events.

The CFR's Levi was also a lead voice in the «extreme weather» catastrophe choir claiming that the deaths and damage from Tropical Storm Sandy could be laid at the feet of human - caused global warming.

It's easy enough to believe that drought, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes are signs of a coming catastrophe from global warming, but these are normal variations of any climate that we — and other forms of life — have survived.

As the companion article to this one points out, virtually every major prediction of catastrophe that global - warming alarmists have made about the coming state of the environment over the past several decades — from melting sea ice and flooded nations to loss of snowfalls and increased climate refugees — has proven utterly incorrect.

Amid contemporary scenarios of potential climatic catastrophes and global warming that might be imagined to bring a new ice age, the powerful image of the Gulf Stream rising from the Florida Straits and flowing to the north Atlantic inevitably provokes questions about its ecological significance and whether it might ever stop.

A year ago, with some progress made in reducing the threat of a global catastrophe the time was moved back from five to six minutes before midnight.

After 20 minutes none of her classmates believed in the global warming catastrophe any more and the teacher was so impressed that he moved her grade from a 3 to a 2 at the end of the semester.

If he sincerely wants to understand global warming as he claims, he should take up Gavin's invitation to meet and listen with an open mind, as Elizabeth Colbert did for her fine objective book» Field Notes From A Catastrophe».

Yet as recent history has shown time and again, nothing short of global catastrophe will prevent a popular nostalgia - fueled Nintendo product from selling out in seconds.