Sentences with phrase «global calamity»

Set in 2060 AD, this post-apocalyptic adventure unfolds in the relentlessly - grim dystopia left in the wake of the series of global calamities that led to a total breakdown of civilization.

They are only for mindless amusement, and have much too much emphasis on who is the star researcher of the day, what horrible disease might be cured, and how science could solve some new global calamity.

A 28 - year - old man learns that the hallucinations destroying his mind contain clues to a looming global calamity.

Thanks to some supposed global calamity in the making, the stock market enters a period of insane volatility.

Without the observed direct link that atmospheric CO2 will cause global calamity, I remain unconvinced.

Cataclysm — meaning doomsday extinction event, or mere global calamity?

The NPC imposter said US and Canadian oil policies — especially the tar sands schemes in Alberta — would increase the chances of global calamities but reassured the audience that the oil industry could keep «fuel flowing» by transforming people who die into oil.

The project started under the Bush administration, and was used as a platform on which Tomaselli can creatively explore the global calamities and political nightmares of his lifetime.

Fred Tomaselli's beguiling artworks on New York Times covers highlight the world's global calamities and political nightmares

We in the family of humanity are going to be forced to do better in our efforts to communicate in a more reality - oriented way about ominously looming threats of an human - driven, global calamity of some kind.

Similarly, if multiple countries around the world were capable of deploying SRM, the system would be «resilient against all but the most disastrous of global calamities».

The conclusion that deep cuts in net emissions of carbon dioxide are required to avoid a global calamity is «a scientific conclusion,» he said.

Though the year did not bring any sort of global calamity, there were certainly a number of alarming stories here on Earth — the record - breaking loss of Arctic sea ice and sudden fury of Hurricane Sandy in particular — along with some discoveries that illustrate the fragile beauty of this little planet.