Sentences with phrase «global catastrophe for»

Thanks to publications such as ABC's report: Sudden Death on the High Seas — Longline Fishing, a Global Catastrophe for Seabirds and subsequent advocacy efforts by ABC and others seabird deaths in Hawai'i and Alaska are down by up to 85 %.

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For scare value, the 2014 Ebola epidemic looms largest in recent memory; while it ended by killing «only» 11,310 people in West Africa, it looked for a time as if it might become a global catastropFor scare value, the 2014 Ebola epidemic looms largest in recent memory; while it ended by killing «only» 11,310 people in West Africa, it looked for a time as if it might become a global catastropfor a time as if it might become a global catastrophe.

Since, even now, when debates about the fact of global warming is largely over, no nation is considering taking the really drastic actions that might significantly reduce the catastrophes that lie ahead, it seems that we are all too likely to experience judgment for our collective sins.

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

Hence, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault that the Norwegian government is building deep in the permafrost as a last refuge for millions of seeds in case of global catastrophe — natural or man -Global Seed Vault that the Norwegian government is building deep in the permafrost as a last refuge for millions of seeds in case of global catastrophe — natural or man -global catastrophe — natural or man - made.

The threat to our security is in the form of asteroids too small to be detected at long range but large enough to cause major catastrophes; NASA is now searching for asteroids one kilometer or larger in diameter, the impact of which could have global consequences.

That is the best remaining hope for averting global climate catastrophe.

While no one claims it will be a panacea for global warming, geoengineering may be the only way to buy some time and avoid a catastrophe.

Andrew Simms is right to highlight the inadequacies of the carbon trading system, which seems to be yet another way for the financial sector to try to make large sums of money, rather than a serious attempt to stave off global catastrophe (18 April, p 22).

Developed by Spiders, best known around Xbox Live Arcade for Faery: Legends of Avalon, Mars takes place a century after a global catastrophe devastated the colonists of the red planet, who are now governed by perpetually warring corporations struggling to control the precious supply of water.

In the current era in which the problems of global warming can lead to planetary catastrophe, every city has to have a plan for adapting to climate change, especially thosesubject toextreme events.

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.

The government's actions to avoid financial collapse last fall — as distasteful and unfair as some undoubtedly were — were unfortunately necessary to prevent a global economic catastrophe that could have rivaled the Great Depression in length and severity, with profound consequences for our economy and society.

Please join us for an evening with visual artists Laylah Ali, Emmet Gowin, Peter Rostovsky, and Lisa Sanditz to explore the relationship between beauty and catastrophe, whether historic or prophesied, global or personal.

Best known for work that employs the vehicle of the «grotesque,» De Jong reflects upon the paradox of contemporary life where advances in global policy, economics, science and art exist alongside the continuous forces of war, misfortune and catastrophe.

If you only read the U.S. press, you'd think that renewable energy is the most environmentally and socially devastating idea we'd ever had — paving over deserts, killing birds in wind turbines, promoting communism, fascism and moral depravity of all sorts, and now, threatening global catastrophe via overpopulation — and did you know that species extinction in the tropics is all due to the expansion of biofuels for export?

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.

Dave Roberts over in Gristmill / Huffington Post world has once again taken me to task for writing about people who have either made a career of saying global warming is not a catastrophe (Bjorn Lomborg) or have newly embraced the issue after a career on the right (Newt Gingrich).

Then came a talk on Energy, Complexity and Human Survival by Thomas Homer - Dixon of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation and Balsillie School of International Affairs, who studies global risk, governance and change and is the author of The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization and «Environment, Scarcity, and Violence ``:

There are signs of hope for American salamanders in the face of a potential biological catastrophe — a fungus that could be carried here through the global trade in exotic pets.

Any normal person would conclude that CO2 is not causing runaway global warming, climate catastrophe, or for that matter, any other problems.

If we accept the possibility of even moderate projections for climate change and honestly face the scale of the effort humankind must undertake to avert catastrophe, this single problem jumps to the top of any rational list of global priorities.

If we are lucky, and it seems that we have been for two years so far, it will remain cold enough so the average person begins to doubt the coming global warming catastrophe predictions — thank you Mr. Sun and Mrs. Cosmic Rays, for riling up the leftist so they reveal their true bad character — with harsh character attacks on scientists who do not deserve them.

If the critical threshold for climate catastrophe could be identified with scientific certainty, their research suggests that countries very likely would propose a collective target certain to avoid catastrophe, would pledge to contribute their fair share to the global effort, and would act so as to fulfill their promises.

See the video of Prof. Mike Hulme for a resounding challenge to political arguments for action on climate change, based on the idea that the consensus is that global warming will cause catastrophe.

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.

Even though human civilisation is threatened by grave environmental crises and global warming and many people are scared of impending catastrophe, Resurgence's vision is not driven by doom and gloom; rather it is inspired and motivated by love of nature, respect for the earth, reverence for all life and a fair «deal» to all people, believing that the power of love is greater than the force of fear and despair.

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

I propose for Earthday that fellow doubt merchants tweet and make their facebook status's «I believe global warming will prevent catastrophe and benefit humanity.»

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.

Given this relationship, there is no room left for any other causal factors and the hysterics of impending global warming catastrophe is exposed for what it is: nothing but a hoax and a scare tactic.

Around global warming then, at the current juncture in history, we can say that there are those who have primary moral responsibility for causing climate catastrophe, a much larger group of those who have secondary ethical responsibility for climate catastrophe, and a still larger group who are bystanders in terms of causality of global warming to date but will need to assume some responsibility in solving the climate crisis.

Global warming becomes the perfect issue for the inner city symbol manipulators, since it is both grandiose (an alleged looming global catastrophe) and the ultimate sign of the «wickedness» of the Gaia - damaging stuff prodGlobal warming becomes the perfect issue for the inner city symbol manipulators, since it is both grandiose (an alleged looming global catastrophe) and the ultimate sign of the «wickedness» of the Gaia - damaging stuff prodglobal catastrophe) and the ultimate sign of the «wickedness» of the Gaia - damaging stuff producers.

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.

For more than 20 years, a few dozen researchers, but above all, politicians and media, have spread the notion that carbon dioxide emissions will cause a global climate catastrophe.

The «global policies that work» might take frighteningly few natural catastrophes to come into effect (to a first approximation, the Arab Spring was caused by low crop yields, for instance).

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

You can only believe there is a looming catastrophe if a) you believe that man is responsible for 100 % of the CO2 increase (that is in serious doubt), b) an increase of up to 2.0 °C is not beneficial (there is much evidence that it is beneficial), c) over the next 100 years there will not be any major advances in energy production (now we can switch to nuclear within 10 - 20 years), and d) man can realistically do anything to effect global temperatures (the US EPA estimates proposed CO2 restrictions costing tens of trillions of US dollars would reduce global temperature by 0.006 °C).

I hadn't previously realised that you are another wise Aussie trying to bring sanity to the 1 % of the world's population that seem to be concerned about catastrophic climate change, or any other catastrophe that can help them to push their agenda for global government by the Loony Left and Comrades.

«Although the gullible media still pretends to believe the doomsday stories offered by these researchers, the polar bear has fallen as a useful icon for those trying to sell a looming global warming catastrophe to the public,» she wrote.

They often want government to intervene to avoid what they claim is a horrible catastrophe for modern civilization in the making — which never seems to happen (consider, for example, how badly their predictions of future global warming have worked out).

For those reasonable commenters here who wonder why the pro - AGW / Runaway Global Warming / Climate Catastrophe trolls argue incessantly, and nitpick every point ad nauseum,, the clear answer is given in this paper by a truly brave climate scientist, M.I.T.'s Prof. Richard Lindzen: click

In his current role as director at Risk Management Solutions -LRB-» the world's leading provider of products and services for the quantification and management of catastrophe risks» for the insurance industry), Bob Ward still writes letters to «deniers» on behalf of scientists — most recently to Martin Durkin, producer of The Great Global Warming Swindle (2).

The «doctored» results have been predicting a global climate catastrophe for many years.

As to be expected, the major MSM outlets have opted for Howarth's sensational «global catastrophe» story over the more rational, credible research that contradicted his claim.

The 58 - year time trends for the number of catastrophes and for losses of tornado - only catastrophes showed no upward trends with time and are not suggestive of increases potentially related to global climate change.

The exhibition has an interactive computer game called «Battle for the Planet», which seems say, we may heading for a global ecological catastrophe, but hey kids, global warming can still be fun!

The latest in the series puts the gap between emissions trends and what is actually required to keep the rise in global temperature at a level which does not spell catastrophe for the planet at between 8 - 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide - equivalent (CO2e) by 2020 — less a gap than a gaping chasm!

For me the most convincing piece of evidence that global warming has been contributing already to more and more intense weather related natural catastrophes is the fact that while we find a steep increase in the number of loss relevant weather events (about tripling in the last 30 years) we only find a slight increase in geophysical (earthquake, volcano, tsunami) events, which should not be affected by global warming.

That approach could be done for the low billions of dollars (far cheaper than either curtailing oil use or allowing a global warming catastrophe), and almost provably would work if we were sure of the global warming effect.