Sentences with phrase «global disaster»

And the long - term rise in the costs of global disasters is probably due mainly to socio - economic changes, such as population growth and development in vulnerable regions.

And the more people understand the science and the limited time we have to act, the better chance we'll have to turn things around and prevent global disaster.

She was working on a story about global disasters and asked if a collision with another universe could destroy the planet.

You can make an argument that cell phones are the next global disaster or that they're completely harmless, depending on where you do your research.

As a result of these challenges, the office has launched an online tool called the Sendai Framework Monitor, named after the global agreement to tackle the impacts of global disasters by 2030.

Discover the suspenseful mystery behind global disasters when Knowing arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu - ray ™ and Digital HD) April 10 from Lionsgate.

With the world facing increased warming, melting ice caps, rising sea levels, intense weather events and other global disasters, scientists are exploring ways to re-engineer the planet to counter the effects of global warming.

Global Disaster Mitigation.

I have given familiar examples of future possibilities, some of which are sure to come (barring global disaster of some sort), others of which are likely, and others still uncertain.

Repressive measures taken by powerful human authorities, however well intentioned, can do no more than delay global disasters, and may instead exacerbate them.

Even if most do not turn back and global disaster comes, any human being can turn back and not perish in it.

A London Centre for Global Disaster Protection is being created that will bring together experts to increase disaster planning and create insurance to deal with the fallout when a crisis hits.

DEVASTATING DISASTERS The magnitude 9.1 earthquake and resulting tsunami that hit the island of Sumatra (shown) in Indonesia in 2004 was one of the world's first truly global disasters, argues seismologist Lucy Jones in her new book, The Big Ones.

Given the increasing demand for energy around the world and the dearth of international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we may be headed for a true global disaster.

Faced with dwindling natural resources and imminent global disaster, we seem unable to turn off the tap.

Is it the huge chunks of comet or asteroid a kilometre or more across that threaten global disaster once every 500 000 years or so?

«Germany and Japan must take the lead in this race against global disaster,» Schellnhuber said.

The tetchy band of thirtysomethings» interpersonal problems are infinitely less compelling than the mysterious and original global disaster the filmmakers have devised.

After a major global disaster, a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit - McPhee) are left to wander the United States, trying to make their way to the East Coast in hopes of finding something better.

Who: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne and Jude Law What: A desk - bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer and prevent diabolical global disaster.

16 year — old Leilani, an epileptic, and her father are visiting Oahu, Hawaii, when global disaster strikes due to a cosmic event.

In his new series of work for the Video section, multidisciplinary American artist Jacolby Satterwhite explores blockbuster movie tropes, disaster films and queer eroticism in a futuristic suite of films En Plein Air Abstraction (2016), featuring floating mechanics glidi ng over sci - fi inspired global disaster zones.

Velikovsky's major ideas built on the claim that Earth has experienced natural global disasters throughout its history.

And this is what made me a sceptic in the first place: the turbo charging of the science towards global disaster.

The frozen safe house, designed to protect the seeds of tens of thousands of food crops from global disaster, opened in 2008 in Svalbard, Norway.

Back in 1976, people were yammering on about the «global disaster facing humanity,» about «worldwide catastrophe» in our «near future,» about how we'd end up extinct if we didn't stop being so greedy and environmentally irresponsible.

Of course it would be far from a simple matter, but then we are talking about averting a huge global disaster.

Substantially reduce global disaster mortality by 2030, aiming to lower average per 100,000 global mortality between 2020 - 2030 compared to 2005 - 2015

His actions have locked in a higher level of climate change and ocean acidification than was necessary and these developing global disasters will displace millions of people and cause the extinction of thousands of species.

We often hear the claim that the science of climate change is settled, that there is general agreement that humans have been causing most of the recent warming trend, and that it will all end in global disaster unless we «do something about it».

I told them I could produce several hypotheses based on a few facts that presaged global disasters.

If by chance you'd like to stay abreast of these disruptive events around the world, you might subscribe to Global Disaster Watch, a site that can send you daily RSS updates, or to NASA's RSS feed of «The latest daily Natural Hazards from around the globe».

When they are hit, they end up crashing on to a dangerous and quarantined planet that is revealed to be Earth 1000 years after mankind was evacuated following a set of global disasters.

With the world facing increased warming, melting ice caps, rising sea levels, intense weather events and other global disasters, scientists are exploring ways to re-engineer the planet to counter the effects of global warming.

Our Infinite Future Series Part Two: Global Disaster Mitigation - Importance of Global Coherence Complete Destruction or Massive Positive Change.

Marketing by catalog and the Web, as well as at their store in Bunch, Okla., the Kirkwoods pitch products like water filters and first - aid kits to survivalists preparing for global disaster.

Personally, I don't think it has been acceptable that the Japanese government has attempted to manage this global disaster alone.

Birch shares with me both the Christian faith and the influence of Whitehead's philosophy, as well as keen concern about the global disaster toward which the still - dominant trends are leading us.

A single «pastor», his word, not mine, of a 60 member church, in a backwater town in Florida, can cause a global disaster.

For example, changes in the climate caused by waste heat released into the atmosphere could lead to global disaster.

Foreign secretary William Hague, who has been under pressure over his response to the Libyan uprising, insisted that the Foreign Office had not been overstretched by trying to deal with the global disaster while simultaneously managing events in the Middle East and north Africa.

A fierce solar storm could lead to a global disaster on an unprecedented scale — it's time to heed the warnings