Sentences with phrase «great global flood»

For a time, that led scientists to look for archeological evidence that there might have been a great global flood at some time in human pre-history, before recorded history, when stories were passed down orally.

Not exact matches

Global mining investors have been demanding greater returns following a period marked by failed acquisitions and spending on mine expansions that flooded metals markets.

You mention global myths of a great flood as supporting evidence, but even the article only states,» [a] lmost every culture has a legend about a great flood, and — with a little reading between the lines — many of them mention something like a comet on a collision course with Earth just before the disaster.»

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

Percentage of global area experiencing changes in flood damage (left) and area in which those changes are greater than 25 % (right).

I knew that this was happening, and thought that the flooded streets would make a great backdrop for my video on global sea level rise.

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In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

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Have you considered that the economic risks of drastic carbon cutting and therefore access to cheap energy for developing economies, not to mention distractions from real and present infrastructure and land - management issues (a very likely factor in the recent Pakistan floods) under the catch - all label of global warming, may in fact represent a blind alley that contributes to a fatality risk for many of the world's poorest people of at least an order of magnitude greater than 1 %?

The ice sheet is the focus of scientific research because its fate has huge implications for global sea levels, which are already rising as ice sheets melt and the ocean warms, exposing coastal locations to greater damage from storm surge - related flooding.

Because of global warming, we must brace ourselves for chronic climate instability and greater frequency of droughts and floods.

Look at this great latent - variable measure of ideology: just add belief in climate change, belief nuclear power causes global warming, belief global warming causes flooding to liberal - conserative ideology & party identification!The answer is, Not what you know but who you are.

If global temperatures rise 2 degrees Celsius, they write in a study summarizing their findings published in the journal Climatic Change last September, «Results indicate that floods will be more frequent and flood magnitudes greater» than they would be at just 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.

The paper's authors argue that with systematic preparedness and adaptation, annual flood losses in the great global cities could be cut to $ 63 billion a year.