Sentences with phrase «lead to catastrophe in»

Of course, there was strong criticism of this idea that continuing economic growth will lead to catastrophe in the relatively imminent future.

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To lead through a catastrophe, ensure business continuity and a return to normal as soon as practical, we must have a plan in place to focus first and foremost on the human side of the crisiTo lead through a catastrophe, ensure business continuity and a return to normal as soon as practical, we must have a plan in place to focus first and foremost on the human side of the crisito normal as soon as practical, we must have a plan in place to focus first and foremost on the human side of the crisito focus first and foremost on the human side of the crisis.

This is in contrast with a system that inherently generates a race to the bottom and leads toward massive ecological catastrophes while working against efforts to solve the problems it generates.

It could lead to complacency about catastrophes in which large numbers of people perish.

So your irrational fear that taking god out of public schools and the public in general would lead to a huge catastrophe is ridiculous and is fear mongering that I am sure has been hammered into your head since you were a child.

«In the day of a catastrophe the old familiar script just won't work and there aren't any good books that will have all the answers, but if your ear is tuned to God, he will lead you through the rubble!»

In terms of silverware, those nine years were as good as it has got for Les Dogues as just two years after their second Ligue 1 success in 1954, they were relegated to Ligue 2, a catastrophe that led to decades of underachievement on the pitch and disappointment in the standIn terms of silverware, those nine years were as good as it has got for Les Dogues as just two years after their second Ligue 1 success in 1954, they were relegated to Ligue 2, a catastrophe that led to decades of underachievement on the pitch and disappointment in the standin 1954, they were relegated to Ligue 2, a catastrophe that led to decades of underachievement on the pitch and disappointment in the standin the stands.

In a paper published this month in the journal PLoS Biology, Matthews and his co-authors argue that investment and management decisions risk exacerbating climate - initiated changes, which could lead to economic catastropheIn a paper published this month in the journal PLoS Biology, Matthews and his co-authors argue that investment and management decisions risk exacerbating climate - initiated changes, which could lead to economic catastrophein the journal PLoS Biology, Matthews and his co-authors argue that investment and management decisions risk exacerbating climate - initiated changes, which could lead to economic catastrophes.

«It can probably be done in a way that is responsible and will not lead to environmental catastrophes,» says Sax, who is helping organize a group with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation to assess the idea.

A team from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena led by physicist King - Fai Li wondered if there was any way to stop this potential catastrophe.

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 returIn 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 returin 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 returin 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.

The new longing for a purer Christianity soon led to the biggest catastrophe in Europe, the Thirty Years» War.

Struggling to find his place in the world, Rapp eventually serves under the tutelage of grizzled Cold War veteran Stan Hurley, played by Michael Keaton, who shows him the ropes before joining forces to investigate a threat in the Middle East that could eventually lead to a global catastrophe.

The movie begins with a catastrophe at a Chinese power plant: a malicious little worm of code has wriggled its way into the system and shut down turbines in the cooling pool, leading to a reactor breach and the threat of meltdown.

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 eventIn 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 eventin 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.

Second, wouldn't it be a troubling unintended consequence if the regulators managed to protect the municipalities, and in the process, ended up destroying the investment banks, leading to a bigger catastrophe?

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.

Construction of a planned dam on the Kura (Mtkvari) River in the Turkish province of Ardahan would redirect much of the river's water from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, leading to «an ecological and economic catastrophe» in Georgia, officials from the Georgian Green Party are cited as claiming in a recent article by the Georgian publication Democracy & Freedom Watch.

«The full - scale glacier shrinkage in the plateau regions will eventually lead to an ecological catastrophe,» he said.

A system of this magnitude, with this huge number of identified and unidentified governing factors, corresponds to a multi-dimensional geometric structure with proportionally numerous catastrophe points... When one of them is reached and crossed over, a new system state is reached, which rapidly leads to the next catastrophe point in line.

Since each great catastrophe is the result of a combination of small problems that would each be harmless in itself, the way to safety is to watch for small problems, that don't lead to catastrophe, and deal with each of them systemically.

In the long term, global warming will lead to a further increase in weather - related natural catastrophes, the financial impact of which will have to be borne by insurers and the publiIn the long term, global warming will lead to a further increase in weather - related natural catastrophes, the financial impact of which will have to be borne by insurers and the publiin weather - related natural catastrophes, the financial impact of which will have to be borne by insurers and the public.

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.»

What kind of catastrophe can not be predicted, but numerous candidates have been discussed in this book: ecological collapses of various kinds, large - scale crop failures due to ecological stress or changes in climate and leading to mass famine; severe resource shortages, which could lead either to crop failures or to social problems or both; epidemic diseases; wars over diminishing resources; perhaps even thermonuclear war.»

What he in the main denies is that that will necessarily lead to catastrophe — might indeed be on the whole beneficial.

Further, he appears to have picked up that strange censorial attitude noteworthy also in von Storch which presumes that because they do not believe that AGW will lead to catastrophe (which is a respectable position inside the consensus), that therefore scientists who do believe that it will (also a respectable position inside the consensus) must not state that belief in public.

They openly acknowledge the importance of the GHG - GHE in establishing the disequilibrium conditions that lead to a lapse rate and atmospheric heat transport in the first place, but then analyze that motion to argue that the overall feedbacks of this process are negative, not positive, something that actually explains the remarkable stability of our atmosphere in the face of internal variability that (in a chaotic system) could easily drive it to catastrophe.

This is why catastrophes like Harvey — in which every extra inch of rain can lead to additional damage and harm — highlight exactly how and why climate change matters to each and every one of us.

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 latter is a politico -(pseudo) scientific construct, developed since the late - 1980s, in which the human emission of «greenhouse gases», such as carbon dioxide and methane, is unquestioningly taken as the prime - driver of a new and dramatic type of climate change that will inexorably result in a significant warming during the next 100 years and which will inevitably lead to catastrophe for both humanity and the Earth.

The possiblity that fossil fuels may lead to global catastrophes is mute compared to what our addiction has already caused in more mundane terms to average citizens.

The goal of our movement isn't just preventing climate catastrophe, but ensuring that everyone can live in a healthy environment and has the resources they need to lead a happy and productive life.

I'll argue that if you're one of the ~ 3M persons living in the Ben Tre and Long An provinces of Vietnam situated on the Mekong Delta, unsupported claims such as Lindzen's «The evidence is that the increase in CO2 will lead to very little warming, and that the connection of this minimal warming (or even significant warming) to the purported catastrophes is also minimal» is hardly a tight argument and is ethically extremely dubious, aimed as it is at paralyzing the public policy response necessary to protect those people at risk.

«Given that the current upward trend in temperatures is not unprecedented, it stands to reason that minor warming will not lead to unprecedented catastrophes, and scientific evidence confirms this.»

As the potential losses for oil companies could lead toward perilous catastrophe for the fossil fuel industry, how will oil companies engage in preparation to COP21?

, with the science purportedly showing that anthropogenic CO2 was driving the «annual temperature of the earth» (undefined) higher monotonically, with the trend concave upward, and that the consequences would lead to world wide catastrophe in the near future unless amelioration was begun immediately.

«The first catastrophe occurred in 1989 when low winter snowpack led to an early and unusually synchronous adult emergence in April (as compared to the usual June flight).

Conscious consumerism may not look like much when you analyze the numbers; it may be a mere drop of effort in a sea of catastrophe; but that doesn't mean it can not lead to the surge of public will that's needed to support the afore - mentioned activists.

It is the promotion, by whatever means necessary, of the idea that we humans are endangering all life on Earth by burning excessive quantities of fossil fuels and altering the terrain to reduce the albedo of the Surface in a way that will lead to a «tipping point» and near - term catastrophe for all of us.

How sure are we that this kind of change in the environment would not lead to catastrophe?

In fact, the IEA warns that the world is currently on track to hit 6 degrees Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, essentially leading to a climate catastrophe with temperatures rising further than they have been in 50 million yearIn fact, the IEA warns that the world is currently on track to hit 6 degrees Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, essentially leading to a climate catastrophe with temperatures rising further than they have been in 50 million yearin 50 million years.

But nothing like the catastrophe we have been led to believe, with many alarmists claiming there would be an ice - free arctic last summer due to global warming (in fact, much of the big decline in 2007 was due to changes in wind patterns, not temperature).

But failing to have one is extremely likely to lead to ethics charges in the event of a catastrophe — exactly what a lawyer does not need in the wake of a catastrophe.

In my view, we need a systemic, organized approach to the situation; an approach that can be applied to this problem and to any potential future catastrophe that leads to large migrations of families.

A worst - case oil spill threatens to disrupt the dynamics of the food - web in Burrard Inlet and could lead to large - scale environmental catastrophe.

While the tornado risk in Beaufort is small, as it is 43 percent less than the national average, it is important to bear in mind that major catastrophes such as tornadoes, hurricanes and house - fires can lead to a total loss of your home and all the property you keep inside.

Add it up, and the unfolding debacle at General Growth illustrates how optimism and entrepreneurial zeal, characteristics we extol in this capitalist society, sometimes can lead to over-confidence and catastrophe.

Factors that have led to increases in homeowners premiums in the past few years include rising home values, higher repair and rebuilding costs, and larger than average catastrophe losses in hurricane - prone areas.