Sentences with phrase «little evidence of catastrophe»

------------------------ It's worse because the is little evidence of catastrophe at all.

Not exact matches

If we have real - world evidence that temperatures were warmer than today during most of the past 10,000 years (and also during several interglacial warm periods during the past few million years), and if we also have real - world evidence that human civilization thrived during these warmer temperatures and the warmer temperatures did not trigger so - called «tipping points» sending the planet into a climate catastrophe, then we have very little reason to believe that our presently and moderately warming temperatures are now poised to send the planet into a climate catastrophe.

But other scientists say there is little hard evidence to back up specific predictions of catastrophe.

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.