Sentences with phrase «mass migration events»

Hurricane Maria's destruction on Puerto Rico could spawn one of the largest mass migration events in the United States» recent history, experts say, as tens of thousands of storm victims flee the island territory to rebuild their lives on the U.S. mainland.

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All of this would be accompanied by a catalogue of catastrophes — extreme weather events, sea - level rise and so on — the harms of which would be magnified many-fold by geopolitical conflict and mass migrations.

Water and food scarcity, flooding or extreme weather events, violent conflicts, economic collapses, and a number of other climate damages could precipitate mass migration to the United States from regions worldwide.

Situations where water may run dry, where mass migrations are provoked by food shortages or where extreme weather events on the rise.

Brigadier General (ret) Chris King, chief academic officer for the United States Army's Command and General Staff College, warned that failed states, extreme weather events and mass migration could be «debilitating» and represented real dangers to global stability in the coming years.

If we don't curb our carbon - emitting ways, the alarmists warn, we face «increasingly radical temperature changes, a worldwide upsurge in violent weather events, widespread drought, flooding, wildfires, famine, species extinction, rising sea levels, mass migration, and epidemic disease that will leave no country untouched.»

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.