Sentences with phrase «of global chaos»

Using striking images and imposing structures, often imbued with surrealist absurdity and irony, they represent and perform this pervasive sense of global chaos and disorder.

His message was reinforced by the UK's Royal Society, which the same day published a picture of global chaos in a world warmed by 4 °C — which it said could happen as early as the 2060s.

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Based on Gordon's interpretation of the Kondratieff theory, the current global forecast calls for a long, cold economic winter with a 100 % probability of short - term total chaos.

One year earlier, in 1961, Clarke also published Dial F for Frankenstein, a short story of an interconnected telephone network that spontaneously acts like a newborn baby and leads to global chaos as it takes over financial, transportation, and military systems.

This year, hackers managed to cause chaos at global companies, swipe half of all Americans» Social Security numbers, and boost the cyber insurance market.

Joseph Stiglitz recently acknowledged that instead of helping the global recovery, the «flood of liquidity» from the Fed and the European Central Bank is causing «chaos» in foreign exchange markets.

But as financial firms ponder whether to move or expand an existing subsidiary outside the U.K., as TD Securities intends to do, non-financial companies say this chaos presents an opportunity since they may be able to capitalize on other global companies scrambling to shift their resources and people out of the U.K. or take advantage of other dynamics at play.

Global equities saw little net change this week, but there was a good bit of volatility midweek as political chaos intensified in Washington.

However, many researchers and commentators have entered the debate to highlight that the demise of corporate trade deals like NAFTA (or the current neoliberal global trade regime more broadly) would not plunge the Canadian economy into chaos.

Alternative to the road to social chaos is the evolution of a global society.

Of course it is wise to take security precautions to limit the damage that can be done by terrorists, but a policy of waging war on terrorism is likely to lead the world into an ever deeper quagmire of hostility and global chaoOf course it is wise to take security precautions to limit the damage that can be done by terrorists, but a policy of waging war on terrorism is likely to lead the world into an ever deeper quagmire of hostility and global chaoof waging war on terrorism is likely to lead the world into an ever deeper quagmire of hostility and global chaoof hostility and global chaos.

Until we achieve a more stable form of global society, there is real danger of descent into social chaos.

The danger is that global capitalism will not collapse until much of the biosphere is irreparably damaged, many national governments have lost the power to prevent chaos in their borders, and the struggle for the remaining resources is everywhere violent.

From the beginning, the Menchie's approach has been to offer guests a strong selection of flavors in a unique and comfortable setting that is 78 food & drink • summer 2013 • www.fooddrink-magazine.com Despite beginning its franchising odyssey in the midst of domestic and global economic chaos, Menchie's has grown at an impressive rate.

Third, and hardest to repair, Britain's global stature as a result of the referendum and subsequent political chaos.

But those programs, including a second phase of the Global 450 Consortium and a $ 500 million Advanced Patterning and Productivity Center, either fell apart or never materialized last year amid the chaos.

It is crucial that the party develops new approaches to deal with the pressing challenges of the early 21st century, such as rising inequality, declining social mobility, global financial chaos and climate change.

The report argues a reluctance to take the radical changes needed to address the root causes of instability has led to rising support for political Islam, the re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, increasing global terror attacks and the a «state of bloody chaos nearing civil war» in Iraq.

Haldane has been studying the global financial system with Robert May of the University of Oxford, an early proponent of chaos theory.

Lord Robert May planted the seeds of chaos theory, and his work modeling ecosystems and infectious diseases mathematically has translated into global conservation efforts and insights into AIDS.

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Director: Christopher McQuarrie Running time: 131 minutes Certificate: PG - 13 Tom Cruise returns as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the fifth film in the series, this time on the trail of a secret organisation intent on causing global chaos.

If one is to take Moriarty to the extremes allowed of the other characters, a plan for global chaos for its own sake is about right.

«The Cloverfield Paradox» follows a group of astronauts on the orbiting Cloverfield space station who are tasked with making a risky particle accelerator churn out an infinite amount of free energy, in order to save an Earth that has plunged into chaos during a global energy crisis.

That Cowboy Bebop's main plot revolves around a deadly terrorist attack (both a specific reference to Japan's own subway massacre and a contemporary brush at a more global post-9 / 11 paranoia) precipitated (and ultimately ameliorated) by a doomed love affair is something to admire for its understanding of the ripple of consequence that infects as it spreads; love as the product of and the inspiration for chaos.

No doubt Emmerich said when conceiving this movie, «I want to show big scenes of mass chaos and devastation to New York and the national monuments, and will use the global warming premise as a means to make everyone flock to my movies once again to have a front row seat to the deaths of millions of people for their viewing pleasure.»

In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos.

But the heist, it turns out, was merely a test engineered by Pym, who needs a new Ant - Man to infiltrate his old company, whose current CEO (Stoller) is about to unleash global chaos by beginning production of his own shrinking - soldier costume, the Yellowjacket.

Johnson has given us a Star Wars movie that, in its own way, reflects some of the chaos and doubt that courses through today's global landscape.

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

Officials have warned: «Inaction in this area... could lead to global tax chaos marked by the massive reemergence of double taxation.»

In the chaos, conspiracy theories rage about a foreign cyberattack — that this might be the first shockwave of a colossal global shift in power — but even this becomes unimportant as Mike and his family struggle for survival in the wintry tomb of a doomed New York.

Battlefield 1 is a first person shooter set in World War I which immerses players in the chaos and action of the first modern global war.

By physically and metaphorically cutting and bringing together disparate items and ideas in her paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Gueorguieva's works can be seen as assemblages of chaos and order, personal concerns and global issues.

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As artists respond to the possibility of global environmental chaos, Mark Rappolt examines Tomás Saraceno's Aerocene project, one of the artist's most ambitious imaginings yet The Truth about «Cultural Appropriation» With controversies over cultural appropriation regularly in the headlines, Kenan Malikargues that trying to control what culture artists can and can not use is bad news for political interaction and artistic imagination Power in Black and White In an America where the dividing line of race is now a cultural and artistic flashpoint, Jonathan T.D. Neil searches for a path beyond both pluralism and white privilege Carol Rhodes «Rhodes's landscapes are unlocatable because they are fantastical... They are «nowhere places».»

On the cover: Tomás Saraceno As artists respond to the possibility of global environmental chaos, Mark Rappolt examines Tomás Saraceno's Aerocene project, one of the artist's most ambitious imaginings yet

(For instance, describing the global chaos caused by World War II and its aftermath, Gillick intones, «An abstraction of an abstraction swirled around and intoxicated capital.»)

From the regional - specific to the global and even to the metaphysical realm, universal themes of chaos, control, excess and conflict come to the fore — whether between person to person, country to country, Man to Nature, or element to element.

I think that the level of chaos that is being alluded to, and increasingly expected as described by the CIA, DOD, Joint Forces Command, Army War College, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Center for Naval Analysis, etc. shows abuse to the human race on a massive scale that has never before been considered seriously, by the human race (other than in global thermonuclear war or a global plague), due to our own actions against ourselves.

However, in (a) blueprints smacks more of engineering solutions than scientific ones making me very uncomfortable with that choice and (b) since the challenge of global warming and climate change is the equivalent of fighting many battles in a virtual war with very unpredictable outcomes, chaos is the more likely outcome.

He tells us global warming will disrupt the circulation of the ocean waters, dramatically changing climates, throwing the world food supply into chaos.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

So while CET can be expected to track global temperature (Lamb's thesis), this is somewhat masked by this additional regional climate change, as reflected in the transition from regularity to chaos in its Hale curve around mid-18th century (one reason for preferring HadCRUT3 over CET in identifying multidecadal components of climate change for recent centuries).

Global Temperature is an example of a bulk property, and it does indeed average out over sufficient time scales; hence showing that whatever chaos, spatio - temporal or otherwise, is present in the system on short timescales it does not affect our longer term predictions.

How is «Global Temperature» an «observed property of the system» showing that spatio - temporal chaos «does not affect our longer term predictions»?

Citing a report by the storied London insurer, the newspaper warned that businesses were «underestimating catastrophic consequences of declining oil,» including oil at $ 200 a barrel by 2013, a global supply crunch, and overall «economic chaos.»

Within the noisy chaos and bustle of our fast - paced global economy are signals of a transformation, a fruitful rethinking of the principles of economic life.

The director of the UN Environment Programme's New York office warned that «coastal flooding and crop failures» would «create an exodus of «eco-refuges,» threatening political chaos» if global warming wasn't reversed by the year 2000.

We certainly should have a sufficient appreciation by now for the holistic processes involved in global warming to know that GCMs can not effectively model climate change except perhaps in the most abstract way possible — such as by way of using the mathematics of chaos.

These, and their community of blog commenters, are the global warming contrarians that formed the peer - to - peer review network and helped bring chaos to Copenhagen — critically wounding the prospects of cap - and - trade legislation in the process.