Sentences with phrase «potential catastrophe»

The natural world faces potential catastrophe because of the combined effect of global warming and habitat destruction.

Finally, even if your coverage is solid today — and your rates are under control — the future no doubt has packed some surprises, and you want to anticipate as many potential catastrophes as possible and plan against them.

«[W] orld leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe.

Learn about potential catastrophes for your area Different types of natural disasters require different precautions.

Other potential catastrophes such as wildfires, residential fires and mudslides have the potential to cause a total loss to your home.

You do understand that when insurance companies increase premiums against potential catastrophes that never eventuate, they actually make more money.

People behind climate change are trying to convince lay people by scaring them with potential catastrophes associated to anthropogenic effects supported by equations.

Other potential catastrophes such as wildfires, residential fires and mudslides have the potential to cause a total loss to your home.

It makes much more sense to prepare for a number of potential catastrophes by building a robust emergency fund and retirement nest egg.

Surrounded by swaying palm trees and blessed with a balmy climate, the school has a tranquil atmosphere that does not suggest potential catastrophe.

The exercise, though based on merely potential catastrophes, offered a preview of how weather - prediction...

If you think potential catastrophe is a good thing because it justifies action to avoid catastrophe, you are more confused than I thought.

In a world where there is only one potential catastrophe waiting in the wings, the Precautionary Principle makes some sense, and most discussion about the PP and the Mann quote seems to precede with that assumption implicit.

Americans face a daily series of potential catastrophes when they head out on the roadways.

They have firmly linked glacial loss to global warming driven by profligate human fossil fuel combustion and they have warned that such loss risks social change and potential catastrophe for millions.

After all, whether you are an apartment denizen in a big city, or you just leased a duplex in a college town, you need a way to protect your assets and possessions against potential catastrophe — ranging from fire to floods to burglary to someone slipping and falling in your living room.

Our clients are mostly people and businesses that are organizing parties and events, but we also serve government institutions dealing with potential catastrophes.

Here's how to recover from these and ten other potential catastrophes.

But the reality is that the early days were more like treading a minefield of potential catastrophes, each equally capable of sinking the Wix vision.

Or are the pessimists right in protesting that technology itself is a major cause of potential catastrophe?

County Executive Steve Bellone called the federal tax bill a «potential catastrophe» for Long Island Monday morning in a conference call with local reporters.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has called the tax bill a «potential catastrophe» for the region.

Expressing vociferous criticism of the so - called tax - reform measure, he said it would be «a potential catastrophe,» amounting to a multibillion - dollar tax increase for Long Islanders, driving down property values, and resulting in residents fleeing the region.

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.

After the creatures accidentally escape, it's up to Scamander to try to get them back before the wizarding authorities catch him, and before Wizard / Muggle relations become any more strained as a result of potential catastrophe.

In that place whose history, in its most objective rendering, read like a conflation of myth, magic and madness, and where recent events were so turbulent and improbable that any future, or no future, seemed possible, each sign was seen as an omen of potential catastrophe.

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If you have insurance and you find yourself embroiled in a complaint, pat yourself on the back for avoiding the potential catastrophe of having to come out of pocket to defend yourself.

The doomsday industry, consisting, in part, of political activists and journalists, specializes in warning us of potential catastrophes.

However, with the price of food rising much faster than the global mean temperature, I suppose it is really not terribly surprising that financial analysts would seize on the potential catastrophe that is most immediate (especially if there are no major energy companies waging a campaign to confuse the issue).

Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after an earthquake - hit nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, prompting some people to flee the capital.

Gore's thesis is fourfold: (1) Global Warming is real, (2) Global Warming is a potential catastrophe to human civilization, (3) we CAN do something about it if we act both quickly and responsibly and (4) we are all in this together; it is not (or should not be) a political debate.

With 15,000 scientists — including Jane Goodall, E. O. Wilson and James Hansen — declaring a potential catastrophe at hand, you might think this would make headlines everywhere.

We have to be able to predict whether this is a potential catastrophe for humanity.

The downstream consequences include glacial lake outburst floods, disrupted availability of water for agriculture and human consumption, changes to mountain eco systems, increased frequency of forest fires, loss of habitat, and other potential catastrophes.

The injunction that the science was «settled» illustrates all to well the potential catastrophe of mixing politics and science, so the parentage of the IPCC was doubtful.

And with Russia blazing the trail and managing the business, companies like BP, Shell, and Exxon will be partly shielded from the PR storm of a potential catastrophe, and will likely be eager to participate.

It is also the best way to avoid a potential catastrophe.

Given that law school is teaching students to work as attorneys, there is never a better time to start using a data backup and protect yourself against a potential catastrophe.

Volunteering vacations are an increasingly popular option for travelers of all ages; it's important that potential catastrophes can be alleviated with travel insurance.

Every year, the hurricane season (from June to November) brings more uncertainty and potential catastrophes to town.