Sentences with phrase «potential global catastrophe»

Using dirtier fossil fuels (Plan A) or switching to renewable energy sources (Plan B) allows people to remain complacent in the face of a potential global catastrophe.

Not exact matches

They are called potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs) because an accident involving their release could cause a global catastrophe.

I do think that we humans are needlessly speeding things along, but do not think that even if we get the global mean temperature increase below 2 degrees that we can not or will not have widespread droughts and potential world catastrophes in terms of both weather and climate.

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).

There are signs of hope for American salamanders in the face of a potential biological catastrophe — a fungus that could be carried here through the global trade in exotic pets.

In January, the World Economic Forum said a catastrophe caused by climate change was the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016.

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.

Amid contemporary scenarios of potential climatic catastrophes and global warming that might be imagined to bring a new ice age, the powerful image of the Gulf Stream rising from the Florida Straits and flowing to the north Atlantic inevitably provokes questions about its ecological significance and whether it might ever stop.

We are supposed to believe their declaration of a global climate catastrophe based on trivial changes in world temps, while ignoring the evidence that their claims lack actual data and that their cures are far worse than the potential problem.

«Just as we confronted global financial catastrophe in 2008, today, with climate change, we face outsize risk with enormous potential for harming our way of life,» he told Audubon.

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.