Sentences with phrase «potentially catastrophic»

The compromise now in place prevents a potentially catastrophic lapse of the NFIP for both the short and long - term.

The senators and area community health center officials and patients discussed the potentially catastrophic effects if Congress does not vote to restore community health center funding nationally.

Engineering & Inspections (Kapolei, HI) 10/2002 — 06/2003 Pressure Equipment Inspector • Perform pressure equipment inspections to the requirements of API - 653, 510 and 570 • Inspect large above ground storage tanks monitoring repairs to the requirements of API - 650 / 653 • Finish 400 piping system inspections in less than 2.5 months and identify hundreds of non-conformities • Finish inspection of 20 large above ground storage tanks (AST) and identify numerous service induced non-conformities • Complete the remaining pressure vessel inspections for 2003 and identify several potentially catastrophic anomalies • Write repair procedure for high pressure hydrogen compressor bottles

However, other potentially catastrophic mistakes may not be so apparent.

«Enabled identification of potentially catastrophic failures early in the product life cycle, thus reducing risk, slashing remedial costs downstream, and avoiding billions of dollars in possible losses from warranty claims.»

WITH news one week of potentially catastrophic job losses and the next of the latest tranche of inward investment creating new employment, getting an accurate picture of the jobs market is confusing, at best.

Geopolitical concerns aside, failing to warn government agencies — not just U.S. government agencies — of a potentially catastrophic security exploit is problematic at best, especially when your company represents nearly 80 percent of the CPU market.

Once again there are urgent security patches released for Windows, and this time the problems they fix are «potentially catastrophic» issues with the encryption stack.

Many of the world's leading AI researchers and humanitarian organizations are concerned about the potentially catastrophic consequences of allowing lethal autonomous weapons to be developed.

Re-partitioning the device on the fly could be potentially catastrophic (and likely would be in many scenarios), so Google's decision to leave it alone on current generation phones is respectable, albeit a bummer.

Without Washington renters insurance protection this could be a potentially catastrophic event that could financially ruin a person.

Liability coverage is an important part of homeowners and renter's insurance and protects the insured from potentially catastrophic financial burdens.

Renters insurance protects you from having to cover these potentially catastrophic expenses out of pocket.

Home Insurance quotes offer several levels of protection in the wake of potentially catastrophic losses.

It is intended to protect you and your household family members from the potentially catastrophic effects of liability or lawsuits.

Driving while under the influence may cause a bus driver to swerve, change lanes abruptly, strike a tree or other object, or collide with another motor vehicle — all of which can result in severe and potentially catastrophic injuries and damages.

If what a sovereign state offers to a business in return for it doing certain activity in that state is not something upon which the business can rely in the future, we have a degree of business uncertainty which is potentially catastrophic.

As breach of competition and antitrust law has become a serious and potentially catastrophic issue for businesses of all shapes and sizes, so MI has built a substantial global network of experts on standby to act at any time.

That's why when a product fails and causes potentially catastrophic injuries to you or a loved one, it's hard knowing what to do.

If you are diligent and integrate these steps carefully, you will protect your firm and your clients from potentially catastrophic events.

Investigative journalists at Inside Climate News recently revealed that Exxon Mobil's own scientists warned the company in about 1980 that climate change «would require major reductions in fossil fuel combustion» in order to avoid «potentially catastrophic events.»

Approximately 30 per cent of American drivers admit to falling asleep at the wheel at some point; a power nap can help you avoid this potentially catastrophic scenario.

The company benefits by avoiding the potentially catastrophic impact of criminal proceedings and conviction.

However, even if either of these scientific predictions are only partially accurate, the world's seas and oceans look set to be subjected to dramatic and potentially catastrophic change over the coming decades and centuries.

Gore and Dion are engaging in a sleight of hand when they say there is 100 per cent consensus that global warming (or climate change) is real, human - caused, and potentially catastrophic.

They foresee a period characterised by what they politely called «recurring precipitation deficits»: in other words, sustained and potentially catastrophic drought.

That means dramatically reducing carbon emissions and looking for ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere or we may eventually face the potentially catastrophic conditions of the Pliocene once more.

It will create a sound economic future for the country, set an example for other nations, and could help avert a potentially catastrophic end for humanity.

It concluded: «On planned policies, rising fossil energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change».

It would be good to be past todays well - financed skepticism about global warming, good if we all already understood that, in a world rife with potentially catastrophic threatsfrom nuclear war to genetic erosionglobal warming is one of the most serious.

And so, along with scientists who believe the bears are severely threatened, the producers also interviewed Mitch Taylor, a Canadian expert on polar bears who doesn't believe the bears are endangered (he says only two of the 19 polar bear populations are in decline; the program itself said half are in decline) and doesn't believe global warming is primarily human - caused or potentially catastrophic.

The impacts of climate change, though potentially catastrophic, are in the main yet to come — albeit sooner than we have previously expected.

Despite electing a president who pledged to end «the tyranny of oil» and to break the stranglehold of corporate interests, we're seeing CO2 emissions rise to potentially catastrophic levels; we're seeing corporations usurp ever more power from individuals; and we are left seemingly helpless against a vastly powerful media machine that actively spreads disinformation and ignorance and calls it truth.

In a world facing unbelievably daunting challenges, with potentially catastrophic consequences, it can be easy to lose heart and view the task ahead of us as hopeless.

You could use the «fat - tail» argument for presumably any potentially catastrophic outcome, e.g., bioterrorism, nuclear war, asteroid collision etc..

This appears to be a change from the previous AR4 report, which outlined in some detail the potentially catastrophic changes we would see by 2100.

THE STAGGERING aspect of the re - search is the discovery of a potentially catastrophic phenomenon that had been totally unexpected.

Nuclear's travails represent a major setback in the global quest to curb carbon emissions; if solar's rise similarly stalls, then the world won't get a third try at decarbonization before the potentially catastrophic impacts of climate change set in.

Yet, in its final order, FERC affirmed its highly limited Environmental Assessment, which omitted credible analysis of the project's lifecycle global warming pollution, potentially catastrophic threat to hundreds of nearby residents, pollution of the Chesapeake Bay and risk to the critically endangered right whale, along with all the pollution associated with driving demand for upstream fracking and fracked gas infrastructure.

Unless that happened, «there are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered,» the primer said, citing independent experts.

It is up to those who posit potentially catastrophic warming from AGW (= CAGW), as IPCC does, to demonstrate that this premise is correct — NOT up to those who are rationally skeptical of this premise to demonstrate that it is false.

Trading one potentially catastrophic health, environmental and security threat for another is not a sensible energy policy.»

Note, for one thing, that the sin of gloomy rhetoric about a problem every responsible scientist acknowledges is potentially catastrophic is hardly parallel to the sin of refusing to believe settled mainstream science on the basis of crazed conspiracy theories and political ideology.

Consider a few of Will's claims from his Feb. 15 column, «Dark Green Doomsayers ``: In a long paragraph quoting press sources from the 1970s, Will suggested that widespread scientific agreement existed at the time that the world faced potentially catastrophic cooling.

The Crutzen objective is to create droplets that will block the sun and create cooling, but the consequences are potentially catastrophic.

For a problem as potentially catastrophic as climate change, taking no action poses a dangerous risk for our planet.

Based on documents and other evidence from an eight month investigation, ICN described how Exxon scientists were warning of potentially catastrophic effects of a buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuels as early as 1977.

The large ranges of SCC are due in the large part to differences in assumptions regarding climate sensitivity, response lags, the treatment of risk and equity, economic and non-economic impacts, the inclusion of potentially catastrophic losses, and discount rates.

Those 30 million, million tonnes of accumulated excavation, ore and manufacture can be seen as the physical residue of the colossal exploitation of energy, much of it in the form of fossil fuels that is returned to the atmosphere as greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to trigger global warming and potentially catastrophic climate change.

Even if the climate is not quite as sensitive to the increased greenhouse effect as current best estimates suggest, we're still not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions if we want to avoid dangerous and potentially catastrophic climate change.