Sentences with phrase «predicting future catastrophe»

Co-brooders also tend to focus on all the potentially bad consequences of a particular problem, often predicting future catastrophe,» Quartz says, explaining Bastin's work.

After all, the models, developed specifically to PREDICT future catastrophe actually do so.

The doubt lies in how strong it is, how buried it is in a myriad of natural variations, uncertainty in what the future will bring, and in the unlikely case that the alarmists ultimately prove to be right, is there much we can do to prevent the predicted future catastrophe while providing the people of the world with required energy?

In the unlikely case that the alarmists ultimately prove to be right, is there much we can do to prevent the predicted future catastrophe while providing the people of the world with required energy?

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I feel and I am convinced of one thing: that nothing is more dangerous for the future of the world, nothing moreover less warranted in Nature, than the affected resignation and false realism with which in these days a great number of people, hunching their shoulders and drawing in their heads, predict (and in so doing tend to provoke) a further catastrophe in the near future.

If I was to claim that I need huge amounts of revenue from you to avoid certain catastrophe from a future asteroid collision, and that my computer models now predict this collision to be much more likely than previously thought, would you give me the same benefit of the doubt?

H.G. Wells predicted that our future would be a race between education and catastrophe.

I'd just returned from a short trip, four days away on business, and I swear that Agustina was fine when I left, I swear nothing odd was going on, or at least nothing out of the ordinary, certainly nothing to suggest what would happen to her while I was gone, except for her own premonitions, of course, but how was I to believe her when Agustina is always predicting some catastrophe; I've tried everything to make her see reason, but she won't be swayed, insisting that ever since she was little she's had what she calls the gift of sight, or the ability to see the future, and God only knows the trouble that's caused us.

The best that can be said for the catastrophist side is that there is at least some evidence that future warming or changes in sea level or ocean chemistry could be catastrophic, even though this evidence is far from conclusive and is actively contradicting most models that predict catastrophe at present.

The climate isn't understood well enough to model it 100 years in the future and if the climate models don't predict catastrophe the scientists will become unemployed.