Sentences with phrase «severely damage infrastructure»

Rising global temperatures and associated sea level rise, growing season disruption, and increasingly severe weather events can severely damage infrastructure or tear at the fabric of societies — generating conditions of mass desperation the world over.

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And Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said that the strike «has severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at Shayrat airfield, reducing the Syrian government's ability to deliver chemical weapons.»

Hurricane Maria delivered a serious body blow to the Puerto Rican economy by severely damaging much of the island's infrastructure.

To be sure, the hurricane severely damaged not just Puerto Rico's power infrastructure and health care system but also basic government functions and medical data collection.

Rising sea levels and increasingly volatile weather caused by climate change threaten the infrastructure of our city and could severely damage our economy.

Infrastructure in the NW is severely damaged and thousands are killed; Salt Lake City, Boise, Denver and every city, town and village in the Pacific Northwest are affected.

-- However, if in the absence of mitigation these events eventually rose to provide a substantial cooling, it could be highly variable year to year and thereby impose severely damaging global temperature fluctuations, and it could also be at the cost of a related scale of volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis destroying more of society's infrastructure.

These concern damages to coastal infrastructure and low - lying ecosystems from continuing sea level rise, where damages would be widespread if sea level turns out to be at the upper end of current scenarios; and, threats to agricultural production in both far south - eastern and far south - western Australia, which would affect ecosystems and rural communities severely at the dry end of projected rainfall changes.

«There is certainly much work to be done: the international airport's traffic control tower was severely damaged, as were hospitals and prisons, to name only a fraction of the affected infrastructure.