Sentences with phrase «threat of catastrophe»

You have the threat of catastrophe so people want to do something to protect their interests.

If there is no threat of catastrophe — and as I said, prior to the hockey stick nobody had the slightest bit of luck convincing anyone that the sky was falling because global climate today is geologically unremarkable in every single way except that we happen to be living in it instead of analyzing it in a geological record — then there is little incentive to fund the enormous amount of work being done on climate science.

Cornelia Parker, Gary Hume and Keith Tyson tell Madeleine Bunting how they're dealing with the threat of catastrophe

And does it really merit the enormous expenditure implied in the improvement she wishes to see in modeling, when so many other, verifiable threats of catastrophe (antibiotic resistance, to name but one) clamour (or ought to) for investment?

Not exact matches

As the Sony hack continues to prove, with cyber crime, more than money is at stake — besides the PR catastrophe, the threat to some jobs and leaks of unreleased films and other IP, employees and their families have had their medical data exposed and are receiving personal threats.

So far neither the threat of nuclear catastrophe, the starvation of millions nor the destruction of vast habitats has done it.

I will assume that we are agreed about the already occurring catastrophes and the threat of more terrible ones in the next century.

We have grown used to the threats of nuclear war, the population explosion, and ecological catastrophe.

«There is a case for Britain in the early 21st century, with its imperial strength behind it, to slip quietly, even graciously into a different role,» he said, adding that to retreat in the face of the threat we face would be a «catastrophe».

The threat to our security is in the form of asteroids too small to be detected at long range but large enough to cause major catastrophes; NASA is now searching for asteroids one kilometer or larger in diameter, the impact of which could have global consequences.

Struggling to find his place in the world, Rapp eventually serves under the tutelage of grizzled Cold War veteran Stan Hurley, played by Michael Keaton, who shows him the ropes before joining forces to investigate a threat in the Middle East that could eventually lead to a global catastrophe.

The movie begins with a catastrophe at a Chinese power plant: a malicious little worm of code has wriggled its way into the system and shut down turbines in the cooling pool, leading to a reactor breach and the threat of meltdown.

Surrounded by emerging epidemics, biological catastrophes, tectonic shifts, savage hurricanes and the furtive, always looming threat of extinction, our relationship to the world - meant - for - us has become increasingly complex.

It's perfectly reasonable to be alarmed at plausible threats posed by unprecedented changes in the atmosphere and biology of the earth wrought by human activity, even in the absence of absolute proof of a connection between individual storms, extinctions, and economic catastrophes, and rising levels of CO2.

«I find it very convenient that the politicians who would seize power from the people and heavily regulate businesses on the threat of ill - defined climate catastrophe are usually the ones who wanted to control everything anyway,» DeMint told a large breakfasting crowd at the Washington Court Hotel Thursday.

As leaders of the industrialized world continue to squabble at home over how to address the threat of climate change — and even as they battle internal factions who don't believe the science of climate change — one group of leaders has come out in favor of swift, comprehensive action to prevent global catastrophe.

Importantly, whether one thinks global warming poses little or no threat or that the planet is on a path toward catastrophe, the cumulative climate effect of these policies, if implemented, would be a change in the earth's temperature almost too small to measure.

Dirty bombs make big messes, and may require massive relocations, as at Chernobyl, but they pale by comparison to the primary threat that Allison has written about in Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe — the possibility that terrorists might get hold of and detonate a nuclear bomb in a major city.

The clock's hands «are the closest they've been to catastrophe since the early days of above - ground hydrogen bomb testing» in the 1950s, largely due to the ongoing threats to the planet from ACD.

Coffee catastrophe beckons as climate change threatens arabica plant Study warns that rising temperatures pose serious threat to global coffee market, potentially affecting livelihoods of small farmers and pushing up prices

Lynas's reformulation of politics, under threat of climate catastrophe, suits a narrow establishment which has, over the years, become more and more distant from its public.

Unfortunately, the threat posed by environmentalism is not nearly as great as they imagine, and is diminished by the actions of pale greens everywhere who believe that working within the system and massaging the public can save us from climate catastrophe.

The political calculus is understandable — the risk of an oil spill weighed against the far greater threat posed by global warming — but in the end, he may have succeeded only in compounding one environmental catastrophe with another.

Therefore, since catastrophe is not a real threat, we are left with addressing the question: what are the costs and benefits of warming versus the costs and benefits of mitigation policies?

According to the report's preface, signed by Fred Palmer, «the evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

«[T'he evidence does not show that the increase in CO2 levels attributed to human activity is responsible for a measured rise in global temperature, or, for that matter, that a warmer climate, if it did occur, poses the threat of an environmental catastrophe.»

A year ago, with some progress made in reducing the threat of a global catastrophe the time was moved back from five to six minutes before midnight.

Furthermore, the many other catastrophes, which were not at all or only briefly reported in the West, are indicative of the egoistic selectivity with which the West responds to the threats of world risk society.

Ten years later, it is clearer than ever that to address the greatest environmental threat of our time, we need to both reduce the risk of climate catastrophe and prepare for climate consequences.

The notion that CO2 is such a driver of climate that the projected growth in ambient levels carries the threat of probable catastrophe is so feeble, so lacking in observational and, indeed, theoretical support that we need other ways to understand the motivations of those who campaign so intemperately against this vital chemical.

And Professor of Public Health at Bond University, Chris Del Mar, wrote a fascinating long read for Inside Story on antibiotic resistance — and how it is a serious threat to our way of life, describing it as a «looming catastrophe».