Sentences with phrase «unlikely scenario meant»

Pure conjecture, and really a very unlikely scenario meant to foster paranoia and islamaphobic feelings.

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Thomas will emerge from this Lord of the Flies scenario as an unlikely messiah, as the true meaning of their predicament gradually becomes clear.

So if there is a real, though unquantifiably small, possibility of catastrophic climate change, and if we would ideally want some technological hedges as insurance against this unlikely scenario, and if raising the price of carbon to induce private economic actors to develop the technologies would be an enormously more expensive means of accomplishing this than would be advisable, then what, if anything, should we do about the danger?

Worse yet, on our present trajectory, it seems highly unlikely that the warming process will stop at 2 or even 3 degrees Celsius, meaning that later in this century many of the worst - case climate - change scenarios — the inundation of coastal cities, the desertification of vast interior regions, and the collapse of rain - fed agriculture in many areas — will become everyday reality.

The scenario painted in the film «The Day After Tomorrow» seems extremely unlikely, even to most climate change advocates, but one could easily make a far more convincing version, based not on the effects of climate change, but the efforts of some crackpot to «save the world» from same by implementing some well meaning scheme that could all too easily lead to a disaster far more immediate and possibly far more destructive than anything a few degrees of temperature rise could produce.