Sentences with phrase «weather calamities»

These are historically inevitable sources of weather calamities because of the urge to their fertility.
These paintings from 2005 to ’07 are a catalogue of The Day After Tomorrow — style weather calamities: a truck chugging through... read more... «Alexis Rockman's painterly turn at the Rose»
The coalition's policy brief entitled «Weathering Extremes» reveals the worst weather calamities in the last decade cost the region tens of thousands of lives and more than US$ 4 billion annually.
There, as in so many places around the world, the prime driver of losses in severe weather calamities is poverty or settlement in danger zones.
This year's El Niño is «significant and strengthening,» and could rival the record 1997 version that caused weather calamities across the planet, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center said.
You are permitted to note, as a parenthetical, that no single weather calamity can be ascribed with absolute certainty (roll your eyes here to signal the exasperating fussiness of scientists) to what humans are doing to the atmosphere.
For those who see looming global warming as the paramount threat to the globe, there is a tendency to ascribe man's nurturing hand - through our ever - rising emissions of greenhouse gases - as being behind all recent weather calamities.
These paintings from 2005 to ’07 are a catalogue of The Day After Tomorrow — style weather calamities: a truck chugging through a blizzard; a fire throwing a big black cloud up at the horizon; the edges of neighborhoods collapsing into mudslides; rusting ships marooned in a desert that was once the Aral Sea; a car on a muddy road with its brake lights glowing as a great big brown beast of a tornado blenders the landscape.
Terrorism events and these weather calamities used to give the market a pretty big hit, but we now seem to be much more resilient to these events.
I wrote here about Wedsafe, a wedding insurance product that offers brides and grooms all - inclusive policies insuring against cancellations due to sudden illness or weather calamities, as well as disaster cakes, lost photographs, drunken guests getting into an accident or a fight — and so on.
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