Sentences with phrase «wiped out by»

Oh, and did I mention that this one is likely to happen in decades rather than centuries, with a quarter of the world's species wiped out by 2050?

In question is a passage saying that 40 % of the Amazon rainforest could be wiped out by climate change.

Had a great comment on Victor's newest folly, the Mad Billionaire Climate Disaster scenario, but it was somehow wiped out by a single errant keystroke.

If you are still forced to buy supplemental power from them when the wind is not blowing (not a true free market situation) then the savings realized with the windmills will be wiped out by the increased cost of the fossil fuel power.

The 2006 harvest is in July / August and we are hopeful that they will have an ample supply  · Almonds  · Hazelnuts  · Cashews  · Apricots  · Organic brown rice syrup — much of the brown rice crop was wiped out by hurricane Katrina.

But this is just a Band - Aid; without addressing the real problem of rising temperature, 90 percent of all Alpine glaciers could be wiped out by 2100.

Interestingly a major factor in the speciation seems to have been enhanced dwarfism due to high CO2 levels, although longer - term some very large species resulted only to be wiped out by the next extinction event, the late Eocene cooling.

A decade of cost inflation was wiped out by a relentless focus on efficiency and reengineering projects.

A hardy Viking colony in western Greenland may have been wiped out by a cold snap coupled with a rise in sea - ice, researchers have found.

In 2011, Bill Gates gave a talk in which he said that the climate benefits of energy - efficiency technologies would be wiped out by increasing fossil - based energy use in the developing world.

Scientists argue, however, that there is little point donating money to save birds, woodlands or coastline from short - term threats if they are simply going to be wiped out by global warming later on.

I missed that fine print in his chart and should not have complained about the super El Nino which naturally gets wiped out by that stupid 11 year rounding.

What is the website server databse is wiped out by a virus?

If it wasn't for man made climate change Pompei never would have been wiped out by Vesuvius.

Greensburg, Kan., almost wiped out by a 2007 tornado, rebuilt with energy efficiency in mind.

According to a National Geographic article March 19, 2003 «Climate Change Killed off Maya Civilization» The Mayans were also wiped out by global warming.

For example, it warned that large tracts of the Amazon rain forest might be wiped out by global warming because they are extremely susceptible to even modest decreases in rainfall.

Jim Johnson, you might want to make sure that the concern that you raised has not been wiped out by these modifications.

Even if they meet those targets, any actual climate benefit could be more than wiped out by the climate impacts of the fossil fuels exported from the NEW extraction projects they continue to approve in the meantime.

Scientists have long warned that the Maldives, an archipelago nation of nearly 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, will be wiped out by rising sea levels in the coming decades.

AP Media Shocker: Sea level threat revised: Scientific data challenge fears of sunken islands — May 22, 2009 Scientists have long warned that the Maldives, an archipelago nation of nearly 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean, will be wiped out by rising sea levels in the coming decades.

Of course, if a larger spatial or shorter temporal scale is the chaotic one, then hardly matters about the smaller space or longer time scale when it might mean the whole shebang is wiped out by a — non-cataclysmic, non-alarming, but mathematically fascinating — event.)

wiped out by the climate harm caused by allowing NEW oil or gas exports.

Unfortunately in most temperature curves this is wiped out by an imaginary «late twentieth century warming,» It is fake but is needed to support the fiction that Hansen in 1988 reported global warming to the Senate.

And then there is his latest doomsday scenario of human CO2 emission causing global warming so hot that humanity on Earth is wiped out by a Venus - like climate of 250 degrees.

SoftBank's decision is vital to protect Africa's elephants from being wiped out by ivory poachers.»

First the news was that if we don't change our habits around fishing, all the world's fisheries will be wiped out by 2050.

Now, experts guess that if we don't significantly change our interaction with the ocean, coral reefs will be all but wiped out by that same time.

Because the organochlorine pesticides, the DDT family of pesticides, wiped them out by making all their eggs break, and when these were banned, the bird populations began to recover.

Later economic theory moderated Jevons» observation to say that a more efficient technology could create a rebound effect: Some of the efficiency gains are wiped out by greater demand for the resource.

Let me just say that it would be ironic if AGW exists and was prevented from causing disaster, we conquered the new superdiseases, we solved the energy crisis, we eliminated world hunger, and we managed to turn war into a series of paintball games only to be wiped out by a giant rock.

In a little more than 100 years, all of them were wiped out by humans.

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Such a number is impossible to justify on biological grounds because the wolves could easily be wiped out by disease or many other environmental crises, such as an extra-hard winter.

A few months ago, Suzanne Moore wrote, «A generation of artists were wiped out by AIDS and we barely talk about it.»

at the Oakland Museum of California aims to document the city's culture before it's wiped out by tech industry gentrification, and hopefully inspire viewers to political action.

I went from easy boss battles to suddenly being wiped out by the stuff wandering around the world map.

According to the announcement made public by Kotaku, in this game players will take control of an intelligent monster whose race has been wiped out by humans.

Now that indie was wiped out by the indiepocalypse, it is time to explore new territories, to discover new games, new players and new perspectives on games.

While tackling that threat, players also have to deal with a randomly chosen safe zone they have to reach, or face being wiped out by the environment.

With a story and game play feature that involves time the story follows a group of rebels trying to stop their civilization from being wiped out by a very large and evil imperial force.

Early in the story, the player is isolated when his / her crew is wiped out by a mysterious force.

The balance bumps are egregiously bad — you can be breezing through a whole level in one moment, and then suddenly be wiped out by a single enemy.

Opposition players can warp from one side of the area to the others (Pac - Man style, kind of — run into the wall at the bottom and you emerge at the top), and get immediately wiped out by a just - that - split - second triggered wall of laser death.

Sadly your precious satellites can get wiped out by asteroids and often have a habit of firing at you as well.

The good work of the London 2012 Olympics in boosting the UK's tourism potential is likely to be wiped out by next year's increase in Air Passenger Duty (APD), a report by World Travel Market released today reveals.

Much of Maumere's nascent tourist facilities were also wiped out by the disaster, but few of them returned.

Their civilization was virtually wiped out by Spanish invaders in the 16th century.

The nest at Santa Monica State Beach was wiped out by high winds, and one of two nests found at Malibu Lagoon State Beach was lost for unknown reasons.

The La Manche Village Path takes you over a large suspension bridge and into a ghost settlement, where now only the remains of old homes exist; the former La Manche settlement was wiped out by brutal winter storms that destroyed fishing stages and homes.