Sentences with phrase «with dire predictions»

Repeatedly throughout the past couple of decades, we've been pummeled with dire predictions and told «time is short.»

He presented a rosy picture in direct contrast with dire predictions of Blackberry's death spiral, convinced that Blackberry 10 will restore the company to its former glory.

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But not everyone agrees with the dire predictions.

Last time I was plagued with dire predictions of hidden twins and early labor and 14 - pound babies.

Not everyone agrees with that dire prediction.

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My doom - and - gloom stems from the dire predictions of Aviv Ovadya, the technologist who predicted the fake news epidemic, and now fears an «information apocalypse» as the trolls turbo - charge their efforts with AI.

This leads him to his key point: «Let us make no mistake; the data we now have at hand should serve as a dire warning: Unless we act decisively, many of today's converts will be one - generation Jews — Jews with non-Jewish parents and non-Jewish children,» But Sarna concludes on a note that most Jews would find more hopeful: «Learned Jews and non-Jews have been making dire predictions about the future (or end) of the Jewish people for literally thousands of years — long before William Wirt and long after him — and, as we have seen, their predictions have proved consistently wrong.

During an interview with Don Weeks on 810 WGY AM, the governor used some strong language to pan borrowing, calling it even more dangerous than tax increases, which seems to validate the Republicans» dire predictions that hikes may indeed be in the offing.

These predictions about an underwater city may sound dire, but officials here say they already are changing infrastructure with climate change in mind.

The postdocs take particular pride that dire predictions of spoiled relationships with mentors have not come true.

Then a new Book of Prophecy turns up as a sequel to the original, with the direst of predictions in it.

Unfortunately, in times of turmoil they're often drowned out by shriller voices that seem intent on scaring the bejeezus out of investors with dire pronouncements or titillating predictions of Armageddon.

I stick with my long - stated conviction that Brexit will be far softer & less of a threat for Ireland than many of the dire initial predictions].

Amid all the doom and gloom surrounding the Wii U, Nintendo can at least draw consolation from the success (little remarked upon) of the 3DS handheld — achieved despite dire predictions at its launch that handheld games consoles would no longer be able to cope with the rise of mobile phones as gaming platforms: «Some indie developers have told us that when they offer the same software on iOS and Android, and in the eShop on Nintendo 3DS, the 3DS eShop version sells most.

Motivation can come from gut - level agreement that experimenting with our climate is bad instead of predictions of specific dire outcomes if we don't meet the challenge.

True — for now — but what the science shows is validation for a model that makes more dire predictions for the future and with increasing costs associated with delays to action.

With this in mind, no matter how dire predictions are under the current course of our species, the most major consideration of all is being completely omitted from the equation, what would occur if there was a complete cessation of the climate engineering juggernaut of destruction?

17 years ago a Greenpeace report titled The Climate Time Bomb tried to frighten us with lurid images and dire predictions that have since failed.

On the other hand, along with improved agricultural efficiency, this more favorable growing climate has allowed us to feed a rapidly growing global population despite Stanford scientist Paul Ehrlich's dire predictions we would experience mass starvation by the 1970s.

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Pennsylvania State University and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change, and just out in September, The Madhouse Effect, with The Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles.

«Mann is author of two books, «The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines» (Columbia University Press, 2012), which will soon to be available inpaperback with an update and a new guest foreword by Bill Nye «The Science Guy», and «Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming» (DK Publishing, 2008).

It's the IPCC «s math, not mine, hence the dire predictions and the need to do away with western government as ineffective to deal with this immediate problem that threatens the world.

What I can't understand is how anyone, whatever they decide to believe, can not be genuinely interested in knowing what's happening with our planet and whether the dire predictions we constantly hear are true or not.

A case in point is a book I recently co-authored with Penn State colleague Lee Kump, called Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming.

Now, with their new identification, they figured that in order to qualify their position in life and increase their newly discovered self - importance, they absolutely had to make crassly dire predictions, and over-inflated prognostications.

it was certainly presented as a prediction, complete with the dire consequences that would inevitably follow.

SINCE Copenhagen the intensity of doom and gloom [D&G] has been ratcheted up with such anthropogenic global warming luminaries as Will Steffan and David Karoly declaring their previous predictions not dire enough and so have been superseded by much worse predictions.

Such dire predictions have not played out in any of the 28 other states with renewable energy standards.

Former global - warming alarmist and «Gaia Guru» Dr. James Lovelock is once again doing combat with his erstwhile comrades in the «green» movement, dishing out scorn for the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which recently issued its latest dire global - warming predictions.

With a Nobel Peace Prize behind it, it's back to business for the UN's climate change watchdog IPCC and its head, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri — starting with today's dire prediction that even with present efforts to curb global warming, sea levels could sWith a Nobel Peace Prize behind it, it's back to business for the UN's climate change watchdog IPCC and its head, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri — starting with today's dire prediction that even with present efforts to curb global warming, sea levels could swith today's dire prediction that even with present efforts to curb global warming, sea levels could swith present efforts to curb global warming, sea levels could still

Esteemed climate scientists Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump, have partnered with DK Publishing to present Dire Predictions — an important book in this time of global need.