Munich Re, which has a collection of global data on natural catastrophes dating back to 1980, uses this data to spot trends, such as the uptick in costs for weather-related disasters (pdf), said Peter Hoppe, head of the company's geo risks research and corporate climate center.
And given those clear catastrophes dating back at least to Cambyses' Lost Army in 500 BC, not to mention the Roman Empire's adventures in Judea, one might think that before we launch a new war in that part of the world -- in this case Libya -- we as a nation would have a long, serious conversation about it.
In the same way that you wouldn't go into battle without a game plan, everything from produce to plating should be preplanned to avoid a catastrophe on date night.
His show, it seemed, had caused its own American dating catastrophe.
Theater BAY SHORE Boulton Center for the Performing Arts "American Dating Catastrophes, Vol. IX," 10 short one-act original comedies.
"American Dating Catastrophes," July 17 to 19, Dix Hills Performing Arts Center at Five Towns College, 305 North Service Road, Dix Hills.
First produced in 2003, "American Dating Catastrophes" was performed at the Brokerage Comedy Club in Bellmore, before moving in 2007 to the 500-seat main stage of the performing arts center.
That CO2, of course, leads to global warming and climate change, as well as what's called ocean acidification, which might be thought of as oceanic global warming and is a greater catastrophe than any spill to date.
In 1978, Serge Klarsfeld published his Memorial of the Deportation of the Jews from France, a giant directory of catastrophe, listing the names and date of birth of the 80,000 Jewish men, women and children deported during the war.
He argued that Shelby had not let loose a voting rights catastrophe in Macon and that the date switch was both legal and equitable.
