Sentence examples for catastrophic impacts from inspiring English sources

Now that climate change is regarded as man-made, and its catastrophic impacts viewed as inevitable, the cards are being reshuffled in society and politics.

But those pledges are not enough to keep warming below 2C, beyond which climate change is expected to have catastrophic impacts.

The carbon reduction targets outlined by the US are below what science tells us is necessary to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of global climate change.

Explosive human sounds can have catastrophic impacts, especially underwater, where they travel faster and farther than they do in the air.

"On the other hand the FOI docs demonstrate the government is far from satisfied about MRM's ability to manage the site … and remains concerned about health risks and potentially catastrophic impacts on the environment".

While global mercury emissions are on the rise, negotiators, unfortunately, appear to be leaning towards a treaty with soft measures unlikely to prevent continued catastrophic impacts from this deadly and debilitating poison.

The growing consensus across the green community, including significant numbers of deep greens, is that a technology-led response to climate change is the last best hope of avoiding potentially catastrophic impacts during the second half of this century.

Globally, a 4C temperature rise would have a catastrophic impact.

"It's not a catastrophic impact," he said.

Such an interruption during an ordinary week could have had catastrophic impact on regional businesses, especially financial markets.

Hilditch establishes early on that there's no avoiding the catastrophic impact of a meteorite in the mail.