These conferences examined the latest scientific findings, that show that even a limited nuclear war, involving less than 0.05% of the world's nuclear arsenals, would cause catastrophic climate disruption across the planet and lead to a global famine that could put up to 2 billion people at risk of starvation.
We review here the unique physiological importance of wings to hibernating bats in relation to the damage caused by G. destructans and propose that mortality is caused by catastrophic disruption of wing-dependent physiological functions.
This case is called catastrophic disruption.
Their mobilization can cause catastrophic damage to the host, such as disruption of protein-coding genes, perturbation of gene expression patterns or even large scale genome rearrangement and chromosomal breakage [1].
This process recognises the widespread and catastrophic disruption of the environment caused by a large earthquake.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate.
The petition read: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the earth's atmosphere and disruption of the earth's climate.
But Field has also not explained why he signed a petition stating* that there was "no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the earth's atmosphere and disruption of the earth's climate".
Water getting sucked into engines can cause catastrophic damage".
In 2006, she said: "If society wishes to avoid catastrophic disruption of our lives, the time for action is now.
