The phrase 'climatic catastrophe' is an appropriate, valid expression to use in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a drastic change in climate, usually caused by human activities, that has severe, catastrophic consequences. For example: Scientists around the world are warning of a potential climatic catastrophe if the current global trend of unsustainable energy and resource use continues.
In that respect it was a climatic catastrophe rather than a nuclear catastrophe.
Monbiot misses the point that the need for land-use improvements comes from the threat of climatic catastrophe.
"Oryx and Crake" is that book's companion piece there are many detailed echoes but the ingredients are genetic engineering, climatic catastrophe and global pandemic.
Similarly, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the risk of a climatic catastrophe is high enough for the world to spend a small proportion of its income trying to prevent one from happening.And the slice of global output that would have to be spent to control emissions is probably not huge.
To be continued… [1] An illustration of the Torino Scale from "0" where the likelihood of an asteroid collision with the Earth is so low as to be effectively zero to "10" where a collision is certain, capable of causing global climatic catastrophe that may threaten the future of civilization as we know it, whether affecting land or ocean.
A value of 10 indicates that a collision is certain to occur and is capable of causing a global climatic catastrophe; such events occur on timescales of 100,000 years or longer (the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period falls here).
At the same time, the book posed a sharp challenge to environmental groups and many scientists who have long spoken of looming ecological and climatic catastrophes that have yet to materialize.
If our rangelands, forests and farms are to recover from the devastating heat, drought and wildfires of the last three years, they need to be seeded with appropriate native forage and ground-cover species to heal from the wounds of climatic catastrophes.
His concluding chapter on the risks humanity faces is wise and bracing: he believes we "are alone in our Universe" but are capable of tackling terrible threats from cosmic accidents, or self-induced nuclear or climatic catastrophes.
Storms attended her life: from her illicit start as the bastard child of the revolutionary writers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecroft, to the climatic catastrophes in the year of her birth and that of her novel, which coincided with a volcanic eruption that darkened the skies of Europe and America.
Scientists at the gathering concluded that tree species in Africa's tropical forests had endured a number of climatic catastrophes over the past 4,000 years.
