Many scientists fear that rapidly accelerating global warming, long before the atmospheric level of CO2 reaches 450 ppm, could lead to devastating sudden shifts in the world climate, so Pielke knows it could be foolish to wait.
Today, as New Zealand reckons with devastating, difficult-to-shift statistics around youth suicide and depression, Selwyn says it's time to start to paying attention to the tikanga Māori ways of doing things: the ways that, for a long time, were quashed and dismissed.
Over the years, as Ruth nurtures Lisa's talent and the younger writer begins to publish, the power balance shifts, with quietly devastating results.
SAN FRANCISCO — Google began running small text ads on the pages of its Google News service this week, reviving a debate between the company and some struggling newspaper publishers, who have seen their businesses devastated by the shift of advertising to the Internet.
The time constraints could be far more devastating should we encounter a major shift in the virus.
In the Bartók two-hander, Mikhail Petrenko and Nadja Michael, as Duke Bluebeard and his doomed bride, execute the machinations of Treliński's Hitchcockian psychodrama with devastating skill as the haunted-mansion sets shift seamlessly around them.
The hosts scored next after they had shifted their point of attack with devastating speed before Shenton span out of two tackles to go over.
Major antigenic shift associated with genetic reassortment has led to devastating pandemics in 1918, 1957 and 1968, when pathogenic viruses with efficient human-to-human transmission entered the human population with no pre-existing immunity.
Floating pavilions are also a less risky option, as dikes may be in danger of eroding, shifting or even eventually tearing open, unleashing floodwaters of devastating destruction.
It was devastating work, and the four men say they got through their long, grueling shifts by banding together and talking each other through the horror.
