If the Wild Cat's earth and boulders tumbled down the slope, they could wipe out Miaohe and slam tour boats and barges with giant waves.Officials have long stressed the dam's benefits: a reduction (some say exaggerated) in flooding downstream; the generation of (very expensive) carbon-free power; and the creation of a 660km-long, navigation-friendly reservoir.
But by looking at the region exclusively through the oil lens, he reduces foreign policy to simplistic energy imperialism, concluding with exaggerated visions of endless energy wars, floods of refugees, oil price shocks and ever-growing foreign military commitments.
"A Non-Word Deluge," Life Magazine exaggerated.
Fair enough, but they dislike that thought.One exaggerated fear is that cheaper, unemployed workers from the east will flood across the EU, pushing millions of people out of jobs.
Previous studies have used a variety of computer models and data from fossils and flood events to argue that ENSO has become more exaggerated over the past 11,000 years, known as the Holocene period.
Reports of flooding on the Skagit River from the eruption are, however, probably greatly exaggerated.
In the past, official statistics on flood casualties have sometimes been unreliable because local officials have exaggerated conditions in hopes of receiving additional money from Beijing.
They are often followed by an exaggerated version of normal conditions, known as La Niña, which typically brings heavy rains over Indonesia, floods in southern Africa, tropical cyclones that blast the Chinese coast, hurricanes in the Atlantic, and dry conditions on the Pacific coast of the Americas.
In the trailer, Gore talks about dire changes, pointing out how many dismissed the "exaggerated" fears in his 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," that rising sea levels and storm surge could flood the World Trade Center memorial in Manhattan.
Or even why people have flooded the capital, causing such overcrowding that the earthquake we see today can inflict this sort of exaggerated damage.
