Sentence examples for extreme disasters from inspiring English sources

What is clear is that continuing fossil fuel emissions will put Earth on an inexorable course toward an icefree state, a course punctuated by increasingly extreme disasters with hundreds of millions of climate refugees.

In extreme disasters, an additional authority is set up: the Scientific Advisory Groups for Emergencies whose members change depending on the nature of the crisis.

The ice disaster in China in 2008 made Chinese electric power engineers realize the importance of information about extreme disasters for power system, such as, ice rain, thunderstorms, snow disasters, typhoons, terrorist attacks, etc.

The system is also developing mechanisms for automatic on-line preplan refreshing to insure organized responses after emergencies, thereby effectively controlling small-probability high risks events and insuring power supply for critical load demands under extreme disasters.

Taking the governmental policy on post-disaster recovery from the Wenchuan Earthquake as an example, several funds had been identified for post-disaster reconstruction after extreme disasters took place.

Irma and Maria are surely not the last extreme disasters that will strike the region.

"When one is exposed to an extreme disaster, the disaster envelops the self and at first there is only the survivor self, the traumatized self that is operative," said Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, a visiting professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

I don't subscribe to the extreme disaster scenarios for China but even a short period of low growth will cascade through the world economy as Chinese imports contract sharply, commodity prices fall further, surplus steel and other industrial goods hit glutted markets, dodgy Chinese credit leads to serious defaults and excess savings spill over into the Western financial system.

Such a dedication of resources is supported by a (science) policy that urges researchers to focus on extreme disaster events.

In addition to the current mitigation plan, the suggested preparations for an extreme disaster provide another type of safety net for saving human life.

Under extreme disaster, offshore platform may suffer collapse and wellhead damage, so downhole sealing equipment must be designed (Dev et al. 2016a, b).