Sentence examples for most catastrophic consequences from inspiring English sources

The most catastrophic consequences will be felt by other, often much poorer countries, but Britain won't be unscathed.

Today, I make this point everywhere I speak by saying that we are the first generation to foresee – and final generation with an opportunity to forestall – the most catastrophic consequences of global warming.

Hansen, in repeated appearances before Congress beginning in 1989, has done more than any other scientist to educate politicians about the causes of global warming and to prod them into action to avoid its most catastrophic consequences.

In a letter seen by the Guardian, 150 high-profile figures, who between them raised millions for Obama's two election campaigns, urged the president to use the next four years to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change.

A United Nations-backed panel of scientists said last year that it will require "unprecedented" action over the coming decade for the world to limit warming and stave off the most catastrophic consequences of climate change.

The world has already warmed more than 1 degree Celsius since preindustrial levels, and a recent U.N. scientific report concluded the world will have to cut its carbon output 45percentt by 2030 to avert some of the most catastrophic consequences of climate change.

Obama is the right president at the right time to prevent Bush's tax larceny for the rich against the middle class from causing the most catastrophic economic and social consequences since the Great Depression.

Unchecked climate change, even under the most likely scenario, could have catastrophic consequences – a rise in global temperatures... leading in turn, to rising sea levels, huge movements of people fuelling conflict and instability, pressure on resources, and a multitude of new risks to global public health.

This legislation has the support of a growing coalition of labor, community, public health, first responder and environmental groups (PDF) who all recognize that the most commonsense way to prevent catastrophic consequences of an attack or accident to is to use and store less hazardous chemicals in the first place.

In recent weeks, Pentagon officials and military commanders have warned of catastrophic consequences, using the most operatic terminology they can find — "dire" and "devastating" cuts will reduce America's military machine to a "hollow force" — to dramatize their point.

"Not least because it gives him a chance to defend himself against Nick Clegg's assertion that removing Saddam Hussein from power was 'the most catastrophic decision since Suez,' whilst daily the consequences of inaction over Syria become ever more apparent".