climate disaster

Can't see any alternative to mitigating climate disaster except global financial crash.

There is strong consensus that someone has to pay to reduce the emissions responsible for climate disasters like flooding and rising sea levels.

It show the encounters between three main characters in London in 1999, as a climate disaster draws near.

That would mean a catastrophic climate disaster.

That would mean a catastrophic climate disaster, with civilisation collapsing into warfare and starvation across the globe.

Sadly it seems that it will take many years of climate disasters for more people to take notice.

Some 300 billion per year would also be necessary to limit global warming to +2 degrees Celsius and finance recovery from more frequent climate disasters.

In addition, the African population is less prepared to deal with climate disasters, lacking proper infrastructure or excess funds to invest in the issue.

Not reading ads that promote climate disaster (airline flights) in the same issue that talk about urgency and climate change.

While every year brings its unique challenges, 2011 set a new record for the most billion dollar weather and climate disasters in a single year - 12.

Based on (admittedly self-selected) comments to various economic stories in the Guardian - Greece, climate disaster etc, the British electorate are not happy campers.

A gloss of Harald Martenstein in the German weekly Die Zeit describes the effect as "Gore's personal climate disaster".

It will take another few Katrina-like climate disasters, $5-per-gallon gas and scores of cheap imported cars that finally close the doors of the once almighty Detroit Big Three.

According to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), climate disasters are on the rise.

"Climate Disasters a 'Significant Possibility' Interview with Steve Chu at Copenhagen Climate Council, November 3, 2008.

Senator Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee may ride it to the White House, attracting the support of those who believe that unchecked industrialization could lead to climate disaster.

The continent of Africa is projected to experience the impact of climate change more severely than many other locales, and most populations here are less well-equipped to deal with climate disasters, without proper infrastructure or a reserve of wealth to deploy.

The smart "deniers" do not actually deny that the climate disaster will happen, they argue that we can't do anything about it without junking the capitalist system in its current form, without turning back privatization thrity years, without abandoning the constant-growth model, etc.

WASHINGTON - With intensifying climate disasters and global economic turmoil as the backdrop, delegates from 194 nations gather in Durban, South Africa, this week to try to advance, if only incrementally, the world's response to dangerous climate change.

Taking advantage of the presence of the Commissioner, I should like to urge the Commission to be flexible, since the situation experienced in Spain is ultimately the result of a climate disaster, the kind of event for which this Solidarity Fund was first set up.

Add in the fact that 2005 is almost certain to be the hottest year on record (continuing a 25-year trend of rising global temperatures); add also what Mr. Blair calls "vicious climate disasters," including stronger hurricanes, and the stage would seem to be set for serious debate.

"An Inconvenient Truth" came about after Laurie David, a prominent Hollywood environmentalist, saw Mr. Gore give a short version of his presentation two years ago at an event held just before the premiere of the climate disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow."

I have said enough about nuclear power, but the wasteful use of fossil fuels - something else that the review does not really address at all - has also contributed to the present climate disaster, and the essential adjustments to this outdated strategy of yesteryear are not being made in this review.

At a time when the financial crisis of 2008 is raising the same questions posed by the climate disasters of previous years regarding the unpredictable consequences of disastrous human management, can international financial institutions be reformed in such a way as to go back to their original task, which was to provide financial help to countries in need?