Hurricane Katrina was one of the most catastrophic storms in US history.
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One year ago, Puerto Rico faced its most catastrophic storm in recent history.
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" She added, "This is the most catastrophic thing I've seen in my life.
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None of the most catastrophic hacks have been on the big public clouds.
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Arguably the most catastrophic outcome of the conflict has been widespread hunger and malnutrition.
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The third and most catastrophic scenario for world trade is continuing escalation without results.
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The incident is regarded by many as the most catastrophic nuclear accident in history.
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We had the most catastrophic fire that just went out a few weeks ago.
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And now, they're in the middle of the most catastrophic planting season in living memory.
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That would not be enough to stave off the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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All times, save the most catastrophic, like all people, save the most depraved, are mixed.
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Rick Scott (R) called the storm "the most catastrophic storm" to ever hit the state.
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If he does, it would be the most catastrophic and self-destructive mistake in presidential history.
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Of all America's various policy missteps in my lifetime, perhaps the most catastrophic was mass incarceration.
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And no insurance product exists today that safeguards individuals from that most catastrophic of cyber risks.
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Luckily, the most catastrophic bugs (like losing data in iCloud) seem to have been well and thoroughly quashed.
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The annual United Nations-sponsored talks are designed to help stave off the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Murillo Melo recently moved to St. Croix from Brazil -- only to face one of the island's most catastrophic hurricanes.
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They listed six key issues that need to be addressed if humanity wants to prevent the most catastrophic scenarios.
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Dongalla, just north of Palu, is closest to the epicenter and believed to have suffered the most catastrophic damage.
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Less than 60% believe the most catastrophic impacts of climate change can be mitigated by drastic changes in policy steps.
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You read about hurricane stories and heat waves, but the massive, most catastrophic events haven't touched us yet in Canada.
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This was not the first attack by Republicans on the law, but if upheld, it will be the most catastrophic.
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He's gone through the most catastrophic events of anyone I've ever known, and his faith in God is completely unshakable.
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If humanity is able to avoid the most catastrophic effects of that change, Paris will be what pointed the way.
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Through the guise of a historical docudrama, the show captures the horrendous aftermath of the most catastrophic nuclear accident in history.
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The Paris agreement is a global deal that was drafted in 2015 to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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That is the maximum target set out by the Paris Climate Accords, to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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As a way of losing it, fighting a war with America might be the most certain as well as the most catastrophic.
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Hurricane Matthew is over 350 miles wide and could be the most catastrophic storm to hit the U.S. in over 10 years. pic.twitter.
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The first and most catastrophic vulnerability is the susceptibility of landslides in the loose soils and heavy trees on its hills and bluffs.
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That would be a significant chunk of the 85033-degree warming limit scientists believe would stop the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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The fires were of such immense and unforgiving wrath that they would end up being the most catastrophic blazes in the state's history.
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Background: Diverse solutions to reduce, reverse and remove carbon dioxide emissions will be critical to avert the most catastrophic effects of atmospheric warming.
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Of the three, the most catastrophic outcome, no deal, is also the only outcome that can take place without commanding a majority in Parliament.
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Preliminary reports indicated the island missed the storm's most catastrophic winds of 175 miles per hour or greater by just 10 to 12 miles.
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Its authors recommended that the world cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change.
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The Shadow Brokers proceeded to offer other NSA tools for sale, and the breach is considered one of the most catastrophic leaks in cybersecurity history.
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At a minimum, some government intervention—such as providing a backstop for the most catastrophic risks—seems to be required for the market to establish itself.
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As the top scientists have told us over and over, we need to immediately lower our greenhouse gas emissions to avoid climate change's most catastrophic effects.
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With winds exceeding 200 mph and a storm surge of over 20 feet in places, Dorian was the most catastrophic storm to ever hit the Bahamas.
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The U.N.'s own scientists, after all, recommended that global emissions be cut in half before 2030 to avoid some of climate change's most catastrophic consequences.
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That's what scientists say is needed to avoid the most catastrophic elements of climate change, like rising seas that will drown cities like Miami and Hong Kong.
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If a tire suffers all but the most catastrophic failure, it allows a driver to keep going — typically up to 50 miles — thanks to super-stiff sidewalls.
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Established at the 2015 conference, the Paris climate agreement between 195 countries pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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The Paris accord aims to avoid the most catastrophic scenarios foreseen by climate scientists by limiting the rise in average global temperatures caused by burning fossil fuels.
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And in three impoverished West African nations, one of the deadliest diseases known to man infected thousands in the most catastrophic outbreak of the Ebola virus ever recorded.
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Some of history's most catastrophic quakes have occurred under the sea, with most of the deaths and damage caused by water rather than falling buildings or crumbling infrastructure.
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A suicide bomber had struck the rally in Mastung, Pakistan, in one of the most catastrophic election-related attacks in recent years — 151 were dead, and 177 wounded.
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If you're like many humans, Dr. Seligman said you'll naturally be attracted to the "most catastrophic interpretation": This is the end, I'm unlovable, I'm going to die alone.
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The horrific damage from Deepwater Horizon, one of the most catastrophic oil spills on record, catalyzed efforts to hold oil companies accountable for their effects on the environment.
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That's a target necessary to save lives and avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, according to scientists on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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While the impact was responsible for the destruction of 1,711 homes in the city, some of the most catastrophic damage occurred as Lake Okeechobee and its surrounding areas flooded.
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The only way to prevent the most catastrophic climate impacts is to quickly reverse this trend, a challenge that only gets harder the longer countries wait to take action.
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Kenneth Kunkel, a meteorologist from the North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies put Florence into historical perspective by comparing it with some of the most catastrophic storms since 1949.
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A reminder: To avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change, scientists have said that global temperatures must not rise by more than two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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Football's threat to the brain now is less about concussions, those most catastrophic of head collisions, than repeated hits, the sheer repetitive smacking around of the brain inside the skull.
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Dr. Resplandy said her work did not upend the I.P.C.C. report's warnings that humanity has only a couple of decades to ward off some of climate change's most catastrophic effects.
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I think people are so fed up with Washington, this election was a mandate with change and the most catastrophic thing Republicans could do is go back to business as usual.
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There aren't many films that demonstrate how a phenomenal professional success can also be the most catastrophic personal failure; there certainly aren't many that revolve around a collection of cuddly toys.
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Yet her feelings for Mr. Yee turn from faked passion to something a lot like love (albeit the depraved variety), and they boil to the surface at the most catastrophic moment.
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The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, however, has said that to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, the world needs to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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The Paris Agreement aims to keep temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels in order to avoid what scientists call the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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That's why many conservatives push for an insurance system centered on high-deductible insurance that covers only the most catastrophic medical incidents, leaving individuals self-funding everything else through health savings accounts.
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"There's a lot of conflict," Mr. Guo said, as a crowd of admirers gazed at the vehicle and its vanity license plate, "CTGRY 5," short for the most catastrophic type of hurricane.
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The Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986, was the most catastrophic nuclear accident in history, claiming dozens of lives in its immediate aftermath and thousands more to extended radiation exposure.
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Air pollutants that not only disrupt the climate but also harm or kill millions of people would be sharply cut, giving us a shot at averting the most catastrophic level of global warming.
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Rick Scott (R) also urged people located in the southern portion of the state and along the coasts to get out, calling Irma the "most catastrophic" storm to ever strike the state. Sen.
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Nearly nine years have passed since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, the most catastrophic nuclear accident since Chernobyl, which was triggered by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
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The first is the drumbeat of dire scientific reports, including the 2018 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that showed humanity's narrowing prospects at avoiding the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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As mandatory evacuations begin for parts of three East Coast states, millions of Americans have been preparing for what could become one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the Eastern Seaboard in decades.
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It's been one week since a consortium of climate scientists released a dire United Nations report urging a global restructuring of energy industries within 12 years to prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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There have been five major mass extinctions in Earth's history and the PTME was by far the most catastrophic, killing 70% of all terrestrial species and somewhere between 80% and 96% of all marine species.
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But if I were to identify one event that could well have the most catastrophic results over the long term, it is Trump's ill-considered decision to ditch the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Agreement with Russia.
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These decisions will make it harder for the U.S. to continue its downward trend on greenhouse gas emissions, let alone meet the more aggressive goals needed to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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It is adjacent to Narrow Water Castle, where the Irish Republican Army launched one of the most catastrophic attacks, known as the Warrenpoint ambush, on the British Army in the late 1970s during the Troubles.
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This plan could also make it impossible to meet the 50 percent reduction in global emissions that the United Nations calculates is needed by 2030 to avoid some of the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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We have only four weeks to make sure this election doesn't result in one of the most catastrophic cedings of progress in our nation's history, so nobody should give a fuck about hurting Donald Trump's feelings.
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Dan Loeb, who runs the Third Point hedge fund, told clients in a letter in late April that recent months have seen "one of the most catastrophic periods of hedge-fund performance that we can remember".
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PG&E still faces scrutiny over its equipment's role in a November blaze that ignited in the northern California mountain community of Paradise, killing at least 86 people in the most catastrophic wildfire in state history.
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The number of homes and structures destroyed by lava on Hawaii's Big Island has jumped to nearly 600 -- making the Kilauea eruption the most catastrophic event in modern state history, Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim said Thursday.
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"New Mexico continues to endure the most catastrophic effects of the opioid crisis, all while major out of state corporations make billions in profits at the expense of our families and communities," Balderas said in a statement.
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The new "Magnificent Seven" begins approximately where the most catastrophic of westerns, "Heaven's Gate" (1980), ended: Peter Sarsgaard, an even more rapacious capitalist than the plutocratic killer Sam Waterston portrayed in "Heaven's Gate," takes over a town.
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To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees and avoid some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change, experts say we have to go beyond reducing emissions and start pulling carbon dioxide directly out of the air.
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He says Amazon will work to drastically reduce its carbon emissions with the ultimate goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 22017 — all part of an effort to avert some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Full-size spare tires are now a rarity and even mini-spares are disappearing, many automakers opting for kits that can be used to fill the tire with a foam temporarily sealing all but the most catastrophic failures.
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That's the promise of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which 22100 countries, including the United States, have ratified or accepted, pledging to make the air less deadly and to prevent the most catastrophic consequences of global warming.
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Carbon Tracker predicts that this "could be seen as giving a reasonable chance of a 2°C outcome," the global temperature threshold we need to avoid crossing in order to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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And, it has succeeded: The United States, history's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is the only country in the world to have withdrawn from the Paris accord, designed to stave off the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Rick Scott (R) issued a dire warning on Saturday that Hurricane Irma will be the "most catastrophic" storm to ever strike the state, while continuing to press residents and visitors to seek shelter away from the Florida coast.
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The back-and-forth between the president and his attorney general comes only two days after the president's former personal lawyer and former campaign chairman became felons in what was perhaps the most catastrophic day in Trump's presidency.
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Last month, leaders of 33 countries met to sign the Paris Climate Agreement, which resolves to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, a ceiling that will hopefully allow us to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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Martin Weitzman, an inventive economist who argued that governments would see climate change as a more urgent matter to address if they took more seriously the small but real risks of the most catastrophic of outcomes, died on Aug.
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The goal is to spark a worldwide conversation over how to shift to a low-carbon society in time to avert the most catastrophic impacts, said Gail Bradbrook, a co-founder of the movement, who holds a PhD in molecular biophysics.
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After an extensive investigation, California fire officials announced Thursday that private electrical equipment located next to a home tucked in the woodsy hillsides of the state's wine country sparked one of the deadliest and most catastrophic blazes in state history.
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But the thing that would make a trade war most catastrophic is not just that things like iPhones might be more expensive to buy and take longer to make; it's that China might decide that it doesn't want to buy any.
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Daniel Kaniewski is FEMA's deputy administrator for resilience, a position the agency broadened from protection and national preparedness to resilience in June 2018 after the US experienced one of the costliest and most catastrophic string of disasters in its history.
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The goal is to spark a worldwide conversation over how to shift to a low-carbon society in time to avert the most catastrophic impacts, said Gail Bradbrook, a co-founder of the movement, who holds a PhD in molecular biophysics.
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To avoid the most catastrophic effects of global warming -- super droughts, drowned coastal cities, climate refugees, mass extinction in the natural world and stronger storms -- world leaders, as part of the Paris Climate agreement, agreed to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero.
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On June 17, 1961, the President's Intelligence Check List was born at the request of the President who'd been blindsided badly by the CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba exactly two months earlier, one of the agency's most catastrophic failures.
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If we're going to prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change, we need to know how those vying to become our next president are going to confront the fossil fuel industry and accelerate the transition to renewable energy from day one.
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None of those complications and next to no history, though, have made it into "1917," a carefully organized and sanitized war picture from Sam Mendes that turns one of the most catastrophic episodes in modern times into an exercise in preening showmanship.
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Wood describes early ideas for a space that would allow audiences to walk through and hear reconstructions of Antarctic landscapes at various points in time, including in hypothetical futures in which humans prevent — or further facilitate — the most catastrophic effects of the climate crisis.
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"It's the biggest and potentially most catastrophic hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in a century," Rosselló said, explaining that the island could receive up to 25 inches of rain, as well as violent winds and storm surges, producing potentially life-threatening flooding and mudslides.
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In a recent column, I discussed cyber risks that could adversely affect bank and brokerage customers and explored the conditions necessary for development of actuarially sound insurance products at the retail level to protect individuals from the most catastrophic of cyberattacks to their accounts.
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I should mention that Driveclub for PS4 had one of the most catastrophic launches in recent video game history, with most of its much-vaunted network functionality completely broken upon release, so I shouldn't be too effusive in praise based on a trade show demo.
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The United Nations says global greenhouse gas emissions must fall by an average of 7.6% each year from now until 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) - the level that scientists say would avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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This not only prevents cheating and ensures that each country is living up to its stated commitments, but also improves the chances that the world can successfully manage the necessary transition to a low-carbon future and prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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Countdown aims to spur action to cut global greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and to net-zero by 2050, a path that the United Nations international panel of scientists have said is necessary to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Others are more ambitious — here's the centerpiece of the plan: Amazon will work to drastically reduce its carbon emissions with the ultimate goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2040 — all part of an effort to avert some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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He is still immensely unpopular within Venezuela, where he has overseen one of the most catastrophic economic disasters in Latin American history, a calamity that has led a tenth of the population to leave the country, largely because of shortages of food and medicine.
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By 2100 "wet-bulb temperatures"—a measure of humidity and heat—could rise so high in the Gulf as to make it all but uninhabitable, according to a study in Nature (though its most catastrophic predictions are based on the assumption that emissions are not abated).
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Named one of PEOPLE's 25 Women Changing the World for 2019, the Swedish student has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for all she has done to raise awareness about the need to curb carbon emissions to prevent the most catastrophic effects of an overheating planet.
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Of all the contemporary norms that Trump has violated vis-à-vis the military, this is among the most catastrophic because at the end of the day, a transparent, trustworthy, and effective military justice system is the sine qua non of a transparent, trustworthy, and effective military.
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There's no question that there has been some marginal narrowing of things like the generic ballot test in recent national polls, movement that suggests that the most catastrophic outcome for House Republicans -- seat losses upward of 246 -- are less likely today than, say, a month ago.
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A reminder: To avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change, scientists have said that global temperatures must not rise by more than two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (meaning those in the era before the Industrial Revolution, when humans began pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere).
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The atmosphere is so bad that in a recent investor letter, Third Point management described 2016 as "one of the most catastrophic periods of hedge fund performance that we can remember since the inception of this fund" and predicted that a "washout" in hedge funds was soon to come.
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She demonstrated, with elegance and rigor, that Henry's amnesia was profound — possibly the most catastrophic she had ever seen — and declared that it must have been a result only of the relatively small and specific bilateral lesions to his hippocampus and other medial temporal structures left by the operation.
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Around this time last year, a panel of scientists convened by the United Nations released a report that found that the world had 12 years left (11 now) to dramatically cut down its use of fossil fuels in order to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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Named one of PEOPLE's 25 Women Changing the World 2019, the Swedish student-turned-climate activist is leading millions around the globe to strike and urge world leaders and CEOs to take immediate steps to lower carbon emissions to prevent the most catastrophic effects of an overheating planet.
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As negotiators urge countries worldwide to boost commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the EU's stance as one of the key brokers of the deal will be crucial in determining how much of a contribution it can make towards averting the most catastrophic climate change scenarios.
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But even as he sought to rally other politicians to the cause, Governor Brown's conference underscored the limits of what politicians can do to avert the most catastrophic effects of climate change — even the politician who leads California, the wealthiest state in the country and the world's fifth-largest economy.
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Mayors, governors, corporate executives and environmental activists from four continents are gathering in San Francisco this week to show what they can do to stave off the most catastrophic effects of climate change, even if the president of the world's most powerful country — the United States, which is also history's biggest polluter — won't.
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"Oxfam rarely responds to humanitarian emergencies in the U.S. and other wealthy countries, but as the situation in Puerto Rico worsens and the federal government's response continues to falter, Oxfam has decided to step in to lend our expertise in dealing with some of the world's most catastrophic disasters," Maxman said in a statement Tuesday.
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Why it matters: It's a stark recognition that expansion of zero-carbon energy sources will not be enough to meet the internationally recognized goal of holding the global temperature rise below 2°C/ 3.6°F, let alone 1.5°C/ 2.7°F — which are recognized benchmarks for avoiding some of the most catastrophic effects of climate change.
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As is obvious to the most casual of observers, there is now rampant community transmission of the coronavirus all over the US. Banning travelers from Europe is a feel-good measure that will have scant effect on the virus's transmission within our borders, which has been enabled by the most catastrophic failure of the Trump administration's response to date: So far, relatively few Americans have been tested for the coronavirus.
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