#severity

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years. ↗

— Al Gore

#couple #crisis #extreme #frequency #increased

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#appeared #cholera #down #end #fearful

The severity of the laws prevents their execution. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#laws #prevents #severity #their

Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts. ↗

— David Suzuki

#been #decades #global #global warming #impacts

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#despotism #despots #divided #increases #more

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#always #his #injures #loaded #parent

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear. ↗

— Steven Chu

#caribbean #countries #disappear #emissions #face

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#emergencies #ever #fall #guilty #hand

Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cheating

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess. ↗

— Jim Costa

#administration #america #business #call #cast