What strikes one about both the National Academy of Sciences report on the power grid, and the World Bank report on the state of the world climate is that both are really talking about similar things: a deterioration and vulnerability of our infrastructure, whether it be man-made or a natural.
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This concern prompted 49 former NASA scientists and astronauts to send a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on April 10, admonishing the agency for its role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change, while neglecting basic empirical evidence that calls the theory into question.
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After a morning browsing the souq, jump into a taxi for the 20-minute ride to the Pearl-Qatar, a man-made island in West Bay Lagoon and one of the most up-and-coming areas in Doha.
The Shanghai Poly Theater, by Tadao Ando, is now under construction in Jiading, China, next to a man-made lake in the center of a large park.
It's - it was a man-made structure, but any man-made structure, I'm sure to say any good civil engineer, is going to tell you, you - there's contingency plan you have...
The park's icon has changed from Grizzly Peak (a man-made mountain in the shape of a Grizzly Bear, California's state animal) to the Carthay Circle Theater, the theater where "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs" debuted in 1937.
Michael Kucharek, a spokesman for NORAD, said his agency heard about the sightings, too, and can confirm it was not from anything man-made, like a plane or falling satellite.
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Mr Brooks had been a self-made man, raised on a hardscrabble tobacco farm in South Carolina.
Conflict in the Middle East is a man-made disaster that has the potential to take a turn to the dark side with lasting consequences.
Across the garden from the house is a small building, a casino, on a man-made knoll, which gives the illusion of a hilly topography while blocking sunlight glaring off the water beyond.
The village has a man-made pond to provide water for the animals and a veterinary clinic.
Both parties over-acted at times, most notably when a six-foot security man made of pure muscle accused a woman who looked to be in her 60s of assaulting him, when all she had done was touch his arm.
The firm recently made headlines by showing that the genome of one bacteria species could be transplanted into a similar one--a step toward making a germ with entirely man-made genes.
Whitacre Jr. keeps a Texas-size ranch house, five man-made ponds stocked with hungry bass, and a beaten-up bulldozer built in 1955.
"It has been proven in a court of law that the drowning of New Orleans was not a natural disaster, but a preventable man-made travesty, " the attorneys said in a statement.
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It was a departure from the traditional wooden structure and was made of wrought iron, oak, and a man-made product, avonite.
There's a man-made mountain in the backyard, complete with two water slides and 11 cascading waterfalls, which spill into a large 75, 000-gallon pool and a smaller kids' pool.
The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.
Recently, the media Knights Templar of the religious orthodoxy of man-caused global warming made a contrived pass at reviving flagging public respect for their fading catechism.
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Michael Kucharek, a spokesman for NORAD, said his agency heard about the sightings, too, and can confirm it was not from anything man-made, such as a plane or falling satellite.
Earlier this year, over 2, 000 of the world's top client scientists released a report that concluded with at least 90 percent certainty that global warming is happening, and that man-made greenhouse gases are a major cause.
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The NASA scientist said the odds of an operational satellite being disabled by space debris remain quite small, though he points out that two have been lost after being hit by man-made debris -- a French satellite in 1996 and an American craft in 2009.
North Korea, last hold-out of Stalinism, is slowly emerging from a mostly man-made famine that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard that prosecutors allege he rigged up a "man-made assembly in his house suspended from the ceiling by thin ropes, with a car battery and cans of petrol nearby".
Describing Bevan as one of the greatest British socialists, Lord Bragg told the audience - seated somewhat strangely in an Odeon multiplex on a rainy Brighton seafront - what difference the man had had made to his childhood in a working class family in Cumberland.
"The seal pup had made its way into the lorry park via a steep, man-made banking, " he said.
His main target was Sergei Lisovsky, a 36-year-old advertising man who made his first fortune from a chain of Moscow discotheques.
Stop trying to fit the starry shape of your brilliance into a man-made commercial cubicle.
"The drought isn't a natural disaster but a man-made calamity, " writes Zheng Fengtian of Remin University.
Artificial reef: a man-made marine habitat constructed for the purpose of improving fisheries.
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