Sentences with phrase «recent global events»

Recent global events have highlighted the ongoing challenge of ethnic and tribal divisions.

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Crisis Economics is probably the most lucid and accessible attempt yet to place recent events into a global and historical context, exploring the deep structural roots that make it of a kind with other crises dating as far back as the 17th century.

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Recent events in Europe and the United States have only magnified challenges, with new question marks over global economics, currency trends and future trade tariffs.

Even recent events in Greece and China aren't likely to have a longer - term impact on the global economy or markets.

Rather than add to the mass of coverage that the recent market events in China have generated, or to continue expressing my concern about the intractable arithmetic of global demand imbalances, I plan to discuss the process of Chinese reform and adjustment in this issue of my blog.

In a recent analysis of climate events from last year, 2016, scientists determined three events — record - breaking global heat, a heat wave over Asia, and a «blob» of unusually warm water in the Northern Pacific — could not have occurred without human - induced climate change.

Google Admits Brand Safety Is a Global Problem Prompted by recent events in the UK, where a media group paused all of its clients» display spending due to ads appearing next to questionable and / or unsafe content through Google's ad network, Google is reevaluating their practices around unsafe advertising.

But regardless of what happens next, it's important to put events in Greece in context: Despite all the recent drama and late - night summits between Greece and its creditors, the global economy and markets aren't too far off the trajectory they were on in early 2015.

Recent cancellations of Alberta tar sands / oil sands projects point to the uphill battle the industry will face as innovation transforms the global energy economy, Jerry Oppenheim of the New Climate Economy project told an event last month hosted by Corporate Knights and Sustainable Prosperity.

But in recent days, global events have been foremost on her mind.

With the most recent World Cup and Commonwealth Games having taken place in South Africa and India, respectively, and the next World Cup and Olympics ticketed for Brazil, a legacy component for the developing world is the new normal for major global events.

Equally worrying was the President's failure to touch on Ghana's position on major Geo - political happenings like the situation in the US regarding immigration bans, recent developments in some theatres of conflict around the world, the Israeli Palestinian issue, terrorism in the West African sub-region and a myriad of global events on which Ghana's voice must be heard.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

, who once called global warming a «hoax» and was one of the loudest opponents against climate legislation last year, posted a blog last month mentioning recent cold weather events.

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

«We are now able to connect the dots when it comes to human - caused global warming and an array of extreme recent weather events,» said Mann.

The question of global warming stopping is often raised in the light of a recent weather event - a big snowfall or drought breaking rain.

Indeed, the most recent IPCC report concluded that the sea - level rise contribution associated such an event «can not be precisely quantified,» but would contribute «several tenths of a meter» of global average sea - level rise by 2100.

In its most recent Fifth Assessment Report, the IPCC raised the likelihood of changes in several global climate events to «virtually certain» (i.e., 99 - 100 % likelihood).

What is one to make of a recent press release and submitted preprint blaming global warming on the Tunguska meteor event in 1908?

«Recent events have taught the global community that promising candidate countermeasures for emerging infectious diseases, like MERS, need to be advanced early in order to prevent or respond to the potential of a growing epidemic.»

Following September's global unveil of the new Nissan Leaf and the launch of its new «electric ecosystem» at the recent Nissan Futures 3.0 event, the Japanese car manufacturer presented two all - electric concept vehicles at the show.

Verdict: 5 Stars It seems that recent and current global events have made readers absolute suckers for end of the world doomsday predictions, and with good reason.

It seems that recent and current global events have made readers absolute suckers for end of the world doomsday predictions, and with good reason.

Digital publishing and self - publishing in Italy posted at Anakina.blog, saying, «This is the first one of a series of articles inspired by my recent participation as guest during an event at the Frankfurter Buchmesse titled «Think Local, Act Global: How to Reach a Global and Successful Audience through Self - Publishing».

Selling your translated self - published book in the German market posted at Anakina.blog, saying, «This is the last article in a series inspired by my recent participation as guest during an event at the Frankfurter Buchmesse titled «Think Local, Act Global: How to Reach a Global and Successful Audience through Self - Publishing».»

«Global tourism continues to consolidate the recovery of 2010 despite the impact of recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the tragic events in Japan, which are temporarily affecting travel flows to these regions.

During a recent event with Global Game Jam, Jordan takes a look at the game jam culture through the eyes of Portland Indie Game Squad, aka PIGSquad.

With the entire world watching the recent Fukushima events and the rising of radiation levels, reported mutations and increasing numbers of cancer patients (Kudo himself died of cancer) his oeuvre can be regarded as a valid political statement of contemporary culture on a global scale.

With the recent events such as the global Women's marches, the provocative protest at The Whitney Biennial over Dana Schutz's use of the picture of Emmet Till and ongoing fervent feminist protests (2010, 2014, 2015) at Carl Andre exhibitions, we surely seem to find ourselves in turbulent times reminiscent of the chaotic nineteen - sixties.

Exploring art's relationship to the concerns of African - American, Latinx, U.S., and global artistic communities, the artists» sources are as varied as the civil rights movement, recent events, and speculative fiction, a literary genre with futuristic or otherworldly elements and settings.

Susan, Dr Masters is one of the greatest online meteorologists doing excellent live contributions, he dishes out what I call modern meteorology which encompasses huge swats of the world, as opposed to your local TV presenter focusing on a State or provincial area, the presenters are hopelessly outmatched and outclassed by recent events and need to go global, as does Masters, they should do likewise.

4:38 p.m. Updated I read Mark Fischetti's piece on global warming and hurricanes in Scientific American just now, which points to a recent PNAS study finding «a statistically significant trend in the frequency of large surge events» from tropical cyclones in the Atlantic.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

That said, although I believe I understand what he is saying (and I agree with him regarding the confusion, lost credibility, and inaccuracies that often result when many current weather events are claimed to be a direct result of global warming), I have a few comments about some aspects of his recent post.

Having said that... I remember hearing that analysis of two recent extreme events that affected the UK, [September 2000 floods and 2004 heatwave] shows that these were extreme events an increased risk of which would be consistent with global warming.

The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in - and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming.

RiHo08 says (28) «Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.»

Since the recent heat wave and peat bog fires in Russia this summer have been used as evidence of an extreme weather event in response to global climate change, I thought a llterary reference to such events occurring periodically at least to the 12 th Century would be informative.

In the opening paragraph, Lindzen states that others have claimed that there are connections between recent rare weather events and global warming, and asks where they would possibly get such an idea.

I do think they «aren't needed» to support the assertion that various global warming - related factors have observably played a role in causing, contributing to, and / or greatly exacerbating the destructive effects of recent «extreme weather events».

Recent global coolers - 10 years from 1998 El Nino Anti-CO2 pundits - 30 - 50 years from 1950 - 1970 cooling dip Climate realists - 300 or more years (recognize LIA, MWP, 1500 year cycle) Cosmo - climatologists - from 1 solar cycle to 100 million years or more The Weather Channel - 24 hours for heat events:)

The then - chair of the IPCC categorically denied criticizing Clinton administration officials and others who have commented that recent extreme weather events may be the result of rising global temperatures.

Examples include exploring relationships between past global climatic events and global spatial patterns of violence and food trade; using betting markets to forecast the cost of climate policy; quantifying the climatic drivers of recent fishery collapse; and studying the long - term dynamics of historical clean energy transitions.

Neither economic analyses nor meteorological investigations validate the asserted link between recent extreme weather events and global warming.

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

Market flexibility is improving thanks to LNG and markets currently well supplied but gas security remains a concern Latest IEA assessment of global gas security draws lessons from recent market events 18 October 2017

-- In the event that the Administrator or the National Academy of Sciences has concluded, in the most recent report submitted under section 705 or 706 respectively, that the United States will not achieve the necessary domestic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration thresholds, the President shall, not later than July 1, 2015, and every 4 years thereafter, submit to Congress a plan identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional greenhouse gas reductions, including any recommendations for legislative action.

Australia's adviser to government on climate change Ross Garnaut was on radio today blaming the recent floods and the cyclone on Global Warming, and said that these types of events would be more frequent and stronger in the future and that evidence of this was being seen in the Atlantic.