Sentences with phrase «what global regions»

Mongabay: What global regions and economies have seen the most benefit from these approaches?

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«After investing $ 700 million in the region, we will hold a stake worth several billion dollars, and strategic ownership in what we believe will be the winner in an important global region,» Khosrowshahi wrote in his missive to staffers.

The global reach, extreme influence, and extreme importance of Christianity is largely due to the fact that the European races, largely Caucasoid, became the world's most dominant races as evidenced by their conquest and colonization of many parts of the world's major regions and because their religion invariably happened to be some form of Christianity, consequently, they gave the greater part of the world not only their languages, their customs, and their ideas, but also their religion including their version of what God looks like.

If the rising ocean levels caused by global warming force us to build dikes and relocate people away from delta regions, that, too will add to what we measure as Gross Domestic Product.

The research, which got mainstream media attention, projected at what date certain regions would shift to new climates as a result of global warming (ClimateWire, Oct. 10, 2013).

What they found was that local destabilization of the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica ultimately causes the entire ice sheet to fall into the ocean over several centuries to several thousands of years, gradually adding 3 meters to global sea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

What's more, the haze has masked the effects of global warming across large parts of China, particularly in the central and eastern regions, where daily high temperatures have actually been decreasing.

What made you decide to research how the various wine regions around the world are handling global warming?

«From the insights of former Soviet publishers — in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Armenia — to the powerful messages of the seven pivotal regions to be spotlighted on October 18 in The Markets: Global Publishing Summit, what we hear this year is determination, creative concern, and real collegial response: we're all in this together, our interviewees are telling us.

«We are delighted to announce what will be our third Edition Hotel in Europe, debuting in one of the most sophisticated and vibrant cities in the region,» said Dan Flannery, global managing director of Edition.

With blue - chip corporations such as IBM and Vodafone involved in building a mobile commerce network, regional and global travel companies should be looking even more closely on what the region has to offer.»

Rather than zeroing in on a specific region, Gregory tried to create what she called «a global version of cause and effect.»

Kevin's snow scenario is exactly what the global climate models show: a shorter snow season everywhere, but increases in maximum snow water equivalent in the northern continental areas (with decreases in maximum snow water equivalent in the more southerly regions, where rain - to - snow ratios increase).

Since 1970 we have seen exactly what global warming models predict — more rainfall in the North - West and some desert areas and less in the major agricultural regions.

Paula Del Giudice, Director of NWF's Northwest Natural Resource Center, notes that «global warming will add an enormous amount of pressure onto what's left of the region's prime cold - water fish habitat.»

The East Coast elites, aging yuppies and metrosexual deadenders who bitterly cling to the CO2 - caused «global warming» religion are having a tough time... over the last 20 years, winters in the Northeast region of the U.S. have become more harsh and severe... that's opposite of their climate - doomsday cult leaders» predictions... instead of getting climate news from the likes of Al Gore and Brian Williams, Northeast denizens of elite enclaves might want to finally introduce themselves to what is called empirical evidence...

This was a nightmare scenario for many growers, and it showed us a snapshot of what global warming might look like in this region,» said Toby Ault, assistant professor in earth and atmospheric sciences, an author on the study.

Every effort is made to present all the issues, similar to what an enquiring mind would need to understand before rendering an opinion as to whether there are pros and cons to a warming (or cooling) scenario for a particular sector in a particular region, or even for the global society.

To mathematicians and physicists like Tomas and me, irregular wobbles in the climate of different regions and the global average temperature are exactly what we would expect to see.

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

Roger — I would argue that temperatures aren't averaged, and consequently average temperature is not used to compute global delta T. Rather, what are averaged are grid - based temperature anomalies, so that it is change (delta T) in each region from one year to the next that is used for averaging rather than global average temperatures.

But what is the global significance of these regions of exceptionally poor data?

«We can pretty much tell what's happening at a global level, but if we want to understand what's happening in different regions, we really need to have a denser measurement network and a combination of different approaches, like aircraft and tall towers,» said Dlugokencky, a co-author of the Science paper.

The coterminous US is divided into four large regions and stationary bootstrapping is used to evaluate if the patterns of these statistical associations are significantly different from what would be expected under the null hypothesis that flood magnitudes are independent of GM [global mean] CO2.

What does it mean to have most global regions showing that Tmin has a bigger trend under windier than less windy conditions?

What it means Although some regions have recently experienced much greater rates of sea level rise, such as the Arctic (3.6 mm / yr) and Antarctic (4.1 mm / yr), with the mid-1980s even exhibiting a rate of 5.3 mm / yr (Holgate, 2007), this newest analysis of the most comprehensive data set available suggests that there has been no dramatic increase — or any increase, for that matter — in the mean rate of global sea level rise due to the historical increase in the atmosphere's CO2 concentration.

On that site, they misleadingly state what global warming is supposedly doing to areas of the world, including the Northeast region of the U.S.:

What are NASA and other science agencies doing to better understand this vulnerable region and its potential impact on global sea level?

Given Southeast Asia's role as a global growth engine, understanding what is shaping energy markets in this vibrant region and the implications for energy security and the environment is vital for policy makers and anyone with a stake in the energy sector.

From what I have read, global warming may be changing the pressure and wind patterns in the arctic regions of the Earth.

If the author is already peddling denialism based on limited facts used out of context, and this new paper is published likely just to be used as the latest red herring distraction in the global warming argument by examining «Svalbard and Greenland temperature records» in a too limited time span without relevant context, which, just in case some may not have noticed does not represent the region known as planet Earth, uses too short a time span in relation to mechanism outside of the examined region because it is in fact a regional analysis; one is left with a reasonable conclusion that the paper is designed to be precisely what I suspect it is designed for, to be a red herring distraction in the argument between science and science denialism regarding global warming.

But if that is what you've done, removed the effect of every region which is related to global temperature... then what's left?

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

By considering climate change as a global average, we often underestimate what the impacts will mean for specific regions and short - term extremes, they say.

Working from a set of projections from eight different global climate models being driven by three different emissions scenarios, the authors used statistical downscaling to drive a hydrology model to determine what changes could be seen to the hydrology of these regions.

But according to Reilly, this metaphor doesn't capture the challenge faced by any one city, state or region because while they can contribute to climate action, they can't alone stop what is a global problem.

With under two weeks to go until the formal introduction of the ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Deluxe and Max at the Computex trade show in Taipei, and possibly a month or so left before commercial launches in select global regions, Asus does what it often does best.

The final installment of the 2017 Year End Review considers the geography of token sales, both the number of completed sales and amounts raised on a national basis, as well as more obscure yet equally revealing metrics looking at regional patterns including a consideration of what regions are serving as global token sale hubs.

Things were a bit subdued towards the end of the week (from a price perspective, there was plenty of volume) and it looked as though we might be in for a sustained period of weakness in price, as the fallout from what's happening in China and various other global regions weighed on sentiment.

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In upcoming episodes of The Viewpoint, we'll capitalise on our international capabilities to bring you a series on global mobility — reports from regions around the world on the state of play in life sciences and what candidates might expect from a move.

She's been able to do that over the years by being strategic about what's best for a client, as well as staying with a deal from beginning to end, said Arthur Mirante II, the head of the New York tri-state region of Avison Young who worked with Ms. Foster when he was the chief executive officer and then president for global client development at C&W.