Sentences with phrase «about global conditions»

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One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

Elon Musk, founder and CEO, SpaceX and Tesla — Referencing Musk's mission to build conditions for a viable colony on Mars, Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global, says Musk «is one of the few people not only thinking about the survival of our civilization but also doing something about it.»

Readers are cautioned that these forward - looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results due a variety of factors, including, among other things, that conditions to the closing of the transaction may not be satisfied, the potential impact on the business of Accompany due to the uncertainty about the acquisition, the retention of employees of Accompany and the ability of Cisco to successfully integrate Accompany and to achieve expected benefits, business and economic conditions and growth trends in the networking industry, customer markets and various geographic regions, global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment and other risk factors set forth in Cisco's most recent reports on Form 10 - K and Form 10 - Q.

I'm interested to hear what he says about global business conditions, especially in Europe but also in the developing world.

Working people with little disposable cash who are nervous about the condition of the global economy can hedge against instability, systemic risk and currency debasement by acquiring a small allocation of silver.

He warned about Sterling's «sudden depreciation» on Brexit as well as knock - on impacts on global economic and financial conditions.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

The FOMC decided last week against raising interest rates given its concerns about the global economy and financial conditions.

Since then, the broad market has essentially gone sideways, though capitalization - weighted indices such as the S&P 500 have recently clawed to new highs on enthusiasm about negative interest rates abroad (which I believe actually reflect fresh deterioration in global economic conditions across Britain, Europe, Japan, and China).

Within that century and a half there's some good news about the global human condition that ought to be kept in mind when remembering the bad news of the twentieth century and the early twenty - first.

Is it little wonder that the response in U.S. churches to global suffering is superficial when the theological tradition of those churches has emphasized human incapacity to do anything about the human condition?

Wine makers are so concerned about the impact of global warming on the $ 5.7 billion industry that they funded a government - backed experiment in the Barossa vineyards to simulate the drier conditions expected in 30 - 50 years» time.

«They've always made assumptions about those characteristics in designing and locating projects in the past, but those functions were that those conditions would always remain static,» said Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

About one person out of every hundred has rheumatoid arthritis, and the global market for drugs to treat the condition swelled from $ 1.3 billion in 1998 to $ 13 billion in 2009.

As more specific information about the project is released, calculations can be updated to present a clearer picture of the impacts the project may have on the U.S. energy system and global environmental conditions.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

In the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decade.

Lack of knowledge about the ice sheets and their behavior is the primary reason that projections of global sea level rise includes such a wide range of plausible future conditions.

In the paper Gray makes many extravagant claims about how supposed changes in the THC accounted for various 20th century climate changes («I judge our present global ocean circulation conditions to be similar to that of the period of the early 1940s when the globe had shown great warming since 1910, and there was concern as to whether this 1910 - 1940 global warming would continue.

In other research around atmospheric dynamics of tidally locked exoplanets, there could be a situation where the world has efficient «air conditioning» — hot air from one hemisphere is distributed about the planet in such a way to balance global temperatures.

The asymmetric effect of beliefs about global warming on perceptions of local seasonal climate conditions in the U.S.» Global Environmental Change 23:1488 -global warming on perceptions of local seasonal climate conditions in the U.S.» Global Environmental Change 23:1488 -Global Environmental Change 23:1488 - 1500.

HERE Technologies has launched the new generation of its HERE Real - Time Traffic service — the first global service on the market that integrates live vehicle sensor data from Audi, BMW and Mercedes - Benz vehicles with traffic probe information, resulting in significantly higher accuracy and more precise information about traffic conditions.

In this edition, we feature a Business Insider summary of a recent Baupost letter, a summary of Guy Spier's approach to using checklists, a video of Tom Russo's talk at Google on «Global Value Investing», a ValueWalk article on Pzena Asset Management, an FT article on Steve Jobs which analyses the start - up conditions at Apple; plus two more videos at the end of this issue — one from Bill Miller on why he thinks now is the perfect time to buy US stocks, the other from London Value Investor Conference speaker Jean - Marie Eveillard who speaks about market cycles and the risks he sees ahead from «valuation problems» brought about by quantitative easing.

After recent disclosures about potential Federal Trade Commission (FTC) violations within the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) community, Valve has come out with a statement about the matter, dismissing their involvement in the gambling sites as well as putting those sites on notice that their usage of the Steam API is against terms and conditions.

A group of 25 diverse women artists were invited to create art about present conditions of DISILLUSIONMENT, whether personal, global, cultural, political or societal — addressing issues of deception, falseness, unfaithfulness, betrayal and treachery — with reference to wearing, inhabiting, being veiled, clothed, draped, revealed, exposed or wrapped in disillusion.

Whether about violence and poverty, exile and migration, or other conditions of global or ideological conflict, his work prompts observation and thinking that unsettle conventions and complacency.

By invoking seemingly antagonistic art - historical models — from the technological experiments of Russian constructivism to the base materialism of Bataillean surrealism and the cybernetic systems aesthetics of Jack Burnham, as well as the entropic geographies of Robert Smithson — «Foreign in a Domestic Sense» participates in contemporary discussions regarding the power of things and materials to operate beyond the scope and frame of the human, while insisting on an urgent geopolitical awareness about the conditions of Puerto Rico and kindred territories in the global south.

The surface heat capacity C (j = 0) was set to the equivalent of a global layer of water 50 m deep (which would be a layer ~ 70 m thick over the oceans) plus 70 % of the atmosphere, the latent heat of vaporization corresponding to a 20 % increase in water vapor per 3 K warming (linearized for current conditions), and a little land surface; expressed as W * yr per m ^ 2 * K (a convenient unit), I got about 7.093.

Based on information and analysis about the North American crude transport infrastructure (particularly the proven ability of rail to transport substantial quantities of crude oil profitably under current market conditions, and to add capacity relatively rapidly) and the global crude oil market, the draft Supplemental EIS concludes that approval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.

I do agree that Earth is not Venus — some scientists have already told me how much they hate the label «Venus effect,» but I find it informative, simply because it gives some idea about the runaway global warming that did happen 5 times on Earth (which later, obviously, stabilized back to livable conditions).

This year I wrote an article about how North America's amazingly variegated climate, where it's tinder dry in some places and soggy and cool elsewhere, may be one reason the country has not focused on the global warming issue as much as more compact places with more uniform climate conditions (western Europe, for instance).

Each of us then learned more about it or confronted challenging conditions — global warming in particular — that led us to reconsider our opposition and change our minds.

In light of the recent IPCC report released this past week and stating essentially that global warming is a runaway train that can't be stopped for centuries, it may be tempting to give up hope for a brighter future... But like any patient who suffers from a chronic disease that is potentially fatal, not only is education about the condition itself essential, but also what we can do to help mitigate its impact.

One study estimates that there are likely to be places on Earth where unprotected humans without cooling mechanisms, such as air conditioning, would die in less than six hours if global average surface temperature rises by about 12.6 ° F (7 ° C).16 With warming of 19.8 - 21.6 ° F (11 - 12 ° C), this same study projects that regions where approximately half of the world's people now live could become intolerable.7

In the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decade.

packed with common problems awaiting for solutions - global warming, urban air pollution, contaminants in drinking water / contains samples of distributions of variables, it is actually a very large Bayesian belief network, which can be used for assessment - level analyses and conditioning and optimising different decision / and discussions about the actual topics related to real - world decision - making, there is also a meta level in Opasnet.

Annual global mean vertical profile of organic carbon (OC) at ambient conditions, from the surface to 50 hPa (about 20 km altitude).

As the earth continues to recover from the abnormally cold conditions of the centuries - long Little Ice Age, warmer temperatures, improving soil moisture, and more abundant atmospheric carbon dioxide have helped bring about a golden age for global agricultural production.

25 kg / m ² is about the global average of water vapour on the air that goes from 1 or 2 kg / m ² (extreme winter polar conditions) up to 80 kg / m ² (near the equatorial convective «chimney» at the confluence of the trade winds)

Despite the embarrassment of the Climategate data fraud and conspiracy scandal, it has not stopped the politically motivated and financially hungry at Copenhagen from making every effort to lie and mislead the public about the actual global climate condition.

It is true that we can presently do little about volcanos and other natural disasters, but if our behaviour is likely to hasten global warming, or ice - age conditions — whatever it might be, then we should tread carefully.

this whole discussion about the various temperatures and cooling or warming rates of the upper and lower layers of the atmosphere seems to me totally pointless in view of what I said earlier i.e. it is the factors that govern cloud formation & overcast conditions that drive global temperatures.

Controlling for observed conditions, beliefs about global climate change had a large effect on perceptions of seasonal temperature, and smaller effects on perceptions of seasonal precipitation.»

The Marvel paper gets around this thought by talking about the «accident of history» and implying that the efficacy measure is very much unique to the recent climate conditions and pointing to the efficacy measure different than unity being related to the non uniformity in the x, y and z directions of the global atmosphere of the negatively forcing agents.

According to a similar article recently posted on Yale University's environment360 website, Stan Cox estimates that global air conditioning consumes about 1 trillion kilowatthours of electricity each year, and that automotive air conditioners in the United States alone account for 7 - 10 billion gallons (26 to 38 billion liters) of gasoline used.

Commenting on a proposed memo to cabinet, Keenan wrote that the document needed to make «clearer and stronger» points about how the industry was facing «very difficult price conditions combined with barriers to access global markets that is deeply eroding confidence in the future of the industry.

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