Sentences with phrase «conflicts rise to the level»

These couples do not listen to each other and their conflicts rise to the level of danger.

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Men's reported level of work - life conflict has risen significantly over the past three decades, (from 34 % in 1977 to 45 % in 2008) while the level of conflict reported by women has not changed significantly (Galinsky et al, 2009)

When a teenager doesn't perform according to their parent's expectations, stress levels rise and conflict occurs.

I have no conflicts of interest that would rise to the level of any problem.»

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

Weiner sometimes treats the illness with some modicum of seriousness, which brings forth some interesting moments, but for the most part, it feels like a conflict that never rises to the level of dramatic importance necessary to draw us into his plight.

Features information on; - sea level rise - threatened species - changing rainfall patterns - changing to farming - the threat of climate driven conflict A sheet to complete accompanies this information.

And in a world of accelerating sea level rise and climate change, in which farmland is being degraded and turned to desert, in which ever more land is set aside for carbon storage in the form of forest, and in which the strains of survival increase social divisions and social conflict, there is a new challenge: where will the 2bn climate refugees find new homes?

Global climate change is expected to cause, and in many cases has already been linked to, melting of the Arctic, global sea level rise, increased droughts and floods, worsening extreme weather, mass extinction, desertification, amid other impacts such as increased global conflict and famine.

Hansen argues the dramatic sea level rise could put the earth's coastal cities in grave peril while a sudden influx of population from those cities will bring discord and conflict to the rest of the world.

In a report on Monday to the SEC rebutting Exxon's contention, a former head of the SEC's Office of Municipal Securities said she had reviewed the disclosure documents at the request of the municipalities and found no inconsistencies or conflicts between the allegations made by the local governments in their lawsuits regarding sea level rise and the disclosures they made in their bond documents.

This goes across the gamut of identified sources of damages from sea level rise to impact on agriculture to drinking water stresses, especially for the billions in asia that rely on himalayan glaciers, to infectious disease to massive malevolent land use changes - think last year's Pakistani heat wave on steroids - to all the magnifying implications the resulting geopolitical conflict could trigger.

This debate would have been quite hillarious had it not to do with the lives of hundreds of millions of people, indeed whether civilization will be able to withstand the stresses of major droughts, fires, intensifying storms, metres - scale sea level rises, waves of refugees, resulting conflicts...

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

RealClimate has reviewed the issues raised by these articles and attempted to clarify the sometimes conflicting inferences about the current mass balance of the ice sheets, as well as their future contributions to global mean sea level rise (see here and here).

The devastating effects of sea level rise and extreme weather events have the potential to result in migration, humanitarian crises and international conflict.

Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap, Jr. (ret), a leading expert in information age conflict and the law of war, has stated unequivocally that the law of war is more than adequate for determining if a cyber attack rises to the level of armed attack.

The achievement of the deconstruction of the existing hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime, and therein the transformation of the existing power structural arrangements, results in the institutionalization of mediation processes within the new democratic power structural arrangements, which in turn ensures that future conflicts among the actors do not reach impasse or rise to a level that threatens the broader society in which the actors reside.

Levels of conflict can rise to the point where you and the other parent are not making good decisions for your children.

Parental separation may also expose children to loss of social, economic and human capital.4, 14 Other explanatory factors may derive from characteristics typical of separating parents such as lower relationship satisfaction and higher conflict levels also before the separation.4 The rising numbers of children with JPC have concerned child clinicians as well as researchers on the subject.20, 21 Child experts have worried about children's potential feelings of alienation from living in two separate worlds, 20 — 22 increased exposure to parental conflict12, 22 and other stressors that JPC may impose on a child.22 Such daily stressors may be long distances to school, friends and leisure activities, lack of stability in parenting and home environment and a need to adjust to the demands of two different family lives.12, 22 The logistics of travelling between their homes and keeping in contact with friends has been stated as a drawback of JPC in interview studies with children.23 — 25 Older adolescents, in particular, indicated that they preferred to be in one place.23