Sentences with phrase «dramatic global shift»

In fact, START's data also show a dramatic global shift in terrorist tactics and hot spots.

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The second harbinger of possible mortality for Western civilization and culture has been the dramatic shift in the past few decades in the relative global power and influence of that culture.

The global economic collapse of the last 12 months has produced a dramatic shift in public opinion on appropriate reward for a job well done and what should happen when things don't go well.

Segal says that the global rise in sweetener consumption — along with other major shifts in human nutrition — coincided with the dramatic increase in obesity and diabetes epidemics around the world.

Now, marine scientists are wondering whether a dramatic, global shift in seawater chemistry could make some deep - sea hermit crabs bolder — or rather, more foolhardy.

The authors of the new study, Steven Smith and Andrew Mizrahi, both climate analysts at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, argue that for one thing, the earlier work assumes that dramatic cuts in methane and soot emissions are feasible based on shifting technologies and changes in human behavior.

To appreciate this one only has to look at figure 4, where the slowly shifting mean (global warming) causes a dramatic increase in extreme warm events (heatwaves).

Such dramatic shift in the economy due to a greater personal and global social responsibility will maximize our personal to global transformation.

Cunningham's trio of cars, plus a fourth entered by Camoradi USA, started a dramatic shift in the perception of Corvette as a global sports car brand.

The structural slowdown in global economic growth and dramatic drop in bond yields represent a paradigm shift that is forcing a rethink of portfolio allocations.

What initially appeared as a neo-Dada assemblage has, following the dramatic shift in global politics following September 11, 2001, become a gut - wrenching horror show.

Last week, after I sent some of the clips and blogs about cold weather and global warming to Cass Sunstein, the University of Chicago law professor who has written much about «availability entrepreneurs» who try to shift public attitudes using dramatic events, he wrote back:

«Absent a dramatic global policy shift, such as a universal tax on carbon emissions, the study seems to suggest that the 2 °C goal is far out of reach,» National Geographic reported.

It signalled a dramatic shift in the international debate over climate change, with defence and intelligence experts at the highest level becoming alarmed at the implications for global security.

Many scientists believe hotter and cooler oceans could lead to dramatic shifts in not just global temperature levels but also hurricane frequency.

«These shifts were accompanied by breaks in the global mean temperature trend with respect to time, presumably associated with either discontinuities in the global radiative budget due to the global reorganization of clouds and water vapor or dramatic changes in the uptake of heat by the deep ocean.

In the long term, the current could be shut down altogether, which would lead to dramatic shifts in global weather patterns, including the possibility of bringing much of Northern Europe back into an ice age.