Sentences with phrase «economic climate caused»

Or perhaps the harsh economic climate caused the developers to run out of money before the game was completed.

Not exact matches

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

While the climate change impacts of aviation still give me huge cause for concern, as a West Londoner I think we would be mad to give up the economic advantage that Heathrow offers, particularly given the changes Heathrow have now made to their proposals.

Human - caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to some scientists, while other people argue that for political or economic reasons we should allow industrial development to continue without restrictions.

While no country in history has achieved its economic growth without causing environmental damage, expectations for Singapore's mitigation ambition are particularly high because it is a leading figure in facilitating a global climate change treaty.

Global economic losses caused by extreme weather events have risen to nearly $ 200 billion a year over the last decade and look set to increase further as climate change worsens, a report by the World Bank showed on Monday.

Long - term risks can arise from purely social causes (e.g., those associated with political or economic institutions, violence, and technology), but often arise from the interaction of humans with the Earth system (e.g., climate change; ozone depletion; resource depletion; pandemics; flood and seismic risk in areas subject to increasing development).

Deep economic and social inequalities, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, disruption caused by natural disasters and climate change are a litmus test for the global community.

That's not to suggest any such decline would be painless — and think about what the accompanying economic climate might look like anyway... But then again, don't forget you have to see a 46 - 64 % decline in asset values — regardless of how it's caused — before the preference shares get partially / fully wiped out.

Within that, events caused by war, terrorism, political unrest, racism, sexism, immigration, economic crisis, climate change, pollution, epidemics, mental illness, and the tenuous boundaries between the real and the virtual can be described as ruptures.

It seems safe to say that there is no scientific basis for asserting a climate change signal (human caused or otherwise) underlying the decades - long trend of escalting economic impacts related to extreme events.

If a city that is the economic engine of a state can not find support for its chosen path to clearing its streets of traffic estimated to cause billions of dollars in lost productivity, that doesn't bode well for a world with astonishingly variegated nations trying to find a common path to limit climate risks without harming economies.

a) they don't believe the premise of man - made climate change: they don't think scientific data collected to date is adequate to prove conclusively that any type of man - made event can result in either the recent fluxuations in climate or the anticipated kinds of drastic climate change, therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem b) they don't believe CO2 alone is responsible: they think other variables are as or more likely to be the catalysts or causes for the scientific data collected to date on climate change therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem c) they believe government efforts to curb CO2 emissions will fail resulting in an unprecedented waste of money and worse economic conditions.

Claims are made by some that climate change has caused more losses, but others assert that increasing exposure due to population and economic growth has been a much more important driver.

But the FAO says the waste not only causes huge economic losses but is also doing very significant damage to natural resources — climate, water, land and biodiversity.

10/18/16 — Setting a tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion is considered by many experts, including two economic analysts writing in Issues, as a promising way to help control human - caused climate change, but US policy makers have resisted.

«On December 15, 2009 — the very day that EPA announced the Endangerment Finding — the Russian Institute of Economic Analysis («IEA») reported that CRU probably tampered with Russian climate data and that the Russian meteorological station data do not support human - caused global warming.

In this coming century, both economic driven famines from fuel shortages, and from «climate change» (natural and / or anthropogenic) could cause greater famines.

3) Agenda 3.1) Trenberth's unstated agenda and assertion is that: Anthropogenic global warming will cause catastrophic climate change with great suffering and massive economic loss.

In January, the World Economic Forum said a catastrophe caused by climate change was the biggest potential threat to the global economy in 2016.

Should Illinoisans tolerate the defiance exhibited here in Illinois to follow the dictates of the economic disastrous Paris Climate accord, given the near junk bond status of the state, and when the accord has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with punishing the US for being too industrial, too successful, too Western, and a host of other supposed evils that cause leftists to become unClimate accord, given the near junk bond status of the state, and when the accord has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with punishing the US for being too industrial, too successful, too Western, and a host of other supposed evils that cause leftists to become unclimate change and everything to do with punishing the US for being too industrial, too successful, too Western, and a host of other supposed evils that cause leftists to become unhinged?

Climate disruption induced by economic activity is the last straw clutched by Malthusians as the cause of all misfortunes that happen on the planet.

A recent World Health Organization report suggests that globally climate change could cause an additional 250 000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, not taking into account factors such as the effects of economic damage, major heat wave events, river flooding, water scarcity, or human conflict.

«The answer to our climate, energy and economic challenges does not lie in burning more dirty fossil fuels — instead, we must continue to press for much more rapid development of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies and cuts in the pollution that causes global warming.»

It's particularly important to account for all potential health benefits realized thanks to implementation of a federal regulation aimed at climate change mitigation since health co-benefits make up the majority share of near - term economic benefits caused by carbon pollution reduction.

Annual Risk of Climate Change = (Sum (Prob (Future Annual Climate events) * Loss (caused by Future Annual Climate events)-RRB--- Current Annual Climate Risk — Extra Current based Annual Risk due to accumulated economic growth and demographic changes

In its first week, fivethirtyeight published a piece from Rodger Pielke Jr. (an environmental studies professor who focuses on climate impacts) in which it was argued that climate change is not causing increased economic losses.

I consider it essentially impossible for climate change to be sufficiently bad for it to cause world famine in spite of good economic management.

Failing to take action now may cause catastrophic climate change and global economic recession.»

Smith cites the Climate Action Partnership as an example of «economic interest groups cloaking their search for monopoly profits under some convenient moral cause.»

One thing that is different about the climate change issue is that most of the uncertainty is in when rather than if CO2 emissions will cause serious environmental and economic damage.

«What will cause more economic insecurity and dislocation going forward is an unstable climate,» he added.

She urged an «urgent transformation» to greener production after top scientists warned on Monday that climate change would damage food supplies, slow economic growth and aggravate the underlying causes of armed conflicts.

Under the guise of preventing «dangerous manmade climate change» and compensating poor countries for alleged «losses and damages» due to climate and weather caused by rich country fossil fuel use, they had planned to control the world's energy supplies and living standards, replace capitalism with a new UN-centered global economic order, and redistribute wealth from those who create it to those who want it.

Leading up to the Copenhagen Conference he caused CSIRO to force a leading academic to resign from CSIRO because he had written a paper which implicitly criticized the economic analyses behind the Labor («Progressive») government's climate change policies.

More frequently we are seeing climate contrarians dispute that human - caused climate change is impacting extreme weather events, often through misdirection by focusing on economic losses associated with extreme weather, rather than the frequency of the events themselves.

True, true, instead of the economic transformation for which Minister Al Gore opines — a unified Earth under a centralized European - style secular socialist government, as he blames the practice of capitalism by a wasteful and over-consuming free people as the cause of, climate change and extreme poverty and disease — the success of America should be a source of pride hope and an example to be emulated: Gore should have, like George Bush, supported with America with his whole heart on behalf of those everywhere who long for individual liberty.

Urban economic growth has caused climate change (think of the billions of people who are achieving the «American Dream») but it will also help us to adapt to climate change.

For the case of climate change, Thagard and Findlay (2011) showed how the mainstream scientific position, namely that GHG emissions from human economic activities are causing the Earth to warm, is coherent and accounts for the available evidence.

In his concluding chapter, Snyder describes the Holocaust as an act of «ecological panic» -LSB-...] In the 21st century, he speculates, rapid and destructive climate change could lead to wholesale food shortages caused by desertification of huge areas of the planet, or alternatively drastic economic collapse and state bankruptcies.

On the other hand, campaigns that focus only on demand - side policy, on the population's demand for cheap, polluting fuel, tend to overlook the effects of the massive political - economic disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel industries and their political surrogates on laming climate action once human - caused climate change was recognized internationally as a problem around 25 years ago.

Second climate policies should be opposed because of the adverse economic harms that the policies will cause.

The risk that climate stresses will cause profound impacts on ecosystems and society — including the possibility of species extinction or severe adverse socio - economic shocks — highlights limits to adaptation.

But is it not also irresponsible to allow debate about what looks like a disastrous range of climate and energy policies — policies which have pushed up the price of energy, leaving people poorer, in colder homes, and causing other economic effects, none of which are good?

Nations or sub-national governments may not look to their domestic economic interests alone to justify their response to climate change because they must also comply with their duties, responsibilities, and obligations to others to prevent climate - change caused harms.

We represent states that are already suffering the economic and human consequences of climate change, and that are leaders in working to reduce the emissions that cause it.

Tol claims the economic impacts of climate change will be minor and has attacked studies showing the vast majority of climate scientists agree that humans are the main cause of climate change.

The answer to our climate, energy and economic challenges does not lie in burning more dirty fossil fuels - instead, we must continue to press for much more rapid development of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies and cuts in the pollution that causes global warming.

«As a nation, as a community and as individuals we need to do more to find solutions to the growing social, economic and development challenges caused by climate change», she said.

And for that debate to be an informed one, it is important to understand why these cities have sued and why it makes economic sense that the defendants should be held responsible for the climate injuries caused by their products.