Sentences with phrase «general climate as»

The world's general climate as measured wwT: t =p is 288.4 ° K.

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And as the business climate in general improves, leaders are becoming more comfortable.

The United Nations» main Twitter page quoted Secretary - General Antonio Guterres as saying, «Climate change is undeniable.

Separately, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt wrote in a company blog post obtained by Politico that «we believe climate change should be addressed on a global basis through multi-national agreements, such as the Paris Agreement.»

In response to albeit leading questions posed to many of the integral players in the company who were on hand for the premiere of General Magic, most focused on climate change and lack of diversity in tech (not of the ideological kind) as major problems.

Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.

The conference was seen at the time as something of a diplomatic triumph for the Rudd government, with Rudd highlighting Australia's new approach to climate change by formally ratifying the Kyoto protocol, personally handing the document to UN secretary general Ban Ki - moon, and using the conference to signal a new diplomatic shift towards Asia.

If the FBI's own agents did not directly carry out murder plots, the bureau intensified the climate of violence in which black leaders were slain — just as the CIA set the stage for the kidnapping and then the shooting of General Rent Schneider in Chile and the bloody overthrow of Salvador Allende three years later.

- how you can claim it's unfair to characterize evangelicals as anti-intellectual while following a man who believes conspiracy theories from the National Enquirer, thinks climate change is a hoax, says vaccines cause autism, and displays such breathtaking ignorance regarding the state of the world and foreign policy that no former presidents will endorse him and multiple generals, foreign policy experts, editorial boards, and heads of state have denounced him as dangerously uninformed,

The general intellectual climate of the twentieth century favored analytic to synthetic thought, whereas the movement I name as process thought seeks a fresh synthesis.

He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

However, this opposition has to be understood in the context of the more general mistrust of science prevailing at the time, given the international climate of socialism, which it saw as a consequence of evolutionism.

This is true of life in general — questioning is seen as dissension in a culture where the climate for change is restricted.

As Li Junfeng, the director - general of China's National Center on Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, observed: «Through this kind of lifestyle change, it is expected that the livestock industry will [be transformed] and carbon emissions will be reduced.»

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As diplomats and ministers at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly focus on advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, leaders from business, states and cities will participate in Climate Week NYC to demonstrate the resounding commitment to building a clean, resilient, inclusive global economy.

In general, the palm oil industry has been linked to deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses as the land and forests must be cleared for development of plantations.

Through a program known as Project Unify ®, Special Olympics assists schools in initiating Unified Sports and whole - school involvement activities, where general education and special education students create climates of inclusion, acceptance and respect on campuses and in communities.

To receive backing from such a highly respected campaigner, who has been so prominent in the battle against fracking and broader issues of climate change, is a real boom to the party as we look to translate the «Green surge» into votes at the general election in May.

The 2015 general election campaign will come at the same time as the next round of international UN negotiations on climate change, which campaigners say will be a critical moment in determining the planet's future.

Since taking office, Attorney General Schneiderman has established himself as a leader, both in New York and nationally, in the fight against climate change.

It is such a shame that Climate Camp had to end in this way as the general opinion was that the Police were being very peaceful and convivial during the day.

43 % of the general public backed the idea on the grounds that, in today's harsh financial climate, the Government should «use the money instead to provide more help to people who need the money more», whereas 48 % said it would be wrong to do this, as «pensioners have spent their working lives paying for their state retirement benefits».

Despite a drop in coverage, those framed in a public health context sharply increased, especially in relation to heat and general health, evidence of public health framing as an effective means to communicate climate change.

Pohl hopes that studies such as this one «will enhance our general understanding of historical and future extreme climate variability, allowing policy - makers to make better - informed decisions for coastal communities.»

«Such decadal climate fluctuations are superimposed on the general warming trend, so that at times it seems as if the warming trend slowed or even stopped.

South Asia, one of the top wheat - producing areas in the world, could lose its advantage as climate change makes conditions more difficult, said Thomas Lumpkin, director - general of CIMMYT.

The annual event, known as Climate Week, is in its eighth year and coincides with the opening of the U.N. General Assembly.

«Republican candidates have even more to gain by taking green positions on climate,» the study said, because they may attract Independents as well as woo Democratic voters in general elections, especially if their Democratic opponents remain silent on climate.

One wonders if it's unlikely that a comprehensive climate deal will happen in Copenhagen — as U.N. Secretary - General Ban - Ki Moon said yesterday — how much china the Democrats are willing to break as they push the Senate to act on climate in time for the meeting.

The authors review general trends in climate, with particular emphasis on biologically meaningful parameters such as continuous dry days and changes in climate extremes and forest disturbance patterns.

«We also hope that the Administration will regard Earth Hour as a way to inform and engage the public on climate change, just as the federal government has traditionally used Earth Day to educate the public about general environmental issues.»

AAAS CEO Rush Holt today expressed reservation regarding reports that President - elect Donald Trump plans to select Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who views human - caused climate change as unsettled, to run the Environmental Protection Agency.

Obama also is planning to speak Tuesday at the United Nations during a special summit on climate change as diplomats look to kick - start talks that U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon said this week are stalled.

At a climate finance forum hosted by the International Finance Corp. last week in Beijing, Xu Huaqing, deputy director general of China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that carbon credits sold in the existing Chinese carbon markets already surpassed 100 million yuan ($ 16 million) as of earclimate finance forum hosted by the International Finance Corp. last week in Beijing, Xu Huaqing, deputy director general of China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that carbon credits sold in the existing Chinese carbon markets already surpassed 100 million yuan ($ 16 million) as of earClimate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, said that carbon credits sold in the existing Chinese carbon markets already surpassed 100 million yuan ($ 16 million) as of early May.

CMIP was established as a resource for climate modelers, providing a standard protocol for studying the output of coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation models so that these models can be compared and validated.

The variables which determine climate are numerous and the interactions complex, but there is general agreement that the broad outlines are understood, at least in so far as the determinants of historical climate change are concerned.

A new MIT study, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reports that as climate change progresses, the city of Houston, and Texas in general, will face an increasing risk of devastating, Harvey - scale rainfall.

Trump, who has vowed to pull the U.S. out of the Paris pact, has installed vehement climate denialist Myron Ebell as leader of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's transition team and nominated fellow denialist and strident EPA foe Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the agency.

«My personal hesitation did not apply solely to the climate change entry but to several other entries, as well,» for example, air pollution and possibly even tobacco deaths, he says, «and I espoused the general principle that we should list only discrete events with identifiable, individual deaths in order to have a fair comparison.

At least half of current vegetated areas are predicted to shift to a different type of vegetation class, with a general trend of now - present grasses and small shrubs yielding to larger shrubs and trees as the climate warms, the scientists said.

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In general, climate scientists expect heavy downpours to increase over the U.S. and elsewhere, as a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, making more of it available to fall as rain.

Pat argues that it is the general tendency of climate models when forced with exponentially increasing CO2 concentrations (as were the models used in Dr. Covey's CMIP project) to produce a nearly linear temperature rise into the future.

This point might become clearer once it's realised that climate models are not developed just to the climate change problem, but as much more general tools to quantify the net effects of all the different processes we know about.

To derive the climate projections for this assessment, we employed 20 general circulation models to consider two scenarios of global carbon emissions: one where atmospheric greenhouse gases are stabilized by the end of the century and the other where it grows on its current path (the stabilization [RCP4.5] and business - as - usual [RCP8.5] emission scenarios, respectively).

Even though the leaked documents prove this money is specific for climate projects, the Donors Trust tax forms only disclose the funding's purpose as «general operations.»

As long as they were seen only discussing certain general classes of laws (e.g. «union laws», or «climate regulations»), they were in the cleaAs long as they were seen only discussing certain general classes of laws (e.g. «union laws», or «climate regulations»), they were in the cleaas they were seen only discussing certain general classes of laws (e.g. «union laws», or «climate regulations»), they were in the clear.

According to the National Climate Assessment, drought is likely to become more common in the southern reaches of the U.S. in general as global temperatures continue to rise.

Cess, R.D., et al., 1989: Interpretation of cloud - climate feedback as produced by 14 atmospheric general circulation models.