Sentences with phrase «given global concerns»

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In short, given the increased concerns of global growth slowing, oil price instability, the potential Brexit, and U.S. election, we think owning gold as part of a diversified asset allocation continues to be a sound approach.

In addition, given stubbornly low inflation and investor concerns over global growth, there's also the prospect for an extension of Europe's current quantitative easing program, as many in the media speculated last week.

Upcoming industry conferences and events that GFI Group is sponsoring, including events at which professionals from the group will be speaking and giving expert analysis and commentary on various topics concerning global financial markets.

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

The generally positive run of economic data around the world has been reflected in a clear change in sentiment in financial markets since mid-year, as concerns that the global recovery would falter gave way to increasing confidence about the outlook.

This is especially important given the concerns about proselytism expressed by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox communions, given the fact that the charismatic churches of the global South are now sending missionaries to reevangelize the Anglo - American West, and given the explosive growth of independent, charismatic churches around the world.

But despite these concerns over the concussion protocols, the IRB says «independent neurologists, rugby medics and the players» Union have given their unanimous backing to the IRB's PSCA protocol, recommending continuation of the current global trial in elite rugby».

«This gives the global community great concern about the commitment of Nigeria to the anti-corruption drive.

The drought in the region also gave rise to a global discussion and concern for desertification as an emerging environmental problem.

«MERS is a growing global concern given its high fatality rate,» said MHRP Director Col. Nelson Michael.

Given weaker economic growth in the first quarter and lingering global economic concerns, the Federal Reserve already seemed unlikely to push aggressive increases in short - term rates this year.

In addition, given stubbornly low inflation and investor concerns over global growth, there's also the prospect for an extension of Europe's current quantitative easing program, as many in the media speculated last week.

Speaking today at London's World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, Ufi Ibrahim, chief executive of the British Hospitality Association, said the idea was one «that gives great concern».

Of course, most players will be far more concerned with building their own stats than with fighting a global war, but the overarching story is a nice way to give us something more than «here's a gun; now shoot some dudes.»

Given that sabbatical (during which the Hong Kong - born, New York - based artist set up his Badlands Unlimited publishing house), perhaps it's fitting too that the first section of the book brings together a series of texts — «What Art Is and Where It Belongs» and «On Art and the 99 Percent» among them — that, at their heart, consider questions concerning the definition of art and its role in society, with a particular focus on its relation to ideas of home and community, much of it in the context of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the subsequent global economic recession.

Watershed explores the increasingly fraught relationship between humankind and the environment, giving photographic aid to a concern that has reached global significance in recent years.

In this article it's said that» If anything, the paper is good news for people concerned about global warming, because it gives us something to fix.»

Flip down a further two pages, and you can find a chapter giving the usual collection of «they say / they say» (with caveats) concerning global warming since pre-industrial time.

The surface temperature increase that partially gave rise to concerns about global warming coincided with a move to tethered electronic measuring devices (um, I think that means thermometers) that forced the movement of many stations closer to buildings and developed areas, causing warming that may not have been corrected for.

Mainly because we were concerned by the global media coverage which made it appear as if a coming pause in global warming was almost a given fact, rather than an experimental forecast.

For those who seek to curtail travel in a feeble attempt to fight global warming: Given the non-emergency that climate change has thus far proven to be and the real and dire crises that presently plague the planet, should we also deny transportation (by aid organizations and concerned citizens) to regions, like the Darfur or Sierra Leone, that require our immediate attention?

If anything, the paper is good news for people concerned about global warming, because it gives us something to fix.

As far as this historic period is concerned, the reconstruction of past temperatures based on deep boreholes in deep permafrost is one of the best past temperature proxies we have (for the global regions with permafrost — polar regions and mountainous regions)-- as a signal of average temperatures it's even more accurate than historic direct measurements of the air temperature, since the earth's upper crust acts as a near perfect conservator of past temperatures — given that no water circulation takes place, which is precisely the case in permafrost where by definition the water is frozen.

Given the state of the climate all here [well, except for 1 or 2] are concerned with, what is the likelihood those reserves will grow rather than dwindle, considering the fact that the global population continues to increase and we're using our food to produce energy?

Each year, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gives environmental scores to automakers based on average per - mile smog pollution and global warming emissions of the entire fleet of vehicles sold.

Given the new burst of concern over volatile and rising global food prices from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and various aid and environmental campaigners, late last week I sent some questions to a broad array of scholars and analysts focused on global resources and demands.

What they are really talking about, in essence, is the need for elected officials sometimes to get out ahead of their constituents, given that global warming remains a bottom - tier issue for Americans when they are asked to list their primary concerns.

But I'm less concerned now that I have read the paper over more carefully, because I think that Figure 1a and 1b give a pretty good sense of what features of higher resolution reconstructions (specifically, our ’08 global reconstruction which is shown) are potentially captured.

If given the chance to talk to an expert on global warming, the Alarmed and Concerned would most like to know what the nations of the world can do to reduce global warming, and if there's still time to do so.

Even though this series of blog posts concerns a prominent complaint filed in 2007 against the UK Channel Four Television Corporation video «The Great Global Warming Swindle,» my objective is to show how a thorough analysis of any given accusation about skeptic climate scientists being «paid industry money to lie» shatters the accusation to bits no matter where the hammer strikes.

Ultimately, we show that present temperature abnormalities are given undue weight and lead to an overestimation of the frequency of similar past events, thereby increasing belief in and concern for global warming.

Satellites supposedly overcome that concern about UHI by sampling uniformly in order to give a true estimate of global mean surface temperature.

But of far graver concern are the growing reports that the US won't be ready to sign a global deal on climate change in Copenhagen either, given the time needed to enact domestic climate legislation.

The climate alarmists have exploited the public's understandable lack of knowledge concerning climate science to argue that the developed countries (but usually not less developed countries) should give up some or preferably all fossil fuel use in order to avoid alleged catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW).

«The world's most high - profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is» undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today» and» a challenge humanity must confront», in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.»

By Brad Plumer, NYTimes, Feb 2, 2018 Exxon Mobil's shareholders — concerned that the company's main businesses, oil and natural gas, may be imperiled — had demanded last year that the company give a more detailed accounting of the consequences of global policies aimed at curbing emissions of earth - warming gases.

According to a report in Reason Magazine, titled Union of Concerned Scientists Cooks the Books, Media Swallow It, UCS and its analysts used corporate giving data to «imply that General Electric executives were climate change hypocrites,» supportive of some think tanks that are skeptical of the «scientific consensus» on global warming, including Reason itself, which UCS accused of «misrepresenting climate change science.»

The Realclimate writers say that they're proposing a bet because they were concerned by the global media coverage that made it appear as if a coming pause in global warming was almost a given fact, rather than an experimental forecast.

This could certainly be a growth sector if oil becomes more expensive and low - carbon technologies are given a push because of concerns about global warming.

First, the paper dismisses concerns that the choice of 1970 as a starting point may give a misleading account because of the evidence that there was global cooling from 1940 to 1970.

The problem is that Professor Wensch is unhappy with being quoted in a manner that gives weight to his proper and appropriate concern about the uncertainty of global climate «science» and the high potential for bias.

Given that Donald Trump tweeted in 2012 that he believes concern about global warming is the result of a ploy by China to make American manufacturing less competitive, and then...

Given that Donald Trump tweeted in 2012 that he believes concern about global warming is the result of a ploy by China to make American manufacturing less competitive, and then in a 2014 tweet explicitly called global warming a «hoax,» it was no surprise when his administration moved aggressively to undo the climate actions taken by former President Barack Obama.

On the risk side, divesting is about not getting stuck holding stranded fossil fuel assets that can not be burnt if the world is to adhere to a given carbon budget, a topic on which Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has expressed concerns in a landmark speech to global insurer Lloyd's of London.

-- During the period 1941 - 1975, when global temperatures cooled, giving rise to concerns of a looming ice age, there were 11 years of moderate - to - severe drought.

Given that both CO2 and global average temperature are far below the norm for the past 500 million years and primary production in the food chain is also far below the norm then I'd say we probably shouldn't worry about it until we at least have temperate forests covering Antarctica again and the threat of a cold ending to the Holocene Interglacial is not a concern.

Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $ 60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win - win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4) It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $ 15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing).

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«As far as the Bitcoin community is concerned, from what I've been able to tell thus far, they seem to be really interested in funding more technology - related things or more liberty - type, freedom - type things,» said Connie Gallippi, the founder and executive director of the BitGive Foundation, which coordinates and facilitates Bitcoin giving tied to the environment and global health.

«Even though it doesn't offer specifics on every program, we are concerned given this administration's actions on global women's health, including signing into law an expanded global gag rule and most recently defunding UNFPA, that funding for international family planning may be a particular target for cuts.