Sentences with phrase «global concern because»
Despite making China a focus of global concern because it became the single largest energy user and carbon emitter, China's 2010 per capita energy use (1.85 metric tons of oil equivalent, toe) was actually still below the world average (1.87 toe)[87,88].
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Ironically, the selloff of U.S. stocks began a few weeks ago because of weakness in the Chinese economy, the devaluation of the yuan, and stock market turmoil in the Asian nation, which led to serious concerns about a global economic slowdown.
The study was sponsored by the global insurer and health services company Cigna, which is concerned about loneliness as a societal problem but also because it's not just making us sad: It can literally make us sick.
In your analysis you reject concerns about the macroeconomic impact of budget deficits because, you argue, the United States will be able to attract capital from the global capital market.
The CNBC survey also found that 31 percent believe the Fed will not hike because of global growth concerns, and 22 percent say it is because the markets are unprepared.
Karyn Twaronite, global diversity and inclusiveness officer at consulting and accounting firm EY, told Bloomberg that she had received hundreds of emails from employees «raising concerns, thoughts and observations» and «areas of angst,» but also noted she was «hopeful, because there's so much dialogue.»
US officials refused to prosecute HSBC for money laundering in 2012 because of concerns within the Department of Justice that it would cause a «global financial disaster», a report says.
Because they are domestically focused, muni bonds generally lack exposure to the same concerns and sources of volatility that global equities face.
«The NRC has been pressured by the nuclear industry, directly and through Congress, to low - ball the potential consequences of a fire because of concerns that increased costs could result in shutting down more nuclear power plants,» said paper co-author Frank von Hippel, a senior research physicist at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.
But most of what they are doing is not visible, because it is rooted in local concerns, such as urban air pollution, rather than fear of global warming.
we're in the middle of a heat wave in the winter, and while i know i should concerned because global warming is real, it's hard not to enjoy such pleasant weather after so many cold, rainy days this season!
«We are interested in making global innovations because user satisfaction remains our utmost concern.»
Because they are domestically focused, muni bonds generally lack exposure to the same concerns and sources of volatility that global equities face.
The stock market is plummeting today because of concerns about the global economy, including the European debt crisis and the slowing growth rate in China.
Her art practice is intimately intertwined with her life, not only because she borrows motifs and artefacts for her work, but also because she has an inquisitive mind and a strong desire to understand sociological issues such characteristics endow Kher's work with a narrative quality and fascinating interiority of things that frequently contradict her practice of addressing more global and collective concerns.
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.»
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.
If anything, the paper is good news for people concerned about global warming, because it gives us something to fix.
Subject of some specific concern about global warming because of large temperature rises predicted for the arctic, and because of some arctic - specific feedback effects (e.g. the albedo feedback following loss of arctic sea ice).
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.
That's a cause for concern because, among other reasons, methane traps more heat than carbon dioxide, making it a more potent greenhouse gas and thus of concern for global warming, according to a study detailing the trip's findings and published recently in the journal Atmospheric Environment.
Refining the model to obtain «better» results can only be directed by prejudice concerning what is «better» because there is no measurement standard for global temperature.
Because global warming will hurt the poor more, there will be more «social equity» concerns and pressure for governments to do more.
That's particularly important for those concerned about the impacts the global coal industry has on our health and environment because Germany is currently the third largest source of international public financing for coal.
On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.
NEW evidence has cast doubt on claims that the world's ice - caps are melting, it emerged last night. Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature. It was feared that the polar caps were vanishing because of the effects of global warming. But figures from the respected US National -LSB-...]
This trend is likely to continue for a long time, regardless of other factors, because of global warming concerns.
In the past few months, climate scientists speaking out about the dangers of global warming have come under increased assault, largely because of climate skeptics voicing concerns over the information contained within certain scientists» email messages.
Should we assume that global warming deniers are motivated by a desire to see rising sea levels and longer droughts, merely because that's the opposite of environmentalists» concerns?
(5) Global warming, the climate change component that is driven by greenhouse gas increases, is the reason for concern because of its increasing impact on ecosystems and polar ice caps / sea level rise.
Concerning global warming: a warmer world is to be welcomed because it means higher humidity levels, a shrinkage of deserts, more arable land, and a longer growing season all of which mean more food production.
Just to let you know how stupid the global warming activists are, I've been to the south pole 3 times and even there, where the water vapor is under 0.2 mm precipitable, it's still the H2O that is the main concern in our field and nobody even talks about CO2 because CO2 doesn't absorb or radiate in the portion of the spectrum corresponding with earth's surface temps of 220 to 320 K. Not at all.
The rapid growth of carbon footprints in wealthy countries led to concerns about carbon leakage — where climate mitigation policies in one country lead to increases in CO2 emissions elsewhere — and industrial competitiveness, because international mitigation targets were slated to apply to developed countries and not the Global South.
This means conservatives will tend to dismiss global warming because to show concern would invite the possibility that we — individuals — aren't up to the task of preventing it.
U.S. dependence on the global oil market raises national security concerns because oil price volatility has an impact on the economy.
Or Paul Driessen, the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, saying things like: «It's incredibly patronising and colonialistic to tell Africa that you can't develop because we're concerned about global warming» — while arguing that funding the fight against global warming «takes money away from spending on malaria».
Tipping points are in the news these days because some of the well - known scientists who are concerned about global warming keep telling us that the Earth — the Earth's global environment, that is — is nearing a tipping point.
A story on a survery — come on???? Global warming is a fuzzy two word slogan that sounds good to say, and people who answer surveys will say it is a concern because it sounds «right» and politically correct to say so, but it means nothing.
We focus on the fossil fuel industry because we view the production and consumption of oil, gas and coal as sources of global warming, human rights abuses, war, national security concerns, corporate globalization, and increased inequality.
I may begin to sound like a broken record here, but yet another coal plant has been pulled because of global warming - related concerns.
«Many of the fundamental questions concerning the nature and causes of climate change are still largely unresolved because of our incomplete quantitative understanding of many of the physical processes that enter into the global energy balance and for lack of definitive observational data on which to test various theories.
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.
This ocean acidification hypothesis, as it has come to be known, has gained great momentum in recent years, because it offers a second independent reason to regulate fossil fuel emissions in addition to that provided by concerns over traditional global warming.
There is increasing concern by climate realists that the next few decades may see global cooling because of the increasing inactivity of the sun.
(1) Because of a growing concern over the possible consequences of global warming, which may be caused in part by increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (a major greenhouse gas), and also because of the need for accurate estimates of carbon dioxide emissions, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has developed factors for estimating the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of U.S. coal consuBecause of a growing concern over the possible consequences of global warming, which may be caused in part by increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (a major greenhouse gas), and also because of the need for accurate estimates of carbon dioxide emissions, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has developed factors for estimating the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of U.S. coal consubecause of the need for accurate estimates of carbon dioxide emissions, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has developed factors for estimating the amount of carbon dioxide emitted as a result of U.S. coal consumption.
We are very concerned... because the territory of this tigress and its cubs is being rapidly cleared by two global paper companies, palm oil plantations, encroachers and illegal loggers.
Ironically, after doing some research for this article, global warming went from primary concern to a mere «secondary» concern simply because there are so many other threats we have to deal with.