Sentences with phrase «global conditions now»

EMDEs have grown large enough that their collective influence on global conditions now matches that of the advanced economies.

Not exact matches

Consequently, even as the Fed has now jacked up its overnight rate six times since it started hiking, global financial conditions have remained exceptionally lax.

But as the consortium of Asian energy companies that submitted the Canadian project for regulatory approval three years ago weighs it's options in a global energy market now flooded with cheap oil and gas, and further considers the 190 conditions attached to Ottawa's approval, including a cap on annual green house gas emissions, it may be some time before this project crosses the finish line.

As we're now in the ninth year of the current cycle, we think investors should consider the mixed nature of incoming data such as China's economic stimulus, global liquidity conditions, a US «hard data» letdown and escalating asset class valuations.

He said: «With the global credit crunch worsening, and conditions getting tougher for all house builders, it is time to recognise that the very commendable 2020 target is now almost impossible.

From hikers navigating with handheld locators to pilots landing in zero - visibility conditions, the Global Positioning System now serves more than 30 million users.

Now, a 15 - year, 30 - nation research collective called Geotraces is embarking on an ambitious global survey of ocean chemistry to quantify trace elements and shed light on how chemical concentrations fluctuate in response to changing environmental conditions.

«The Ebola crisis right now is one of the clearest illustrations that [of] the link between the conditions on the ground — the lack of public health resources and infrastructure — and the importance of addressing that as a threat to global health security,» said Scott Gordon, director of the Window of Opportunity Project at PATH, an international non-profit organization working on global health innovation.

This is what happens right now under the conditions of global warming.

Unfortunately, however, no single SFR estimator is universally available or even applicable in all circumstances: the numerous galaxies found in deep surveys are often too faint (or too distant) to yield significant detections with most standard SFR measures, and until now there have been no global, multi-band observations of nearby galaxies that span all the conditions under which star - formation is taking place.

«Global investor sentiment is unjustifiably negative,» Mordy says, «There are always risks but markets now have a long list of positives with most central banks easing, reasonable valuations and oversold conditions.

In this edition, we feature a Business Insider summary of a recent Baupost letter, a summary of Guy Spier's approach to using checklists, a video of Tom Russo's talk at Google on «Global Value Investing», a ValueWalk article on Pzena Asset Management, an FT article on Steve Jobs which analyses the start - up conditions at Apple; plus two more videos at the end of this issue — one from Bill Miller on why he thinks now is the perfect time to buy US stocks, the other from London Value Investor Conference speaker Jean - Marie Eveillard who speaks about market cycles and the risks he sees ahead from «valuation problems» brought about by quantitative easing.

«Her critical insights into contemporary culture, examining histories of science fiction, feminism, and the global socio - political condition, feel more urgent now than ever.»

We now have results for 6 different regional models run with identical boundary conditions for two 30 - year periods covering a control period 1961 - 90 and a scenario period 2071 - 2100 according to the SRES scenario A2 as simulated with global models from the Hadley Centre.

Now to contribute a single event to Global Warming, one has to look at the weather conditions, and if patterns are sighted which are tied to alteration of sea ice decline (our new atmosphere set up), we can connect the dots here too.

The study starts with observations of eroding ice sheets spreading, cooler freshwater at both ends of the planet and geological hints of tempestuous conditions toward the end of the Eemian, that last interval between ice ages when global temperatures and seas were higher than now.

The Lede blog has a nice update on her condition (she's able to read now), her fight and efforts to build a global movement for girls» access to education.

The American dream of two cars per family and third world homes complete with a refrigerator, dish washer, washing machine, cloth drier, flat screen television sets, cosy air - conditioned livingrooms and everything in order has gone global now.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

I don't agree either on your approach of leaving ethical considerations and sustainability aside as I admit to being «Malthusian» in the sense that I believe that humans have now the power of affecting the global environment (including the resource base) so much that we can affect significantly the conditions that future generations will meet

I don't agree either on your approach of leaving ethical considerations and sustainability aside as I admit to being «Malthusian» in the sense that I believe that humans have now the power of affecting the global environment (including the resource base) so much that we can affect significantly the conditions that future generations will meet — but then you did discuss these issues in point 6.

The unusual temperature conditions we can experience right now can therefore be seen just as a result of global warming.

We are now seeing the rise of a new, supercharged type of drought, in which global warming - related temperature extremes combine with dry conditions to transform what would otherwise be an ordinary drought event into a far more severe event.

The conditions for global warming induced drought firmly established themselves over the past decade and are now growing more and more extreme.

We should prepare now for dangerous global cooling (By Paleoclimatologist Tim Patterson, professor in the department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa)-- Excerpt: Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth.

One study estimates that there are likely to be places on Earth where unprotected humans without cooling mechanisms, such as air conditioning, would die in less than six hours if global average surface temperature rises by about 12.6 ° F (7 ° C).16 With warming of 19.8 - 21.6 ° F (11 - 12 ° C), this same study projects that regions where approximately half of the world's people now live could become intolerable.7

For more on the terrestrial foods topic, see my detailed discussion in this previous post, and this recent (March 30) ScienceNews report on yet another, largely anecdotal «polar bears resort to bird eggs because of declining sea ice» story (see photo below, based on a new paper by Prop and colleagues), which was also covered March 31 at the DailyMail («Polar bears are forced to raid seabird nests as Arctic sea ice melts — eating more than 200 eggs in two hours,» with lots of hand - wringing and sea ice hype but little mention of the fact that there are many more bears now than there were in the early 1970s around Svalbard or that the variable, cyclical, AMO (not global warming) has had the largest impact on sea ice conditions in the Barents Sea).

Now we have poor hunting conditions in the Bering Strait touted as evidence that «walrus migration patterns have changed» with the implication that this is because ``... the past eight years have had the eight lowest amounts of summer sea ice on record» due to man - made global warming.

Such developments, though driven in part by strong El Nià ± o conditions, are a â $ œreminder of how perilously close we are now to a permanent crossing into the global - warming danger zone, â $ he said.

After years of claiming otherwise, consensus climate experts now confirm that the global warming hiatus actually existed for an extended period, which was a global condition opposite their predictions.

Thus, even the best global warming predictions represent a stripped - down version of the Earth's real climate, capable of approximating average conditions over entire countries a long time from now, but too crude to reliably forecast conditions within localized regions of the countries.

«There are no quick fixes and conditions in global labour markets will probably get worse before they get better, but we have to act now.

«Global corporations operating with a common rule of law are now society's strongest force to improve the human condition,» says Timothy Erblich, CEO of Ethisphere Institute.

Many American cities now face conditions of water scarcity — which will become more widespread with the onset of global climate change...