Sentences with phrase «global consensus at»

Bush proposed that a conference be held by the summer to formally establish such a goal and pave the way for a «global consensus at the U.N. in 2009.»

Not exact matches

At the Oslo panel there was a consensus that a true global opportunity needs to include a business case.

For much of my career I pretty much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.

«Respondents... generally agree about monetary policy, but there is no clear consensus about most fiscal issues,» said Jay Bryson, global economist at Wells Fargo Securities and chair of the NABE's policy survey committee.

Adjusted earnings per share for the second quarter came in at $ 0.17, whereas consensus estimates compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence had Freeport's earnings coming in at $ 0.20 per share.

As IIS often highlighted it, the UN consensus - building exercise of the 1990s, which set the framework in which global governance operates today, hijacked humanity's universal aspirations at the end of the Cold War.

Forged by US gender feminists in the 1970s against the backdrop of May» 68, the postmodern notion of gender became the object of an alleged «global consensus» at the 1995 UN Beijing conference on women.

«The proposed turnover tax aimed at online platforms is discriminatory and ignores the global consensus that the so - called «digital economy» should not be singled out,»

«The Programme aims to enhance engagements between state and non-state actors to build consensus around identified urban development priorities and amplify Africa's voice at the global level towards HABITAT III.

With a growing consensus in the global health community that Hepatitis C (HCV) could be eliminated, a new report from the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University highlights a key missing element needed to achieving complete eliminationâ $ «adequate surveillance and monitoringâ $ «and explains how modest investments would improve lives and save global health community that Hepatitis C (HCV) could be eliminated, a new report from the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University highlights a key missing element needed to achieving complete eliminationâ $ «adequate surveillance and monitoringâ $ «and explains how modest investments would improve lives and save Global Health Law at Georgetown University highlights a key missing element needed to achieving complete eliminationâ $ «adequate surveillance and monitoringâ $ «and explains how modest investments would improve lives and save money.

Climate scientist Christopher Field, director of the Department of Global Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, emphasized the scientific consensus that global temperatures are rising and that climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather eGlobal Ecology of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, emphasized the scientific consensus that global temperatures are rising and that climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather eglobal temperatures are rising and that climate change is likely to contribute to extreme weather events.

There is relatively little consensus about how climate change will affect the incidence of persistent drought at global and regional scales, in large part due to the uncertainties discussed above.

In 2015, at a Heartland press conference criticizing the pope's environmentally oriented encyclical, Lehr said that the overwhelming consensus that global warming is real and is driven by fossil fuel emissions is dead wrong.

While Tillerson has advocated for the US to keep a seat at international climate talks, he has also disputed the scientific consensus that global warming is mostly caused by human activity.

The open letter — signed by myself, Gordon and Sarah Brown, Lee Bollinger, the President of Columbia University, Hanan Al Hroub, the winner of the Global Teacher Prize, and leading voices at other academic institutions — demonstrates a broad consensus on this essential issue of refugee education.

One commonly used measure, the price - to - earnings ratio of stocks in the S. & P. 500, based on consensus earnings expectations, stands at 15.6, said Mr. Masters of Bernstein Global Wealth Management.

Government in the U.K. and other places outside of the United States seem to have supported the consensus IPCC findings on global warming, which has kept their skeptics at bay in their countries for the most part (except perhaps in Australia which is heavily influenced by interests in the U.S.).

All I'm saying is that it's a reasonable way of looking at the facts, and trying too strenously to refute it is perhaps not the best way to convert reasonable newbies to the subject to consensus views on global warming.

The obvious answer (from someone who is indeed receptive to arguments for lower - than - consensus climate sensitivities) is that it was on a par with recent hot years because temperatures at US latitudes of the globe really weren't as much cooler in the 1930s / 1940s (compared to the present) than GISS / Hadley's best estimates (from often sketchy global coverage) suggest.

Much of what they said meshed with the overall theme of the meeting, which organizers said was aimed at proving that the recent consensus on dangerous human - caused global warming was shaped more by politics and passion than data.

When an economist at the Environmental Protection Agency rejected the Obama administration's stance on global warming by writing an unsolicited report challenging the scientific consensus on greenhouse dangers, groups fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases hailed him as a courageous maverick.

Margaret Thatcher, Sarah Palin and many other conservatives accepted what was presented as a scientific consensus on «global warming», until the political agenda of the advocates became clear at Kyooto, Copenhagen, and finally the release of the CAGW manfesto called the SPM of the AR4.

While Naomi Oreskes first identified the consensus on human - caused global warming in the peer - reviewed literature in 2004, the first study to quantify it at 97 % came in 2009, reinforced by 97 % studies in 2010 and 2013.

«There's a recent paper by John Cook and co-authors who looked at thousands of research papers which have been published in the scientific literature to see what fraction support the scientific consensus on global warming.

If we look at the temperatures of years with La Nina, this January is the warmest, which supports the general consensus that global temperature is rising.

One need only look at the essay written by Naomi Oreskes Undeniable Global Warming to believe that most climate researchers have lined up and say they know everything and have reached a consensus.

Where we would probably disagree is on whether there is sufficient scientific proof underlying the consensus on the degree of man - made global warming and the degree to which that consensus is reflected correctly in the statements made at the top of this thread.

Mr McIntyre is exactly right: If we take Big Climate at their word that the entire global economy needs massive re-orientation on a scale never before contemplated, it will require the largest societal consensus â $ «left and right and center, in America, in Canada, in Britain, in Europe... Yet all Big Climate does is retreat ever deeper into its shrinking echo chamber and compile ever longer lists of people who are beyond the pale â $ «Professor Curry, Professor Christy, Professor Bengtsson, Professor Pielke, Professor Soon, Lord Lawson, the Bishop of Chester, the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics... It might be quicker for Mann, Trenberth, Gavin Schmidt and the other climate enforcers to make a short list of those to whom they are prepared to grant a say in the future of the planet.

The survey finds both support and skepticism for major efforts to reduce climate change on the first day of a Paris summit, with international leaders aiming to forge consensus on measures aimed at slowing the rise of global temperatures.

A major peer - reviewed paper by four senior researchers has exposed grave errors in an earlier paper in a new and unknown journal that had claimed a 97.1 % scientific consensus that Man had caused at least half the 0.7 Cº global warming since 1950.

KR - I briefly looked at Spencer Weart and despite being a believer in global warming comes out against a recent argument for the consensus here.

At the peak of the consensus, 84 percent of Americans thought global warming was a threat.

In response to these attacks, John Cook, from the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland and the founder of SkepticalScience.com, gathered a team of over a dozen colleagues, all of whom had been part of other consensus studies, to go over the data and put the arguments to the test.

Thursday, April 14, 2016, 5:30 PM - Greenland's earliest recorded melt shocked scientists this week, while at the same time, a new report ultimately confirms the 97 per cent consensus that human activity is responsible for recent changes in our climate due to global warming.

While the IPCC first made statements attributing global warming to humans in 1995, Cook et al. (2013) found that there has been over a 90 % consensus in the peer - reviewed scientific literature that humans are causing global warming since at least 1991.

Lindzen's critics say his dissent consists of taking cynical potshots at the consensus model of global warming and that he chooses to pick his fights before general audiences who don't understand the science.

She probably believed in the existence of the «scientific consensus» on the global warming and was not expecting to find a «skeptic» in the Harvard - Smithsonian (climate skeptics are not obligated to wear a distinctive clothing, at least not yet).

Abstract The rate at which global mean sea level (GMSL) rose during the 20th century is uncertain, with little consensus between various reconstructions that indicate rates of rise ranging from 1.3 to 2 mm ⋅ y − 1.

Since at least 1998 «global warming» has been a political issue and the consensus meme is a part of that.

What you're referring to is a condensed version of: Kendall Zimmerman, M. (2008), The consensus on the consensus: An opinion survey of Earth scientists on global climate change, 250 pp., Univ. of Ill. at Chicago.

Using data gathered from tree rings, etc. her and other scientists in the 60's predicted that global warming would resume by 1980 for 2 decades (at the time there had been a cooling trend since a warming peak in the 1930's - and there was scientific consensus of that as all the charts as of the 1980's showed that) followed by 50 years of cooling AND they predicted a spike in cooling around 2020.

For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.

Edim October 8, 2012 at 1:01 pm Reply «Yes, how much warming is the prior question — the 2010s may not be that much warmer than the ~ 1940s as the consensus global temperature indices show (~ 0.5 °C?).

Or, at least, none of the consensus climate models predicted this cooling, which is why, to avoid looking completely ridiculous, AGW believers now refer to «climate change» rather than «global warming.»

Current atmospheric CO2 levels are higher than at any time since at least a million years ago, and there is no notable scientific dissent from the consensus position that global warming is happening, is human caused, and presents a global problem.

He accuses the NYT of playing down the seriousness of global warming by ignoring: «the substantial number of climate scientists who believe that the consensus predictions are much too optimistic, including some of the leading scientists right here [at MIT] who have recently run what they call the most extensive modelling ever done and concluded that it's far worse than anticipated and that their own results are an understatement...» That would be the MIT Climate Research group financed by Exxon, Shell, BP and Total.

However the consensus of those who have studied the question most closely is that the global mean surface temperature is rising at a rate that will bring it to between 2 and 4 degrees hotter than today.

There is a consensus that man was responsible for at least some of the global warming before it ground to a halt.

Vaughan writes «However the consensus of those who have studied the question most closely is that the global mean surface temperature is rising at a rate that will bring it to between 2 and 4 degrees hotter than today.»

The article (PDF) begins with the admission that «Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it» but CEI proceeds to argue that «There is no «scientific consensus» that global warming will cause damaging climate change.&Global warming is happening and man is responsible for at least some of it» but CEI proceeds to argue that «There is no «scientific consensus» that global warming will cause damaging climate change.&global warming will cause damaging climate change.»