Sentences with phrase «global crash caused»

The 2008 global crash caused a 6 % decline in GDP as activity and tax receipts dried up in our large financial sector and the rest of the economy contracted.

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The AnonSec hacker group released a 250 GB data dump and claimed it tried to cause a Global Hawk Drone to crash in the Pacific Ocean, according...

Fisheries are crashing, deforestation is causing a whole complex of problems, the weather is becoming less favorable because of global warming, fresh water is becoming scarce, species are disappering, arable land is deteriorating.

The same Chancellor who still tries to claim that a global financial and banking crisis, which began in the USA and echoed round the world, was somehow caused by or made worse by levels of public spending here in Britain — when as Shadow Chancellor, before the crash, he had pledged to match Labour's spending plans.

But the failure of nations to craft a new global pact has caused demand for the CO2 offsets generated under the U.N.'s carbon markets to dry up, sending prices crashing and nearly bankrupting many of the companies that invested in the schemes.

We now have the best evidence yet that an enormous wave of volcanism, caused by several continents crashing together to form the even greater landmass known as Gondwana, was the reason for a sharp rise in global temperature.

And such a crash could be triggered by a number of events — a recession that causes widespread unemployment, rising interest rates and even global shocks like failures in China's opaque shadow banking system.

How can someone go beyond the causes of either shuttle crash and question the ability of NASA or any equivalent organization to function effectively, yet simply accept that since The Limits to Growth predicted a crash due to resources by 2000 and that didn't happen, global warming is bogus?

Nova is an Australian climate denialist and author of «The Skeptic's Handbook,» a crash course in false science claiming global warming isn't happening and isn't human - caused.

But the global recession after 2008 caused a crash in production, meaning there is a now huge oversupply of permits.

Model crashes for large positive forcings are sometimes described as a runaway greenhouse, but they probably are caused by one of the many parametrizations in complex global models going outside its range of validity, not by a runaway greenhouse effect.

Other environmentalists have undermined the cause with claims bordering on the outlandish; they've blamed global warming for shrinking sheep in Scotland, more shark and cougar attacks, genetic changes in squirrels, an increase in kidney stones and even the crash of Air France Flight 447.