Sentences with phrase «global debates over»

Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

Or continuing the adventure by listening to a panel of distinguished scientists who question the hypothesis at the root of the global debate over global warming?

The contradictory and ambivalent recommendations of the report of the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (SRMGI), published last week, reflect the emerging faultlines in the global debate over geoengineering.

will bring together journalists, journalism researchers, policymakers and funders to discuss the future of energy transition reporting, the challenges it poses, and how to promote effective, fact - based reporting to inform the global debate over energy and climate policy.

The computer expert who sparked a global debate over electronic privacy said Tuesday that the official campaign backing Britain's exit from the European Union had access to data that was inappropriately...

The computer expert who sparked a global debate over electronic privacy said Tuesday that the official campaign backing Britain's exit from the European Union had access to data that was...

The computer expert who sparked a global debate over electronic privacy has told lawmakers that the official campaign backing Britain's exit from the European Union had access to data that was inappropriately collected from millions of Facebook users.

Not exact matches

But the advising scientists» critique stands to reignite the debate over how to regulate a practice that critics say could contaminate water supplies and exacerbate global warming.

When the leaders of the world's major economies convene in Toronto on June 26, their schedule will be laden with big issues, from ending stimulus spending to the European debt crisis to the debate over a global bank tax.

Turns out I'm not the only one to notice that in the debate over the best mechanism to combat global warming, the pols seem to prefer cap - and - trade systems to a carbon tax.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

Feb 7, 2014 - More than five years since the beginning of the global financial crisis, policymakers across the world continue to debate its root causes while economists pour over charts and data hoping to find clues as to what...

One of the most polarizing topics of discussion in the world of cryptocurrencies, the BTC vs BCH debate took a new turn today as Thomas Lee, the co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors commented that he would rather buy Bitcoin over Bitcoin Cash during an appearance on CNBC.

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

The debate over aluminum's future in the United States comes after 20 years of China flooding the global market with the natural resource, depressing prices to a level where few U.S. companies can compete.

The national security is a wrinkle in a larger debate over manufacturing in America: whether the government should intervene to shelter a place like Hawesville from the winds of global trade.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

Since, even now, when debates about the fact of global warming is largely over, no nation is considering taking the really drastic actions that might significantly reduce the catastrophes that lie ahead, it seems that we are all too likely to experience judgment for our collective sins.

Global science, by the way, is not unified and spends most of its time bickering back on forth over every issue, not to advance debate, but to justify academic publishing requirements.

As with global warming, so too with the lawlessness in our society: the debates over its causes are far from finished.

The global warming debate rages over which evidence is included and excluded, how that evidence is framed, and then how it's interpreted.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

«We continue to hear from many people on the debate over sexuality that our current Discipline contains language which is contradictory, unnecessarily hurtful, and inadequate for the variety of local, regional and global contexts,» the proposal said.

If it were not for the small matter of a global financial crisis or the vital debate over what Peter Mandelson did or did not say over the hummus to George Osborne, all eyes would now be on the next stage of the debate about extending detention without trial.

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

In the growing debate over whether the United States is losing its technological edge in a global economy (ScienceNOW 15 December), numbers matter.

Nowadays, there is a raging debate over whether climate change, and the overall rise in global temperature it is supposed to bring, will cause tropical cyclones to develop more often and become more powerful in the future.

Whether it would quell the debate over global cooling - fueled in part by the East Coast's hard winter and the revelation of errors in the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change synthesis report - is less certain.

A new study of the global cycle of these uranium isotopes brings additional perspectives to the debate on how Earth has changed over billions of years as revealed in a recently published study in the journal Nature.

The NRC asked the committee to summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past two millennia, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

The debate over whether global warming is natural or manmade is an artificial one: scientists know that both factors can affect the planet's temperature.

At a time of increasing global economic competition, continued signs of backsliding in state oversight of schools, and growing impatience with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the debate over national education standards has heated up.

National debates over teaching of evolution or global warming, as well questioning funding for contraception show the US to be out of step with other developed countries.

Much like the debate over global warming, these non-believers refuse to validate an unassailable fact: standardized testing does have positive — and predictive — value in education and in life, just as the Earth is, indeed, getting warmer.

He chuckles when it's compared to the similarly sealed — at least in most scientists» minds — debate over global warming.

More than a decade ago, Al Gore declared the debate on global warming over.

That episode rekindled debate over what should be done to reduce threats to the estimated 2,000 blue whales of an overall global population of 10,000 that feed off California each summer.

You can see his works as part of City Now City Future, which runs from May 2017 — April 2018 and is made up of over a hundred events, exhibitions, creative commissions, talks and debates that explore the joys, frustrations and evolution of global cities and our lives within them.

Popular Geometry, a newspaper series produced with Julieta Aranda in cities around the world, is a forum for debate over the global proliferation of minimalist public sculptures since the 1970s.

If mean global temperatures trending significantly upward over the last 100 years isn't worrying enough for you, how about that giant piece of Antarctica that is about to crack off and sink into the ocean... I don't know how the existence of global warming is still a debate!

Dr. Somerville was on the losing side of a Marc 2007 debate between scientists over whether global warming was a «crisis.»

The issue we need to debate is not whether the global average temperature changes by 0.1 C or 0.2 C over the next decade (or whatever).

Any discussion of global warming, whether in a news story or debate over policy or Gallup poll question, ideally should start with clarity about what's being discussed.

Finally, Bryan Walsh at Time posted «A Silent Hurricane Season Adds Fuel to a Debate Over Global Warming,» which echoes Mooney's piece.

Roughly, I'd guess the debates over global climate change took place largely between 1981 and 1995; a good bit shorter than the debates over continental drift, but then there was less radical about the idea of global climate change — it was already known that the planet's climate had changed in the past, so the idea that it might be changing in the present was less radical than the idea that the vast continents might, in fact, be drifting like huge floating islands.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

The definition I'd choose is much like the one stated by Richard Somerville of the University of California, San Diego, during a climate debate several years ago over the proposition that «Global Warming is Not a Crisis.»

To keep a full view of the debate over relevant policies, you'd also do well to track the flow of links from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a pro-fossil, anti-regulation group * in Great Britain.

For those old enough to remember, the debate over global warming may be reminiscent of the equally intense scare propaganda lasting for several years during the 1980s.