This initiative, today led by an Alliance, including science, donors, sponsors and users, is a unique co-design effort to organize and define the science on
global environmental change over the coming decades.
The increased use of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals to attack unwanted organisms, has outpaced the rates of change in rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and other agents of
global environmental change over the past 45 years, a new Duke - led analysis reveals.
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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of
changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of
global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of
global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any
changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate
changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and
environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of
changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and
changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such
changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control
over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse
changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
As Matthew Hoffmann has argued [2], the ozone negotiations marked a normative shift
over the desirability of universal participation in
global environmental negotiations, a shift that was locked into the initial negotiations on climate
change.
«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere
over the past two decades as a result of climate
change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate C
change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine
global efforts to reduce
environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate
ChangeChange.
Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for
Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and
environmental challenges from climate
change as they emerge
over coming years.
According to the lecturer Emilia Gutiérrez, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and
Environmental Sciences of the UB, «the data from these trees that grow in heights
over 2,000 metres represents the
global changes, since their growth is not influenced by the effects of the local human activity (wood cutting, industry).»
To contribute to an understanding of the underlying causes of these
changes we compile various
environmental records (and model - based interpretations of some of them) in order to calculate the direct effect of various processes on Earth's radiative budget and, thus, on
global annual mean surface temperature
over the last 800,000 years.
However, a recent study published in the journal of
Global Environmental Change, which used an iPhone app called Mappiness to track the location and corresponding emotional state of
over 20,000 participants, found that we spend less than 5 percent of our waking hours in nature!
These worksheets look briefly at India in economics,
environmental,
global, local, national and social terms and the students discuss how they think India may develop and
change over the next ten years
«Early flooding of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers is an example of climate
change caused by
global warming,» Atiur Rahman, an
environmental economist, told IRIN, noting a gradual advance of the annual flooding
over the past 50 years.
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change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the
global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed
over considerable time periods.»
The economic constraint on
environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate
Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of
global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize
global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F)
over pre-industrial levels.
Our recent article «Seepage: Climate
change denial and its effect on the scientific community» in Global Environmental Change, authored by me and Naomi Oreskes, James S. Risbey, Ben R. Newell, and Michael Smithson, has attracted a bit of attention over the last few
change denial and its effect on the scientific community» in
Global Environmental Change, authored by me and Naomi Oreskes, James S. Risbey, Ben R. Newell, and Michael Smithson, has attracted a bit of attention over the last few
Change, authored by me and Naomi Oreskes, James S. Risbey, Ben R. Newell, and Michael Smithson, has attracted a bit of attention
over the last few days.
The clash between Neste and Greenpeace highlights one of the key ideological debates
over climate
change: Business and politicians believe that a «technological» fix such as alternative fuels can solve the problem and also generate profits; many
environmental groups believe the real solution to
global warming lies in reducing consumption.
Now a new study published in the journal
Global Environmental Change has declared unambiguously «the era of climate science denial is not
over».
Any reasonable scenario for
global development
over the next century is likely to project technological
change, which as we have seen in the past century would likely include
changes in energy creation and consumption technologies, as well as the propagation of the kind of normal
environmental policies that we have seen in the developed world in the past century, such as control of sulfur pollution.
I've always enjoyed Lomborg's insight into our current
global Climate
Change /
Environmental discussion politicians, academics, and students are having the world all
over.
Stott's primary area of research, according to the website of the University of London, is «the construction of
environmental knowledge
over the last 30 years, especially in relation to the following metanarratives: biodiversity, biotechnology, climate
change (
global warming), organic agriculture, and tropical rain forests (see edited book: Political ecology: science, myth and power).
Global environmental change explains the warming trend
over the last decade, but it doesn't explain why the last two winters have set record lows in certain parts of America and Canada.
All this is being disturbingly tied in to the climate
change debate by hijackers of the
environmental movement who have spuriously associated fears
over global warming with
over-population, suggesting that the solution is to implement depopulation policies and punishments for those who flout them.
(11/15/07) «Ban the Bulb: Worldwide Shift from Incandescents to Compact Fluorescents Could Close 270 Coal - Fired Power Plants» (5/9/07) «Massive Diversion of U.S. Grain to Fuel Cars is Raising World Food Prices» (3/21/07) «Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History» (1/4/07) «Santa Claus is Chinese OR Why China is Rising and the United States is Declining» (12/14/06) «Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability» (11/3/06) «The Earth is Shrinking: Advancing Deserts and Rising Seas Squeezing Civilization» (11/15/06) «U.S. Population Reaches 300 Million, Heading for 400 Million: No Cause for Celebration» (10/4/06) «Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain» (7/13/06) «Let's Raise Gas Taxes and Lower Income Taxes» (5/12/06) «Wind Energy Demand Booming: Cost Dropping Below Conventional Sources Marks Key Milestone in U.S. Shift to Renewable Energy» (3/22/06) «Learning From China: Why the Western Economic Model Will not Work for the World» (3/9/05) «China Replacing the United States and World's Leading Consumer» (2/16/05)» Foreign Policy Damaging U.S. Economy» (10/27/04) «A Short Path to Oil Independence» (10/13/04) «World Food Security Deteriorating: Food Crunch In 2005 Now Likely» (05/05/04) «World Food Prices Rising: Decades of
Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in Key Countries» (04/28/04) «Saudis Have U.S.
Over a Barrel: Shifting Terms of Trade Between Grain and Oil» (4/14/04) «Europe Leading World Into Age of Wind Energy» (4/8/04) «China's Shrinking Grain Harvest: How Its Growing Grain Imports Will Affect World Food Prices» (3/10/04) «U.S. Leading World Away From Cigarettes» (2/18/04) «Troubling New Flows of
Environmental Refugees» (1/28/04) «Wakeup Call on the Food Front» (12/16/03) «Coal: U.S. Promotes While Canada and Europe Move Beyond» (12/3/03) «World Facing Fourth Consecutive Grain Harvest Shortfall» (9/17/03) «Record Temperatures Shrinking World Grain Harvest» (8/27/03) «China Losing War with Advancing Deserts» (8/4/03) «Wind Power Set to Become World's Leading Energy Source» (6/25/03) «World Creating Food Bubble Economy Based on Unsustainable Use of Water» (3/13/03) «
Global Temperature Near Record for 2002: Takes Toll in Deadly Heat Waves, Withered Harvests, & Melting Ice» (12/11/02) «Rising Temperatures & Falling Water Tables Raising Food Prices» (8/21/02) «Water Deficits Growing in Many Countries» (8/6/02) «World Turning to Bicycle for Mobility and Exercise» (7/17/02) «New York: Garbage Capital of the World» (4/17/02) «Earth's Ice Melting Faster Than Projected» (3/12/02) «World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure» (2/5/02) «World Wind Generating Capacity Jumps 31 Percent in 2001» (1/8/02) «This Year May be Second Warmest on Record» (12/18/01) «World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons: Water Shortages Contributing to Shortfall» (11/21/01) «Rising Sea Level Forcing Evacuation of Island Country» (11/15/01) «Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security» (10/4/01) «Wind Power: The Missing Link in the Bush Energy Plan» (5/31/01) «Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future» (5/23/01) «Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land» (2/14/01) «Obesity Epidemic Threatens Health in Exercise - Deprived Societies» (12/19/00) «HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population» (10/31/00) «Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle Ranching As a Food Source» (10/3/00) «OPEC Has World
Over a Barrel Again» (9/8/00) «Climate
Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice» (8/29/00) «The Rise and Fall of the
Global Climate Coalition» (7/25/00) «HIV Epidemic Undermining sub-Saharan Africa» (7/18/00) «Population Growth and Hydrological Poverty» (6/21/00) «U.S. Farmers Double Cropping Corn And Wind Energy» (6/7/00) «World Kicking the Cigarette Habit» (5/10/00) «Falling Water Tables in China» (5/2/00) Top of page
These include identifying and understanding key
environmental and societal vulnerabilities to
global change over a range of time scales; developing a knowledge base to support regional and sectoral responses to
global change; developing a knowledge base to support responses to
global scale threats; and finally, creating and applying the tools and approaches needed to iteratively manage the risks of
global change.
For
over a quarter century, EIA has been recognized by government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and independent journals, like
Global Environmental Change above, for its extraordinary work on the ground and at the heart of solving global environmental pro
Global Environmental Change above, for its extraordinary work on the ground and at the heart of solving global environmen
Environmental Change above, for its extraordinary work on the ground and at the heart of solving
global environmental pro
global environmentalenvironmental problems.
Americans» concerns about
global warming and climate
change have held steady
over the past year, while concerns about other
environmental threats tested by Gallup have increased.
The company's
environmental policy is also nothing to sneeze at: It is a member of the Clinton
Global Initiative Energy & Climate
Change Working Group and has trimmed carbon dioxide emissions by
over 10 percent since 2006, with an investment of
over a cool $ 2 million.
The U.S. Green Building Council has updated its LEED green building rating system to reflect increasing
global concerns
over climate
change and the fact that
environmental issues, just like real estate itself, are tied to location.