Sentences with phrase «global forces acting»

There are big, long - term, global forces acting on interest rates, and people need to understand them better.

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There are other forces acting, of course, including rising global savings rates as developing countries grow to represent a bigger share of global GDP.

It is equally noteworthy that Citigroup, the global behemoth which started this systemic train wreck in 1999 by forcing the repeal of the Glass - Steagall Act, is also on the list.

Talk about a green light situation, leading up to last Friday's release of the February employment data, the investing landscape had three forces acting as potential headwinds to an otherwise secular bullish trend — increasing interest rates, rising inflation and global trade tariffs.

Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh, who judge this inchoate NGO uprising as presently «the only force we see that can break the global gridlock,» finish their important study with a judgment about its high stakes: «The great question of our age is whether people, acting with the spirit, energy, and urgency our collective crisis requires, can develop a democratic global consciousness rooted in authentic local communities.

B Lab is a global non-profit organisation that sets and raises business standards to inspire and guide corporations to act as a force for good in the world, -LSB-...]

«There is lot of value in examining the topography of Titan in a broad, global sense, since it tells us about forces acting on the surface from below as well as above,» said Radebaugh.

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

Faces Places (its original title is the even more whimsical - sounding Visages Villages) is a magnificent work that reckons with art as a global force, a local curiosity, and an individual act of expression.

The increasing demand for mobility and connectivity in consumer electronics and testing services will act as the key driving force behind the escalated demand for Global e paper display market professional survey report 2016.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Gerald Marsh offered this opinion in «A Global Warming Primer» (page 4 - excerpt) «Radiative forcing is defined as the change in net downward radiative flux at the tropopause resulting from any process that acts as an external agent to the climate system; it is generally measured in W / m2.

The study demonstrates the importance of understanding how climate variability on a regional scale may at least temporarily obscure larger forces acting on the global climate system.

Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

The three - part Global News feature spurred questions in the Legislature and forced the then - minister to act on noise complaints for several Huron County families.

The study measured the «efficacy» (that is, how much each forcing affects heat accumulation in the climate for a given strength) of each forcing by comparing the global change in temperature when only that forcing was acting to change temperature with the change in global temperature when only CO2 is acting on the climate.

Spencer has postulated elsewhere that natural factors, such as PDO swings, might be the underlying cause for changes in cloud cover, which result in changes in global temperature, IOW that clouds act as part of a natural forcing, rather than simply a feedback to anthropogenic (or other) forcing.

With David Cameron saying that questioning government policy is Terrorism and Obama saying the UN will force its member countries to buy into the Global Warming mantra and any dissent is an act of Terrorism.

The Environmental Protection Agency's new leadership, in a step toward confronting global warming, submitted a finding that will force the White House to decide whether to limit greenhouse gas emissions under the nearly 40 - year - old Clean Air Act.

The fact that GHGs act as both climate forcings, which lead climate change, and climate feedbacks, which lag climate change, has been used by «contrarians» to sow confusion about global warming.

As an international business with global supply chains, we adopt the international law definitions of forced labour [1] and human trafficking [2] to frame our response to modern slavery as part of our Responsible Business strategy and in fulfilling our responsibilities under the Act.