RED, with its focus on localized economies and ethical lifestyles, learning from each other, would actually make the meaningful flow of ideas and innovations at
global levels much more possible than a situation where everything is dominated by finance and capital.
Not exact matches
Not surprisingly, the spread of diseases (not to mention unhealthy lifestyles that lead to diseases) on a
global level is
much easier than coordinating care, managing supply chains and clinical trials and rolling out treatments.
A 2016
global fraud study found that businesses with fewer than 100 employees suffered the same median
level of theft — $ 150,000 — as
much larger companies.
The International Energy Agency, a Paris - based think tank, said in its annual review of long - term megatrends in
global energy that soaring electricity demand around the world will ensure that CO2
levels keep rising unless ambitions are ratcheted
much higher.
The United States, under former President Barack Obama, had pledged as part of the Paris accord to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by as
much as 28 percent from 2005
levels by 2025 to help slow
global warming.
The Nasdaq remains
much stronger than the other major
global indices, with the S&P 500 only bouncing back to the key 2735
level despite the two - day short squeeze and today's pre-market rally.
AUGUST 2006: Chris Wood's «Rough Weather Ahead,» the first Tyee Reporting Fellowship reader - funded series published by Tyee, breaks news of a buried government report showing Fraser River dikes won't hold back historic,
much less
global warming,
levels of flooding.
We have
much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate change from more boring sources like
global temperature averages, or the extent of
global sea ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02
levels stored frozen in ice cores.
Analysis of every
level of community, from hometown to
global village, targets the unchurched and vaguely churched with as
much intention to remedy their deprivation and oppression as do strategies of relief and liberation.
But clearly
much can be dealt with only at regional and
global levels.
This process has filtered out and abstracted from the data presented to us at a more basic
level of our being by a
much more
global mode of sensitivity.
What we call sense perception is a rather late and somewhat abstract version of a
much more
global feeling we have, at a visceral
level, of the entire universe entering into our experience.
Much had been going on at a grassroots
level that was indicating to the world the nature of a
global nuclear war.
If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and ice - cliff collapse could drive
global sea
level much higher than projected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment report and in a 2014 study led by Kopp.
The team calculates that it could be pushing up
global sea
levels by as
much as 0.16 millimetres each year.
Anthropogenic climate change and resulting sea
level rise are now happening
much more rapidly than at the transition from the last ice age to the modern
global climate.
So
much water got lost down under that
global sea
levels fell and stayed low for more than a year.
«Regional sea -
level scenarios: Helping US Northeast plan for faster - than -
global rise: Global sea level could rise by as much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst - case scenario.&
global rise:
Global sea level could rise by as much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst - case scenario.&
Global sea
level could rise by as
much as 8 feet by 2100 in a worst - case scenario.»
As
global leaders gather in Paris seeking a
much - anticipated agreement to keep
global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial
levels, nations face increasing pressure to reduce emissions and contribute to decarbonizing the
global economy.
Bangladeshis have watched high tides rise 10 times faster than the
global average, and sea
levels there could increase as
much as 13 feet by 2100.
SPEED UP The collapse of West Antarctica's glaciers may be unavoidable, and the ice sheet's demise could raise
global sea
level by as
much as 4 meters, researchers reported.
Geologic evidence, such as ancient beaches from the Pliocene, suggest that
global sea
levels then were as
much as 25 meters higher than today.
Global sea
level was around 50 metres below present
levels from 60,000 to 20,000 years ago, and
much lower by 18,000 years ago.
For example, New York City is expected to see regional sea
levels rise as
much as 30 percent more than the
global average.
To hold
global warming in check requires reducing current emission
levels by as
much as 70 percent by 2050, compared with 2010
levels, and nearly eliminating such pollution by 2100.
«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century
levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing
global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting
much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea
levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»
In the San Francisco Bay area, sea
level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how
much action is taken to limit further
global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.
Too
much debate treats temperature (and especially the most recent
global average) as the sole indicator, whereas many other factors are at play including sea
levels, ocean acidity, ice sheets, ecosystem trends, and many more.
The children wore small accelerometers and
global positioning system (GPS) devices to measure their activity
levels and determine how
much activity occurred outside the home but within the neighborhood.
That
much warming could raise sea
levels several feet, flooding the world's coastlines and shifting
global weather patterns in ways that could cause massive recurring crop failures.
If
global temperatures rise by up to 3 degrees Celsius above their preindustrial
levels, the risk of extreme events could grow by as
much as fivefold in certain parts of the world.
When the planet's big ice sheets collapsed at the end of the last ice age, their melting caused
global sea
levels to rise as
much as 100 meters in roughly 10,000 years, which is fast in geological time, Mann noted.
A relatively small amount of melting over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire ice sheet and the rise of
global sea
levels by as
much as 3 meters.
On its own, sea
level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how
much is done to limit further
global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.
American impact While
global sea
levels have risen about 2.75 inches (7 centimeters) over the past 22 years, the west coast of the United States has not seen
much of a rise in ocean
levels.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea
levels could rise as
much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if
global warming continues unabated.
And if it were to melt, how
much would
global sea
levels rise, and how quickly?
Thanks in large part to satellite measurements, scientists» skill in measuring how
much sea
levels are rising on a
global scale - currently 0.13 inch (3.4 millimeters) per year - has improved dramatically over the past quarter century.
Exactly how
much the average
global sea
level will rise in the future will depend on our greenhouse gas emissions.
In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder - led team used NASA data to calculate how
much Earth's melting land ice is adding to
global sea
level rise.
A new study combines the latest observations with an ice sheet model to estimate that melting ice on the Antarctic ice sheet is likely to add 10 cm to
global sea
levels by 2100, but it could be as
much as 30 cm.
Because there is so
much water contained within the ice, as the ice melts, researchers estimate it could cause an alarming sea
level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people along
global coastlines.
Oceans, which have warmed at an increasingly faster rate, account for as
much as 50 percent of
global sea
level rise, according to a new study.
Much study has focused on the effects these rising carbon dioxide
levels could have on weather patterns and
global temperatures, but could elevated atmospheric CO2
levels negatively affect the nutritional value of the food we grow?
According to the study, ocean warming now accounts for as
much as 50 percent of
global sea
level rise.
From an instantaneous doubling of atmospheric CO2 content from the pre-industrial base
level, some models would project 2 °C (3.6 °F) of
global warming in less than a decade while others would project that it would take more than a century to achieve that
much warming.
As
global methane
levels have increased, the impact has been felt twice as
much in the Arctic, about a half a degree Celsius more of Arctic warming,
Sea -
level prediction revised: By 2100,
global sea -
level is likely to rise at least twice as
much as projected by Working Group 1 of the IPCC AR4, for unmitigated emissions it may well exceed 1 meter.
As
global methane
levels have increased, the impact has been felt twice as
much in the Arctic, about a half a degree Celsius more of Arctic warming, according to climate models.
Global ice - sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea - ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea - level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scien
Global ice - sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea - ice is disappearing
much faster than recently projected, and future sea -
level rise is now expected to be
much higher than previously forecast, according to a new
global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scien
global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scientists.