Sentences with phrase «impacts of the global problem»

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«ICBMs create a problem because they enable a country to break out of a regional context and move toward potential global impact,» Pike, who now directs GlobalSecurity.org, wrote in 1998.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

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Although manufacturing overcapacity is certainly a problem, much of it is in areas in which global demand has simply collapsed, and isn't coming back, and so a cheaper currency would have little impact beyond temporarily reducing excess inventory, which is not enough of a benefit to justify the many costs of a weaker currency.

«The support and expertise of a global exchange leader will be invaluable as the Centre strives to harness the momentum of the impact investing agenda to tackle Canada's social and environmental problems in new and innovative ways.»

Presented «Debunking Myths,» «Global Context,» «Making Milk,» «Impact of Birth Practices,» «Suckle Up,» «ABCs of Solving Problems,» and «Reversing the Decision.»

The fact that people around the world expect the UN to deliver (which is why they are, so often, disappointed when it fails); the fact that we now expect states to work collectively on global problems; the fact that almost every aspect of human endeavour and planetary resource is addressed by international laws or bodies — all this reflects the transformative impact of the UN on our world and our lives.

The discoveries of these proteins and genes have the potential to address a wide range of critical agricultural problems in the future, including the limited availability of water for crops, the need to increase water use efficiency in lawns as well as crops and concerns among farmers about the impact heat stress will have in their crops as global temperatures and CO2 levels continue to rise.

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

«It's the magnitude of the problem and the impact on the global economy that makes it extremely important that capture processes be highly optimized when they are rolled out at full scale.»

Climate change presents a global public health problem, with serious health impacts predicted to manifest in varying ways in different parts of the world.

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

Researchers find American health care for obesity - related problems costs about $ 147 billion annually.In 2014, the global economic impact of obesity was estimated to be an astonishing two trillion dollars.

Another threat, environmental, is represented by the depletion of natural resources of the planet, the uncontrolled growth of cities and the catastrophic global climate change that tends to produce serious impact on economic activities and increased social problems of mankind.

Despite being a global economic and political leader, illiteracy continues to be a pervasive problem in the U.S.. For adults who struggle with reading, the impact is felt in a number of ways, but the most obvious one is in the workplace.

The synergistic impacts of economic upheaval, energy - related natural resource destruction and changes in our global climate — are not problems that will manifest later in the 21st century, but are real crises unfolding today.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

The big difference, from what I can see, between protecting the Earth from asteroid impacts and acting to counter global change (warming) is that the former is twofold; 1) I know that I can make a difference of significance, and 2) the «problem» can be solved..

Under a 1990 law, presidents must submit a report to Congress every four years summarizing what is known about impacts of climate change and other global environmental problems on the United States.

No, Roddy wants to make a movie about the impact of climate change and global warming in the distant future, and he wants the Hollywood production to serve as a wake up call for humankind — to take action on climate change problems now!

The problem Curry has with MYA - ENSO is that, unlike AMO PDO SCCS or WSWH, ENSO's impact can be quantified and it can be shown to be far too weak to act as Curry's BNO, to power those past «multidecadal swings of the global temperature.»

But impacts projected from global warming remain primarily probabilistic (for instance, rising odds of a torrential rain or heat wave in some areas) and spread in time and space, making the issue still mainly a «someday, somewhere» problem.

«Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels, the main driver of this global problem.»

Both forms of forest degradation contribute to a growing global problem, but punching holes in the forest could have an especially disruptive impact.

So in this world, the global price makes country A «s actions affect itself exactly like the externality problem had vanished, and it felt the full impact of its own emissions.

It said the impacts of global warming could cost the world as much as 20 percent of economic output, compared with the 1 percent cost of containing the problem.

Climate change presents a global public health problem, with serious health impacts predicted to manifest in varying ways in different parts of the world.

The fact that so many studies on climate change don't bother to endorse the consensus position is significant because scientists have largely moved from what's causing global warming onto discussing details of the problem (eg - how fast, how soon, impacts, etc).

I should also have given a more complete list of the problems with your objections: in this case your «totally unsuitable» is contradicted by three papers: Arrhenius's 1896 paper proposing a logarithmic dependence of surface temperature on CO2, Hansen et al's 1985 paper pointing out that the time needed to warm the oceanic mixed layer would delay the impact of global warming, and Hofmann et al's 2009 paper modeling the dependence of CO2 on time as a raised exponential.

By any reasonable standard, an infrastructure project that has no perceptible or verifiable impact on global - mean surface temperature can not «significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.»

The «global warming denial machine» was alive and well in 2013, and continued to have an impact on public opinion regarding the seriousness of the problem.

In this context, for the Administration to have released a U.S. Climate Action Report with a chapter on climate change impacts that identified a range of likely adverse consequences, based on scientific reports including the National Assessment, could rightly be seen as an anomaly and appeared to be seen as a significant political error by Administration allies dedicated to denying the reality of human - induced global warming as a significant problem.

Their Secure American Future Program, dedicated to raising public awareness of the threat posed by climate change and creating a movement for action, recently released Climate Security Index (5.3 MB download), a report that looks at the impacts of global climate disruption as a U.S. national security problem.

Actually, the whole global warming problem could be summarized as being a global over-population problem — it is, after all, the exploding human population that is driving the growing energy needs, causing the negative environmental impacts, and in the process, also causing a shortage of fresh water.

That problem was highlighted last year when the United States Global Change Research Program, a 10 - year - old government office coordinating most climate work, published an assessment of the expected impact of global warming on areas around the coGlobal Change Research Program, a 10 - year - old government office coordinating most climate work, published an assessment of the expected impact of global warming on areas around the coglobal warming on areas around the country.

But many climate experts say that the problems are deep - rooted, and that a clearer picture of the local and global impact of coming climate shifts will emerge only if there is a substantial shuffling of the scientific bureaucracy and permanent support for basic monitoring of climate - influencing factors like the ebb and flow of greenhouse gases.

That brings us to the second problem: Yes, swapping out coal for natural gas does reduce carbon emissions initially, but in fact it ultimately doesn't help the planet avoid a rise of 2 degrees Celsius over the coming decades, the limit scientists around the world say we must not exceed in order to prevent the worst impacts of global warming.

The exhibit illustrates various aspects of the global plastic pollution problem, including impacts on both land and sea, humans and animals, as well as the relationship between plastic, the petrochemical industry, fossil fuels, and climate change.

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks 2015 Report has water crises in the top 10 of the most likely and highest impact problems that we will face in the next 10 years.

Problem is, it's pretty much just a retread of the path the U.S. is already on, which isn't enough to keep global warming from crossing the «dangerous» two degree Celsius threshold — a point above which scientific consensus paints an increasingly bleak future, with global impacts capable of destabilizing human society.

18 The Consequences of a Warmer Earth The impacts of global warming could include a number of potentially serious environmental problems.

Jeff Horowitz: As co-producer of the deforestation segment referred to as «The Last Stand» (airing in episodes # 1 and # 2), my job was to work in partnership with Solly Granatstein, an amazing, Emmy award - winning director / producer to create the narrative arc that took the viewer from the global problem of the pollution caused by burning forests, to the political challenges faced by many rainforest nations as they try to regulate this practice, and back to the U.S. for a look at how consumer buying patterns can impact the way forests are protected.

* that BP is funding research into «ways of tackling the world's climate problem» at Princeton University to the tune of $ 2 million per year for 15 years * that BP is funding an energy research institute involving two other US universities to the tune of $ 500 million — the aim of which is «to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment» * that ExxonMobil itself has donated $ 100 million to Stanford university so that researchers there can find «ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming»

Smil claims that there has been «no global warming in the past ten years» and appears to suggest that we can safely ignore the problem of climate change because it won't hit with «full force» any time soon, and its full impact is as yet unknown.

Our meeting has been held at a time of higher and volatile oil prices, continuing increases in global oil demand, localised supply problems for some forms of energy, concern about long term security of supply and increasing attention to the environmental impact from energy use.

The problem was historically not realizing the ecological impact of producing and burning fossil fuels (both in terms of global warming as well as other forms of pollution) until it was a problem of catastrophic proportions.

The reason is that there are many environmental problems worse than the likely impact of man - made global warming that would cost substantially less money to solve.

However, with an innate understanding of the acute impacts of climate change, the Philippines is one of the world's strongest voices leading the global movement, combatting the problem and ultimately setting an example in adapting to climate change.

Sarah was extraordinarily accomplished and her career stories of challenges, actions, results, and strategic impact offered proof of her claim to «drive sweeping global culture changes, solving seemingly impossible problems while delivering optimal results to both the top - and bottom - line.»

Change in score on 12 primary measures: Clinician - Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS 2) total of 3 clusters and severity, Impact of Events Scale (IES)(self rated), Beck Depression Inventory (self rated), Global Improvement scale (self and assessor rated), main problem (self and assessor rated), total of 4 goals to deal with the problem (self and assessor rated), and Work and Social Adjustment scale (self and assessor rated).