Sentences with phrase «major global influence»

Biomass burning is a major global influence, affecting biogeochemical cycles, atmospheric chemistry and the carbon cycle.

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As the second - largest economy in the world, and the fastest growing of the major economies, China has tremendous influence on global economic growth, not to mention the companies whose share values rely on such growth.

The Gates Foundation has quickly become a major influence upon global health; the approximately US$ 800 million that the foundation gives every year for global health approaches the an - nual budget of the United Nations World Health Organization (193 nations) and is comparable to the funds given to fight infe - ctious di - sease by the United States Agency for International Development.

The global reach, extreme influence, and extreme importance of Christianity is largely due to the fact that the European races, largely Caucasoid, became the world's most dominant races as evidenced by their conquest and colonization of many parts of the world's major regions and because their religion invariably happened to be some form of Christianity, consequently, they gave the greater part of the world not only their languages, their customs, and their ideas, but also their religion including their version of what God looks like.

Less predictable growing conditions, more connected global value chains and customers who demand healthier, more convenient and traceable foods are the major trends influencing food and agribusiness in Australia.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

The systemic sources of the UK's influence — its permanent seat on the UN Security Council, its membership of NATO and (still) the EU, its position as a leading trading nation and major global economy, and still comparatively large defence expenditure — remain in place, albeit diminished by five years of economic stagnation.

The difference in elevation between the hemispheres results in a slope from the south pole to north pole that may have had a major influence on the global - scale flow of water early in Martian history.

* Correction, 14 December, 11:42 a.m.: New information has been added to note the major influences that global climate and continental drift have had on the diversity and distribution of bird species.

Because ocean currents play a major role in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the ocean's influence on global climate and the melting of ice in polar regions.

One prime example is the rise of global agribusiness, which has major impact because of these companies» size, influence and speed in making decisions.

I found that the politics at a university are more influenced by rational discourse than politics in global health, especially in a major bureaucracy.

And those who argue that «it's the Sun» fail to comprehend that we understand the major mechanisms by which the Sun influences the global climate, and that they can not explain the current global warming trend.

An important settlement for more than two millennial, Paris is today one of the worlds leading business and cultural centers, and its influence in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the worlds major global cities.

Sounds crazy, doesn't it?Highlighted by Chrysler's Voyager III detachable van, this year's crop of concept vehicles at the North American International Auto Show was wilder than ever.Industry officials say that concerns about global warming, pollution, traffic congestion and the price of fuel are the major design influences behind many of the concept vehicles unveiled at the nation's most important auto show.

As the second - largest economy in the world, and the fastest growing of the major economies, China has tremendous influence on global economic growth, not to mention the companies whose share values rely on such growth.

Over the past year, a number of curators took on new appointments at major museums and also have been tapped for programming roles at art fairs and biennials, international events with increasing influence in the global art world.

But the rise of Latin American art is not just focussed on Los Angeles, although it does have strong links with Latin America and 48 % of the total population in the area is Latino which is one of the reasons The Getty Foundation focussed on this particular area, several other major exhibitions of Latin American influenced artists are planned or have recently been shown, including Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, while the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative will take its Under The Same Sun: Art From Latin America exhibition to Brazil and Mexico in 2015.

I don't think there was much prior uncertainty in the literature over the general notion that orbital forcing changes were an initiating factor and that consequent rises in CO2 contributed a major subsequent warming influence, but the timing (regional vs global) and the interaction between the hemispheres has not been well illuminated.

The SPM is read by President Obama, Prime Minister Brown, BundesKanzler Merkel and many other senior policy makers, It has a major influence on global economic policies.

As LST closely tracks air temperatures over the instrumental period, we can also infer that air temperatures in this region of East Africa varied in concert with the global average and thus were controlled primarily by the major forcings influencing temperatures over this timescale, both natural (solar radiation, volcanism) and anthropogenic (greenhouse - gas emissions; refs 19, 20).

Together with the long - term decrease of 15 p.p.m.v. during the past four glacial cycles, we suggest significant slow fluctuations in the atmospheric CO2 concentration on timescales of several 105 years, probably influenced by changes in the weathering14 or by major reorganizations in the carbon reservoir of the global ocean15.

It's hard to find an explanation for the global temperature record in the El Niño / La Niña Southern Oscillation (ENSO), although that climatic oscillation did play a major role in influencing weather patterns worldwide throughout 2010, as ENSO switched from a warm El Niño in early 2010 to a powerful La Niña somewhere from July — showing little interest in the intermediate.

In her role, she ensures that all program analyses reflect robust and relevant climate science, and researches the influence of major carbon producers on rising global average temperatures and sea level.

In general, affluence has a major influence on global tourism emissions — as the researchers note, «wealthier people travel more.»

Humanity is the major influence on the global climate change observed over the past 50 years.

Deep moist atmospheric convection controls the development of major weather systems like hurricanes, drives the global transport of energy within the climate system and strongly influences the uncertainty of projected climate change.

And those who argue that «it's the Sun» fail to comprehend that we understand the major mechanisms by which the Sun influences the global climate, and that they can not explain the current global warming trend.

With most scientists now recognizing that the jihad against CO2 emissions was not really supportable by the empirical evidence, new scientific efforts are being conducted to determine what are the major factors influencing global warming / cooling.

A friend told me there was a global conspiracy involving nearly all of the world's governments, most of the world's scientists and the media to convince the public that there is a major human influence on climate when they were well aware there was no evidence for this.

He recalled that in its last major statement on this topic, the IPCC noted that «our ability to quantify the human influence on global climate is currently limited because the expected signal is still emerging from the noise of natural variability and because there are uncertainties in key factors.»

The evidence for global warming due to human influence has been recognized by the national science academies of all the major industrialized countries.

Global warming has a major influence on world pollution and has been described as a ticking active bomb.

Consequently, McAneney et al. matter - of - factly attest that they were «unable to detect any influence of global warming at this tropical location on either the frequency or the height of major flooding.»

Students who become involved in these activities, many of which involve cross-disciplinary projects, learn to appreciate and adapt to major social and global influences that can change the legal profession and its practice.

SCL's work has become a major global controversy since former employee and now whistleblower Christopher Wylie alleged that the company influenced voter behavior via Facebook ads created by harvesting the data of 50 million Facebook users without their permission.