Sentences with phrase «massive global problems»

Odon won the bet, and soon realized that his little invention could solve a massive global problem.

Confusing expiration dates, oversized portions, and a general disdain for «ugly» plates have contributed to this massive global problem.

Not exact matches

Many market players believe that a 3 percent level on the 10 - year U.S. paper is a massive problem for equities, but above all, for the global economy.

«This is a global problem, and it requires massive resources,» says Brown.

Burns is writing a dissertation that bears on many of the problems of a complex and globalizing economy — the kinds of issues that Greider addresses in a more straightforward way Are the massive forces of the global economy dehumanizing the workplace?

They explained that the decline in some crops could lead to massive global health problems «by changing the composition of diets and, with it, the profile of dietary and weight - related risk factors and associated mortalities.»

The massive problem of global warming will be helped only by massive action.

To address this massive global health problem, the U.S. Institute of Medicine formed a committee to create a set of tangible recommendations that would catalyze and focus action.

He says that during campaigns for the federal election held in July — after the massive bleaching event of earlier this year — both major political parties promised measures to protect the reef, but neither offered anything to address the «root cause of the problem, which is global warming.»

Over 50 global problems (including climate change, rogue satellites, chemical warfare, massive oil spills, tsunamis, and ethnic and religious conflict) can be unraveled and solved.

Put another way, one can not expect a completely unregulated free marketplace to help responsibly address the global warming problem unless there is a «price» assigned to emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, by way of (for example) a carbon «cap - and - auction» system or carbon tax: A small detail of basic economics, apparently forgotten in ExxonMobil's massive public campaign.

This is a massive, global problem that is not getting a fraction of the press it deserves.

Since when do we have to wait until 6.5 billion people agree before we act on a global problem of massive social significance?

The majority of power in the US comes from burning fossil fuels resulting in both air quality problems and massive greenhouse gas emissions contributing to the rise of global temperatures and climate change.

My investigations are increasingly proving that such data was flagged by non-NOAA agencies years ago, but NOAA declined to publish notice of the faults until the problem was publicized loudly and widely in my first «satellitegate» article, US Government in Massive New Global Warming Scandal — NOAA Disgraced.

He presumably was motivated by a desire to «improve» Australia, but he aligned it with the USA in that country's wars of global domination and he was George W. Bush's greatest ally in slowing the world's response to the massive climate change problem.

Which, for a massive problem with global ramifications, is decent, I guess.

The problem with a 2 degree C increase in global temperature does not lie with the rise in temperature itself, but with the fact that such a rise in temperature will engage positive feedbacks (e.g., the massive die off of the rainforest).

«What we are doing in these tropical forests is really a massive problem,» said Kurz.Bruce McCarl, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M; University, argues that simple changes in forest management and agricultural practices could lower the risk of severe global warming much more rapidly than proposed technological solutions like carbon sequestration.

Continued Birdsall, «Because the problem of global warming and massive environmental devastation appears to be lingering, however, the time may be right for the federal government to consider dealing with it again in some way.»

I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of nuclear power on the basis that nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite large expansion of nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).

He said that the «massive problems that we have due to climate change occur all the time» and said conditions could return to «global cooling» and those felt by Napoleonic forces in their 1812 invasion of Russia.

City Group (New York, NY) 1995 — 1997 Consultant — Unix Administrator • Senior System Administrator in for Solaris and Aix environment and application development area • Systems included Sun Ultra Enterprise 450, 420R, 4500, and 6500 running on Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6 and Aix 4.3.2 • Development environment composed of mostly Sun equipment including Sun StorEdge A5200, A5100, D1000 arrays using Veritas and SDS volume managers • Backed up systems with Legato Networker using BoxHill, Qualstar, and Sun StorEdge L9 tape stackers • Utilized Jrun, WebSphere, WebLogic, Actuate Report Server, iPlanet, and Netscape Enterprise • Senior Unix SA solely responsible for the application development area supporting Solaris, Aix and Linux platform • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using Jumpstart to global distributed network • Installed new and trial software, maintained server stability, backed up system using Legato Networker, debugged system problems such as network connectivity, and packaged developers» software released to production • Project work involved getting specification from users, recommending appropriate system, submitting purchase order to purchasing, ensuring arrival of new system, building the system to Sotheby's standard, and installing necessary software for the user • Built and configured IBM and Sun servers installing Aix 4.0 and Solar 2.5 - 2.6 operating system and Oracle 7 • Performed backup and Recovery using ADSM and Tape backup • Automated disk monitoring and routine tasks utilizing Bourne Shell scripting and cronjobs • Served as liaison between vendors on resolving hardware and software issues • Monitored servers using Tivoli Storage Software • Trained and mentored Junior systems Administrators and operators