Sentences with phrase «massive global shifts»

So given these massive global shifts and the significant benefits for students, why haven't schools kept up?

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Steve Keen, along with Nouriel Rubini as a non neoliberal economist states, «The first thing that the global financial crisis should therefore do to economics is to galvanise student protest about the lack of debate within academic economics itself, because dissident academic economists will be unable to shift the tuition of economics themselves without massive pressure from the student body».

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.

«The data is still coming in but there are indications that this ecosystem is shifting and it could potentially be a massive shift,» he says, pointing to changes in the global carbon cycle and the predator / prey dynamics.

Developments in the last century — the evolving global economy, an unprecedented migrant crisis, massive social changes, and increasingly seamless digital connectivity and convergence across work, play and life — have forced a challenging shift in the way we think about what matters most to teach and learn.

Intel has always used its MDF (Marketing Development Fund) to exert control and influence over its «partners» in Taiwan as well as key global distribution channels, but here we are seeing what Intel refers to as «contra revenue», a strategy that does not involve making immediate returns, but facilitates instead a massive shift in market presence.

If all of the sudden there is a perception that this is no longer the case, it will mean a massive shift in the way the global financial system operates.

The point is that there is a global demographic shift of massive proportions happening where there will be huge social pressures on retirement / eldercare systems, because the ratio of workers to retirees will fall globally.

-- What's the mean avg growth in global CO2 and CO2e last year and over the prior ~ 5 years — What's the current global surface temperature anomaly in the last year and in prior ~ 5 years — project that mean avg growth in CO2 / CO2e ppm increasing at the same rate for another decade, and then to 2050 and to 2075 (or some other set of years)-- then using the best available latest GCM / s (pick and stick) for each year or quarter update and calculate the «likely» global surface temperature anomaly into the out years — all things being equal and not assuming any «fictional» scenarios in any RCPs or Paris accord of some massive shift in projected FF / Cement use until such times as they are a reality and actually operating and actually seen slowing CO2 ppm growth.

The Amazon is referred to as a climate tipping point because research shows following a 21st century global average temperature rise most of the Amazon basin may dry out, leading to a massive biome shift — accompanied by many gigatonnes of extra CO2 emissions and almost unimaginable biodiversity loss, placing the cascading Anthropocene Extinction in top gear.

IEA sees major shifts in global gas trade over next five years Massive growth in LNG supplies despite weak gas demand and low prices 8 June 2016

According to Ethan Zindler of Bloomberg Energy Finance, recent price declines for solar energy have been «massive,» while merely «substantial» for wind, meaning that a global shift away from fossil fuels is no longer «theoretical.»

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Ultimately, however, slowing down global warming will require a massive shift in how the world uses energy — requiring huge changes in how we fuel our cars, power our homes, heat our buildings.

I think it it reasonable for reasonable people to be somewhat shocked and surprised by such massive shifts in a scientific consensus to at least be asking questions about who or what is right or more right, and why X evidence is suddenly superseding Y evidence, or why previously accepted global climate models, regional or ocean models no longer are accepted.

Shifts in climate can be exponential, abrupt and massive due to «feedbacks,» which can amplify and diminish the effects of global warming.

If international climate policies succeed, against all odds, in sealing an ambitious deal on the confinement of global warming to < 2 °C, then the focus of TE research should actually shift to the social transformations arena: a massive acceleration of innovation processes for the decarbonization of our contemporary industrial metabolism will be the only way to deliver.