Sentences with phrase «more global debate»

Some of the specific criticisms levied at Common Core - related assessments are part and parcel of more global debate regarding assessments and their use more generally.

Not exact matches

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

Amid the BRIC's ascendancy, there's a growing debate among investment experts as to whether the current club best represents the shifting tides of global power or is more a product of Wall Street hype.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

If you've said, «it's not that big a deal, the scientists aren't sure,» you chose to ignore that there is no more debate about global warming and how it will hurt people.

But it turns out that I may have been wrong to think that an appreciating currency would make the scariest graph in the world nothing more than an opportunity for my students to debate global imbalances.

Feb 7, 2014 - More than five years since the beginning of the global financial crisis, policymakers across the world continue to debate its root causes while economists pour over charts and data hoping to find clues as to what...

However, many researchers and commentators have entered the debate to highlight that the demise of corporate trade deals like NAFTA (or the current neoliberal global trade regime more broadly) would not plunge the Canadian economy into chaos.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

In the most recent Republican debate, several Republican candidates tried to distinguish themselves from the idealistic Rubio by pointing out that Syria was more peaceful (and less of a source of global terror) when the Assad regime ran the whole country, and that Bashar al - Assad might be the lesser evil compared to ISIS.

While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, Earth's soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all human activities combined.

Once a clear environmental leader, the European Union is likely to set a more cautious tone for the global debate on a U.N.

Scientists have debated intensely whether rising global temperatures will lead to more hurricanes.

Nowadays, there is a raging debate over whether climate change, and the overall rise in global temperature it is supposed to bring, will cause tropical cyclones to develop more often and become more powerful in the future.

Climate Change — Want to know more about global warming — the science, impacts and political debate?

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.

But in September, labs working with the United Nations used faster and more sophisticated analytic techniques to show that Syrian civilians were killed by the chemical weapon sarin on Aug. 21 — evidence crucial to debates about whether the global community should intervene.

Even as scientists and politicians from around the world debated in December how to deal with a practical problem of profound importance — global climate change — another international group of physicists was waiting with bated breath for a more esoteric development.

I wish we spend more time debating the problem of oil depletion, which is much more meaningful and relevant, rather than global warming, which is irrelevant and meaningless and purely hypothetical.

More than 270,000 teachers and students around the world celebrated this historical event through a live, global school assembly hosted by Discovery Education, in partnership with The National Archives in London and The National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.. Now, schools have the opportunity to debate and contribute to their own modern day contract with Discovery Education's online resources.

«In addition to ensuring that transportation, tracking and returns synergize, there are so many other efficiencies that can make SEMA members more competitive in today's global business environment,» DeBates added.

There are so many national and global debates that rage endlessly — marriage equality, gun control, and universal healthcare, to name only a few — that it almost seems cruel to diminish those issues with ones that strike a more personal note.

More than a decade ago, Al Gore declared the debate on global warming over.

For those among who would have liked less global and more local in the territorial rights issue, it's time to put that debate behind us and work with the new rules that will clearly be predicated on global editions.

While increasing potential for significant global macro / monetary divergence, the meteoric ascent of political populists & populism, the ongoing debate for renewed fiscal stimulus (vs. austerity), latent inflation potential, etc. all suggest a (far) more conducive environment for Record's products & services, both in terms of winning mandates and better returns.

UNWTO welcomes the outcome of the First T. 20 Ministers» Meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa (22 - 24 February) to debate the contribution of tourism to the global agenda, in particular to the ongoing process of supporting economic recovery and the transformation towards a greener and more sustainable economy.

«At a time of global disorder,» she writes, «the role, the voice and the responsibility of the artist are more crucial than ever before within the framework of contemporary debates.»

Although I don't know how the hostess picks themes or manages to manage things, in my brief experience with the blog, you are much more likely to find a sensible and creative discussion of how to actually address the issue (global warming, sustainability, and related matters of living well within our environment) on the family, local, or cultural levels than you are to find a large acrimonious debate among (often anonymous) people.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

But you are on the right track; ice extent in the Arctic is much more useful symbolically in the great AGW debate, than it is scientifically as a proxy for global temperatures.

The Global Eco-Forum continued with more debates about responsible, sustainable and innovative organisations and territories by local organisations and companies like Triodos Bank, Maderas Nobles or Timberland to just name a few, artistic performances and future visions.

«The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change, a Guide to the Debate» by Andrew Dessler and Edward Parson (Cambridge, 2006) is more comprehensive, gives a better - rounded brief treatment of each issue, is much better on the extra science issues, and more thoughtful than the books in Gavin's review, as good as they are.

But the debate over the economics of global warming is more wide - ranging than Lomborg would have it.

Don't worry, there is more than talking going on from the Global Warming debate.

«In the past five years, the dynamic of the global warming debate has shifted away from exaggerated acceptance of the worst possible implications of what a majority of climate scientists tell us, towards a more balanced and questioning approach.»

Seems to me the debate about AGHG global warming and increasing TC frequency / intensity / duration boils down to the fact that as sea surface temperatures, as well as deeper water temperatures rise, the wallop of any TC over warmer seas without mitigating circumstances like wind sheer and dry air off land masses entrained in the cyclone will likely be much more devastating.

He withdrew any kind of bipartisan support for an ETS (and more)» «two years ago Canadians gave majority government to Stephen Harper's Conservatives, who were pledged to a sensible use of its resources, so Australians have now elected a government with a pragmatic attitude on global warming» «Led by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an attempt was made, by what can only be described as alarmists, to exploit these fires for the purposes of the global warming debate.

I suspect part of the reason why global warming isn't getting more serious political debate is that, unfortunately, for a long time it was the sole province of left - leaning environmentalists, who were so easily tagged as woo - woo space cadets.

While much of the developed world continues to debate the most effective ways of tackling global carbon emissions in closed - door summits and international forums, some countries hardest hit from changing climate patterns are beginning to take a more direct approach.

If you keep looking you will find that a lot more than the global governance aspects of the global warming debate are covered here.

For more than a week, the episode has fueled a fierce debate on the blogosphere and in newspaper opinion columns and once again placed global warming science under intense scrutiny.

As the global population is set to rise from 7 billion to 9 billion in 2050, an altogether more sophisticated debate is needed on appropriate actions that considers the full range of threats to humanity, and carefully weighs the upsides and downsides both of taking action — and refraining from it.

It achieves this objective primarily through the weekly online publication of CO2 Science, and which over the years has presented more than 5,000 synopses of peer - reviewed scientific journal articles, original research, and other educational materials germane to the debate over carbon dioxide and global change.

And so this seemingly wonky but economically high - stakes debate over how to accurately measure global warming is likely to heat up much more.

Facts about a debate that's turned up more questions than answers,» includes a statement by then Exxon CEO Lee Raymond trumping up uncertainty in the science behind global warming as well as the cost of a carbon - restricted market.

The previously unexplained differences between model - based forecasts of rapid global warming and meteorological data showing a slower rate of warming have been the source of often contentious debate and controversy for more than two decades.

The story, and some of the key details, have travelled around the world's blogosphere quicker than Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream («I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes»), leading to much febrile, and often ill - judged, hysteria from both sides of the more puerile end of the «global warming» debate.

No good can come from increasing any pollution to no end, but there is clearly room for honest debate before we create more havoc based on the current evidence or propaganda for CO2 caused global warming.

That's Peter Gleick as in the guy who was caught out in the global warming debate's most embarrassing scandals, sometimes known as «Fakegate», which you can read about in more detail here.

See: Laughable: UN Report: «Damage being caused by climate change... is no longer a matter of debate» — «The science has become more irrevocable than ever» — Sept. 24, 2009 — Also, AP's Seth Borenstein delivered his usual pabulum on global warming, complete with extensive quotes from Corell.