Sentences with phrase «more global mechanism»

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During the crisis, the global community came together to address weaknesses in the international monetary system: creating the Financial Stability Board and European Stability Mechanism, strengthening central bank swap lines, and carving out a more prominent role for the G - 20.

On balance, Lighthizer looks like one of the Trump cabinet members who will seek to moderate the new president's more extreme rhetorical positions and channel them through the much - despised mechanisms of the Washington and global establishment.

With global economic perceptions finally creeping toward financial perceptions (not stocks) despite the enormous and mostly ongoing «stimulus» almost everywhere, it is useful to review once more the assumed general mechanisms.

To test how rising CO2 might affect their defense mechanism, Weiss exposed stock Daphnias in the lab to levels of CO2 ranging from just above the maximum level seen in global freshwater to about 60 percent more than that maximum, to mimic a worst - case scenario.

But poor nations argue that more pressing issues need to be ironed out, for example the overarching dispute between rich and poor countries over how to share efforts to cut emissions, before more market - based mechanisms are developed or the groundwork for a global trading scheme is laid.

A new study has revealed more about the mechanisms behind this process — knowledge that could prove useful in crop production in light of global concerns around food and water security.

Bluntly: the United States will need to accept some further loss of sovereignty in exchange for more just and effective mechanisms for solving collective global problems.

We realized, more deeply than ever before, in learning about the history of colonialism and subsequent oppressive regimes in Kenya, that the mechanism of oppression, whether it is on a global, community, or familial level, is utterly destructive of peoples» dignity and their connection to themselves and to their environment.

Bird flu, if it ever jumps into direct human to human spreading is more of a global risk because of the rapid mechanism by which flus propagate.

1) it is the first time a global model that, while more expensive than conventional GCMs, is affordable for climate projection has been shown to contain the essential mechanism known to deliver most of the summertime mid-continent US rainfall, and

The other possibility is that the models are wrong, the quantification of the warming in the north is wrong and the mechanisms are not understood, these unknown mechanisms are causing a much more rapid warming, that they asymmetrically affect the north and not the south, and - for reasons I don't see but which I'm sure are very good - you are convinced these mechanisms are driven by global warming.

We worked to remove HFC - 23 (an HFC with a global warming potential of 14,800 times that of CO2) destruction credits from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the Kyoto Protocol, see our report Two Billion Tonne Climate Bomb for more information.

Brad DeLong expresses qualified Skepticism Toward the Skeptical Environmentalist I think there's a much more fundamental problem in Lomborg's argument about global warming, as I argue here The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cites a range of model estimates of the costs of implementing Kyoto using market mechanisms.

Previous large natural oscillations are important to examine: however, 1) our data isn't as good with regards to external forcings or to historical temperatures, making attribution more difficult, 2) to the extent that we have solar and volcanic data, and paleoclimate temperature records, they are indeed fairly consistent with each other within their respective uncertainties, and 3) most mechanisms of internal variability would have different fingerprints: eg, shifting of warmth from the oceans to the atmosphere (but we see warming in both), or simultaneous warming of the troposphere and stratosphere, or shifts in global temperature associated with major ocean current shifts which for the most part haven't been seen.

The mechanism (or, more likely, mechanisms) which explains the clear and obvious link between global air temperaures and solar / oceanic changes has not been ascertained adequately but it isn't anything to do with CO2.

But Simms» goal is far more wide - ranging than this, and thus begins an extensive exploration of the policies, mechanisms and technologies that might turn the sustainable economy from a lecture theater concept into a global phenomenon.

Conversely, using young forests — which grow faster than more mature ones — as the carbon offset mechanism in the EF balance sheets eliminates the entire global ecological overshoot.

They come up with all kinds of hypothetical feedback mechanisms involving more natural aerosol emissions in response to global warming: Dimethylsulfide from marine phytoplankton (although a very intriguing possibility, this has never been confirmed to be a significant feedback mechanism, and there is ample evidence to the contrary, which is omitted from the report), biological aerosols (idem), carbonyl sulfide (idem), nitrous oxide (idem), and iodocompounds (idem), about which they write the following: «Iodocompounds — created by marine algae — function as cloud condensation nuclei, which help create new clouds that reflect more incoming solar radiation back to space and thereby cool the planet.»

This global - warming - leading - to - more - extreme - winter - weather mechanism has been presented in several recent papers, perhaps the most noteworthy of which was a 2012 publication by Jennifer Francis and Stephen Vavrus, which was the subject of one of our blog posts last summer.

Last summer, we predicted that come this winter, any type of severe weather event was going to be linked to pernicious industrial activity (via global warming) through a new mechanism that had become a media darling — the loss of late summer / early fall Arctic sea ice leading to more persistent patterns in the jet stream.

«[T] he science to me — and I have been involved, not as a scientist but as a lawyer — the science to me suggests, in the ten years I've been involved in it, that there is no basis, no mechanism that anybody can point to or look at to say that more CO2 in the air is going to lead to catastrophic global warming or apocalyptic global warming, as opposed to some mild warming, which is nothing to be concerned about at all.

Water - bearing planets like Earth may carry some natural defense mechanism against global freezing, and this might mean liquid water is more common in the Universe than astrobiologists have traditionally assumed.

I'll be more inclined to believe you if you could adequately describe the mechanism by which even one of those — hardly unprecedented — crop failures was caused by a barely perceptible rise in average global temperature.

The monotonic increase of the cleaned global temperature throughout the 20th century suggests increasing greenhouse gas forcing more - or-less consistently dominating sulfate aerosol forcing, although our technique can not exclude other mechanisms not contained in the current generation of model forcing (22).

Since the publication of the first edition the use of set - off as a mechanism for risk reduction in cross-border financial contracts has continued to increase and the global financial crisis has meant that cases of bankruptcy and insolvency are more common than ever.