Sentences with phrase «number of global events»
The travel world has recently been rocked by a number of global events — both natural disasters and political action — which makes the point that families planning on Easter travel should consider travel insurance plans that protect their holiday travel.
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With the exception of a few strong weeks to start the first quarter, a number of events negatively impacted global markets throughout the remainder of the reporting period.
The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»
These «natural disasters» are the result of seasonal weather patterns and global warming, which has in the last decade produced a great number of weather events to move in a Northerly direction.
There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.
It can be used for a number of curriculum areas and helps link learning in the classroom to global events.
Alexandria, VA (03/29/2016)-- ASCD, a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading, has announced a number of special events that will take place at the association's 71st Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, April 2 — 4 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Shenzhen, China, 23 July 2012: HUAWEI, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced its partnership with Eurosport, the number one pan-European TV channel, for the broadcast of this summer's biggest sporting events.
The phone manufacturer's online store now stocks a number of apps, music, and videos for purchase and download, ahead of the company's global launch events for its BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system and, most likely, new BlackBerry smartphones.
And such a crash could be triggered by a number of events — a recession that causes widespread unemployment, rising interest rates and even global shocks like failures in China's opaque shadow banking system.
When you book your trip using a credit card that has a global assistance benefit, you'll be able to contact a toll - free number in the event of an emergency whether that involves a medical problem, a lost passport, or the need for an urgent translation.
«Our participation in Global Pet Expo 2016 with a delegation of Italian manufacturers is only the first of a number of actions that we are planning for the future and will involve other leading trade events worldwide,» said Giuseppe Pierini of Promopet, Zoomark International's managing and operating secretariat.
If you've been to Global Pet Expo in the past, you know that as the pet industry's largest annual trade show, this is the premier event for pet product retailers, featuring a mammoth show floor, exciting special events and a number of valuable educational opportunities.
World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, polled more than 1,000 buyer members from the WTM Meridian Club and exhibitors at this year's event about a number of issues affecting the tourism industry.
World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, has announced a number of high - calibre speakers for its first panel sessions for World Responsible Tourism Programme including TripAdvisor.
«The Emirate is also home to a number of major global events including the annual F1 Powerboat Racing, Sharjah International Book Fair and International Test Cricket matches, all helping to strengthen Sharjah's growing tourism position in the region.»
Following plans announced by EIBTM to deliver a new appearance for the 2013 show, the leading global event for the meetings and events industry has confirmed that they will be adding a number of new platforms to the event which will provide meeting industry suppliers with opportunities for global brand exposure to an international audience of over 15,000 meetings industry professionals who attend the show each year.
WTM, the leading global event for the travel industry, has championed the cause of Sports Tourism for a number of years.
Built around a world - class racecourse, The Meydan Hotel combines luxury, sophistication and a passion for equestrian sports, and plays host to a number of exciting global events including the Dubai World Cup, the world's richest horserace.
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.
With the entire world watching the recent Fukushima events and the rising of radiation levels, reported mutations and increasing numbers of cancer patients (Kudo himself died of cancer) his oeuvre can be regarded as a valid political statement of contemporary culture on a global scale.
To date, the DESTE Foundation has collaborated with a number of internationally acclaimed curators and leading artists to showcase current important artistic innovations and to organize curatorial projects and special events that reflect the global trends in contemporary art.
To date, the DESTE Foundation collaborates with a number of internationally acclaimed curators and leading artists to showcase the most important artistic innovations and to organize curatorial projects and special events that reflect the global trends in contemporary art.
The program includes a large number of talks, events and performances that will take «a fresh look at the role of spirituality and transcendence in our global and sceptical present» and its relationship to visual art.
Taking your 75 % number as an example, I think they understand something like this: «75 % of the strength of this extreme event is attributable to global warming», or «There's 75 % chance that this event would not have occurred without global warming».
I am not sure I understand Andy's question number (5), but «nature» involves many species: even if some parts of «nature» may survive global warming at the end (as parts of it have survived natural climate change events in the past), many parts of it are already going extinct and we are to blame this time around.
There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.
The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in - and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming.
Scientists have long shied away from attributing any one small - scale event - irrespective of its magnitude - to global warming, reasoning that the complexity and number of factors at play makes it extremely difficult,
A rather different way to say this would be «No single event can be seen as definitive proof of global warming — rather, a trend or pattern must be identified by analyzing a large number of individual events.»
The number of events detected at each outlet glacier using the global seismic network is relatively small, and it is therefore difficult to draw robust conclusions about behavior at any single glacier.
If so, this is one way in which global warming may end up causing a decrease in Atlantic hurricane activity over the coming decades, since the increased wind shear over the Atlantic during El Niño events greatly reduces the number and intensity of these storms.»
The global cost of natural disasters is getting higher as the number of extreme weather events increases due to climate change.
It is instructive to compare these numbers with those characteristic of a set of the years during 1979 — 2012 with no or only one major regional extreme event (in terms of land surface temperature and land precipitation anomalies) in the NH midlatitudes, from late April / early May to late September / early October, as reported yearly since 1993 in the World Meteorological Organization statements on the status of the global climate (see also ref.
The analogy to the Number 12 is incomplete because oceanographers imagine a third mode of global climate, seen only in the aftermath of Heinrich events, where the Hudson's Bay ice mountain collapses and iceberg armadas sail from Canada across to France, dropping rocks off their bottoms all the way (which is how they were detected, as layers in ocean - floor cores that get thicker and thicker as you get nearer Hudson Strait).
Over the next few critical months, he would play a major role, sometimes in the background, in a dazzling number of crucial events that would finally put global warming back in its rightful place at the forefront of public concern.
The percentage change in the number of very hot days can be quite large.11 Global warming boosts the probability of very extreme events, like the recent «Summer in March» episode in the U.S. in which thousands of new record highs were set, far more than it changes the likelihood of more moderate events.12
In recent years, global warming has fueled a growing number of turbulent weather events that have taken a grim toll on the human psyche.
For me the most convincing piece of evidence that global warming has been contributing already to more and more intense weather related natural catastrophes is the fact that while we find a steep increase in the number of loss relevant weather events (about tripling in the last 30 years) we only find a slight increase in geophysical (earthquake, volcano, tsunami) events, which should not be affected by global warming.
Compendium of projected risks due to critical climate change impacts on ecosystems for different levels of global mean annual temperature rise, ΔT, relative to pre-industrial climate (approach and event numbers as used in Table 4.1 and Appendix 4.1).
The blanket - exemption treatment is based on increasingly questionable assertions that wind turbines reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that supposedly cause global warming, climate change, extreme weather events and an amazing number of dog, people, Italian pasta, prostitution and other exaggerated or imaginary problems, plus others that exist only in computer models whose forecasts and scenarios bear no resemblance to Real World conditions or events.
«Working with data pertaining to 7450 cardiovascular - related deaths that occurred within Budapest, Hungary, between 1995 and 2004 — where the deceased were «medico - legally autopsied» — Toro et al. looked for potential relationships between daily maximum, minimum and mean temperature, air humidity, air pressure, wind speed, global radiation and daily numbers of the heart - related deaths... scientists report and restate their primary finding numerous times throughout their paper, writing that (1) «both the maximum and the minimum daily temperatures tend to be lower when more death cases occur in a day,» (2) «on the days with four or more death cases, the daily maximum and minimum temperatures tend to be lower than on days without any cardiovascular death events,» (3) «the largest frequency of cardiovascular death cases was detected in cold and cooling weather conditions,» (4) «we found a significant negative relationship between temperature and cardiovascular mortality,» (5) «the analysis of 6 - hour change of air pressure suggests that more acute or chronic vascular death cases occur during increasing air pressure conditions (implying cold weather fronts),» (6) «we found a high frequency of cardiovascular death in cold weather,» (7) «a significant negative relationship was detected between daily maximum [and] minimum temperature [s] and the number of sudden cardiovascular death cases,» and (8) «a significant negative correlation was detected between daily mean temperature and cardiovascular mortality.»
Comparisons with the satellite altimeter records show a reasonable coherence since the West Pacific sea level has risen faster than the global mean (at least partially related to the number of recent La Niña events).
I don't think that it's «alarmist» to be alarmed about events in the Yamal when seen in this new martian context — Siberian news reports last year described mapping of 7000 methane - venting mounds across the Yamal - Gydan (The Siberian Times, 27/03/2017), a number far in excess of the global frost mound population (~ 5000 [Mackay, 1998]-RRB- as of 1998.
Over the last three decades, the number of record - breaking rainfall events globally has significantly increased, and the fingerprint of global warming has been documented in this pattern.
The event will take a holistic approach, bringing together judges, advocates, litigation support experts and eminent litigators from a number of different jurisdictions, providing a global perspective on current key issues in cross-border litigation commercial dispute resolution affecting practitioners and clients today.
In addition to Facebook's announcement of a new partnership with the MLB to live stream a number of regular season games, the social network this week also signed a deal with global esports company ESL to bring over 5,550 hours of esports events and other original content to Facebook, including 1,500 of original programming.
Shenzhen, China, 23 July 2012: HUAWEI, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced its partnership with Eurosport, the number one pan-European TV channel, for the broadcast of this summer's biggest sporting events.