Not exact matches
Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or
climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market
risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report
on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports
on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).
There is now a «clear and overwhelming consensus»
among scientists over the reality and
risks of
climate change, Mr Noon told delegates, calling
on the TUC and UK to show leadership and commitment towards averting its environmental impact.
Harvard University's health and global environment initiative sponsored a talk today
among evangelicals and scientists
on climate change and will host one
on Friday
on the health
risks of
climate change.
For the longest time there's been a presumption
among environmental campaigners and some scientists that if the fog of misinformation and disinformation
on climate could be cleared, if the science could be laid out better, if the link between present energy choices and future
climate risks could be absorbed better by the public, people would jump aboard the decarbonization express, leading the world to a
climate - safe future.
The piece, «The Nerd Loop: Why I'm Losing Interest in Communicating
Climate Change,» is a long disquisition
on why there's too much thumb sucking and circular analysis and not enough experimentation
among institutions concerned about public indifference to
risks posed by human - driven global warming.
They are
among a growing group of youth suing their governments for putting their futures at
risk by failing to take serious action
on climate change.
They include,
among many others, principles
on what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, who is responsible for reasonable adaptation needs of those people at greatest
risk from
climate damages in poor nations that have done little to cause
climate change, should high - emitting nations help poor nations obtain
climate friendly energy technologies, and what responsibilities should high - emitting nations have for refugees who must flee their country because
climate change has made their nations uninhabitable?
At the
risk of hyberbole, it appears that McKibben's Rolling Stone article is
among the most widely read single articles
on climate change... ever.
In any case, dangerous
climate change is a subjective concept, depending
on one's values and
risk tolerance,
among other factors.
It ignores the pipeline's significant
risk for toxic spills, ignores its catastrophic impacts
on our
climate, and ignores the clear consensus
among financial analysts and oil executives who agree Keystone XL will make the difference in tar sands development.»
On the other side of the coin, some actively engaged online «realists» exploit the ambiguity of the term «consensus» to translate a strong prevalence of shared opinions
among climate science experts that continued and increasing aC02 emissions pose a potential
risk, to give the public an impression that «CAGW» is «settled science.»
The workshop focused the discussion
on climate communication with diverse U.S. constituencies, and the challenge of building awareness
among the disengaged and the unconvinced that
climate change is occurring due to human causes, poses significant
risks to our well - being, and can be addressed through changes in energy technologies, public policies, and the actions of individuals.
This includes identifying the values that may be at
risk; synthesizing information
on how
climate risk management problems can be prioritized and manageably bounded; providing concrete options for managing
risks, including how to create or identify such options; summarizing lessons learned in how to defensibly select
among options by making explicit the inevitable tradeoffs that will arise when objectives conflict; evaluating the conditions under which such actions would be more or less effective; and providing guidance
on how to manage continuous change over time, since
climate risks are unlikely to be static.
This project was the result of the third Ministerial Conference
on Environment and Health discussions
among European ministers of health and the environment who acknowledged that human - induced changes in the global
climate system and in stratospheric ozone pose a range of severe health
risks and potentially threaten economic development and social and political stability.
It is worth noting that Peter Terium, the 50 - year old Dutchman who has been CEO of the German energy giant since July 2012, was
among one of ten CEO's of European energy companies who
on 11 October gave a joint press conference in Brussels in which they warned that the EU's energy and
climate policy is having a disastrous effect
on the power production sector, even leading to the
risk of major blackouts.
Photo captions: Ornate Box Turtle and Massasauga are
among the species in a study that focused
on the predictability of species extinction
risks due to
climate change.
Landmark reforms relating to product liability, expert opinion testimony,
risk contribution, and caps
on punitive damages,
among others, turned Wisconsin's souring litigation and business
climate into one of the most competitive jurisdictions in the country from a litigation standpoint.