Sentences with phrase «other global disasters»

With the world facing increased warming, melting ice caps, rising sea levels, intense weather events and other global disasters, scientists are exploring ways to re-engineer the planet to counter the effects of global warming.

Not exact matches

Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

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»).

Sea - level rise and flooding have already been linked to global warming, will other natural disasters follow?

Experts predicted droughts, storms, rising sea levels, and other disasters from global warming.

«This would be a disaster,» says Ekwoge Abwe, who oversees the Ebo Forest Research Project with the help of village volunteers and funding from San Diego Zoo Global, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other groups.

As he emphasizes again and again, «global warming did not cause Hurricane Katrina, or any other weather disaster.»

With this series the artist gives shape to a fragile space threatened by globalization, industrialization, global warming, and other consequences of human behavior and the concomitant natural disasters which extinguish life and nature.

And the odds go down from there on attributing other recent shifts in weather - related disasters to global warming.

While Pam and Haiyan, as well as other recent tropical cyclone disasters, can not be uniquely pinned on global warming, they have no doubt been influenced by natural and anthropogenic climate change and they do remind us of our continuing vulnerability to such storms.

-- While Pam and Haiyan, as well as other recent tropical cyclone disasters, can not be uniquely pinned on global warming, [WHO HAS EVER CLAIMED THEY WERE STEFAN?

THEN STEFAN SAYS EXACTLY WHAT THE PRESIDENT WAS INFERRING IN HIS PRESS CONFERENCE; and what has been repeatedly said already in the IPCC Reports: «While Pam and Haiyan, as well as other recent tropical cyclone disasters, can not be uniquely pinned on global warming, they have no doubt been influenced by natural and anthropogenic climate change and they do remind us of our continuing vulnerability to such storms.»

The piece nicely summarizes why this storm, unlike other recent weather disasters with a climate - change component, has prompted so many politicians, including President Obama, to end their self - imposed silence on global warming.

Many reports are quick to link one - off events with climate change; others purport to provide regional evidence of how global warming is affecting a particular country; some try to identify which countries are most vulnerable to disasters.

Experts now predicted that global warming could bring not only rising sea levels but unprecedented droughts, storm floods, and other disasters.

Here is what I actually said: ``... the climate alarmists maintain that Africa is already experiencing natural disasters — principally floods, droughts, malaria and other diseases, arising from unnatural global warming, and that these are causing increases in poverty, malnutrition, disease and environmental damage.

For the most part, Smith hasn't had to address the climate issue back home, even though polls show that a majority of his adult constituents believe human activity is causing global warming and Texas has suffered more severe climate and weather disasters since 1980 than any other state.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch)-- Warning: 100 - year megafires, 100 - year megafloods, 100 - year droughts and all the other 100 - year - cycle climate - change and global - warming disasters that are supposed to happen somewhere around the world once a century?

In a global market, a single disaster like SoCal Gas's wouldn't hit the innocents that hard, but it would send a clear signal to other companies thinking of saving a few bucks on a safety valve or two: with a price on carbon, cheap is expensive.

They conferred awards and recognition on each other, excluded skeptical scientists from «peer reviews» of one another's papers, and conspired to blackball editors who permitted the publication of professional papers by Sallie Baliunas, Willie Soon, Patrick Michaels, Richard Lindzen, Roy Spencer and other climate experts whose work challenged the Mann - made global warming disaster thesis.

There are many other failures in the document related to women's reproduction health, missed opportunities to start new global treaties on civil society participation and on sustainability reporting, the extraordinary lack of any reference to armed conflicts, nuclear energy (especially in light of the fukushima disaster), and many others.

Another page on this site, A comparison of possible disasters, compares the threat of terrorism with other threats such as pandemic and global warming.

Global cooling would be a disaster, on the other hand.

In fact a comparison with other IEA scenarios puts the EIA Reference Case in line with at least 5 degrees C of warming, a level of warming that would likely mean disaster for global civilization.

It is true that we can presently do little about volcanos and other natural disasters, but if our behaviour is likely to hasten global warming, or ice - age conditions — whatever it might be, then we should tread carefully.

As to the ethics of climate disaster researchers, and the credibility of their models, data and reports, ClimateGate emails reveal that researchers used various «tricks» to mix datasets and «hide the decline» in average global temperatures since 1998; colluded to keep skeptical scientific papers out of peer - reviewed journals; deleted potentially damaging or incriminating emails; and engaged in other practices designed to advance manmade climate change alarms.

Some cities would be winners, and others would be losers as our global climate changes, seawaters rise, and the natural disasters of drought, storm, and floods pick some areas but not others for their paths of destruction.

Translation, global warming (which I assume is geo - physical) has not measurable impact, but other types of disasters (non geo - physical?)

In other words, the world is in serious danger of missing the target to stop global temperatures rising by more than 2 °C compared to pre-industrial times, preventing environmental disaster.

WHO's job will be made harder by the growing threat and worsening impacts of climate change For nearly seven decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has served as the international authority on issues in global health, working continuously to combat disease, promote public health, and support countries and communities who have been struck by natural disasters and other health emergencies.

General Electric (Stamford, CT) 2007 — 2008 Corporate Consultant — Infrastructure Systems & Network • Designed, developed, and engineered GE Treasury system's development, QA, Production, and DR environment • Hardware: Sun Fire V220, V480, V880, V1290, V6140, V6800, V6920; Sun Enterprise T2000, T5120 (Solaris 10: LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, Zoans, Containers), E10K, E15K, E25, M4000, M8000, M9000; HP ProLiant with Linux 5.0 (EMC and 3 PAR SAN) • Built servers from racking, cabling (Ethernet / fiber), connecting to network, setting serial connection to Avocent ports, and setting up server to the network through DNS • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 6000 servers • Installed and configured Solaris 10 OS, recommended patches, hardening software, LDOMS, ZFS, and Container on Sun server • Installed and configured Emulex LPFC, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, and Veritas Net Backup in heterogeneous environment • Partitioned and mirrored disks using Solaris LVM, disk suites, Veritas VxVM, mirrored root file system and set up alternate boot device and dump device • Installed application software for ITG, IDM, and Tibco etc. • Created and adjusted Oracle projects on oracle 9i and 10g • Configured operating systems, LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, network Multi Pathing, Cisco Switch 6309, Brocade Switch, EMC DS41000 fiber switch, EMC, 3 PAR and HITACHI SAN, DNS, NIS, NIS plus, LDAP • Created LUNs for EMC, 3 PAR, HITACHI SAN and set up RAIDS • Created zoning of Cisco 6309 switch • Provided connectivity of Ethernet ports and fiber channel by patching Ethernet ports from server panel to switch, and by patching fiber from server to Brocade switch then to EMC DS41000 switch through Cisco switch6300, 6309, Big IP • Performed alternate boot testing, crush dump testing and cluster testing • Vendor liaison for Cisco, HP, IBM, EMC, Symantec, Oracle Sun, and Red hat Linux resolving hardware and software issues • Scheduled changes and upgrades communicating with business owners and support team • Architected Disaster Recovery System conducted testing and resetting the systems as needed • Performed zoning and provisioning configured EMC / Power path LUNs on UNIX servers upon client's request • Resolved issues with NIS, NIS +, DNS, VxVM and VCS among other SA tasks • Created network topology of the internet and intranet security environment using Visio 7.5