Sentences with phrase «others on a global scale»

Perhaps the biggest stumbling block to proving that large earthquakes trigger others on a global scale is statistics.

With her hope to empower women and her passion to impact the world, Kayla Fruchtman is no stranger to helping others on a global scale — and has even created an entire career around it.

Because we live in a world where our decisions and actions affect others on a global scale, we must acknowledge and accept the notion of global citizenship.

So now is the moment for you to jump in and share your wisdom with others on a global scale.

With the online multiplayer component of Fighters becoming more prevalent than ever, NetherRealm is creating a new way for players to participate with each other on a global scale, with the new «Faction War» system.

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Though the popularity of such efforts seems to be far - reaching on the global scale, some countries were more entrepreneurial on the social side than others.

This IPO will not just help them continue to grow and innovate on a global scale — it will also fuel the tenacity of countless other Canadian startups to compete in all areas of technology.

I am repeatedly impressed how quickly I, and other well - meaning Christians, turn from impassioned statements about the evil of oppression and hunger on a global scale to talk of our need for better salaries, our hopes for economic security in retirement, and our boats or Summer cottages.

... if Man organizes himself gradually on a global scale in a sort of closed circuit, within which each thinking element is intellectually and affectively connected with every other, he will attain to a maximum of individual mastery by participating in a certain ultimate clarity of vision and extreme warmth of sympathy proper to the system as a whole.

Then, after a brief interlude, these gods and others roused themselves for still another round of violence and bloodshed on a global scale that ended with Europe in ruins.

From the student YMCA, through John Randolph Mott (1865 - 1955), came the World's Student Christian Federation (1896), which united on a global scale similar movements in other lands.

The Innovation Fund was established to honor Robert W. Wilson, who helped the Rainforest Alliance by making significant philanthropic commitments that inspired others» generosity and leveraged our impact on a global scale.

«The big question,» he says, «is how to apply this to other glaciers and make it relevant on a global scale.»

To address those and other questions, the TOAR research team has produced the first - ever global - scale scientific assessment of tropospheric ozone, based on all available surface observations and the peer - reviewed literature.

In 1815, the Indonesian volcano Tambora propelled more ash and volcanic gases into the atmosphere than any other eruption in history and resulted in significant atmospheric cooling on a global scale, much like Krakatau a few decades later.

Those emissions are dwarfed by others sources on the global scale, such as cars and power plants, amounting to just 5 percent of total global carbon dioxide emissions.

For changes happening on a global scale and in remote regions with extreme conditions, the satellites provide researchers with information impossible to get by any other means.

Such justification would then most likely center on whether, under the introductory phrase of GATT Article XX, a US carbon duty, emission credit requirement or other regulation on imports is applied on a variable scale that takes account of local conditions in foreign countries, including their own efforts to fight global warming and the level of economic development in developing countries.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

Competition on a global scale will be complemented by enhanced policy dialogue and cooperation based on partnership with other regions of the world, in particular through the organisation of Bologna Policy Fora, involving a variety of stakeholders.

Using research capabilities from MIT and other leading universities, the effectiveness of the learning apps is measured to ensure the continuous improvement of every child's learning and to reach their aim of spreading literacy on a global scale.

Our mission is to connect teachers to information and each other so they can create local change on a global scale.

No other dealer of classic automobiles has the reach or the expertise in helping customers on a global scale.

When you take the condition of Canada's economy into account with other countries on a global scale, you will find information pointing to the fact that Canada is actually faring quite well.

Ranked Matches: Take to the world of ranked matches and fight against other players on a global scale, climbing the leaderboard to prove just how great of a fighter you are!

Game Center integration also makes it possible for players to compare their high scores to their friends», along with other players on a global scale.

«Troposphere» thus aims to frame, on a global scale and through contemporary art, the exchanges between Brazil and China, «promoting a mutual understanding of each other's culture.»

But every billion - dollar carbon - capture project, in the meantime, is raiding money that might otherwise go into basic research and development aimed at advancing solar technology or large - scale energy storage or other fields where breakthroughs could help lay the groundwork for a post-fossil global energy system — instead of providing a dicey Band - Aid to keep societies stuck on the coal rung of the heat ladder a while longer.

I think that the level of chaos that is being alluded to, and increasingly expected as described by the CIA, DOD, Joint Forces Command, Army War College, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Center for Naval Analysis, etc. shows abuse to the human race on a massive scale that has never before been considered seriously, by the human race (other than in global thermonuclear war or a global plague), due to our own actions against ourselves.

On the global scale, the down blanket is the CO2 in the atmosphere and some years are just cooler than others.

The equilbrium global time average response (on a time scale sufficient to characterize externally - forced cycles (day, year) and internal varibility) to an imposed global time average radiative forcing is a change that balances the externally imposed forcing plus any non-Planck feedbacks (where the Planck response is part of the response to the other feedbacks.

Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources: these threats risk intensifying economic, ecological and social crises, creating the potential for a humanitarian emergency on a global scale.

On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).

A Global Climate Model (GCM) can provide reliable prediction information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.

Mr McIntyre is exactly right: If we take Big Climate at their word that the entire global economy needs massive re-orientation on a scale never before contemplated, it will require the largest societal consensus â $ «left and right and center, in America, in Canada, in Britain, in Europe... Yet all Big Climate does is retreat ever deeper into its shrinking echo chamber and compile ever longer lists of people who are beyond the pale â $ «Professor Curry, Professor Christy, Professor Bengtsson, Professor Pielke, Professor Soon, Lord Lawson, the Bishop of Chester, the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics, the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics... It might be quicker for Mann, Trenberth, Gavin Schmidt and the other climate enforcers to make a short list of those to whom they are prepared to grant a say in the future of the planet.

The release of gas hydrates may still be stoppable through a suite of techniques including withdrawing atmospheric CO2 by rapidly building soil fertility on a global scale, reforestation to increase reflective cloud cover, and rapidly reducing CO2 emissions — in other words, a massive emergency campaign to cool the planet: Climate Code Red!

This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the emissions gap.

I would not dispute 100 - 300 year oscillations as a possibility, but my reading of the climate records reveals no evidence for a significant role for such oscillations — or at least, no role substantial enough on a global scale to have created a discernible signal outside of changes occasioned by solar variations, volcanism, and other known entities (changes on a regional scale are a very different matter and may have involved such oscillations).

Fred, You state: «None others operate substantially on a global scale.»

Global climate models (ESMs or GCMs) can provide climate information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km (with grid resolution of 100's of km) covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.

Per the work of Zeebe and others, the amount and rate of CO2 absorbtion on a global scale depends, in the long term, on the feedbacks (fast, slow) that come into play.

My bottom line is that while the global climate models, when run with added CO2 and other greenhouse gases, show that this is a warming effect, they are inadequate tools to assess the consequences of these human climate forcings on the regional and local scale.

The other possibility is that as TQ has said CO2 is being released naturally on a global scale.

Global warming must be the primary cause of glacier retreat, which is occurring on a global scale, but observed rapid melt rates suggest that other factors may be invGlobal warming must be the primary cause of glacier retreat, which is occurring on a global scale, but observed rapid melt rates suggest that other factors may be invglobal scale, but observed rapid melt rates suggest that other factors may be involved.

The instabilities in the climate system and the movement from global warming to global heating kicks in above 350 ppm, so that as the ppm increase, mitigation opportunities are lost and catastrophic harms on an even grander grand scale (as noted by Mike) will continue to occur to human and other life forms.

I'm very convinced that the physical process of global warming is continuing, which appears as a statistically significant increase of the global surface and tropospheric temperature anomaly over a time scale of about 20 years and longer and also as trends in other climate variables (e.g., global ocean heat content increase, Arctic and Antarctic ice decrease, mountain glacier decrease on average and others), and I don't see any scientific evidence according to which this trend has been broken, recently.

On a global scale, the biofuels frenzy is diverting millions of acres of farmland from food crops, converting millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat into farmland, and employing billions of gallons of water, to produce corn, jatropha, palm oil and other crops for use in producing politically correct biodiesel and other biofuels.

A variety of other evidence for very abrupt climate changes was accumulating, and some began to entertain the notion of such change on a global scale.

Economic, social, and natural systems are also inter-connected on a global scale, meaning that climate impacts in other regions of the world can pose serious economic and security risks to the United States.

In the end, they came up with a «wall - to - wall» map of carbon stocks in Sabah down to 30 - meter (98 - foot) resolution, or about 5,500 percent finer resolution than mapping that others have done on a global scale, Asner said.