Sentences with phrase «recent global history»
Colombia's armed conflict, the longest - running in recent global history, left more than 220,000 people dead and about 6.7 million displaced within the region.
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Photographs and text illustrate the recent history of the global breastfeeding movement, including the role of La Leche League International.
«We can't look into recent history and find this particular cocktail of accelerated climate change, habitat destruction, and global extinction.
The heading, «Examination of Earth's Recent History Key to Predicting Global Temperatures», didn't seem to be on point at all.
Although Frank J. Schwartz, a shark biologist with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says there's too much natural variability in weather cycles to blame the recent shark attacks on global warming, George H. Burgess, the director of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
These analyses, whilst not disproving the anthropogenic global warming theory, do show that the climate we are in today is not unusual in recent history, and therefore the possibility of natural variability causing the warming can not be ruled out, as it seemingly has been by many «independent» scientists, and the IPCC.
William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.
The impact of incarceration on Kentucky students By Rosalyn Huff Throughout the course of human history, «crime and punishment» has been a topic of debate, and in recent times, it has become the focal point of a global conversation.
Next, along these lines, Europe's recent history holds important lessons for global educational progress — suggesting the values and actions we should embrace and those we should eschew.
«Design has always played a large role in Buick's rich history and recent success,» said Bryan Nesbitt, executive director, Buick Global Design.
Add an incisive, perceptive examination of recent Afghan history and its ramifications in both America and the Middle East, and the result is a complete work of literature that succeeds in exploring the culture of a previously obscure nation that has become a pivot point in the global politics of the new millennium.
Recent exhibitions include «Construire, Déconstruire, Reconstruire: Le Corps Utopique,» a solo show at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany, «Performing Histories (1)» at MoMA, New York, «10 ans du Projet pour l'Art Contemporain,» Centre Pompidou, Paris, the 4th Moscow Biennial, Moscow, «The Global Contemporary Art World after 1989,» ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, and «Contested Terrains,» Tate Modern, London.
Ciric will discuss this line of enquiry in relation to her recent curatorial projects that have aimed to examine how curatorial practice and the field of exhibition history may complement each other, unfolding complex issues of self - reflection, local knowledge production and its global contribution.
Recent exhibitions and exhibition series have focussed on art and the history of art education, as well as processes of history telling and commemoration in a global context and interrelations between art and media technologies.
Related programming includes India and the World: A History in Nine Stories, in which Naman Ahuja, curator of Indian art at Jawaharla Nehru University, discusses his recent exhibition India and the World, a presentation of extraordinary masterpieces that situates Indian history in a global cHistory in Nine Stories, in which Naman Ahuja, curator of Indian art at Jawaharla Nehru University, discusses his recent exhibition India and the World, a presentation of extraordinary masterpieces that situates Indian history in a global chistory in a global context.
Established in 2000, this global practice has won a number of prestigious commissions, the biggest and most recent being the Moscow School of Management and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture and History.
Isolde Brielmaier, the exhibition's curator, says, They also look to the global political and social arena as they explore, re-work, and in the process, «rewind» the constructed images of our past and recent histories in order to re-cast them in a different light of the present.»
In fact, lying within the tunnels are four singers, performing in operatic style fragments of speeches by key actors in the global theatre of recent political history: from Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama, to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.
The publication charts Hepher's life and work from the 1950s to the present day, tracing a path that begins in an era of the last century that was highly suspicious of figurative painting, through to the recent re-evaluation and rise to prominence of post-war British Art within global art history.
Mr. Knappenberger is enamored with Arctic history (as am I), particularly in his work seeking holes in the preponderant view that recent Arctic warming is extraordinary and likely driven in part by the global greenhouse effect.
The heading, «Examination of Earth's Recent History Key to Predicting Global Temperatures», didn't seem to be on point at all.
The first is regarding your statement that I am «enamored with Arctic history... particularly in [my] work seeking holes in the preponderant view that recent Arctic warming is extraordinary and likely driven in part by the global greenhouse effect.»
Ignoring a well - documented history of natural climate change, ignoring the ill - advised 20th century policy of fire suppression, and ignoring the increased percentage (~ 80 to 90 %) of fires ignited by humans, Climate Central tried to persuade the public that California fires, (as well as all recent fires) are «part of a dire global warming - fueled trend toward larger, more frequent and intense wildfires.»
This recent post via Real Climate Science on NASA tampering of Sea - level rise highlights the blatant malfeasance that these government funded institutions will undertake in order to push the man - made global warming climate change agenda, and keep the «Greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud in history» rolling and the billions upon billions of taxpayer funds flowing...
Yet another attempt to gloss over this fundamental weakness in the man - made global warming theory is made in a recent paper by Peter W. Thorne, John R. Lanzante, Thomas C. Peterson, Dian J. Seidel and Keith P. Shine: Tropospheric temperature trends: history of an ongoing controversy.
Here we show that accounting for recent cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific reconciles climate simulations and observations.We present a novel method of uncovering mechanisms for global temperature change by prescribing, in addition to radiative forcing, the observed history of sea surface temperature over the central to eastern tropical Pacific in a climate model.
Commentary: IEA on track to become a truly global organisation The recent ministerial meeting of the International Energy Agency marked a watershed moment in the agency's history 22 November 2017
-- Having read up on climate history as best we know it, the claim that recent global changes are «unlikely... due to internal variability» is a claim that I simply don't think is true, since history points to considerable variations.
The Marcott study is one that raised a stink because it was an attempt to create yet another «hockey stick» graph in which all of human history — this time, going back 11,000 years — shows a flat line of global temperatures, with only recent decades showing an alarming upward trend like the blade of a hockey stick.
These analyses, whilst not disproving the anthropogenic global warming theory, do show that the climate we are in today is not unusual in recent history, and therefore the possibility of natural variability causing the warming can not be ruled out, as it seemingly has been by many «independent» scientists, and the IPCC.
Needless to say, global warming from human CO2 emissions is an exceptional yawner, and is in no sense a current legitimate threat when viewed in the context of recent climate history.
This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes of our oceans, also results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).
I suggest you look at global average temperature variations of the last 800,000 years inferred from Antarctica, Arctic and Greenland ice cores and also look at NOAA's similar time history DATA of when snow and ice accumulate at the poles in Mr. Pope's recent presentation to the Johnson Space Center Chapter of the NASA Alumni League.
To blame the current warming on humans, there was a perceived need to «prove» that the current global average temperature is higher than it was at any other time in recent history (the last few thousand years).
The scientists note that the combination of rapid global warming and human ecological impacts «will present terrestrial ecosystems with an environment that is unprecedented in recent evolutionary history.»
Per the empirical history since 1850 and the recent global cooling, the 2100AD temp is much more likely to reflect the established +0.47 °C per century trend... one thinks.
1) Is Stefan's postulated heat sequestration process unique to this most recent episode of global warming; i.e., is it unprecedented in the history of global warming episodes?
How is it that the conclusions of climate scientists can be called into question as a result of supposedly dubious statistical techniques, but the long history of nonsense from the skeptics, (such as the Robinson et al paper that accompanied the politically motivated Oregon Petition, the corporate funded propaganda campaigns of the Global Climate Coalition, and the recent urban myth that Martian «global warming» disproves a human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of clGlobal Climate Coalition, and the recent urban myth that Martian «global warming» disproves a human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of clglobal warming» disproves a human influence on earthly climate) tells us nothing about the integrity of the skeptic theory of climate?
Recent anomalous behavior in both El Niño and the global ENSO is interpreted in the context of the long - term reconstructed history and possible forcing mechanisms.
After reviewing evidence in both the latest global data (HadCRUT4) and the longest instrumental record, Central England Temperature, a revised picture is emerging that gives a consistent attribution for each multidecadal episode of warming and cooling in recent history, and suggests that the anthropogenic global warming trends might have been overestimated by a factor of two in the second half of the 20th century.
Lizza's piece is partly a profile of Steyer and his potential political ambitions, but it is a thorough telling of the recent history of the climate movement and how the Keystone pipeline became a test of President Obama's commitment to moving the US away from fossil fuels in order to slow global warming.
The Marvel paper gets around this thought by talking about the «accident of history» and implying that the efficacy measure is very much unique to the recent climate conditions and pointing to the efficacy measure different than unity being related to the non uniformity in the x, y and z directions of the global atmosphere of the negatively forcing agents.
No doubt, if and when the Gulf Stream fails and North Atlantic temperatures plunge (as happened repeatedly during global warming events in the recent history of Earth, due to ice melt flowing into the ocean)-- denialists will claim «global cooling».
Can you cite scientists who say recent global warming is «unprecedented» in the history of the world?
The answers to those questions should be obvious and renders the bulk of your point rather irrelevant as an attempted refutation of current understanding of recent global climate history.
Casual readers may have thought this is a relatively recent obsession of his (3 articles and responses over the last month), however, Cockburn has significant form * and has a fairly long history of ill - informed commentary on the subject of global warming.
Yet as recent history has shown time and again, nothing short of global catastrophe will prevent a popular nostalgia - fueled Nintendo product from selling out in seconds.
As for the recent developments, HMD Global also launched the banana - shaped Nokia 8110 4G and fixed a deal with Google that will join all the Nokia smartphones with Google's Android One program, making this the biggest deal in the history of Android ever.
«The strength of the market, amid the most significant global recession in recent history, once again underscores its relevance to the nation's economic engine,» says Michael Polzler, executive vice-president, Re / Max Ontario - Atlantic Canada.