Sentences with phrase «serious global public»

In fact, it has become such a concerning issue that the World Health Organization (WHO) regards childhood obesity as one of the most serious global public health challenges for the 21st century.

The World Health Organization (WHO) regards childhood obesity as one of the most serious global public health challenges for the 21st century.

Dengue, a viral disease transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, is a serious global public health problem, infecting 50 to 390 million people each year in more than 100 countries and resulting in at least 20,000 deaths annually.

Today disease - causing bacteria have adapted to antibiotics faster than scientists can generate new drugs to kill them, creating a serious global public - health threat.

While the vast majority of our consumers enjoy alcohol in moderation, harmful drinking is a serious global public health issue.

VAD remains a serious global public health problem where an estimated 250 000 to 500 000 vitamin A-deficient children become blind every year, half of them dying within 12 months of losing their sight.

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The G20, which met in China in early September, included concerns about antimicrobial resistance in its closing communique, saying that AMR «poses a serious threat to public health, growth, and global economic stability.»

Pete Demola April 22, 2018 The Sun Plattsburgh − Earth Day is serious business in the Adirondacks and across the North Country, and the public took advantage of the sunny weather over the weekend to celebrate the global event designed to boost awareness of environmental issues.

U.S. - Iranian research teams have collaborated to address serious global concerns, such as public health, climate change, biodiversity, earthquake management, and water and sanitation.

The outspoken head of the Mahidol group, Nicholas White, has urged the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a designation reserved for the most serious outbreaks that pose a global threat.

While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

If the panel had said yes to an emergency declaration, however, it also faced the risk of losing public trust if MERS failed to become a serious global health problem, he notes.

ISPRA, Italy — The landscape is familiar to science policy experts on both sides of the Atlantic: To address serious global problems and to take advantage of important future discoveries, they will have to work effectively with elected officials and members of the public who have complex and sometimes conflicting values and interests.

Climate change presents a global public health problem, with serious health impacts predicted to manifest in varying ways in different parts of the world.

Unnoticed by the public, there is a serious discussion about research integrity within the global science community.

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

Pat (post # 29) claims there is a «terrific imbalance in public perceptions» and that «everyone knows that global warming is real, serious and potentially catastrophic».

Last week I posted a «Your Dot» contribution from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a University of Chicago climate scientist concerned that policy makers and the public keep in mind the primacy of carbon dioxide emissions if they are serious about limiting the chances of propelling disruptive human - driven global warming.

Maybe for public, we should use a proper words to express global warming's serious, need action this kind of meaning let people hear it can understand them soon.

Climate change presents a global public health problem, with serious health impacts predicted to manifest in varying ways in different parts of the world.

But it would be hard for the federal government to spends billions of dollars a year on a controversial topic, with every penny of the spending based on the presumption that global warming is a serious crisis worthy of billions of tax dollars, and not have those billions make a powerful impression on the public.

A truly serious public policy debate over what to do about GHG - driven global warming has not yet occurred in this country.

He writes: «But serious damage has already been done,» and then discusses polling data that shows increasing public disbelief in the global warming crisis.

The Great Global Warming Swindle received critical response from the scientific community, including a letter to ABC that was signed by thirty - seven British Scientists who claimed «the misrepresentations of facts and views, both of which occur in your programme, are so serious that repeat broadcasts of the programme, without amendment, are not in the public interest.

To date, the electric utility industry has aided and abetted the climate alarmist cause, if not by actually lobbying for global warming regulation, then at least by its willingness to entertain such regulation as public policy worthy of serious consideration.

Burning coal also causes serious harm to public health, the global climate, and the overall environment.

He does not address the fact of Global Change or its (serious) implications, but asserts that there is not the public support for reacting to Global Warming while pursuing truthiness, by distorting the issue, rather than truth.

Enough of the public was likewise sufficiently impressed by the skeptical advertising and news reports, or at least sufficiently confused by them, so that the administration felt free to avoid taking serious steps against global warming.

Occasionally, a commenter will ponder what sort of climate - related event might trigger serious and widespread public alarm about anthropogenic global warming.

Data on monitoring and changes in status, along with modeling predictions of temperature and pH effects, should be brought to governments and the public... the United States could grab the front end of the problem by taking serious steps to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions: the root cause of global warming and the reef problem.»

«Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming cGlobal warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming cglobal warming crisis.

The Eurobarometer poll (pdf) found that the majority of the public in the European Union consider global warming to be one of the world's most serious problems, with one - fifth saying it is the single most serious problem.