Sentences with phrase «term global problems»

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On the more positive side, America's budget problems are fixable — and not so terrible when viewed in a long - term global context.
In the short term, however, freeing the renminbi creates some problems, partly because of global circumstances and partly because of previous blunders by Beijing.
Instead of being seen in terms of person - to - person relationship and the love of Christ, the problem is posed in global and sociological terms (which proves that the point of departure was humanist and social).
what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.
As a design engineer, Fuller sees the basic problem of mankind in terms of the necessity to integrate the production and distribution of the world's material necessities of food, housing, etc. on a global scale.
UK: «Uncertain» Europe hinders Diageo H1 as LatAm shines Diageo remains cautious about its short - term prospects after reporting that economic problems in Europe took the shine off strong global deman... read more
UK: «Uncertain» Europe hinders Diageo H1 as LatAm shines Diageo remains cautious about its short - term prospects after reporting that economic problems in Europe took the shine off strong global deman
Subway officials recently released a six - point plan to confront short - term problems, while Mr. Cuomo announced a global competition aimed at long - term solutions.
Probably far too complicated for this site, but the «costs» entirely disregards long - term costs - pollution, health problems (like coal extraction workers), and, obviously, the trillions in expected expenses from global warming effects, both responding to and trying to mitigate.
In his view, the problem boils down to resolution: Just as global warming can be masked by shorter - term ups and downs in temperature, so can the link to hurricanes be hard to spot in the short term.
«This area of antibiotic resistance is a big problem in global terms,» Chopra said.
Professor Jaimie Dick, from the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's School of Biological Sciences, is calling on the EU to commit long - term investment in a European - wide strategy to manage the problem.
AS GOVERNMENTS struggle to prevent the global financial crisis turning into a deep worldwide recession, attention is also turning to the longer - term problem: how to avoid a similar crisis happening again.
There are, of course, multiple problems associated with growing global demand for metals, including the environmental consequences of extraction and the long - term potential of metal scarcities.
Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.
This revolutionary approach may offer a long - term soil - based solution to the global climate change problem.
Generation and storage of biochar in soil may offer a long - term soil - based solution to the global climate change problem.
While the degraded reefs Piercy looked at were mostly ravaged by overfishing, climate change poses a global long - term problem for reefs.
The talk will cover the size of the problem on a global scale, the number of users that are affected, and what this means in terms of their online behaviour.
In the short term, labour problems and technical delays will continue to slow global copper production.
Millennials were nearly split down the middle in terms of deciding if global warming or the student loan crisis is the biggest problem facing the U.S.
, makes it crystal clear, in quantified terms, that the emissions of carbon dioxide from burning coal are a major part of the problem and need to be addressed if we are to make the necessary changes to address global warming.
P.S., In fresh article published in Iternational Herald Tribune (Global warming's PR problem) Andrew C. Revkin gives comprehensive and intelligent account of the climate - change media coverage which gives me some hope in terms of the journalists understanding of the problem...
«To solve the long - term, global problem, however, we need to better understand how to reduce the unnatural carbon dioxide levels that are the major driver of the warming.»
Noisy Competition Randy Olson, the filmmaker and author who dared label global warming «boring» here not long ago (a reference that was picked up in Germany by Der Spiegel this week), has proposed another element in modern life is impeding focus on this long - term problem — noise:
Summing up, he says that in his view other real - time problems, particularly global poverty, trump whatever long - term risk is posed by man - made warming, and that the slow natural pace of society's shift away from dirty fuels like coal toward cleaner ones will take care of the problem in any case.
In my opinion, a possible global climate change - induced increase of a percent or two here or there in the number of tornadoes / hurricanes / * enter your favorite hazard here * is orders of magnitude smaller (in terms of a problem) in comparison to vulnerability issues.
Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»
Critically, GDRs defines both responsibility and capacity in terms of a development threshold — a level of well - being that is modestly above a global poverty line, a threshold below which individuals are not required to bear the costs of addressing the climate problem, and are instead allowed simply to prioritize development.
Now if someone were to dsay, as Judith clearly did not although she had many opportunities to do so, that «concurrent with warming of our oceans there has been a relatively short - term hiatus in the trend of significant increase in global surface temperatures,» then I would not have a problem with the logic.
While Aqua's measurements are geared toward understanding long - term problems like global climate change, the satellite is also likely to have an immediate effect on everyone.
The Taskforce is comprised of eminent scientists, business leaders, policy advisers and political leaders drawn from around the world.5 Its purpose is to recommend to all governments a framework for managing climate change responses that is truly global, provides long - term direction, and is genuinely responsive to the scale of the problem.
But his plan has raised eyebrows among many researchers into alternative vehicles, who remain skeptical that compressed - air cars could offer a long - term solution to problems, like pollution and global warming, posed by internal - combustion engines.
This is what we're heading for and whether or not you are a short term beneficiary of the current economic system, it would be wise to understand the fundamental root cause of economic turmoil and other global problems.
However, notwithstanding the «pause» papers» conclusions and the fact that global warming continues unabated, the framing of a short - term fluctuation as a problem for science departs from long - standing stastistical and climatological knowledge.
Yet in the global warming issue, we see instances where a major organization promoted the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and another organization similarly promoting a prominent IPCC scientist as a Nobel laureate when he is not, and the long - term promotion of book author Ross Gelbspan as a Pulitzer winner when he is not, a problem first revealed long ago by Steve Milloy and expanded upon at this blog.
In terms of attacking the problem most effectively, the priority has to be global action.
«But if doing these things has the tradeoff of dampening the incentives for longer - term innovation, there can be a real problem, particularly when dramatic levels of technological change are needed, such as in the case of stabilizing the global climate.»
On the different scale of society and energy — there are obvious solutions to this and broader problems that bring short term benefits to global communities and environments.
From the administration that brought you «man - caused disaster» and «overseas contingency operation,» another terminology change is in the pipeline.The White House wants the public to start using the term «global climate disruption» in place of «global warming» — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.
How much of a problem is delayed participation by developing countries in terms of raising the overall burden of global mitigation costs, and what does this imply for appropriate near - term emissions pricing goals for the United States, if eventual targets for global stabilization are still to be met?
The Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a joint federal program of the President's Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration, has issued its strategic plan to address some of the most complex questions and problems dealing with long - term global climate variability and change.
If climate change fanatics are allowed to implement their policies, global population will continue to increase and overpopulation may become a real problem — another example of how the global warming hysterics are actually harming the long term environment of the earth by preventing overpopulated countries from developing and naturally lowering their birth levels.
From Fox News From the administration that brought you «man - caused disaster» and «overseas contingency operation,» another terminology change is in the pipeline.The White House wants the public to start using the term «global climate disruption» in place of «global warming» — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than -LSB-...]
This problem is also exacerbated by climate oscillations which operate over long timescales, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which influences long - term global cloud cover and may interfere with solar - climate analysis studies (Kuang et al. 1998; Farrar 2000; Roy & Haigh 2010; Laken et al. 2012a).
But «comprehensive» is his term, and to me «comprehensive» means serious consideration of all energy technologies that can contribute to solving the global climate problem.
To summarize: Aside from the denialist cranks, everyone agrees that global warming is a looming problem of unprecedented scale that needs to be met with long - term, fundamental change.
Our meeting has been held at a time of higher and volatile oil prices, continuing increases in global oil demand, localised supply problems for some forms of energy, concern about long term security of supply and increasing attention to the environmental impact from energy use.
If systematic errors in their model global climate can be shown, that would indicate a problem, but none have been specifically mentioned by David Young or others, so it makes it hard to answer except in general terms, like validation with plenty of global data has been done on GCMs.
There is a much improved perspective on the global warming problem if we approach the problem in terms of the basic physics that enable the climate problem to posed as a cause - and - effect problem.
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