Sentences with phrase «third assessment points»

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Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

To put that in perspective, the percentage of students passing math assessments falls by about one - third to one - half a percentage point for each day school is closed.

By most estimations, that's not a fair assessment, experts say, pointing out less than a third of the state's charters participate in that program.

Third, our report and others that have preceded it clearly demonstrate that satellite technology has advanced to the point where a reliable assessment of regional hydrology can be produced with little access to observations on the ground.

This is the whole point of the hockey so extensively featured in the third assessment report of the IPCC in 2001.

Third, we believe that modelling of carbon tax implications is most useful in assessments of tipping points in the relative costs of different technologies.

The paper's analysis of changes ends on July 1, 2012, and the government has also introduced regulatory changes to the Federal Skilled Worker Program which would prefer younger applicants, create new minimum language standards, reduce points of international work experience, and require third - party credential assessments.