Sentences with phrase «with global climate disruption»

How many floods and droughts will it take to wake people up to the very real and immediate threats and risks associated with global climate disruption?

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The third U.S. climate assessment note global warming's disruptions have hit the country, with more severe weather and economic impacts

Launched in February 2017 with start - up support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) is an international forum for health professions schools committed to developing and instituting climate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disrClimate and Health Education (GCCHE) is an international forum for health professions schools committed to developing and instituting climate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disrclimate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disrclimate disruption.

First, they have not come up with any plausible alternative culprit for the disruption of global climate that is being observed, for example, a culprit other than the greenhouse - gas buildups in the atmosphere that have been measured and tied beyond doubt to human activities.

The administration continues to align itself with their global warming disinformation campaign, which is shifting from outright denial to seeking to divert attention from adverse implications of global climate disruption.

As John Holdren of Harvard and the Woods Hole Research Center put it to me one time, a quiet message on a looming issue like global climate disruption can be interpreted as «satisfaction with the status quo.»

Mac45: The global climate is a very complex mechanism with several layers of safeguards built in to minimize disruption.

Yes, much more useful to «frame» the discussion with unequivocal terms such as global warming / climate change / climage disruption / global wierding / extreme climate / extreme weather / climate disruption / climate chaos.

Hmm... Seems to be somewhat at odds with John Holdren's preferred reframing of climate change (aka global warming) as «global climate disruption».

Then came the failed forecasts with global warming changing to climate change, climate disruption and the symptoms including anything and everything, when it's patently obvious that if we hadn't been told it was warming we wouldn't know.

They include: (1) a 35 year US delay on climate action has made the problem extraordinarily challenging to solve, (2) US greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions are more than any country responsible for rise in atmospheric concentrations to present dangerous levels, (3) US ghg emissions not only threaten the US with climate disruption but endanger many of the poorest people around the world, (4) the Obama administration's pledge to reduce ghg emissions is far short of the US fair share of safe global emissions.

The report warned that poor and marginalized communities around the globe will be some of the first and hardest hit victims of climate change: «The poorest people in the world, who have had virtually nothing to do with causing global warming, will be high on the list of victims as climate disruptions intensify.»

There is nothing wrong with «man made global warming» but it is not the same thing as «climate change» or «climate disruption» — one is the consequence of the other, global temperatures are only one aspect of our climate.

> Rick Piltz > Director, Climate Science Watch > 301-807-2472 > http://www.climatesciencewatch.org > > Climate Science Watch is a sponsored project of the Government > Accountability Project, Washington, DC, dedicated to holding public > officials accountable for using climate science and related research > effectively and with integrity in responding to the challenges posed > by global climate disrClimate Science Watch > 301-807-2472 > http://www.climatesciencewatch.org > > Climate Science Watch is a sponsored project of the Government > Accountability Project, Washington, DC, dedicated to holding public > officials accountable for using climate science and related research > effectively and with integrity in responding to the challenges posed > by global climate disrClimate Science Watch is a sponsored project of the Government > Accountability Project, Washington, DC, dedicated to holding public > officials accountable for using climate science and related research > effectively and with integrity in responding to the challenges posed > by global climate disrclimate science and related research > effectively and with integrity in responding to the challenges posed > by global climate disrclimate disruption.

Global climatic disruption has been elevated as a national priority to the point that the Obama - Biden administration has acknowledged that it must have one or more top - notch climate advisers in the White House to deal with the problem effectively.

Human activities are exerting pressure on the environment with consequences such as global climate change, disruption of the hydrological cycle and impacts on water catchments.

Conversely, destruction of forests leads to disruption of the hydrological cycle, which expectedly causes significant fluctuations of the magnitude of the global greenhouse effect, up to complete loss of climate stability and transition of Earth's climate to a state incompatible with life.