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The frequency and
intensity
of the El Nino cycle in the past 25 years may also be the result of global warming.
Syria’s Humanitarian LifelinesNEW YORK – After more than a thousand days of death and misery, two important recent public statements show why policy toward Syria must enter a new phase of
intensity
and focus.
But, usually, elections do not register the
intensity
of that support.
Should capital-poor Mexico really be financing a further jump in the capital
intensity
of the US economy?
Moreover, it would disrupt weather systems, destroying harvests and threatening populations with droughts, floods, and storms of ever-increasing
intensity.
But, as an outsider, I am amazed at the apparent
intensity
of lobbying, and at the amounts of money that firms and their associations spend.
Palestine’s Necessary Civil WarRegardless of the latest hastily negotiated truce, the battle between nationalist Fatah and Islamist Hamas seems to be gaining
intensity.
Kaya calculated CO2 emissions by multiplying total population by per capita GDP, energy efficiency (energy use per unit of GDP), and carbon
intensity
(CO2 per unit of energy).
Given the impracticality of winning support for proposals based on population management or limits on individual wealth, analyses using the Kaya Identity tend to bypass the first two terms, leaving energy efficiency and carbon
intensity
as the most important determinants of total emissions.
If, by 2020, the UK could exploit its reserves there at just one-third the
intensity
of the exploitation of the Barnett and Marcellus Shales today, the outcome would be phenomenal.
That means increasing capital and human capital
intensity
across both the tradable and non-tradable sectors of the economy.
The government in Paris, which should have known better, was taken utterly by surprise by the
intensity
of international hostility to its nuclear objectives, and, as governments do in such situations, has tried to limit the damage.
The US incurred $300 billion in losses from climate-related disasters last year, including three massive hurricanes – the frequency and
intensity
of which has risen, owing to fossil-fuel dependence.
By using its veto power, the Chinese government has effectively ensured that atrocities in Syria will continue and increase in
intensity.
Within the framework of textbook microeconomic theory, this happens when the “elasticity of substitution” in the production function is greater than one: capital can be substituted for labor, imperfectly, but with a small enough decline in the rate of return so that the share of capital increases with greater capital
intensity.
Though a precise comparison is difficult, there is no doubt that China’s capital coefficient is much higher, implying a larger gap between the growth rate of capital
intensity
(the total amount of capital needed per dollar of revenue) and that of labor productivity.
With capital
intensity
increasing significantly faster than labor productivity in China, the inefficiency of investment is clear.
It might also be part of a larger mechanism that allows intentions, emotions, and even the
intensity
of pain to be matched by gestures and communicated between individuals.
And no one predicted the
intensity
of the CCP’s campaign to root out corruption, including in the military, the financial sector, and the highest levels of the party itself.
Commenting on the
intensity
of these protests, Iyad El-Baghdadi, a self-described “Islamic libertarian,” aptly tweeted: “Unapologetic hatred is going mainstream everywhere.
As manufacturing wages rise and labor
intensity
falls, Asia will need to rely more on services to create jobs for the millions of people who join the workforce each year.
Yet China has announced a set of major initiatives – in solar, wind, nuclear, and carbon-capture technologies – to reduce its economy’s greenhouse-gas
intensity.
Experience in Eastern Europe, where energy prices had to be increased substantially in the 1990’s, demonstrated that simple measures – such as better insulation, together with maintenance and repair of the region’s many long-neglected central heating systems – yield a quick and substantial payoff in reducing energy
intensity.
The scores in both London and New York for the quality and
intensity
of regulation, and the tax burden, have dropped.
And there are proposals to take into account countries’ natural-resource
intensity
and domestic depletion rate when assessing their solvency.
So here’s the bottom line: conflicts will continue and natural disasters are growing in frequency and
intensity.
One determinant of a technology’s “diffusability” is its knowhow
intensity.
Traditional growth theories focus on systematic forces – for example, capital accumulation, employment, and technical change – that, by definition, operate all the time, although with varying degrees of
intensity.
China’s President Hu Jintao spoke about all that his country is already doing to reduce energy
intensity
and invest in “green” alternatives.
Democratic HysteriaBERKELEY – In the political impasses that recently paralyzed the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States, both countries’ usually clear-sighted leaders, to paraphrase William Butler Yeats, lacked all conviction, while the misguided and the shallow were full of passionate
intensity.
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