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But all successive
waves
of enlargement were motivated mostly, if not exclusively, by political reasons.
As US citizens and businesses continue to suffer the results of climate change – heat waves, droughts, hurricanes, and floods – more and more Americans, including an increasing number of business leaders, will press America’s political leaders for real action.
On the other hand, heat waves, droughts, floods, and other disasters induced by climate change are destroying crops and reducing the supplies of grains on world markets.
Such heat
waves
are not merely uncomfortable.
In fact, heat
waves
account for more deaths than any other type of weather-related event, killing more than 12,000 people worldwide each year.
Moreover, the frequency and intensity of heat waves, floods, and droughts are on the rise.
There also may be serious direct consequences for human health if climate change is not checked, particularly increased morbidity and mortality as a result of heat waves, floods, and droughts.
Germany, Japan, and other countries absorbed and mitigated the shock
waves.
Historical proof that globalization does not necessarily mean homogenization can be seen in Japan, a country that deliberately isolated itself from earlier
waves
of globalization.
Heat
waves
and wildfires ravaged countries around the world.
Even if we assumed – unreasonably – that it caused all deaths from floods, droughts, heat waves, and storms, this total would amount to just 0.06% of all deaths in developing countries.
Indeed, Karachi is sometimes called an “instant city,” having grown 50-fold as a result of several
waves
of migration since Pakistan gained independence in 1947.
The benefits of coordination are likely to be reinforced by policy “learning,” as confirmed by evidence that reforms tend to spread in
waves.
And now that our phones talk to us (Apple launched Siri, the artificial voice that answers your spoken questions, on its iPhones in 2010), they fuel dread that they can replace us, just as earlier
waves
of automation rendered much human capital obsolete.
Uncontrolled
waves
of migration from the country are now breaking across the Mediterranean into Europe.
In fact, over any past period long enough for
waves
of optimism and pessimism to cancel each other out, the average earnings yield on the S&P index has been a good guide to the return on the portfolio.
The Case Against Climate DespairSTOCKHOLM – Heat
waves
and extreme-weather events across the Northern Hemisphere this summer have brought climate change back to the forefront of public debate.
Most directly, global warming is projected to double the number of deaths related to heat
waves
by 2020.
Waves
of discourse followed, helping Western women see what was “not enough” in many aspects of their lives, such as the low-paying jobs in which men took credit for their work – and pinched their bottoms.
For example, in 2014, physicists collaborating on a project known as BICEP2 thought that they had detected gravitational
waves
from the beginning of the universe.
Beyond limiting total warming, it can help to check the rise in peak temperatures, decreasing the risk of destructive heat
waves.
Similarly, Europe’s deadly heat
waves
in 2003 lead Gore to conclude that climate change will mean more fatalities.
The Russian invasion of Georgia has sent shock
waves
throughout the West and the former Soviet space - especially Ukraine.
And North Korea conducted its third nuclear test earlier this month, sending shock
waves
through the region.
He won’t make waves, but he won’t make headlines either.
As long as the underlying global interest-rate picture is so benign, it is hard to see the big Kahuna of bond-default
waves
coming just yet.
The key facts about climate change are well-known: Our planet's atmosphere has already absorbed such a large quantity of human-produced greenhouse gases that global warming is underway, with more extreme heat waves, droughts, and floods than ever before.
There is growing evidence of links between climate change and sea-level rise, heat waves, droughts, and rainfall intensity, and, although scientific research on hurricanes and tornadoes is not as conclusive, that may be changing.
Physicists know that subatomic phenomena can manifest themselves as both particles and waves; similarly, human beings may behave both as individual particles and as components of a larger wave.
Yet another damaging myth, perpetuated by shocking images of refugees swarming through border fences or attempting to climb onto trains in Calais, is that “Fortress Europe” is under assault by
waves
of barbarians.
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