The turbulent business climate is another factor that encourages today's chief executives to keep their heads down.
As to importance, when originally identified as distinct, the archaea, too, were regarded as marginal yet their methane-generating properties are now a factor in climate-change calculations.
Another factor is climate change - livestock rearing produces methane, which is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in global warming terms, according to Lord Stern.
Heightened methane emission from wetlands and permafrost has regularly been touted as a potential amplifying factor in climate change, with warmer weather stimulating their release and so producing further warming.
Carwyn Jones AM stressed that climate change was a major factor towards the increase of floods and that the government's TAN 15, the official document that regulates the assessment of flood risks, was addressing the problem.
But the Tokelauans say the main factor is concern over climate impacts, and a desire to show it can be done.
Hoppe says that even when the role of rising population in storm paths is removed from the accelerating trend in losses, climate change emerges as a clear factor in the increased losses.
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Whether or not governments do so will be a major factor in determining whether international climate targets are met.
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This provides the vine with plenty of drainage, which is an important factor in a wet, northern climate influenced by the Atlantic Ocean.
In six of the seven, there was sufficient evidence to conclude that climate change caused by human activities played a factor in the events affecting their severity, likelihood or frequency.
In his speech, Bush acknowledged that climate change is real and that human activity is a factor.
The meeting aims to secure the engagement of Ministers in the creation of new sites as a contributing factor in addressing sustainable development as well as adaptation of climate change.
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Even if we are not responsible for the entire mechanism of climate change, we are without a doubt, the cause of a major exacerbating factor.
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And if the medieval warmth were due to some external factor, such as a slightly brighter sun, that would suggest that the climate was indeed quite sensitive.
And the pervading feel-good factor of humour suggests that stand-up comedy may well survive in a global climate that provides so little else to laugh at.
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