Scientists note that current climate-change models predict that some parts of the Antarctic ice sheet will grow while other parts will shrink, and that parts of the Greenland ice also will melt.
But a government spokesman confirmed on Sunday there were no plans to change the current set-up.
This looks set to be in the form of an exclusively under-21 England side - a change Fifa is expected to make from the current under-23 (plus three over-age players) rule.
MPs are currently debating legislation required to pave the way for a referendum on the way they are elected and whether to change the current first-past-the-post system in favour of an Alternative Vote method.
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The reasons why the Tour is unlikely to change its current pace-of-play system anytime soon are many and interconnected, but here's a good one to start with: meaningfully speeding up play would, in effect, penalize the Tour's slowest members where it hurts them the most, in their wallets.
Dr Stuart Gray, whose father David died in February 2008 after accidentally receiving 10 times the the maximum dose of diamorphine from Dr Daniel Ubani, told the programme that without a change to the current out-of-hours system, "there will be other cases".
City officials are thinking of giving one manufacturer the contract to build all of New York's cabs - a change from the current situation where 16 different models of taxi are made by nine different manufacturers, although the majority are Ford's Crown Victoria.
The Free Democrats failed to get their desired change in the current (four-year) parliamentary term, but are determined to get it in the next one.
However, at this week's meeting, there appears to have been no demand among clubs in Divisions One, Two and Three to change the current national league set-up at that level.
If we look at the average percent change in target price versus current price for all the stocks that we follow, the three sectors that show the greatest average price change potential--difference between the target price and the current price--is health care with a gain of 13.1% on average followed by industrials at 12% and then energy at 10.6%.
"Under the plans, no recipients will lose out unless their circumstances change and all current recipients are fully cash-protected by a transitional scheme, " he told MPs.
There are good reasons for thinking that old patterns are about to change and that the current recession-driven downturn in the demand for Western graduates will morph into something structural.
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Manning said Monday that in this age of constant NFL change, when only three other current coach-quarterback duos have the same longevity he has with Coughlin, his having the same coach has elevated his career.
Will the Commons be asked to reverse that change and continue the current round of Parliamentary ping-pong?
In an address to the European Parliament, Mr Duisenberg said the bank had no reason to change its view that its current benchmark interest rate - currently at 4.5% - was appropriate.
In addition to current strategies, it will be crucial to deliver a step-change in the demonstration of value to payers and patients to ensure that every approved product reaches its full potential.
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An initial report included a reduction to 42 States members from the current 50, a change to six super constituencies, four-year terms and the possible removal of senators and constables from the assembly.
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"If we want to win in bluish-getting-bluer states like California, we have to change the current perceptions of who we are, " he said.
With the current recession that started a year ago, spending patterns ought to change--even though health care is viewed as "recession-proof" and is still forecast to have grown north of 6% again in 2008.
Louis Woodhill, following on the work of Art Laffer, developed a framework for judging whether any given amendment to current tax law pays for itself or is self-defeating by analyzing the change in the present value of revenues discounted out to the infinite horizon produced by the tax amendment.
Last year, the Commission on Assisted Dying - set up and funded by campaigners who want to see a change in the law in England and Wales - said the current system was "inadequate".
That would be a sharp change from the current strategy of funneling all bookstore profits into the loss-making Nook venture.
Pension rights accrued under the existing sections will be protected, so pensions earned up to the change-over date of April 2015 will be payable at the current retirement ages.
Considering the current state of economy, self-paying students and students at the crux of career change had to rely on their network and alums to help out rather than the school pitching in.
For the first time in the company's history, shareholders at General Motors' annual meeting ignored a recommendation from the board and voted for two proposals that change the way board members are elected (the current directors easily won re-election).
But under current market conditions, conventional fiscal stimulus is not really feasible -- a euro exit would not change that.
This means that the two-degree limit which current negotiations want to (but won't) put on climate change will in all likelihood be exceeded.
The current range of 21st century warming, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is 3-8 F.
It's hard to imagine that Dell's current testosterone-heavy management group--or any other group--will ever be able to change that.
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