Other speakers made impassioned pleas for global consensus on a way forward, warning that failure to reach agreement would mean disaster.
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Over the last year or two, a global consensus has come together that this is truly a global problem and that responding is urgent.
In both cases there were seeds of a global consensus on solutions that will lay the path for more substantive dialogues in the G20 and beyond this year.
If there is one issue where a global consensus seems to emerge from the survey it is this: there are majorities almost everywhere wanting government to be more active in regulating business.
The U.S. and other nations won a victory at the summit by guiding the leading global consensus toward measures to boost growth around the world and away from a strict focus on austerity that dominated the international gatherings two years ago.
If, for the sake of argument, there was reason to believe Iran would take seriously any global consensus on passage through the Strait of Hormuz that would supposedly emerge from American ratification of LOST, the U.S. would still be paying far too high a price simply to codify what we already maintain is our right under customary international law.
The survey takers claim their survey is not strong evidence against the mythical global warming consensus, therefore skeptics cannot cite the survey while debating the mythical consensus.
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Citing the scientific consensus that global warming is disturbingly real, Francis left little doubt about who to blame.
There is a scientific consensus that global average surface temperatures will continue to rise as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases increase.
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But five independent inquiries have since exonerated the researchers, and nothing was found in their e-mails or data to discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.
We expect more U.S. and global growth in 2007 than the consensus, in part due to this overhang in liquidity.
If, as I suspect, the 2007 global economy does far better than consensus expectations, France's Lafarge (40, lr) should be strong.
Hence the need for genuine dialogue, and Hoggart remained hopeful that, despite its occasional failings, UNESCO would play a leading role as a conduit for intergovernmental diplomacy and, ultimately, international consensus on issues of global relevance.
Merkel's government did the world an additional favor in 2009, amid the financial crisis, by rejecting calls from the International Monetary Fund, then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, President Obama, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the same dominant Keynesian consensus to join the global spending party.
There are two main incentives for this, the first being the geological feature that natural gas is in finite supply and world production of it is thought might peak within the next few decades, and secondly that burning fossil carbon contributes to the atmospheric concentration of CO2, which scientific consensus accords will cause global warming and climate change.
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The strongest consensus on the causes of global warming came from climatologists who are active in climate research, with 97 percent agreeing humans play a role.
It would be easy to think that the rainforest was saved, or at least, that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is no longer one of the great crises facing a planet finally reaching consensus on the issue of global warming.
One excellent outcome, however, would be to put in place the machinery and consensus to monitor and respond to global warming as more knowledge becomes available.
He heads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, after announcing that scientific "consensus" had been reached on global warming.
Meanwhile, China hopes the G-20 meeting will reach a consensus on how to deal with the global crisis.
Third, for a global organization with more than 180 members, reaching consensus is more difficult than in a regional organization with fewer members.
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The global community must also help all parties to achieve consensus.
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Profits fell last year because of weak global demand for disk-drive parts, but the consensus is that company earnings will grow 55% this year and close to 20% next.
Throughout the day we worked with many countries to establish a new consensus around these three points, a consensus that will serve as a foundation for global action to confront the threat of climate change for years to come.
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In an operational per share basis, the self-professed global leader in copper production earned 74 cents, beating the consensus call by 4 cents.
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According to Randall Swisher, executive director of the American Wind Energy Association, which represents the interests of the wind power industry, the court's decisions and the investment in renewable fuels illustrates the "growing consensus" that something must be done to curb global warming.
Today, "consensus in the scientific community is virtually unprecedented" that global warming exists, Young said.
Political discourse is harder, as is any consensus action, because the collaborative promise of an online global village has morphed into an endless number of walled and locked enclaves of exclusionary ideologies.
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It is becoming clear that not only do many scientists dispute the asserted global warming crisis, but these skeptical scientists may indeed form a scientific consensus.
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