Including the disparity of views across countries, the French inconsistency following Kosovo, the inability of the UN to deal with issues that arise within a countries boundaries, but nonetheless threaten to have a global effect and last but not least the pivotal issue of Palestine recognition.
"The trajectory on CO2 emissions shows very little effect of the global recession so far, and no effect that I can detect from Kyoto whatsoever, " he says.
But as the global slowdown takes effect, young Greeks see their parents struggling to pay the bills.
The worldwide recovery along with lessening geopolitical volatility has had an interesting effect on global ETFs, especially among BRIC funds.
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Even if the law succeeds in reducing emissions as planned, however, it will have little practical effect on global warming.
Its growth slowed from about 5% to 1% in the first half of the 1990s without any discernible effect on global trends.
But I reckon that China's effect on global manufacturing and inflation is both more diverse and more benign than my colleague Dan believes.
The catastrophic earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan has produced a ripple effect on global business that reaches far beyond any seismic wave.
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But he now believed that it could best play that role by getting other nations to work with it to effect a global transformation.
Natural processes involving changes in the Sun could have at least as powerful an effect on global temperature as increased emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Researchers are using a nuclear submarine to take them beneath the Arctic ice cap to study ocean currents that may have an effect on global climate.
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Another reason to suspect that the Fed is more than a bit player is that American interest-rate decisions have a disproportionate effect on global monetary conditions.
Wolf (R-Va.), has shied away from restricting access to U.S. capital markets, arguing that it would have a chilling effect on global investments or spark retaliation by foreign governments.
From the back of the room, a young man dressed in a black sweatshirt started saying that a Chinese slowdown could have a big effect on global supply and demand.
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Every 20 to 30 years, the much colder water near the bottom of the oceans cycles up to the top, where it has a slight cooling effect on global temperatures until the sun warms that water.
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Unfortunately, once you sort through how much more China can actually spend in the near term, and take into account that--at market exchange rates--China's economy is only around 6% of world gross domestic product, the effect on global growth will be small.
Another example of his unorthodox thinking is his observation that painting the roofs of buildings around the world white and using light-coloured road surfaces rather than blacktop would reflect a lot of sunlight back into space possibly enough to have an effect on global warming as big as taking every car in the world off the road for a decade.
The cwc is also not global: it will take effect after only sixty-five countries ratify it.
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"This could have a considerable effect on the global economy and the world in general, " he said.
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For soya, some places saw improvements, some saw damage, with no real net effect on the global scale.
Some of the warming is obviously the result of human activity, but our effect on the global climate remains unclear.
An attack on Iran could torpedo the Middle East and the global economy, given the effect it would have on energy prices.
Everybody recognizes that what happens in Europe over the next three, six months, 12 months will have an effect on the global economy.
It is estimated that efficient white light LEDs, if successfully developed and widely implemented, could have a massive effect on reducing global energy consumption and C02 emissions.
We are here in Copenhagen to work for a global agreement that goes into effect immediately and delivers real results to people on the frontlines of climate change.
It means that if we overestimated the soil response to warming then we must have underestimated something else dramatically because we have a net effect of faster global warming.
But even wild-eyed global warming hysterics admit that strict CO2 emission restrictions in America alone are not going to have any more than a negligible effect on future global temperatures.
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