That is, he wants Forbes readers to believe that, to the extent that global warming is happening, all consequences will be happy ones.
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He now says that the causes and extent of global warming are too uncertain to merit expensive efforts to fight it, especially in such grim economic times.
While to state that initial conditions on the extent of global integration are vastly different at the outset of Bretton Woods in 1946 and today is an understatement, the direction of regulatory changes have many common features.
The second and final day of the meeting coincided with International Day to End Impunity for which the International Freedom of Expression Exchange network (IFEX), launched a global campaign highlighting the extent to which crimes against journalists go unpunished.
Medvedev said the G-20, which brings together the world's major economies, is becoming increasingly efficient and that this has helped limit the extent of the global economic crisis.
Just how long coal's resurgence lasts depends to some extent on the global economic recovery and the ability of governments to implement a system that finally delivers a meaningful carbon price.
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To the extent that "global imbalances" played a role, the original sinner was the Fed, which flooded the world with dollars that stirred global (and especially U.S.) demand for credit and goods.
Whether the associated equity speed bump exceeds the May 2006 global-market correction depends on the extent of the U.S. inflation problem.
But further experiments revealed the true extent of the insects' global ambition.
And to the extent that investors remain worried about global growth, new buyers in major industrial stocks like Boeing continue to be reluctant to enter the market with any conviction.
The introduction of foreign competition in IT, business-process outsourcing and the automotive industry has prompted Indian companies to revamp their operations and boost productivity, to the extent that some have become formidable global competitors.
"It is only now that we can see the full picture showing the extent of the UK's success in global recruitment, particularly from some of the world's most important emerging economies, " she said.
"Although migrant workers are to a large extent adversely affected by the slow growth in the global economy, remittance volumes have remained remarkably resilient, providing a vital lifeline to not only poor families but a steady and reliable source of foreign currency in many poor remittances recipient countries, " agrees Hans Timmer, director of the bank's Development Prospects Group.
And as this becomes more global, there is even an African and a kind of, to a lesser extent, a European flair.
Bear in mind, also, that in making the global capital market a safer place, the policy-reform agenda goes far beyond the extent to which developing countries should encourage or discourage particular sorts of inflow.
"Often, this will mean adhering globally to U.S. regulatory standards, but to the extent another jurisdiction requires higher standards, then that jurisdiction's requirements must shape our global standard, " he wrote.
The basic point, then, holds even more strongly: global science is directed by the rich countries and for the rich-country markets, even to the extent of mobilising much of the scientific potential of the poorer countries.
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