These are a recipe for the continued degradation of the Republican brand which used to, under Reagan, stand for a climate of massively good job creation and equitable prosperity.
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High-performing companies must be able to persevere through a tough business climate and still stand out from peers in growth, return to investors and future prospects.
And of course the cold weather and remote location stand as significant deterrents to a strong business climate.
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.
"To stand up and say that we in this country will benefit from climate change profoundly misunderstands the nature of the threat and the impact that climate change is going to have, " he warned.
Mr Wolfowitz is not a banker, an economist, a public health specialist, a water management specialist, an agronomist, a climate change specialist - any of the professional specialisations that stand at the core of the poverty challenge.
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Mohamed Kamal, who also performs stand-up with SUCQ, notes that given Qatar's political climate, there are limits to what he can joke about.
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No climate agreement will succeed without support from those countries that have so far contributed little to human-induced climate change, have low per-capita emissions, and stand to face the biggest challenges in adapting to the coming changes.
But stand out against a tide of other countries trying to move forward on climate change, as happened at the UN meeting in Bali four years ago, and he'd risk alienating more of the supporters who reportedly are already too disillusioned to bother volunteering for his campaign this time round.
As things stand, the existing comprehensive five-yearly global assessments give governments baselines on which to seat their climate policies.
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