Word: globality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...awarded to individuals who have demonstrated exemplary concern at the community level for the health of the poor and a desire to uncover the sources of such inequity, said officials of the IHSJ, which is dedicated to improving the health of poor communities at the global level...
Sponsored by the Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHGE), the forum used a question and answer format to start a dialogue between social organizations and the public about potential solutions for global warming...
...Uncertainty is not a reason for inaction when the cost and consequences of inaction may be so great," Chafee said. He urged the United States to take the lead in what participants termed a global crisis. He asked the nation to set an example that the world would follow...
Paul Epstein, associate director for the CHGE, added a scientific perspective to the dialogue. A gradual rise in temperature, an increase in night temperatures and a greater variability around mean temperatures are all indications that global warming has already begun to alter the world's climate, he said...
...know that global temperatures are up, and one of the things people worry about with global warming is that the icecaps could melt enough to put New York, for example, under water," says Elmer-Dewitt. Instead of being a patch of warm weather, it's a matter of a change in climate, and as Elmer-Dewitt says, "In the dispute over the effects of burning hydrocarbons, there's nothing like an iceberg the size of Delaware to get the world's attention...