Global warming remains an issue of widespread political debate, sometimes split along party political lines, especially in the United States.

Archbishops Peter Akinola of Nigeria and Henry Orombi of Uganda would not condemn violence against gays and lesbians when questioned on the issue at the Global Anglican Future Conference.

Applications written for the. NET Framework framework ( since 2002 ), also check the Global Assembly Cache as the primary store of shared dll files to remove the issue of DLL hell.

The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change is a statement made in 1995, seeking to refute the claim there is a scientific consensus on the global warming issue.

The Center has suggested that " socialist ideology is alive and well " in the environmental movement and says " Global climate change is also the perfect issue to advocate for one-world governance, as air knows no national boundaries.

After ' East Touch ' was acquired by Global China Group Limited, the price dropped to ( HK $ 13 ) with the 348th issue.

Global conservation became an issue at the time of the dissolution of the British Empire in Africa in the late 1940s.

In October 2008 Lazarowicz was made the Prime Minister's Special Representative on Global Carbon Markets and his report on the issue, Global Carbon Trading: a framework for reducing emissions was published in July 2009.

On the issue of Climate Change, Evans has expressed his belief in the solar variation theory and the causes of warming on the earth and on other planets being sunspots, and praised the TV documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle as " one of the best and most controversial programmes I've ever seen on television, particularly for those who don't like being spoonfed by Al Gore ".

To the issue of duplicate names, the Global Warming Petition Project had responded:

For example, Inmarsat satellite phones are issued with code + 870, while Global Mobile Satellite System providers, such as Iridium, issue numbers in country code + 881 (" Global Mobile Satellite System ") or + 882 (" International Networks ").

This became a significant issue during the Global financial crisis of 2008 – 2009, prompting the Consumers Union to call upon the Federal Trade Commission to regulate the issue.

Global Witness is a London-based NGO, a key member of the KPCS and was one of the first organizations to bring the issue of ' conflict diamonds ' to international attention.

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Broadbent has said that Global Warming is " an issue for Australia and an issue for the world.

Each issue in the series is based on the idea that Global Underground would take DJs to play a party in one of the most unusual, exotic clubbing locations on Earth.

Statements of the IPCC or information from the TAR are often used as a reference showing a scientific consensus on the subject of global warming, although a small minority of scientists take issue with the UN assessments ( see also Global warming controversy and Politics of global warming ).

Global warming, caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, is another environmental security issue.

Commitment ordering, introduced in 1991, has provided a general solution for this issue ( See Global serializability ; See Commitment ordering also for the architectural aspects of the solution ).

Knife manufacturers, most notably Japan's Global, have begun addressing this issue by producing hollow-handled knives.

Its strongest investment banking groups included high-yield debt underwriting and Leveraged Finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as Healthcare, Consumer & Retail, Global Industries, Media & Telecom, Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Gaming.

The Global Trade Finance Program provides guarantees to cover payment risks for emerging market banks regarding promissory notes, bills of exchange, letters of credit, bid and performance bonds, supplier credit for capital goods imports, and advance payments.

" What I called ' The Great Global Asset Swindle ', when writing about it in Z Magazine in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, works like this: international investors lose confidence in a third world economy — dumping its currency, bonds and stocks.

CITES would benefit from access to Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) funds-although this is difficult given the GEFs more ecosystem approach-or other more regular funds.

* GCMD-The Global Change Master Directory contains more than 20, 000 descriptions of Earth science data sets and services covering all aspects of Earth and environmental sciences.

** The Post Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2011, soaring food prices, especially for grains, led to calls for the government to provide more immediate assistance to the population of more than 40 % in the " poverty tunnel " and to strike a " new deal " on agriculture policy and reform.

In January 2010, Global Graphics completed a survey with 400 Chief Information Officers from organisations with over 1000 employees across the US and the UK that showed three quarters ( 76 per cent ) of large organisations use free software across the enterprise with over half ( 51 per cent ) planning to deploy more free software in 2010.

FAO has carried out projects in over 25 countries and inter-agency missions in nearly 60, scaled up its monitoring through the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture, provided policy advice to governments while supporting their efforts to increase food production, and advocated for more investment in agriculture.

The Global Positioning System ( GPS ) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

Global illumination is a general name for a group of algorithms used in 3D computer graphics that are meant to add more realistic lighting to 3D scenes.

Both " global warming " and the more politically neutral " climate change " were listed by the Global Language Monitor as political buzzwords or catchphrases in 2005.

* The GLOBE Program-( Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment ) An international environmental science and education program that links students, teachers, and the scientific research community in an effort to learn more about the environment through student data collection and observation.

People refer to the two as ' Third World / South ' and ' First World / North '; because in theory the Global North is supposedly more affluent and developed, whereas the Global South is less developed and oftentimes more poor.

Through its Global Trade Finance Program, the IFC guarantees trade payment obligations of more than 200 approved banks in over 80 countries to mitigate risk for international transactions.

A report in May 2011 on the Global Peace Index highlighted that had the world been 25 % more peaceful in the past year, the global economy would have benefited by an additional $ 2 trillion, which would account for 2 % of global GDP per annum required to mitigate global warming, cover all costs to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, cancel all public debt held by Greece, Ireland and Portugal, and cover the rebuilding costs for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

Global Positioning System ( GPS ) receivers can also determine altitude by trilateration with four or more satellites.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

In 1998, former U. S. president George H. W. Bush gave a speech in Tokyo on behalf of Global Crossing, for which he was compensated with $ 50, 000 of Global Crossing stock, which he sold in 1999 and 2000 for more than $ 4. 5 million.

Global Television Network ( more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV ) is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division.

Benjamin D. Santer, a climate change researcher, wrote: The Global Climate Coalition-a less than disinterested party-has made serious allegations regarding the scientific integrity of the Lead Authors of Chapter 8, and of the IPCC process itself.

The Ediacaran boundaries are the only Precambrian boundaries defined by biologic Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Points, rather than the absolute Global Standard Stratigraphic Ages.

Less than a year after it reopened, Global Advanced Metals announced that due to again "... softening tantalum demand ...", and other factors, tantalum mining operations were to cease at the end of February 2012.

* February 15 – Global protests against Iraq war: More than 10 million people protest in over 600 cities worldwide, the largest to take place before a war occurs.

Global temperature records taken from ice cores, tree rings, and lake deposits, have shown that, taken globally, the Earth may have been slightly cooler ( by 0. 03 degrees Celsius ) during the ' Medieval Warm Period ' than in the early and mid-20th century.

* As of 2005, less than 1 % of the chocolate market was Fair Trade .< ref >“ The News on Chocolate is Bittersweet: No Progress on Child Labor, but Fair Trade Chocolate is on the Rise .” Global Exchange June 2005 ( 8 pages ).

The 1990 Global Forest Survey found that 1. 1 % of tropical mountain and highland forests were lost each year, which was higher than in any other tropical forests.

With the advent of the Global Positioning System ( GPS ), elevation can also be derived with sophisticated satellite receivers, but usually with somewhat less accuracy than with traditional precise leveling.

The most obvious change was a new logo, replacing the " crescent " with a new " greater than " logo, with the Global wordmark in a new font, in use as of February 5, 2006 ( coinciding with Global's broadcast of Super Bowl XL ).

The Global network has long been much more decentralized than either CBC or CTV, or for that matter most American broadcast networks.

Paris is the second most important location in the world for the headquarters of the world's 500 largest companies: there are more Fortune Global 500 company headquarters in Paris than in Beijing, New York, London or Munich, but fewer than in Tokyo.

Countries with more advanced economies than other developing nations, but which have not yet fully demonstrated the signs of a developed country, are categorized under the term newly industrialized countries. In 2010, a magazine named Global South Development Magazine was launched by a Finnish development media organisation fully dedicating its cover issues to developmental issues of the developing countries since then.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

It is the largest seed bank in the world ( longterm, at least 100 times bigger than Svalbard Global Seed Vault ), providing space for the storage of billions of seed samples in a nuclear bomb proof multi-story underground vault.