…keyed to the information revolution and later to the electrification of travel. Exhibit 4. Growth Pulses in World Per Capita Energy Consumption (tons coal equivalent) Total world consumption is dissected…
…major research programs as the World Climate Program and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. An obscure fact is that in 1983 I was the scribe of Toward an International Geosphere-Biosphere Program: A…
…short time, the first NATO rupture of this kind. On one occasion, when a British frigate confronted an Icelandic gunboat on the high seas, the world’s press may have outnumbered…
…are assigned a “basic cause” through the use of the “Rules for the Selection of Basic Cause” stated in the Ninth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases. Geneva: World…
…century, ratios of crops to land for the world’s major grains-corn, rice, soybean, and wheat-climbed fast and globally. Per hectare world grain yields rose almost 2 percent annually between 1960…
…behind the state-of-the-art of his most productive neighbor. On average the world corn farmer has been making the greatest annual percentage improvement. If during the next 60 to 70 years, the world…
…d’écoute sur les océans apaisé par Covid https://yourtopia.fr/un-reseau-mondial-decoute-sur-les-oceans-apaise-par-covid-france-24/ BBC News Online, Ocean noise: Study to measure the oceans’ ‘year of quiet’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56676820 BBC World Service Radio, 1st story, with Ed…
…on Oceanographic Research (SCOR) of the International Council of Science (ICSU, Paris) –Diversitas, a joint intergovernmental-nongovernmental entity created to foster studies of biodiversity (Paris) –World Wildlife Fund/International Union for the…
…by academics, other national or international nongovernmental agencies, or the World Bank. Another source of data is the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project run by the Institute for Resource…
…1994. 30 – F J Sulloway, Born to Rebel, Pantheon, New York, 1996. 31 – International Labor Organization (ILO), Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 55th Issue, ILO, Geneva; International Labor Organization, World…