Professor Lipkin is one of the leading advocates of a global early warning system for contagious disease to reduce the risk of the sort of pandemic seen in Contagion.
He wants a global early-warning system for controlling the spread of missiles.
The late Stephen Schneider, who authored The Genesis Strategy, a 1976 book warning that global cooling risks posed a threat to humanity, later changed that view 180 degrees, serving as a lead author for important parts of three sequential IPCC reports.
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The warning was a global one as consumers and businesses around the world are delivering fewer goods.
After forty years of experience coordinating the Pacific Tsunami Warning System (PTWS), UNESCO-IOC is leading a global effort to establish ocean-based tsunami warning systems as part of an overall multi-hazard disaster reduction strategy.
Other speakers made impassioned pleas for global consensus on a way forward, warning that failure to reach agreement would mean disaster.
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Nick Clegg has issued a warning about the state of the global economy and vowed to do more to boost UK growth.
" Instead, "the aim should surely be a global defense shield to which Britain could contribute its early warning radars as well as much-needed political and diplomatic support.
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Scientists tend now to see geo-engineering research as a form of insurance policy against the effects of continued global warning, not as an excuse for downplaying the problem, nor for tolerating more carbon emissions in the meantime.
With the most advanced tsunami warning system in the world, Japan is a global standard setter.
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On Friday, dollar borrowing costs increased and crossed a new threshold, one warning sign of strain in the global financial system.
Firstly, many economists had been warning for some time of a possible slowdown in global economic growth, albeit one introduced in a less spectacular fashion.
The European debt and banking crisis remains in limbo, with experts warning Europe must quickly rescue the situation to prevent a global recession.
Michael Mullen, has made several recent statements warning of the danger a nuclear-armed Iran will pose to global security - and by extension, to US national security.
This market, which is an early-warning system for global credit defaults, has been growing at a 50% annualized rate without the proper infrastructure to ensure against the potential risk of a nasty and disorderly shock.
Then, so the story goes, the manmade global warming of the industrial era outstripped all natural variations and released the body as a warning to us all.
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