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  Global alert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Global alert is used as the global radio-communications network during times of international crises or threats to international security.
Global Alerts are also issued by agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), when there is a perceived threat of international pandemic, (global epidemic), such as the threat of a SARS, (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), pandemic during March, 2003, due to its high contagion level which was rapidly spread by travelers sharing international flights.
The global alert released by the World Health Organization regarding the SARS outbreak and its rapid contagion saved many lives: The alert about the disease, precautionary measures, and preventive measures to be taken by individuals, including specific hygiene information needed to arrest the spread of SARS was communicated instantly throughout the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Global_alert   (152 words)

  
 Severe Weather Prompts Unprecedented Global Warming Alert The Independent - UK
The extreme weather it documents, such as record high and low temperatures, record rainfall and record storms in different parts of the world, is consistent with predictions of global warming.
Global average land and sea surface temperatures in May 2003 were the second highest since records began in 1880.
The 10 hottest years in the 143-year-old global temperature record have now all been since 1990, with the three hottest being 1998, 2002 and 2001.
www.rense.com /general38/alert.htm   (692 words)

  
 An Arctic alert on global warming | csmonitor.com
Global warming is heating the Arctic at a rapid pace - with impacts that could range from the disappearance of polar bears' summer habitat by the century's end to a damaging rise in sea levels worldwide.
This comes at a time of growing concern about the effects of global warming, which scientists generally agree is increasingly driven by rising carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere from human industrial activity and changing land-use patterns.
The administration has said it views global warming as a serious threat, but that the Kyoto approach puts too much of the carbon-reduction burden on the US and other industrial countries, putting millions of jobs at risk.
www.csmonitor.com /2004/1109/p01s03-sten.htm   (1070 words)

  
 Global Impact
Global Impact member charities are stepping in to provide people in New Orleans and surrounding communities with the benefit of their years of experience in responding to similar tragedies overseas.
Global Impact member charities are helping Zimbabweans displaced by a government program that has razed tens of thousands of buildings.
One of the ways Global Impact member charities help promote self-sufficiency among the world's poorest people is through microlending, the practice of offering small amounts of capital to people so they can begin or build small businesses.
www.charity.org   (182 words)

  
 WHO | Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network
The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) is a technical collaboration of existing institutions and networks who pool human and technical resources for the rapid identification, confirmation and response to outbreaks of international importance.
The initial meeting of partners in Geneva in April 2000 brought together representatives of technical institutions, organizations and networks in global epidemic surveillance and response to discuss "Global Outbreak Alert and Response".
WHO’s global alert and response activities and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network represent a major pillar of global health security aimed at the detection, verification and containment of epidemics.
www.who.int /csr/outbreaknetwork/en   (508 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE Virus Alert: Global Hauri Issues Warning for SARS Worm, Medium Threat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Global HAURI updated its definitions as of 23rd, April for I-Worm.Win32.Coronex to detect and remove it.
Global Hauri is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hauri, Inc., a publicly held company on the Korean KOSDAQ stock market.
Global Hauri, which develops and distributes Hauri antivirus solutions to the US, Canada and Western Hemisphere and is located at 3003 North First St., #234, San Jose, CA 95134.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=53117   (308 words)

  
 FBI Issues 2nd Global Attack Alert (washingtonpost.com)
The FBI issued a second global alert yesterday, warning that more terrorist attacks may be carried out in the next week against U.S. targets at home or abroad.
The national alert set off another round of alarms among local and state law enforcement agencies, most of which have already been on their highest state of alert since the suicide hijackings that left about 4,800 people dead seven weeks ago.
The new alert also came on the same day that a coalition of legal, immigration and civil liberties groups demanded that law enforcement agencies disclose more information about hundreds of people who have been detained as part of the effort to avert future attacks and investigate the Sept. 11 attacks.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7816-2001Oct29   (1295 words)

  
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www.value-discovery.com /faq_alert_info.htm   (738 words)

  
 CDC - Global Surveillance, National Surveillance, and SARS
Within 4 months after the first global alert about the new disease, all known chains of transmission had been interrupted in an outbreak that affected 27 countries on all continents.
One of the partners in GOARN is the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance Network, which was established in 1947 to guide the annual composition of vaccines and provide an early alert to variants that might signal the start of a pandemic of rapidly evolving influenza viruses.
WHO made its first global alert on March 12, followed by a second, on March 15, when more than 150 suspected new cases had been reported from several geographic areas, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam and Canada (9,10).
www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol10no2/03-1038.htm   (1645 words)

  
 Riding Sun Global warming alert
If we were concerned about global cooling (as many experts were in the 70's), then presumably massive snowfalls would serve as evidence of that, too.
Like Maax the temple priest, global warming alarmists appear to be dangerously close to creating an unfalsifiable theory.
global warming is one of those things which is taken by faith.
www.ridingsun.com /posts/1119717660.shtml   (1775 words)

  
 GLOBAL CROSSING ALERT Democrat Seeks Inquiry on Bankrupt Firm's Adviser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Global Crossing is trying to overcome opposition from the Pentagon and the F.B.I. over its proposal to emerge from bankruptcy by being sold to a group led by Hutchison Whampoa, the conglomerate controlled by the Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing.
Perle has been a strong and early supporter of the war with Iraq and is considered one of the more influential advisers to the administration, which is filled with many of his friends and former colleagues from the Reagan administration, in which he served as an assistant defense secretary.
Global Crossing withdrew its proposal to be sold last month to rewrite and resubmit it in the face of opposition from the Pentagon and the F.B.I. They have raised objections to the deal based on national security and law enforcement grounds because it would be under the ownership of a Chinese company.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/874800/posts   (1446 words)

  
 RSS Bandit Forum - global "Enabled alert window on rece..." option
I think this could be a global option (and not just a binary option, but a tristate one).
No need to have a thundering herd of alerts when we trigger "update all feeds option") but refreshes triggered by the rate interval would.
This global option, could be inherited or overrided on a feed basis.
www.rssbandit.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=472   (225 words)

  
 Boston.com / Your Life / Health & Fitness / Global health alert network now scans for disease reports in 7 languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Global health alert network now scans for disease reports in 7 languages
A global system designed to spot bioterrorist attacks or new disease outbreaks became even more global Wednesday it now gathers information in six more languages.
The Global Health Intelligence Network, created in 1998, previously scanned only English language news reports for signs of infectious disease crises.
www.boston.com /yourlife/health/other/articles/2004/11/17/global_health_alert_network_now_scans_for_disease_reports_in_7_languages   (355 words)

  
 NCPA EXECUTIVE ALERT nd95 : Global Warming Trends   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Average global temperatures should be increasing by about 0.3 degrees C per decade, or a total of 2.5 degrees C by the end of the 21st century, according to estimates by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
However, 16 years of satellite measurements and 40 years of data gathered by air- and ground-based stations indicate the rise that has actually occurred is only 0.09 degrees C per decade.
If the computer models were correct, by the end of the 21st century global temperatures would increase by 2.5 degrees, and temperatures in the polar regions would increase by 4.5 to 5.0 degrees, enough to cause significant melting of polar ice caps and a worldwide rise in sea levels.
www.ncpa.org /ea/eand95/eand95k.html   (315 words)

  
 UN Global Warming Panel Preparing To Scare Again - Center for Global Food Issues (CGFI)
Physical evidence documents nine moderate global warmings and coolings in the past 12,000 years, all tied to variations in the sun's activity.
Virtually all the global warming we've had in the past century occurred prior to 1940, before much greenhouse gas could have "forced" temperatures upward.
As the UN global warming committee ponders its 2004 report, we should remember what Dr. Melvyn Shapiro, a top U.S. climate research administrator, said in 1992.
www.cgfi.org /materials/articles/2003/nov_18_03.htm   (761 words)

  
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 New Scientist Breaking News - World put on alert for severe pneumonia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
The World Health Organization has issued a rare global alert, warning health authorities about a highly contagious form of pneumonia in the Far East.
"The alert is to warn hospital staff to be on the lookout for any atypical cases," he says.
Thompson said the global alert was the first issued in the 18 months he had been with the WHO.
www.newscientist.com /news/news.jsp?id=ns99993496   (482 words)

  
 Fool.com: Global Stock Alert [Commentary] September 22, 2004
I'm with you, but the fact is globalization is a powerful force that's not going away.
Lionbridge Technologies might not be the flashiest globalization play, but this humble translation provider might be a steadier ticket to returns.
Though translation -- which Lionbridge insists on calling "globalization" -- is the bulk (I couldn't bring myself to say "lion's share") of its business, the company has been putting its brain and acquisition power toward expanding its humble offering.
www.fool.com /news/commentary/2004/commentary04092202.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Global Alert to Save the Dugong
Coastal development by human populations, rising pollution, ship traffic and fishing nets are some of the major threats the dugong faces, says the report by the UNEP, which launched a global alert about the plight of dugong in February at the global meeting of environment ministers at Cartagena, Colombia.
Helen Marsh, lead author of the report, says dugong populations appear to be diminishing in other areas, with the possible exception of the waters of northern Australia, the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf.
The situation in east Africa is alarming and could be the next zone where the dugong become extinct unless urgent action is taken, she said.
www.tierramerica.net /2002/0317/iarticulo.shtml   (753 words)

  
 GLOBAL WAR ALERT
As I explain in "The Global Bipolar Disorder", people's greed and fear gives rise to the irrational swings in collective mood between optimism and pessimism that are responsible for swings in stock prices like the Grand Supercycle.
One can understand why prevailing expectations are irrational and how a global war could soon erupt by critically examining the collapse of communism and breakup of the Soviet empire over the last decade (see my articles: "The Persian Gulf Deception", "The Zhirinovsky Connection", "The Balkan Trap" and "Censored Editorials").
War in the Balkans, a coup in Moscow and strategic diversion on the Korean Peninsula might simply all be part of a general global war scenario that is best described as *Saddam's Revenge*.
users.rcn.com /virtual.nai/sot/j24.html   (4986 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | FBI issues global alert for suspected al-Qaida terrorists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
WASHINGTON — The FBI issued a global alert Friday for four suspected al-Qaida terrorists it said may be plotting attacks against U.S. interests.
Although at least one of the men has lived in the United States in the past, authorities said there was no indication that any were here now or that they were conspiring to launch terrorist strikes within U.S. borders.
The bulletin was issued as authorities have noticed a slight increase in intelligence "chatter" about the prospect of terrorist activity as the second anniversary nears of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,510052306,00.html   (658 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US on global anniversary alert
Fighters are flying 24-hour patrols in the US The United States has strengthened its defensive shield over Washington and New York ahead of the first anniversary of the 11 September attacks.
Fighter aircraft are patrolling the skies and anti-aircraft systems have been deployed while key infrastructure elements such as banks and transport services have been put on high alert.
The government has now put the country on a 'Code Orange' alert, indicating there is a high danger of US interests being subjected to terror attacks.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/2248053.stm   (663 words)

  
 Goddard News - Top Feature
The Global Alert Resolution NETwork, (GARNET), is an IT-based system that will be capable of notifying all affected parties during a time of emergency.
By using multiple alerting mechanisms, GARNET will be able to contact people, including the hearing- and sight-impaired, at their computers, as well as within meeting rooms, bathrooms and hallways.
GSFC is looking for opportunities to partner with other organizations who may be interested in an alert system to meet their needs.
www.gsfc.nasa.gov /goddardnews/20030725/garnet.html   (587 words)

  
 Global Emergency Alert
The environmental situation around the world today is in crisis, from social and ecological perspectives, and we must sound the alert and compel an effective response from humanity in time to save life on Earth from otherwise certain destruction.
What most people are still unaware of is that there are solutions to global warming that have been kept from public attention by government secrecy policies, disinformation, and the corporate controlled media information censorship.
To reverse global warming we must radically reverse the present trend of reducing atmospheric oxygen and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.
www.angelfire.com /on/GEAR2000/gear.html   (1283 words)

  
 Division of Early Warning and Assessment - UNEP
• The purpose of this document is to present a global overview of the status of the dugong and its management in the various countries in its range.
However, the degree to which dugong numbers have dwindled, and its range has been fragmented, is not known for any country in its range.
The dugong is still present at the historical limits of its global range, although there is evidence of a reduction in its area of occupancy within this range.
www.unep.org /dewa/reports/dugongreport.asp   (1427 words)

  
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Since March 12, 2003, the world has been alerted to a global outbreak of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a previously unrecognized, infectious disease that has reached 21 countries and affecting directly as many as 3000 people in less than a month.
As part of the global response to the SARS outbreak, WHO has established a laboratory research network consisting of 11 laboratories in 9 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States of America.
The global epidemic potential of SARS, should the present pathogenicity and transmissibility of the SARS virus be maintained, will require that countries strengthen their preparedness and promptly respond to the occurrence of any suspected cases of the disease.
www.paho.org /english/dd/ais/be_v24n1-SARS.htm   (1788 words)

  
 Global Warming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Dr Benny Peiser, whose work challenging the idea that there is unanimous consensus on the issue of what drives global warming was rejected by Science magazine on the grounds that the point had been made on the Internet, replies to an article by Sir David King.
The release of a new study on global warming by NASA scientists shows that the scientists have further revised downwards their estimate of the Earth's climate sensitivity (how much temperature will rise in response to more energy trapped in the atmosphere).
The prevailing theory was that fish that specialize in a certain environment lose their ability to adapt to changes, but a study of Antarctic fish that had specialized in living in very cold waters shows that they have retained their adaptive capacities.
www.globalwarming.org   (1912 words)

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