Carbon dioxide lingers so long in the atmosphere, "it could effectively lock Earth into warming for thousands of years," says the committee's chair, atmospheric scientist Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.
It's a grassroots movement that organized so that it could effectively communicate its message.
If Congress adopted national standards with a corresponding set of national exams in its reauthorization of the law, it could effectively minimize or eliminate these individual state shenanigans.
"It could effectively act as a bar to U.S. polysilicon exports to China in the short run.
"It could effectively be the equivalent of what a union does to negotiate for employees," Judge Duggan said.
In fact, it was the Bush administration that proved extremely limited in what it could effectively do.
On that second point, one worry with the Web site is, as Ross Douthat wrote, that it "could effectively discourage all but the most desperate customers from shopping".
The United States Department of Agriculture on Friday asked Russia to suspend the requirement, saying it could effectively halt beef and pork exports to Russia.
"It could effectively cleanse many towns of hard-working people who simply can't afford the high prices of buying or renting privately".
The Bush administration, uncertain that it could effectively oppose China's bid for the 2008 Olympics, has decided to remain silent on the issue.
Because the government was essentially G.M.'s lender of last resort, it could effectively dictate what it found acceptable as a turnaround plan, Mr. Wilson testified.
