Sentences with phrase «global environment model»

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These technologies are driving profound changes impacting industries and business models as well as life, society, and the environment,» said Tim Zanni, Global and U.S. Technology Sector Leader at KPMG in the report.

Founded in 1993, Sightline Institute is committed to making the Northwest a global model of sustainability, with strong communities, a green economy, and a healthy environment.

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management's Global Investment Committee (GIC), a group of seasoned investment professionals with whom I meet regularly to review the economic and political environment and asset allocation models for Wealth Management clients, believes deflation fears have gone too far and have become too embedded in both investor psyches and market structures.

Part 2 on Business Environment is where I explain my firm, RTC Advisory Services» proprietary «SPELT - G» model for business environment analysis — a six - level analysis covering SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, LEGAL / REGULATORY, TECHNOLOGY and GLOBAL sub-environments, a framework for analysis which is arguably more robust than its global equivalents — PEST, SEnvironment is where I explain my firm, RTC Advisory Services» proprietary «SPELT - G» model for business environment analysis — a six - level analysis covering SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, LEGAL / REGULATORY, TECHNOLOGY and GLOBAL sub-environments, a framework for analysis which is arguably more robust than its global equivalents — PEST, Senvironment analysis — a six - level analysis covering SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, LEGAL / REGULATORY, TECHNOLOGY and GLOBAL sub-environments, a framework for analysis which is arguably more robust than its global equivalents — PEST, SPEED,GLOBAL sub-environments, a framework for analysis which is arguably more robust than its global equivalents — PEST, SPEED,global equivalents — PEST, SPEED, etc..

Climate models and the latest IPCC data reveal four possible futures for global population, economy and environment at the end of this century

The new modeling tool — Carbon, Organisms, Rhizosphere and Protection in the Soil Environment, or CORPSE — represents a major advance in the ability of scientists to simulate the global carbon cycle.

For the study, Mahony and co-author Alex Cannon from Environment and Climate Change Canada looked at historical observations going back to 1901 and global climate model projections to the year 2100.

At UW — Madison, Holloway leads a research program in the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy and climate.

Category: Africa, Asia, Central America, English, Europe, global citizenship education, Millennium Development Goals, NGO, North America, Oceania, Private Institution, South America, Transversal Studies, Universal Education, Your experiences, Your ideas · Tags: 21st century, Environment, Environmental Education, Environmental Protection, Environmental Sustainability, global citizenship, global citizenship education, Online Model United Nations (O - MUN), online school, THIMUN

-- Environment — Global Studies: Develop a global - realistic model for present and future management of resources to be found in the Amazon Basin in EcGlobal Studies: Develop a global - realistic model for present and future management of resources to be found in the Amazon Basin in Ecglobal - realistic model for present and future management of resources to be found in the Amazon Basin in Ecuador.

Meyers: Our goals include providing a media venue where people from all walks of life can have their voices heard in a safe, commercial - free, child - friendly environment; promoting positive role models; empowering young people to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world; bridging the digital divide and continuing to enrich this digital media archive with inspiring stories from around the globe; enlisting support from foundations, grants, and government agencies, corporations, and individuals so that this global learning project can continue to grow and provide a freely - accessible, online multi-media resource to educators and students around the world for decades to come.

Model United Nations: In Model UN, students serve as delegates to a mock UN Conference and address important global issues such regional conflicts, women and children, peacekeeping, human rights, economic and social development, and the environment.

And that's the primary reason I'm betting on Applegreen — clearly, they pioneered a new / unique petrol retailing model in Ireland, they're open to global retailing ideas & approaches, they racked up an incredible track record of growth in a harsh economic environment, and as owner - operators they have a huge amount of skin in the game here.

Krewitt et al, 2009: «A 10 - region global energy system model implemented in the MESAP - PlaNet environment (MESAP, 2008) is used for simulating global energy supply strategies.»

NASA computer models reveal what a small, regional nuclear war in one part of the world would do to the global climate and environment.

In the remainder of this paper we will discuss the modeling environment employed to develop RCP4.5 (the Global Change Assessment Model; GCAM), from the original MiniCAM Level 2 scenario (Clarke et al. 2007).

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

The unique DIVA model is used in a number of global and continental - scale studies, e.g. Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change (World Bank, 2010) and the state of environment report of the European Environmenvironment report of the European EnvironmentEnvironment Agency.

The Mikoko Pamoja model is now being expanded to nearby Vanga Bay as part of the Global Environment Facility - backed Blue Forests Project, effectively tripling the area of mangrove protected and the carbon credits sold.

Gamesa Corporation, 176 Gas (natural), 19 - 20, 40, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 205, 209, 214, 217, 219 - 226, 229, 244 Gasland, 225 Gasoline, 20 - 21, 24, 185, 187, 203 - 206, 208 - 212, 229, 243, 245 Ge, Quansheng, 60 - 61 General Circulation Model (GCM), 51 General Electric (GE), 14, 21, 176 General Motors (GM), 14, 212 - 213 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, 87, 174 George Mason University, 133, 181 Georgia Institute of Technology, 83, 167 Geothermal, 234 German Advisory Council on Global Change, 216 German Chamber of Industry and Commerce, 218 German Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Nuclear Safety, 216 Germany, 11, 16, 20, 23, 28, 42 - 43, 123, 134, 176, 187, 191, 199, 203 - 204, 214, 216 - 218, 225, 244 Giaever, Ivar, 182 Gillard, Julia, 11, 40 Glacier, 53, 106, 156, 240 Glacier Girl, 107 - 108 Global governance, 35 - 38, 217 Global Warming Petition Project, 142 Golby, Paul, 219 Goldwind Corporation, 176 Goodstein, David, 222 Gore, Al, 2 - 3, 5 - 10, 13, 20, 30, 64, 80, 102, 115, 119, 124, 126, 129, 146, 156, 162, 179, 185, 201, 209, 213 effect, 36, 124, 138, 179, 219, 240 - 241 Graumlich, Lisa, 164 Gray, William, 117, 181 Great Barrier Reef, 139 - 140, 236 Greece, 134, 187, 244 Green Climate Fund, 37 Greenhouse effect, 50, 53, 69, 71 - 72, 74, 83 - 88 Greenhouse gas, 1 - 2, 6, 10 - 12, 14 - 16, 18, 20 - 22, 30, 32 - 33, 36, 38, 42, 44, 47, 52 - 53, 56, 68, 72, 76 - 77, 91, 106, 121, 127 - 128, 142, 144, 154 - 155, 166, 169, 199, 209, 215, 230, 233, 240, 242 - 243 Greenland, 56 - 57, 62 - 63, 76, 102, 104, 106 - 108, 111, 137, 240 Greenland Expedition Society, 107 Greenpeace, 25, 28, 42, 178, 192, 209, 222, 224 Greenwald, Julie, 115 Grossman, Juergen, 183 Grudd, Håken, 58 - 59 Gulledge, Jay, 123 - 124

As a result of the significant scientific effort to date, aided by public concern, models simulating climate change have gained considerable skill... There will be many scientific and technical challenges along the way, but the hope is that simulations of the global environment will be able to maximise the number of people around the world who can adapt to, and be protected from the worst impacts of, global warming.

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12 California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169 - 170, 187, 196, 232 - 234, 245 California Energy Commission, 232 Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167 - 168 Cambridge University, 102 Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218 Cameroon, 25 Campbell, Philip, 165 Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156 - 157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224 - 226, 230, 236, 243 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15 Cap - and - trade, 20, 28, 40 - 41, 44, 170, 175 allowances (permits), 41 - 42, 176, 243 Capitalism, 34 - 35, 45 Capps, Lois, 135 Car (see vehicle) Carbon, 98, 130 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, 164 Carbon credits (offsets), 28 - 29, 42 - 43, 45 Carbon Cycle, 80 - 82 Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49 - 51, 53, 55, 66 - 67, 72 - 89, 91, 98 - 99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128 - 132, 137, 139, 141 - 144, 152, 240 emissions, 12, 18 - 25, 28 - 30, 32 - 33, 36 - 38, 41 - 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71 - 72, 74, 77 - 78, 81 - 82, 108 - 109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199 - 201, 203 - 204, 209 - 211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230 - 231, 238, 241, 243 - 244 Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19 Carbon Expo, 42 Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182 Carbon monoxide (CO), 120 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44 Carlin, George, 17 Carter, Bob, 63 Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188 Cato Institute, 179 CBS, 141, 146 Center for Disease Control, 174 Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139 Centre for Policy Studies, 219 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 96 Chavez, Hugo, 34 Chicago Tribune, 146 China, 29, 32 - 33, 60 - 62, 120, 169, 176, 187 - 188, 211, 216, 225 - 226, 242 - 243 China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60 Chirac, Jacques, 36 Chlorofluorocarbons, 42 - 43, 50 Choi, Yong - Sang, 88 Christy, John, 105 Churchill, Winston, 214, 220 Chu, Steven, 187 Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176 Clean Air Act, 85, 128 - 129 Clean Development Mechanism, 42 Climate Action Partnership, 14 Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102 - 103, 115 - 117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182 Climate Audit, 66 Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112 mitigation, 16, 39, 110 Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121 Climate Change Reconsidered, 242 Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36 - 37, 124 - 125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241 - 242 Durban, 13, 36 - 37, 166, 242 - 243 Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158 - 170, 180, 182, 242 Climate Protection Agreement, 12 Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152 - 153, 158 - 160, 162 - 163, 165 - 167, 169 Climate Science Register, 142 Climatism, definition, 2, 7 Clinton, Bill, 176, 178 Clinton Global Initiative, 176 CLOUD project, 96 Club of Rome, 21, 186 CO2Science, 59, 61 - 62, 66, 131 Coal, 19 - 20, 39 - 41, 80, 126, 128 - 129, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229 Coase, Ronald, 145 Coca - Cola, 138 Cogley, Graham, 156 Cohen, David, 220 Colorado State University, 117, 181 Columbia University, 7 Columbus, Christopher, 58 Computer models, 16, 51 - 53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77 - 79, 82, 87, 89 - 91, 94, 105, 110 - 111, 120, 124, 138 - 140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246 Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 15 Consensus, scientific, 12 Copenhagen Business School, 134 Coral, 53 Corporate Average Fuel Economy, 22 - 23 Cosmic Rays, 72, 93 - 99, 180 Credit Suisse, 176 Crow, Cheryl, 30 Crowley, Tom, 167 Cuadrilla Resources, 224 - 225 Curry, Judith, 164, 167 Cycles, natural, 3, 16, 57, 62 - 63, 66 - 69, 72, 80, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80 Cyprus, 134 Czech Republic, 12, 37

The global environment and economic security are indelibly intertwined, with increasing greenhouse gases, environmental degradation and natural - resource depletion putting sustainable growth and existing business models at risk.

If my guesses (hypothesises) are correct then we are about to go into a very long «Global Cooling» effect that will cause a major issue in our environment and the current ideas and computer models will lead us into a very wrong direction and cause serious damage to both agricultural and human development.

Posted in Carbon, Development and Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Green House Gas Emissions, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Learning, Lessons, News, Research, Technologies, Vulnerability, Weather Comments Off on Climate Model Forecast Is Revised

I found it too dry and wanted to work in the Environment, where global warming has always been a background to my work but not the focus except for a year where I ran regional climate models.

Posted Wednesday in the Washington Post's new online «Energy and Environment» section is a piece titled «No, Climate Models Aren't Exaggerating Global Warming.»

«Stressed environments, regional and global climate models, climate shocks», I've heard enough.

«The study points to the importance of including irrigation in regional and global climate models so that we can anticipate precipitation and temperature impacts, and better manage our land, water and food in stressed environments.»

Posted in News and Reports, tagged arctic, climate change, climate models, education, environment, global warming, nsidc, science, sea ice on August 15, 2012 10 Comments»

The Air Vent All Models are Wrong Bart Verheggen Bernie Lewin Better Figures by Doug McNeall The Blackboard Bob Tisdale Cameron Rose Center for Energy and Environment, Competitive Enterprise Institute Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, The Heartland Institute Climate audit by Steve McIntyre The Climate Bet Climate Depot by Marc Morano Climate in Review, by C. Jeffery Small Climate Lessons Climate Policy, The Heritage Foundation Climate Resistance Climate Scientists» Register ClimateWiki Collide - a-Scape (Discover Magazine) Cooler Heads Digest Digging in the Clay by Verity Jones E-FACT Report by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) GlobalClimateScam.com Global Science Report GlobalWarming.org Global Warming, Cato Institute Green World Trust by Lucy Skywalker Gust of Hot Air by Jonathan Lowe Harmless Sky Haunting the Library ICECAP by Joseph D'Aleo International Climate Science Coalition International Conferences on Climate Change, The Heartland Institute Joe Bastardi JoNova, hosted by Joanne Nova Judy Curry Junk Science by Steve Milloy Master Resource Met Office Mike Hulme Nigel Calder Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change by Craig Idso et al..

On this basis (and with some model - derived feedback estimates based on theoretical considerations plus some model - based assumptions on increase of human GHGs over time) IPCC has projected future changes in global average temperature and resulting impacts on our environment.

Global Compact France aims to mobilise the private sector around human rights, labour, environment, anti-corruption and SDGs; helps business to transform their business model: provides a forum for dialogue and collective action.

Juniper criticized model Naomi Campbell and actress Sienna Miller for not practicing what they preach on the environment, and in an article he accused mogul Richard Branson of «jumping on the global warming bandwagon.»

17 Modeling Global Warming Computer modeling is complicated by the Earth's feedback processes that sometimes make it necessary to use different equations under changing simulated envirModeling Global Warming Computer modeling is complicated by the Earth's feedback processes that sometimes make it necessary to use different equations under changing simulated envirmodeling is complicated by the Earth's feedback processes that sometimes make it necessary to use different equations under changing simulated environments.

Inductees in 2010 were Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway and chairperson of the United Nations» World Commission on Environment and Development, whose 1987 report, «Our Common Future,» advocated the concept of sustainable development; Syukuro Manabe who developed a model used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Global Climate Change to project global warming; and Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, for her untiring efforts to promote coexistence with the eEnvironment and Development, whose 1987 report, «Our Common Future,» advocated the concept of sustainable development; Syukuro Manabe who developed a model used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Global Climate Change to project global warming; and Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, for her untiring efforts to promote coexistence with the enviroGlobal Climate Change to project global warming; and Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, for her untiring efforts to promote coexistence with the enviroglobal warming; and Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, for her untiring efforts to promote coexistence with the environmentenvironment.

Posted in Science Lessons Tagged arctic, climate change, climate models, education, environment, global warming, permafrost, science, UVic 45 Comments

Farah noted that poverty, lack of education, culture and patriarchy — control of women's bodies — are some of the key reasons for population growth and that models of development that fail to address inequality and favour industrialisation and consumption are bad for both people in the Global South and for the global enviroGlobal South and for the global enviroglobal environment.

Tulpulé, V., S. Brown, J. Lim, C. Polidano, H. Pant and B.S. Fisher (1998), An Economic Assessment of the Kyoto Protocol Using the Global Trade and Environment Model, Presented at the OECD Workshop on the Economic Modelling of Climate Change, 17 - 18 September, Paris.

Socio (s): UNDP, UNECE, UNEP, UNESCO, UNHABITAT, UNICEF, WFP, WMO, European Commission, Government of the United States of America, Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands, Australian Government, AXIS, Beijing Normal University, CIMNE, Fondazione CIMA, Earth Literacy Program, Florida International University, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, GNS Science, Global Volcano Model, International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, INGENIAR, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, International Recovery Platform, Kokusai Kogyo, Ltd., Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NGI, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Save the Children, Stockholm Environment Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Huddersfield, University of Ghana, Victoria University of Wellington, WAPM, FEWS

Posted in Science Lessons, tagged arctic, climate change, climate models, education, environment, global warming, permafrost, science, UVic on October 2, 2012 45 Comments»

The researchers, from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (University of East Anglia, Norwich), Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (London School of Economics and Political Science, London), and Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (McGill University, Montreal), arrived at their results using the global crop model PEGASUS to simulate crop yield responses to 72 climate change scenarios spanning the 21st ceGlobal Environmental and Climate Change Centre (McGill University, Montreal), arrived at their results using the global crop model PEGASUS to simulate crop yield responses to 72 climate change scenarios spanning the 21st ceglobal crop model PEGASUS to simulate crop yield responses to 72 climate change scenarios spanning the 21st century.

Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Dealing with Anxiety, Empathy, global unrest anxiety, managing stress, parenting and stress, parenting and stress management, parenting tension, self - care, Self - compassion, Stress management

Category: Building a Positive Family Environment, Modeling Social and Emotional Skills, Practicing Social and Emotional Skills Tags: Bias awareness, Cultural awareness, Diversity appreciation, Global awareness, Global perspective, Social awareness, Social issues, Understanding differences

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