Sentences with phrase «among other climate factors»

The team used a worldwide climate model that incorporated normal month - to - month variations in sea surface temperatures and sea ice coverage, among other climate factors, to simulate 12,000 years» worth of weather.

Not exact matches

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Climate change, development, and invasive species, among other factors, are altering the Commonwealth's lands and the plants and animals that depend on these habitats.

Her first study on the topic reported that, in biological and physical sciences departments, a collegial climate — an environment where faculty members feel included in the department's informal network and feel that their colleagues value their research, among other factors — increased the number of papers that faculty members produced.

They looked at precipitation and atmospheric circulation among other factors before determining that the model was accurately portraying regional climate and informing global climate calculations.

Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)... Since AR4, several periods of rapid food and cereal price increases following climate extremes in key producing regions indicate a sensitivity of current markets to climate extremes among other factors (medium confidence).

Whom, depending on the day — among other factors — may decide to cause the public opinion to sway in favor of belief in manmade climate change or against it.

The FSB is chaired by the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, who in September created waves in the global financial sector with a speech to insurers warning of serious risks to investors from climate change due to, among other factors, a sudden asset write down with «jump - to - distress prices».

In any case, dangerous climate change is a subjective concept, depending on one's values and risk tolerance, among other factors.

• While the complex biological relationships among fisheries and other aquatic biota and physiological responses to environmental change are not well understood, positive effects such as longer growing seasons, lower natural winter mortality, and faster growth rates in higher latitudes may be offset by negative factors such as a changing climate that alters established reproductive patterns, migration routes, and ecosystem relationships (High Confidence).

Obama has said repeatedly in recent days that he wants Congress to stay out of it and leave it to State to finish its review of — among other factors — whether the pipeline would contribute to carbon pollution the could cause climate change.

And now, right on cue, comes this article from Isabel Hilton on Guardian Environment http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/20/real-scandal-himalayas in which she states, among other things, that: «Kyrgyzstan, scientists predict, will lose 80 % of its water supply» [from glacier depletion] which provokes the following comment from the excellent MrEugenides: «This figure comes from an article Isabel herself wrote on 6 October 2009, quoting a local bureaucrat as saying that water supplies were under pressure from a variety of factors from river diversion and increased water usage to climate change.

When Alabama car insurance agents calculate premiums, they account for local climate, topographical features, economic conditions, rate of uninsured vehicles and population density, among other factors.