Measuring the temperature difference from one year to another in a single location has nothing to do with climate
change on a global basis.
Not exact matches
Separately, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt wrote in a company blog post obtained by Politico that «we believe climate
change should be addressed
on a
global basis through multi-national agreements, such as the Paris Agreement.»
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any
changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational
changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of
changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of
changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU,
on general market conditions,
global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of
changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted
on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition
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The MoneyTree report, for example, is
based on the funding date when cash actually
changes hands, as opposed to when the money is committed, says Mark McCaffrey,
global software leader for PwC.
There has been a sea
change in the interim, with a majority of larger international companies now considering China to be a market where they must prevail in order to have sustainable success
on a
global basis.
Barring a
change in direction, our industrial
base will be gutted as we lose competitive capability
on the
global scale.
Rating agencies behaved no differently than climate -
change scientists who
base their doomsday forecasts of man - made
global warming
on extrapolation of historical data.
Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018,
on both a consolidated and segment
basis; projected total revenue growth and
global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of
change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.
It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios
based on divergent ranges in
global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate
change.
We work and look for a
global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties,
based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to
changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.
Understanding, continually monitoring and making strategic decisions
based on long - term
changes in
global markets will be critical for the sustained success of export focussed businesses.
But the study, published today in Earth's Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine,
based on measurements of large - scale phenomena like
global sea level and Antarctic mass
changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.
They used this data compilation to evaluate the quality of their regional atmospheric climate model,
based on global climate projections that included several scenarios of anticipated climate
change.
In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint
Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in
Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that
global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in
global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates
based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change (IPCC) in 2006.
«I think that this decision represents a clear and powerful recognition of how serious the threat of
global warming is and that our reliance
on coal for power generation needs to be
changed,» says Eric Young, spokesman
on global warming at New York City —
based environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council.
Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security
based on caloric consumption — to predict how
global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by
changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural productivity and climate.
Satellites can help deliver such information, and in 10 years» time,
global biodiversity monitoring from space could be a reality, but only if ecologists and space agencies agree
on a priority list of satellite -
based data that is essential for tracking
changes in biodiversity.
«So far biodiversity monitoring has been mostly species -
based, and this means that some of the
changes happening
on a
global - scale may be missed.
Based on her findings, Enkelmann shows clear evidence for a strong relationship between
global and local climate
change and a mountain's internal tectonic plate shifts and topographic
changes.
In turn, sharing scientific and indigenous predictive capabilities is meant to improve coastal ice interpretation and prediction
based on satellite imagery, assist communities refining public safety measures, and to add local sea ice to parameters used in assessing
global climate
change in the Arctic.
The
global climate models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change (IPCC), which are used to project global and regional climate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dyn
Change (IPCC), which are used to project
global and regional climate
change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dyn
change, are coarse resolution models
based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dynamics.
A new study
based on the first
global survey of marine life by scuba divers has provided fresh insights into how climate
change is affecting the distribution of marine life.
Turetsky is the lead author of a paper published today in
Global Change Biology based on one of the largest - ever analyses of global methane emis
Global Change Biology
based on one of the largest - ever analyses of
global methane emis
global methane emissions.
The first explanation is
based on global climate
change: Scientists have shown that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels declined steadily since the beginning of the Cenozoic Era, 66 million years ago.
The source of this improved predictability is
based on a combination of factors, including tropical climate variability,
global climate
change and the natural filtering effects of soils.
The authors of the new study, Steven Smith and Andrew Mizrahi, both climate analysts at the Joint
Global Change Research Institute in College Park, Maryland, argue that for one thing, the earlier work assumes that dramatic cuts in methane and soot emissions are feasible
based on shifting technologies and
changes in human behavior.
«The range of pH and temperature that some organisms experience
on a daily
basis exceeds the
changes we expect to see in the
global ocean by the end of the century,» notes Rivest, an assistant professor at VIMS.
Of course, while short - term
changes in sea level can be predicted fairly accurately
based on the motions of the moon and sun, it is a lot harder predicting the ups and downs of the average
global surface temperature — there is a lot of noise, or natural variation, in the system.
Trenberth says that the climate monitoring principles set by the
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the lead international organization for oversight of systematic climate observations, lack provisions for verifying accuracy and confirming or refuting «surprising» climate -
change results
based on satellite data.
«He let the moment go by without making any
change in his dogged refusal to put real limits
on America's
global warming pollution,» says David Doniger, climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York -
based environmental group.
A team headed by R. Steven Nerem of the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas at Austin recently concluded that the ENSO induced
changes in sea level are not confined to the Pacific but effect sea level
on a
global basis.
The findings, published in the journal
Global Change Biology, are based on spatial and statistical analyses of historical climate data, satellite data on current vegetation, and projections of potential vegetation under climate c
Change Biology, are
based on spatial and statistical analyses of historical climate data, satellite data
on current vegetation, and projections of potential vegetation under climate
changechange.
This depends
on the underlying assumptions regarding the future course of
global climate
change on which one's calculations are
based.
«(6)
based on the findings of the Administrator under this section, as well as assessments produced by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change, the United States
Global Change Research program, and other relevant scientific entities --
Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates of future
global temperatures
based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate
change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?
It seeks to promote multi - and bilateral relations
based on the mutual benefit of partners and an active dialogue
on issues of
global relevance including energy, water, climate
change, food security and health.
These are
based on observations of regional
change around the South Polar Cap, but seem to have been extended into a «
global»
change, and used by some to infer an external common mechanism for
global warming
on Earth and Mars (e.g. here and here).
I had just been in a discussion of climate
change on a messageboard where someone had triumphantly put up links to various blogs (including one that you noted here) drawing conclusions about the cause of the
global warming here
on earth
on the
basis of these recent measurements of Mars's south polar cap!
[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate
change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.&
change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority
on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.&
Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that
changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in
global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008,
based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»
The only time period that remotely resembles the ocean
changes happening today,
based on geologic records, was 56 million years ago when carbon mysteriously doubled in the atmosphere,
global temperatures rose by approximately six degrees and ocean pH dropped sharply, driving up ocean acidity and causing a mass extinction among single - celled ocean organisms.
The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for
changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are
based in large part
on changes that occur
on both a large,
global scale and over the long, decadal term.
To contribute to an understanding of the underlying causes of these
changes we compile various environmental records (and model -
based interpretations of some of them) in order to calculate the direct effect of various processes
on Earth's radiative budget and, thus,
on global annual mean surface temperature over the last 800,000 years.
Based on the available scientific knowledge it is only by concerted
global actions and smart science - informed policies that we can provide solutions to limit warming of the climate system to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and thus reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences of climate
change.
Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by
Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate
change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by
change impacts within this century if
global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate
change by
change by 2050.
The scientists who
based their research
on the information given by satellites stated that the
changes result in the
global scale warming, which is bout 30 percent larger than their previous version of the dataset, as Independent noted.
Our evaluation of a fossil fuel emissions limit is not
based on climate models but rather
on observational evidence of
global climate
change as a function of
global temperature and
on the fact that climate stabilization requires long - term planetary energy balance.
Significantly increased
global atrophy rates have not been demonstrated before the clinical (motor) onset of HD in patients with HD compared with healthy controls.3, 11 However, our results suggest that with careful selection of subjects relatively close to motor onset
on the
basis of their CAG repeat size and age, 20 it should be possible to measure longitudinal
changes in
global pathology within 5 years of motor onset.
These include: a)
Global Clusters that consist of a small, tight subset of genes that are co-expressed under the entire spectrum of experimental conditions; b) Time Series of gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific Gene Classes
based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic
changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clusters.
The European Union in 1996 proposed to limit
global warming to 2 °C relative to pre-industrial times [10],
based partly
on evidence that many ecosystems are at risk with larger climate
change.
The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate
Change [1], [19] summarized broad -
based assessments with a «burning embers» diagram, which indicated that major problems begin with
global warming of 2 — 3 °C.