Sentences with phrase «change scenarios while»

We can avoid the worst climate - change scenarios while also lifting people out of poverty, growing food more efficiently, and saving lives by reducing pollution.

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While many other bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have produced consensus reports on climate change scenarios and impacts, Harvard's McCarthy said he hopes the report's clarity and brevity (it is 15 pages long, not including references) will help it break thChange, have produced consensus reports on climate change scenarios and impacts, Harvard's McCarthy said he hopes the report's clarity and brevity (it is 15 pages long, not including references) will help it break thchange scenarios and impacts, Harvard's McCarthy said he hopes the report's clarity and brevity (it is 15 pages long, not including references) will help it break through.

Looking beyond the 2030 timescale of the SDGs, scenario analysis highlights that continuation of past and current trends in drivers of change will inhibit the contribution of the region to the widespread achievement of the SDGs, while scenarios which focus on achieving a balanced supply of nature's contributions to people and incorporate a diversity of values are more likely to contribute to achieving the majority of the SDGs.

Also, the new mortality estimates, while dramatically higher than the approximately 150,000 annual deaths attributed to climate change stress in WHO's last assessment in 2004, are not directly comparable to earlier studies, which relied on different models and different underlying scenarios.

The researchers assessed the impact of diet change on global water resources over four scenarios, where the meat consumption was gradually reduced while diet recommendations in terms of energy supply, proteins and fat were followed.

While ECS is the equilibrium global mean temperature change that eventually results from atmospheric CO2 doubling, the smaller TCR refers to the global mean temperature change that is realised at the time of CO2 doubling under an idealised scenario in which CO2 concentrations increase by 1 % yr — 1 (Cubasch et al., 2001; see also Section 8.6.2.1).

The carbon majors are defined as fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.

While this consistency might be interpreted as an important corroboration, we find it a source of concern, since we know that the processes that will dominate sea - level change in a high - warming scenario will differ from those that were dominant in recent millennia.

The usual scenario is that they go back year after year (while slowly getting worse, assuming they haven't changed anything in their lifestyle) until the tests finally pick it up — then it's «official»; and there is something that can be done about it.

I could get into the complicated scenario by which Arya comes to serve in a Bolton - occupied Harrenhal, but what you need to know is this: while the specifics were changed, the general theme and atmosphere of the arc remained the same, and condensing the scene meant interactions between the fantastic - despite - her - age Maisie Williams and old pro Charles Dance.

While we don't know for sure when the new Liberal changes will take place, in reviewing scenarios we did find one big winner: lower - income families with kids.

While the simple 10 - year T - note futures position performed well in the case of the 20 bp parallel shift, Scenario 4b shows that it misses the mark when the yield curve changes shape.

While ALTA endorsements may not apply in every mortgage scenario, they can cost about $ 175 and change very little from lender to lender.

So while I have little reason to doubt UNG's unfolding growth scenario, the risk / reward's clearly changed significantly since my original entry — accordingly, I've almost halved my position, from 5.3 % to 2.8 %.

While Scenario II only uses prospective CAGRs which are 50 % of Record's actual FY - 2012 / 2016 growth / decline rates, except no change in dynamic hedging & currency for return fee rates is assumed — resulting in future revenue of # 29.9 million & a 4.71 p EPS.

$ UNG: LN As I said: «while I have little reason to doubt UNG's unfolding growth scenario, the risk / reward's clearly changed significantly...»

The above downside scenarios provide valuable insight on the ability of income producing properties to repay loans while under the stress of changing variables.

I think my initial instinct is the more likely scenario if anything changes: Chase pulls the Chase Sapphire Reserve Card from the market temporarily while they reconfigure the benefits of the card.

While there remain many scenarios when it makes sense to transfer a balance to another card, the equation has changed.

As a result, combat begins to quickly feel repetitive as you continously hammer out the same string of inputs, and while the different enemies do a decent job of keeping you on your toes, by about half - way through the game I rarely found myself having to go into the Combo Lab and change - up my Pressens as I had already combos built for the most common scenarios.

While this is fine for combat scenarios, it's in the lighter moments where the tone of Nate changes drastically — showing his compassion to friends and loved ones.

The controls are appropriately mapped to the Vita with the control scheme consisting of pressing X to attack an enemy Digimon; holding R then pressing X to escape; pressing select to let your Digimon act independently; pressing triangle to pause gameplay, while opening the Digivice to view the Digimon field guide, look through your inventory, save your progress and more besides; tapping the touch screen to display the DigiLine; changing the direction of the left analogue stick or alternatively pressing left, right, up or down on the d - pad to move Keisuke during on - foot exploration or navigating between menus whilst battling an enemy Digimon; and pressing start to display the title menu, alongside various scenarios and combinations in which certain buttons have different contexts.

While the game has a simple story mode that walks you through a variety of mission types and scenarios, there is also the Slaughter mode that challenges you to survive waves of zombies until your car is destroyed and, probably my personal favorite, the Blood Race mode that changes things into a competitive race with other drivers.

Two anthropomorphic popsicle shaped sheets of paper running around simple scenarios that completely fit onto a small screen while trying to solve puzzles by snipping pieces off one another to change their shapes.

The game does have a few different modes outside of its Campaign and usual death match modes, and while the real meat of the gameplay exists in its deathmatches, playing things like Puzzle Mode can offer a nice change of pace — giving you scenarios with limited resources or special conditions that you have to meet by using the tools at your disposal efficiently.

Peter Schwartz was an author of the DOD Abrupt Climate Change security scenario that caused controversy a while back.

On any plausible business as usual scenario, emissions will grow substantially, while for any plausible climate science model, we need to reduce emissions substantially if we are to avoid highly damaging climate change.

So while the CPP may be political ambitious, it represents is only a small piece of what needs to be a more aggressive climate mitigation portfolio to align us with 2 degrees C warming scenarios that avoid dangerous climate change.

Model projections for precipitation changes are less certain than those for temperature.12, 2 Under a higher emissions scenario (A2), global climate models (GCMs) project average winter and spring precipitation by late this century (2071 - 2099) to increase 10 % to 20 % relative to 1971 - 2000, while changes in summer and fall are not expected to be larger than natural variations.

While it is impossible to attribute any single storm to anthropgenic climate change, sophisticated new models can be used estimate potential losses from coastal storms under a range of climate change scenarios.

«In addition, safeguarded farmland will continue providing healthy local produce and mitigating climate - change impacts of transporting food around the globe, while conserved wetlands improve the quality of our air and water and serve as buffers from potentially catastrophic storm surges predicted under current climate - change scenarios,» he added.

While most scenarios to limit temperature rise show a need to accelerate the rate of transition, unsurprisingly, the more stringent the carbon budget conditions, the faster the change is required.

While I reject most apocalyptic scenarios as unfounded or unduly speculative, I am convinced that the human contribution to climate change will cause or exacerbate significant problems in at least some parts of the world.

While ECS is the equilibrium global mean temperature change that eventually results from atmospheric CO2 doubling, the smaller TCR refers to the global mean temperature change that is realised at the time of CO2 doubling under an idealised scenario in which CO2 concentrations increase by 1 % yr — 1 (Cubasch et al., 2001; see also Section 8.6.2.1).

To date, while various effects and feedbacks constrain the certainty placed on recent and projected climate change (EG, albedo change, the response of water vapour, various future emissions scenarios etc), it is virtually certain that CO2 increases from human industry have reversed and will continue to reverse the downward trend in global temperatures that should be expected in the current phase of the Milankovitch cycle.

While these ideas have obvious applications to climate change and national security, I think Danzig's ideas also have broad applicability to climate change: how we view climate model predictions, the inadequacy of our scenarios, and the failure to factor in the possibility of genuine surprises, or Dragon Kings.

While many challenges remain, it is difficult not to be optimistic about the potential for change that has been opened by decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalisation in an overall context of electrification of final demand as outlined in the latest energy scenarios published by the Council.

The carbon majors are defined as fossil fuel production entities and cement manufacturers that produced more than ≥ 8 million tonnes carbon per year (MtC / y), while the total human attribution case refers to all relevant human activities that have been measured and used in climate assessment model scenarios that influence climate change.

It's worth emphasising that DECC's scenarios confirm the world could prosper while tackling climate change, but the conclusion is not a new one.

Another approach is to assume that ocean currents changed, but while researchers can insert new current information into the models, they can not get the models to create these ocean current scenarios.

While two of the models eventually realized a slow shutdown of the AMOC under RCP8.5 (the scenario with the largest amount of warming), none exhibited an abrupt change of the AMOC.

While many more model simulations were conducted in support of the IPCC AR5 (Collins et al., 2012) under a wide range of forcing scenarios, projections of the behavior of the AMOC over the 21st century and beyond have changed little from what was reported in the IPCC AR4 (Meehl et al., 2007b).

The new report found out that while 99 % of sampled firms recognise climate change poses risks to their business, only 7 % of them properly provide investors with data on possible stressed scenarios and vulnerability of future reserves.

Climate change was assessed by means of two Long Ashton Research Station - Weather Generator (LARS - WG) weather generators and all outputs from the available general circulation models in the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse - gas Induced Climate Change - SCENario GENerator (MAGICC - SCENGEN) software, in combination with different emission scenarios at the regional scale, while the Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) model has been used for projections at the local change was assessed by means of two Long Ashton Research Station - Weather Generator (LARS - WG) weather generators and all outputs from the available general circulation models in the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse - gas Induced Climate Change - SCENario GENerator (MAGICC - SCENGEN) software, in combination with different emission scenarios at the regional scale, while the Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) model has been used for projections at the local Change - SCENario GENerator (MAGICC - SCENGEN) software, in combination with different emission scenarios at the regional scale, while the Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (PRECIS) model has been used for projections at the local scale.

While the study will consider a broad range of possible climate change - related scenarios, it will focus specifically on the direct and indirect human health risks in both the United States, and abroad.

While this scenario is dire, proposed mechanisms for addressing climate change, notably carbon credits through avoided deforestation, offer a unique opportunity for Indonesia to strengthen its economy while demonstrating worldwide innovative political and environmental leaderWhile this scenario is dire, proposed mechanisms for addressing climate change, notably carbon credits through avoided deforestation, offer a unique opportunity for Indonesia to strengthen its economy while demonstrating worldwide innovative political and environmental leaderwhile demonstrating worldwide innovative political and environmental leadership.

While DECC predict that climate change and energy policies will cause gas prices to go up by 18 % and electricity prices by 33 % by 2020, they estimate (as of July 2010) that because of reductions in energy use «compared to the counterfactual scenario in which climate change and energy policies do not have an impact on energy bills, on average, domestic energy bills will be 1 % higher in 2020.»

A report by the Sussex Energy Group and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research entitled China's Energy Transition: Pathways for Low Carbon Development set out four different scenarios for low - carbon development in China in an attempt to demonstrate how China's economic development can be decoupled from carbon emissions growth — allowing its economy to expand by some 8 to 13 times while presumably stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

As an example, while Hansen et al (2016) present a dramatic scenario with the AMOC switching off, this is the result of other major climatologial change.

These scenarios illustrate that small changes in the dynamics can lead to large changes in regional climate in some regions, while other regions are apparently insensitive to some of the large changes in dynamics that can be plausibly hypothesized.