Sentences with phrase «diversion of»

Diversion of glacial meltwater from the Mississippi to the St. Lawrence was suggested by Kennett and Shackleton (1975) and Johnson and McClure (1976); Rooth (1982) suggested this disrupted the North Atlantic circulation.

Food riots in several nations due to raising prices that are at least partially directly tied to diversion of grain crops to ethanol production.

By an intelligent diversion of warm ocean - currents together with some means of colouring snow so that the sun could melt it, it might be possible to keep the Arctic ice - free for one summer, and that one year might tip the balance and permanently change the climate of the northern hemisphere.

But what use is it when you're talking about a trillion kilowatt - hours a year, the design and finance of cities, power plants, and diversion of methane in landfills?

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The reactor is designed to never be opened on site and thus there is little opportunity for diversion of radioactive material from operating plants.

He said that the diversion of resources away from those who most urgently and immediately needed our help, in the name of addressing a non-problem that could not in any event be cost - effectively dealt with by CO2 mitigation, must be reversed at once for the sake of those who needed our help now.

It has caused a vast diversion of resources to address a non-problem while real problems like preventable blindness and malaria receive less attention.

The loss of productive land to desertification, along with the depletion of aquifers and the diversion of irrigation water to cities and industry, makes it increasingly difficult to expand food production.

Seriously, this group has either got to be outright stupid, or active participants in an on - going criminal enterprise intended to not only defraud the planet, but to also pull the wool over peoples eyes by diversion of reality.

The Hindu: Chinese reticence about projects on its stretch of the Brahmaputra do not assuage Indian fears about diversion of the river's waters.

But dealing with the water shortages that result from drought, aquifer depletion, and the diversion of scarce water to cities is much more difficult.

Opportunities exist for the diversion of weapons - usable material at the front end of the fuel cycle, during which natural uranium is enriched to make reactor fuel.

For example, recently a study on biofuel was prepared for the Governor and state Ohio General Assembly and never once mentioned the potential of PEF, or diversion of paper fiber from the waste stream and used as renewable energy.

Landfill life expectancy may be dramatically increased by diversion of raw materials from the waste stream and the creation of «products» from the «raw materials» currently land filled.

Deciding that the diversion of more «raw materials» such as paper from the waste stream will only occur if there are dependable markets, a possible diversion scheme to guarantee a market is discussed.

Over the past few years we have been encouraging the diversion of organic waste away from the landfill and toward useful products such as compost and soil amenders.

I doesn't matter how much temporizers argue that this is the effect of «noble cause» corruption, IT»S STILL CORRUPTION, undertaken deliberately and with malice aforethought, the effects including the diversion of research funds from legitimate purposes as well as support for public policies and private sector malinvestment, which do great material damage to particular parties and to the common weal.

Landfill life expectancy may be dramatically increased by diversion of raw materials from the waste stream and the creation of «products» from the «raw materials» currently landfilled.

The need is to create economic incentives for communities that will then mandate and / or encourage diversion of materials from MSW.

The diversion of over 75 % of on - site construction waste to recycling or other non-landfill, reuse destinations

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL ROME â $» In the past year, as the diversion of food crops like corn and palm to make biofuels has helped to drive up food prices, investors and politicians have begun promoting newer, so - called second - generation biofuels as the next wave of green energy.

When I started my research it was my supposition that I could logically demonstrate the case for a dramatic waste stream diversion of paper.

Since 1994, they have promoted a culture of creative reuse and the diversion of usable and toxic materials from landfills and Louisiana's fragile marine ecosystems by recycling discarded paint and reselling usable building materials.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Bioenergy challenges a sustainable food future most directly when government policy causes diversion of food crops into ethanol or biodiesel for transportation.

These are government taxes that represent a diversion of resources into unproductive activities that lead to a decrease in the overall wealth: the government essentially pays people not to work.

Diversion of resources.

Measures that will actually relieve disease will only suffer from diversion of funds to wasteful temperature - based considerations.

Energy Probe has also been successful in stopping the export of Canada's Candu nuclear reactors, most of which have been sought by states with nuclear weapons aspirations — the Candu design lends itself to surreptitious diversion of spent fuel suitable for reprocessing into weapons grade material.

Caldeira's Op - Ed makes it seem like a slam - dunk, needing maybe only a diversion of 1 % of climate research funds in order to do the trick.

To ease global food crisis, rice with submergence tolerance is needed: -2007 Bangladesh Tista / Jamuna Rivers flooded million hectares up to 3 weeks; cyclone Nargis flooded 1.75 M Irawaddy - grain supply affected by population growth, diversion of grain to biofuels and to livestock as more people eat meat - funding contraints on R&D - crippled developing world extension systems

«The requested report is unnecessary, redundant to our current practices and initiatives, and has the potential for a diversion of resources with no corresponding benefit to the company, our customers, and our shareholders, particularly in light of our ongoing packaging sustainability efforts.»

It's time for a candidate to sack up and champion the diversion of resources from wasteful military expenditures to much needed domestic infrastructure in order to combat the true challenges of the 21st century.

There is only so much diversion of natural energy flows that you can have before noticeable effects on the environment, even if there was enough materials to build out renewables and renewables themselves could build operate and maintain renewables, as some hope.

I should also make it clear that my remarks refer to the claim that the hiatus can be explained by the diversion of heat from the atmosphere to the ocean.

Early this morning, I received an e-mail message from one of many polar scientists whose important and costly field research in Antarctica has been seriously disrupted by the diversion of icebreakers to try to evacuate the journalists, tourists, crew and scientists on an unessential «expedition» aboard a chartered Russian ship.

As I wrote on Monday, the Dakota Access Pipeline actions have brought much - needed attention to some longstanding grievances of Native Americans, including the diversion of environmental risks from the neighborhoods of more empowered constituencies onto Sioux lands and waterways.

The main reason for meteorological drought is the diversion of «normal» weather systems by jet streams, which of course are driven by temperature gradients.But I'm glad to see that you acknowledge that there are factors other than increased temperature which could be responsible for these extremes.

The current retrospective offers a good opportunity to survey the historic scope of Stella's idiosyncratic shifts, and to hopefully distill a relevant residue of contemporary meaning from the works without the diversion of the fashionably new.

The presenters were refreshingly global, hailing from Australia, Bangladesh, the Gulf, Palestine, Lebanon, Japan, Iraq and elsewhere; from Kazakhstan, Almagul Menlibayeva spoke about her photography documenting climate change in the Aral Sea, which has all but disappeared after the Soviet diversion of its source rivers.

The paintings» proportions are reminiscent of tarot cards, a favorite diversion of the artist.

By juxtaposing the different oeuvres of these three artists, from etchings to three - dimensional renderings, Geometry creates a syzygy of sorts, shedding light on the complexities of line, form, and the intersection and diversion of different planes and nodes.

The painterly effects that interest him suggest energy that flows, the expansion and compression of form, the diversion of a line, the spatial illusions of colour.

Admittedly a little delayed in my completion of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Breath of the Wild's Ballad of the Champions came out shortly after, a diversion of such overt beauty that I'm glad I wandered the long route), I've been concerned about the balance of its gameplay since day one, and if the story wasn't a little intriguing, I might not have made it to the end.

The tangential, GTA - inspired fun of building up your Alert level, or the co-op-exclusive diversion of watching your friend take pot shots at other cars from the trunk of yours as you drive, only do so much.

A fun little diversion of a word game that is the devil child of crosswords and scrabble.

A bit dated but of interest: In 2001, it was estimated that «U.S. animal care and control strategy on exterminating homeless dogs and cats... was costing the U.S. approximately $ 600 million per year in tax - funded expenditures, and close to $ 2 billion a year when the diversion of charitable contributions to capturing and disposing of homeless dogs and cats is factored in.»

I will conclude this little diversion of a column by going in exactly the opposite direction of that last story, by relating to you the very best day I have had in three and a half decades of professional reptile work.

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