Sentences with phrase «engineering schemes»

So, a region experiencing increased drought from climate change might become even drier through a solar engineering scheme.

In one case I came across, the first stage of selection for an employer's electrical engineering scheme was to screen out people with poor grammar.

Silver was convicted late last year on multiple felony charges for engineering schemes involving a real estate company, tax firm and even a Columbia University doctor who recommended cancer cases to Silver's law firm, netting the former Speaker $ 4 million.

I see great difficulty in practice in deploying geo engineering schemes only when things get out of hand, because the perception of what is «out of hand» is clearly different among scientists as compared to the general public and most politicians....

Greebel was found to have helped engineer the scheme while acting as outside counsel to Retrophin, and Retrophin leadership testified that he put Shkreli's interests ahead of the company's.

Silver was convicted late last year on multiple felony charges for engineering schemes involving a real estate company, tax firm, and even a Columbia University doctor who recommended cancer cases to Silver's law firm, and that netted the former speaker $ 4 million.

The motivation was a fear that due to accelerated climate change induced sea level rise the time could already be too short for replacing the Thames Barrier (completed in 1982) and other measures that protect London, because such major engineering schemes take 25 to 30 years to plan and implement.

The motivation was a fear that due to accelerated sea level rise as the climate changed it might already be too late to replace the Thames Barrier (completed in 1982) and other measures that protect London, because such major engineering schemes take 25 to 30 years to plan and implement.

The researchers» findings, however, call into question a number of engineering schemes proposed as mitigation strategies for global warming, such as lofting reflective balloons into the stratosphere or erecting huge parasols in orbit.

While more of a socially engineered scheme, BEC attacks, like ransomware attacks and DDoS attacks, are waged to extort money.

The probe marks Bharara's latest anti-corruption blitz on City Hall, which was subpoenaed in April following a state Board of Elections report that said de Blasio engineered a scheme to evade fund - raising limits in a failed bid to help Democrats seize control of the state Senate.

Study coauthor Peter McIntyre, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, notes that wealthier nations can manage the problem with complex sanitation facilities and other engineering schemes while the underlying issues — water scarcity and pollution — continue to intensify.

Modern physics is incomprehensible, and cowboy engineering schemes — private companies racing to get to the moon or to sequence our genomes cheaply — are commonplace and may be our salvation.

It restricts families» education options and imposes a top - down, government - run, social - engineering scheme based on somebody's view of the value of racial and socioeconomic integration.

All future updates (T3 (VR), T4 (VS) and T5 [citation needed](VS II) Lexcens) made use of the new naming system until 1997, when the badge engineering scheme ceased.

Big engineering schemes like the ones from Los Alamos may indeed have potential, and should, as Professor Hoffert says, be explored.

Then, in the later 19th century, you start seeing these grand engineering schemes whereby people talk about taking directly taking on the climate and other aspects of the earth system, without just having to lead good European lives.

This is certainly true of three major ethical dilemmas now complicating the climate change debate: how to balance the rights and responsibilities of the developed and developing world; how to evaluate geo - engineering schemes designed to reverse or slow climate change; and how to assess our responsibility to future generations who must live with a climate we are shaping today.

The heirs of the early - 21st - century «Right» are focused on the expansion of nuclear power and on the deployment of geo - engineering schemes intended to buy time to bring down CO2 levels.

Hackers engineered a scheme that was responsible for pumping the price of unknown virtual coin Viacoin (VIA) causing a compromise on the major trading bot that is used by the majority of people on Binance.

Interestingly, in other countries starting salaries for technical roles are often far higher — some US engineering schemes pay up to $ 95,000 a year.

No, most large engineering schemes will have a slalom of tests, interviews and online applications that you'll have to navigate.

We should research and deploy geo engineering schemes to cool the Earth as soon as possible.»

In a Washington Times op - ed last year, Carson sharply criticized HUD's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing program, designed to incentivize desegregation - based planning in the nation's cities, calling it a «mandated social - engineering scheme.»

Embryonic plans exist, both to erect massive flood barriers and for «soft» engineering schemes that would redesign waterfronts to incorporate wetlands, oyster beds and other natural features that could slow storm surges.

With help from Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), the pie shop owner downstairs, he engineers a scheme to lure the judge into his chair for a very close shave.

Please forgive the digression, but in today's NYTimes, John Tierny claims that AGW can be mitigated by «geo engineering schemes to cool the planet by blocking sulight.»

The beneficial effects of some geo - engineering schemes have been over-estimated and mis - calculated in previous calculations

This method of «cloud brightening» was one of the geo - engineering schemes for intentionally intervening in climate to counteract global warming.

Now if adapting to the current rate of warming is indeed a great task for many species, how do you suppose nature will react if we would deploy a geo - engineering scheme that would drop the temperature in Earth by 3K (for instance, what is unacceptable warming?

Both of these are often referred to as geo - engineering schemes.

I mean, assuming there will be no global geo - engineering scheme that removes CO2 from the atmosphere on a massive scale, if I were to take the IPCC's middle - of - the - road ECS estimate of 3º Celsius per doubling of atmospheric CO2eq and combine it with a rather weak climate mitigation emissions scenario (e.g., RCP 6.5, which peaks around 850 CO2eq ppm)... we are talking about 120º Fahrenheit days being a common occurrence in the summers of Houston far into the future, right?