Sentences with phrase «even at a global scale»

Of course, the absolute temperature does matter in many situations (the freezing point of ice, emitted radiation, convection, health and ecosystem impacts, etc.) and so it's worth calculating as well — even at the global scale.

However, when it comes to the area burned, historical records indicate that even at a global scale, the reach of fire is less today.

Not exact matches

But even if the carbon released during production were somehow captured and sequestered — a technology that remains unproven at any meaningful scale — some studies indicate that liquid coal would still release 4 to 8 percent more global warming pollution than regular gasoline.

«The same calculations can be included in stream network models, which would allow researchers to better quantify the impacts of nitrate pollution at local, continental and even global scales,» said co-author Morvarid Azizian, a postdoctoral scholar in civil & environmental engineering at UCI.

Since the industrial revolution, global temperatures have risen by about 1 °C, which has had an impact at even the largest scales.

When «proof of concept» is obtained, a new phase of the impact pathway starts with dissemination at pilot scale (with a few farmers or villagers) and will eventually increase at provincial, national, and even global levels when successful.

However, given that the subject is, to say the least, touchy, the fact that this film was even made is worthy of at least some kudos to Maher for having the guts to potentially offend the vast majority of people in the country, and perhaps the world, with his expression of doubt in their beliefs and his own belief that, though many individuals have found great benefit from the ancient scriptures, religion ultimately does more harm than good when looking at it in its totality from a global historical scale.

Even if it were real physical variability, at that short time scale I would not expect it to be linked to global temperature in the way that I expect this link on longer time scales.

A quick photographic Earth Day note: Even as societies ponder how to smooth the human journey on a finite planet at the global scale, it doesn't hurt to try to get things reasonably right in our own neighborhoods.

That is, it may be that you have to go even further back in time to find warmth comparable — at the global scale — to what we are seeing today.

With Kumik-esque levels of persistent drought in California and Brazil, as more and more people realize we now all inhabit a dangerously warmer world, even some Very Serious People are coming to grapple with a version of Crowden's question at a global scale: How on earth are we going to survive?

Scale makes a difference, and in the context of a true global emergency transition, domestic reductions within wealthy countries, even difficult reductions, would become extremely difficult to pass up as the pressures of stringency increase and mitigation opportunities in the South become as costly as those at home, as they eventually would under any even plausibly adequate target.

modern diplomacy Public - Private Dialogue at IRENA's 8th Assembly highlights what governments and businesses can do to unlock investment in renewable energy «We find ourselves in a time when scaling - up renewable energy investment makes sense, even when not much of anything else makes sense,» Steve Sawyer, Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council told a ballroom filled with ministers, diplomats, parliamentarians and...

In fact, even tiny microbes are carbon reservoirs, but scientists tend to group small reservoirs into larger categories (e.g., ocean, atmosphere, biosphere), important at the global scale.

They clearly have not «proved» skill at predicting in a hindcast mode, changes in climate statistics on the regional scale, and even in terms of the global average surface temperature trend, in recent years they have overstated the positive trend.

Furthermore, the report by Kotlyakov (Variations of Snow and Ice in the past and at present on a Global and Regional Scale [1996]-RRB- referred to all glaciers outside the polar regions (not just in the Himalayas) and more importantly referred to 2350 — not 2035; and it specifically said glaciers will survive in the Himalayas even then.

Without countries that champion CCS deploying it at scale, neither other developed economies (e.g., Germany, Poland) nor developing economies (e.g., China, India) are under much pressure to deploy CCS, even for coal — especially when there is no economic incentive or immediate global GHG emission reduction imperative to drive it.

This means that even if spatial averaging were to reduce the error further, the best predictability would still occur for the global behaviour at the monthly scale.

The images show that the axial valley at 4,000 m water depth is blanketed by an extensive set of pyroclastic deposits, raising important questions regarding the accumulation and discharge of magmatic volatiles on such ridges and demonstrating that large - scale pyroclastic activity is possible along even the deepest portions of the global mid-ocean ridge volcanic system.

I think you've answered your own question in part — even PDO does not act at the time scales necessary to produce sustained increasing global temperature over decades.

Because the drivers of climate change are truly global, even dedicated action at the regional scale has limited prospects for ameliorating regional - scale impacts.

Given the state of the global economy, some of these may get scaled back, delayed or perhaps even cancelled, obviously nothing is written in stone at this point... Nevertheless, when combined with decentralized rooftop solar power generation, the potential of solar power is increasingly becoming more clear.

Moreover, I'm not sure that building a large nuclear fleet at the global level is even reasonably feasible — I'm skeptical that there are enough skilled personnel to do the building on the scale that would be needed.

Even if we were to scale back a little, matching the recent average growth rate of 1.92 ppm / year, that puts us at 450 ppm around the year 2042 — 450 ppm signifying the likely point of no return, when the climate will trigger anywhere from 2 - 5 degrees centigrade bump in global temperatures.

Google is a global business that supports technology at scale even more than it did when attempting to build smartphone market share.