Sentences with phrase «even modest»

Diringer added, «Yvo's biggest mistake was helping to set wildly unrealistic expectations for Copenhagen, so that even a modest success would invariably be seen as a failure.

First, even a modest vegetable garden can produce enormous yields that would otherwise rot and secondly, if you didn't your family would starve by January.

Even a modest rise in sea level will wipe many of the world's beaches out of existence.

The improvement in quality of life of even a modest increase in energy availability in sub-Saharan Africa would be immense.

Thus, even modest changes should not be dismissed.

Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again?

Even modest improvements in mileage standards for all vehicles are beneficial, but will only delay the eventual increase in emissions due to a larger population.

Turkey, Syria, and Iraq are already spatting about water flow from the Euphrates River, which the IISD report predicts «even modest global warming» could shrink by a further 30 percent.

Even a modest decrease would lead to vital reductions in CO2 emissions and costs.

Yet, even this modest wit is left wondering how many rejected samples were excluded solely for deviation from brief instrumental records.

But even this modest boost still puts ARPA - E's budget at a quarter of what the National Academies originally recommended and less than half of President Obama's request.

But even a modest expansion of wind is unlikely: rural South Koreans opposed to the industrialization of the countryside have blocked proposed wind farms.

Even modest changes in circulation patterns could significantly alter air temperature trends

All of these methods do a fair to good job of interpolating predicted values within the range of the training data, but they usually go wildly wrong when you use them to extrapolate even a modest amount beyond the training domain.

Those who have been paying even modest attention to climate scientists in recent years know that more intense storms are almost assured as we continue warming the planet.

«It is now apparent,» write BirdLife International researchers, «that even modest temperature rises can have a profound impact on marine ecosystems.»

Even a modest «carbon tax» is a volunteer method of increased pressure.

With even modest growth, these industries would emit 50 % of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5 C, her talk showed.

Even modest amounts of global warming could trigger a carbon «time bomb» and release massive amounts of greenhouse gases from frozen Arctic soils, a new study has warned.

The trend that emerged when researchers began to examine that record, Wolkovich said, showed that even modest increases in temperature can result in earlier harvests.

Even the modest temp increase recorded in the global temp series is likely to be overstated (and very unlikely to be understated) due to various factors such as UHI (in its broader definition of stations getting increasingly in close vicinity of concrete, bricks, asphalt, metal and engines, even in rural areas) and also problems with the choice of stations, and other problems with infilling and averaging of gridcells without due consideration of spatial autocorrelation and other similar problems (cf e.g. the Steig - O'Donnell debate).

But a new study published in the journal Science Advances has concluded that another impact of global climate change might help coral reefs survive increasing sea temperatures: «even a modest sea level rise can substantially reduce temperature extremes within tide - dominated reefs, thereby partially offsetting the local effects of future ocean warming,» the authors of the study write.

On the other hand his explanation of events is consistent and if true has plausibility, and makes even his modest transgression even less serious.

Hopefully this exercise will «accelerate» your appreciation of the cumulatively catastrophic impact of even modest sea - level rise - rate acceleration, blueice2hotsea!

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Looking back beyond the Holocene, even the modest Milankovic forcings did not yield anything like a smooth monotonic progression.

Increased health - related impacts and costs, such as premature death and hospitalization due to even modest increases in heat, are predicted in the Northeast's urban centers (Ch.

For example, it warned that large tracts of the Amazon rain forest might be wiped out by global warming because they are extremely susceptible to even modest decreases in rainfall.

But, in tundra conditions, even modest urbanization can introduce significant biases.

Even modest changes in winter temperatures reduce opportunities for hydropower generation.

Even modest changes in seasonality of rainfall, temperature, and wind patterns can push transient poor and marginalized people into chronic poverty as they lack access to credit, climate forecasts, insurance, government support, and effective response options, such as diversifying their assets.

Even modest development during 50/70 years can pull most Bangladeshi above these dangers, and allow the government to continue improving preparedness and protection.

Experience in British Columbia shows that even a modest carbon tax can reduce emissions significantly without harming the economy.

More - powerful storms can combine with even a modest rise in sea level in a dangerous synergy, allowing for ever larger storm surges that can flatten coastal communities.

«The main challenge to rational planning for flood risk in the country is that private property rights trump even modest limitations on floodplain development,» Nicholas Pinter, a professor of geology and environmental resources and policy at Southern Illinois University, told the Times.

It would make even our modest carbon reduction targets impossible to hit, and cause household energy bills to soar even further.

Even modest sea - level rises could increase flooding of coastal lands like Bangladesh, Florida and even Manhattan.

Given the vast pool of very cold water in the deep ocean, even modest changes in the rate it exchanges heat with the surface can produce large changes in temperature without any change in the planetary radiative balance.

In addition, some are speculating that even the modest ambitions of the talks — to settle how to finance emissions cuts and aid adaptation in developing countries — are likely to be eclipsed by the world's financial woes.

In a policy study written by Catrina Rorke, R Street's director of energy policy, the institute says even a modest carbon tax will bring big results: «The price doesn't have to be large.

Considering the heat capacity of the oceans is about 1,100 times greater than the air, would not even a modest change in cloud cover affect the radiative balance with far greater magnitude than a parts - per - million change in an atmospheric gas constituent?

But experts have cautioned in Issues that long before the United States takes such a step toward even modest «geoengineering,» it should establish an official oversight mechanism for evaluating research and making public decisions.

... was accompanied by postulation that even modest increases in the concentration of CO2 could result in significant atmospheric warming.»

«Even if CDR technologies never scale up to the point where they could remove a substantial fraction of current carbon emissions at an economically acceptable price, and even if it took many decades to develop even a modest capability, CDR technologies still have an important role to play.»

The presentation of her report at a major scientific convention in 1856 was accompanied by postulation that even modest increases in the concentration of CO2 would result in significant atmospheric warming.»

«The main challenge to rational planning for flood risk in the country is that private property rights trump even modest limitations on floodplain development,» said Nicholas Pinter, an expert on floods, people and politics at Southern Illinois University, in an email today.

President Obama has had to resort to executive steps on climate change, like writing new carbon dioxide regulations, because the path to even modest legislative solutions (as on so many other issues) is blocked by the inevitability of filibusters under the the 60 - vote supermajority in the Senate.

It notes the vast scale of the carbon reservoir beneath the tundra in the far north and the centuries of greenhouse gas emissions that could escape on even modest warming trajectories.

Even the modest Kyoto accord is in a sense climate tuning.

Recent observations show that societies are highly vulnerable to even modest levels of climate change, with poor nations and communities particularly at risk.