Sentences with phrase «events under climate change»

«Quantifying the Risk of Extreme Events Under Climate Change» by Eric Gilleland, project scientist at the Research Applications Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Richard W. Katz, senior scientist at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Philippe Naveau, senior scientist at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

* A side event under the title «Bio-sequestration vs. geo - sequestration (CCS)- Organic solutions to Climate Change and Food security» was held jointly with the World Future Council on Thursday, December 17.

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

During the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris the governments of France and Peru, along with the UN, are organizing a series of high - level events to demonstrate that the transition to low carbon and resilience is under way.

Culture - defining events definitely impact fiction - writing trends: think LGBT issues, ISIS, ecstasy treatment for PTSD, the presidency under Trump, the refugee crisis, climate change, food industry politics — we've currently got a lot going on.

They may happen more often under a warmer climate, but it is wrong to blame climate change for every single event.

Just like we can't control the weather, there is no way possible for controlling large fire events given under a changing climate extremes are the new norm.

Here we use a risk assessment framework to examine the potential impact of El Nino events and natural variability on rice agriculture in 2050 under conditions of climate change, with a focus on two main rice - producing areas: Java and Bali.

This influence of climate change on some extremes, including especially heat waves and heavy precipitation and some kinds of storm and flood events must no longer be waved away, swept under the rug, or otherwise ignored.

When the disbelievers attending and participating in these events are finally forced to function under the «real» dire weather related conditions where climate change is happening now and most prevalent, perhaps then we can hope for them to move toward «action» and farther away from their empty «talk».

As these particular events took place at the end of a local warm period caused by orbital forcing (see Box 6.1 and Section 6.5.1), these observations suggest that under gradual climate forcings (e.g., orbital) the climate system can change abruptly.

Lia represents the country at multilateral environmental events, in particular negotiating on climate change under the UN.

The intensity / frequency of precipitation events in a global context under the wider context of climate change is always worth exploring.

«(3) The Administrator may decrease the frequency of review and revision under paragraph (1) if the Administrator determines that such decrease is appropriate in order to synchronize such review and revision with any similar review process carried out pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, done at New York on May 9, 1992, or to an agreement negotiated under that convention, except that in no event shall the Administrator carry out such review and revision any less frequently than every 10 years.

Bob Ward, policy and communications Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, claims the link between extreme weather events and climate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spoClimate Change and the environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, claims the link between extreme weather events and climate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spotChange and the environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, claims the link between extreme weather events and climate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spoclimate change is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spotchange is clear, and that criticisms about the evidence for an increase in disaster losses is nothing new and is merely a repetition of criticisms that date back to 2006 because the IPCC's procedures for reviewing scientific work is currently under the spotlight.

Under the Climate Smart Land Network (CSLN), Manomet works with forest managers and landowners as they attempt to mitigate the impacts of climate change and extreme Climate Smart Land Network (CSLN), Manomet works with forest managers and landowners as they attempt to mitigate the impacts of climate change and extreme climate change and extreme events.

So Gleick is thrown under the bus but the main concern seems to be the fact that this event has given those who are skeptical of the IPCC (and AGU) «consensus position» on CAGW» fresh fuel for the unproductive and seemingly endless ideological firestorm surrounding the reality of the Earth's changing climate.»

The impacts of increased heat stress events on wheat yield under climate change in China.

The table that accompanies the above passage from the IPCC's report, captioned «Extreme weather and climate events: global - scale assessment of recent observed changes, human contribution to the changes, and projected further changes for the early (2016 — 2035) and late (2081 — 2100) 21 st century `'» has the following entries for «Increases in intensity and / or duration of drought»: under changes observed since 1950, «low confidence on a global scale, likely changes in some regions `'» [emphasis added]; and under projected changes for the late 21 st century, «likely (medium confidence) on a regional to global scale».

«I was always under the impression that, in general, solar changes controlled long term changes in climate and volcanic events caused short term cooling.

With the CZC program, organizations can showcase their commitment to climate change mitigation and declare the carbon neutrality of their event under a structure that maintains a high level of environmental integrity and consistency.

As the Guardian has reported, the Australian government's own environment departmental website says there's a «growing and robust body of evidence» showing the number of extreme weather events will likely increase under climate change, and that Australia is already experiencing a rise in the number of these events, including bushfires.

Figure 2: Number of Katrina magnitude surge events per decade (B) hindcast and projected changes in temperatures from climate model BNU - ESM under for RCP4.5 (A).

See: Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: «An argument that mitigation of ghgs makes sense in terms of decreasing the future costs of extreme events is not a strong one» — «Even under the assumptions of IPCC, Stern Review, etc. the future costs of extreme events under the most aggressive scenarios of climate change actually decrease as a proportion of GDP»

«This study shows that fires are already degrading large areas of forests in Southern Amazonia,» Brando said, «and highlights the need to include interactions between extreme weather events and fire when attempting to predict the future of Amazonian forests under a changing climate.»

In the run up to COP21 in Paris, the Our Common Future under Climate Change event featured both a side event and a technical panel dedicated to carbon removal, and UC Berkeley and American University hosted partner events (video) on this topic for Global Climate Change Week.

Above, the carbon removal panel discussion at the Our Common Future under Climate Change event in advance of the COP21 negotiations.

On July 10th, 2015, the Center For Carbon Removal hosted an accredited side event on carbon removal solutions at the Our Common Future Under Climate Change Conference.