"Future scenarios" refers to possible situations or events that may happen in the future. It involves imagining and predicting different outcomes or possibilities for what might occur.
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Neither paper has made quantitative estimates
of future scenarios for the freshwater potential associated with the various components (evaporation, precipitation, ice melt).
I think in this situation one is speaking about
future scenarios in a make believe world, it is all «opinion» and it's an area where opinion fits.
The models use mathematical equations to represent our physical understanding of the atmosphere and ocean, the role of life, and
possible future scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions.
In this manual, a methodology is proposed to relate
different future scenarios of land use to changes in the runoff indicator and in flood risk.
Previous modeling studies have also consistently predicted increased global vegetation carbon
under future scenarios of climate and CO2, but with considerable variation in absolute values (2 — 4).
The authors report that people tend to remember
imagined future scenarios that are happy better than they recall the unhappy ones.
In the face of uncertainty about future policies to address climate change, companies are using internal carbon pricing in their strategic planning to manage regulatory risk and
explore future scenarios for potential investments.
The scientists tested some of the volunteers 10 minutes after they had generated the
imaginary future scenarios, and they tested others a day later.
There is, however, no evidence that they are able to construct, reflect and compare different
future scenarios like humans are.
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certain future scenarios.
Scientists are still working out how climate change is affecting hurricanes themselves, so it's difficult to predict such
complex future scenarios.
By using the risk metrics he
outlines future scenarios for smart grid development and calculates real option values of technology projects.
It focused on global changes and
future scenarios highlighting political, social, technological, and environmental drivers for change and their effect on tourism flows and investment.
Together they form a speculative architectural analysis that points towards a possible
future scenario already emerging in contemporary urban space.
The problem is not so much that the models are inaccurate as that they must, by their nature, produce a wide range of
possible future scenarios.
The researchers used a set of climate models to simulate changes in temperature and other variables over the next three centuries under a range
of future scenarios.
Leaders with strong business acumen can absorb information from a diverse array of sources,
imagine future scenarios, and use their good judgment to make sensible decisions.
Other studies put nuclear in terms of life cycle substantially less than natural gas, oil and coal, equivalent to wind and solar (but more in
future scenarios with expansion of wind and solar efficiency technologies), and more than geothermal and hydro.
The murder of Don Julio Garcia makes us reflect
on future scenarios of governance in the region.
Chu did exactly that in his Senate testimony yesterday as he illustrated one possible
future scenario by comparing it to the difference between the last glacial maximum and now (11 degrees F I think it was).
The first in a series of briefs on the study, released today, describes the results of a Clean
Energy Future scenario developed by Synapse.
This is simply a possible
future scenario from an ensemble of possible futures which may be used to terrify school children, should this seem appropriate, in order to generate grant funding.
Or, even more challenging, can we accurately forecast small cost differences between two very different possible
future scenarios involving very different mixes of technologies?
If we can't discuss this stuff in terms of reality and
mention future scenarios or implications of our actions and beliefs then we might as well hang out at Disneyworld all day and say everything's just ducky.
Establishing the
alternative future scenarios will better inform decision makers and stakeholders of the effects of short - and long - term decisions.
Sci - fi movie Cloverfield 3 has a plot that involves a «
near future scenario» says actor Daniel Bruhl.
The new challenge - which has an overall winner's prize of # 5000 will challenge young people age 11 - 14 to assume the role of
future scenarios planners and to use their STEM learning to imagine creative solutions to the types of energy challenges that cities in 2050 will face (by 2050 it's estimated that 3 out of four of us will live in cities).
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«I would like to assure supporters that I am open to
various future scenarios — a constructive partnership with the majority shareholder, the purchase of his stake either alone or in a consortium, or if a party appears who shares my and undoubtedly the majority of fans» visions for the club, I could consider the question of selling my stake.»
Previous work by Shadkam and colleagues had shown that climate change threatens the lake's existence,
using future scenarios of climate change to project water inflow into the lake.
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