Sentences with phrase «given climate framework»

It was just a random fluctuation generated within a given climate framework and could have occurred with the same very low probability also in an unwarmed world, on that day or on any other day of the active seasons.

Not exact matches

States will now have the responsibility of designing an accountability framework incorporating and giving the most weight to academic factors, including student performance on state assessments and high school graduation rates, in addition to state - chosen indicators of school quality or student success, which can include measures of educator engagement and school climate / safety.

While each state plan is different, many policy makers have discussed incorporating the school climate surveys given to parents, teachers, and students into accountability frameworks.

Within this framework, the World Climate simulation aimed to put participants in the spotlight and give them the responsibility to take political decisions that affect mankind's and nature's future with the goal of achieving the good common life.

A resource - based vulnerability framework would give policymakers a better perspective not only of how human forcings affect climate but of how climate affects risk.

Given the socio - economic importance of Mozambique's coastal cities and their susceptibility to regular climate hazards, the country's ICT policy framework is evaluated by analyzing the efficacy of the aforementioned ICT tools along a dimension that disproportionately affects the poor more, namely vulnerability to flooding - a reality worsening each year due to the effects of climate change.

For a given climate change scenario, they can use the framework to analyze the chain of physical changes at the regional and sectoral levels, and then estimate economic impacts at those levels.

Inclusion of short - term forcing agents within a rate - of - change target is a natural extension of this approach, and could provide a framework for including both emissions rates, or «flows», as well as cumulative emissions, or «stocks», into a set of climate targets that are better informed by current climate science than emissions rates in a given year or long - term concentrations.

In this paper, af - ter a brief tutorial on the basics of climate nonlinearity, we provide a number of illustrative examples and highlight key mechanisms that give rise to nonlinear behavior, address scale and methodological issues, suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies and, lastly, recommend a number of research priorities and the establishment of education programs in Earth Systems Science.

Climate science gives us the basic framework: We need to end our dependency on fossil fuels by 2050.

It serves to orientate the frameworks through which the world is seen and gives structure to the arguments about what is good / bad, right / wrong, forward / backward, and in the case where climate scepticism and denial is judged to be equivalent to Conservatism, Left / Right.

In support of my understanding I have transcribed below Salby's description the IPCC climate modeling framework (GSMs) at the ~ 28:56 min mark of the podcast of his talk «Global Emission of Carbon Dioxide: The Contribution from Natural Sources» given at the Sydney Institute on 2 Aug 2011.

And the Residence Palace, Brussels is not some bar where ordinary people drink and chew the fat, but was the location where Davey gave his speech, outlining the UK government's proposals for a «European Union Energy and Climate framework».

Don't count Canada out of the foreign investment game yet, the experts say, given a clear legal framework and a still healthy investment climate.

The discussion of governance matters proved quite difficult, possibly reflecting the relative lack attention that has been given to such matters in developing the Draft framework for reporting on Indigenous disadvantage in a climate of «practical reconciliation».