Sentences with phrase «global biosphere»

She has been a member of several international committees including the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC), International Commission of Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP), Aerosol - Cloud - Precipitation - Climate (ACPC) Initiative of the International Global Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and a membe of the Joint Scietific Committee of the World Research Climate Programme (WCRP).

Perhaps the little pond of death in the song can refer to the planet earth as a whole and to the global biosphere.

The evidence already indicates that too much warming is already built into the global biosphere in order to expect that emissions abatement would avert a global warming crisis.

The model uses information on water demand and availability provided by existing global integrated assessment models at IIASA, including the Community Water Model (CWATM); the Model for Energy Supply Strategy Alternatives and their General Environmental Impacts (MESSAGE); and the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM), and provides information on water resources development, allocation and cost to those models.

The observed global greening has occurred in spite of all the many real and imagined assaults on Earth's vegetation that have occurred over the past several decades, including wildfires, disease, pest outbreaks, deforestation, and climatic changes in temperature and precipitation, more than compensating for any of the negative effects these phenomena may have had on the global biosphere.

BCDR requires productive land, nutrients, and water, all of which are limited in the global biosphere.