Sentences with phrase «higher end projections»

So my sight is trained more on the higher end projections, and goes beyond 2100.

The Royal Society report includes references to Clark et al, 2016 in Nature Climate Change, suggesting the final sea level rise on millennia timescale caused by anthropogenic climate change (partly depending on future emissions) lies in a range between 29 to 55 metres and to DeConto & Pollard, 2016 in Nature, a study suggesting hydro - fracturing and ice cliff collapse around Antarctic ice sheets increases high end projection for sea level rise by 2100 to ± 2 metres.

Given scenario B or C, the effects on humans would not be catastrophic, yet the call to urgent action is predicated on the high end projection.

A 3ºC change by 2100 — which is not the high end projection — puts the planet in a temperature range not seen since the Pliocene some 3 million years ago.

The assumption (and that is all it is) that «The only real impact it would have is to limit the growth of our standard of living» is not justified, and allmost certainly false if high end projections of temperature increase by the end of this century are realized (or if high end projections of economic impacts are realized with central estimates of temperature increase).

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Apple also gave better projections for the third quarter than expected, giving investors more confidence in the company's long - term health at a time when its top smartphone rival, Samsung, said it expects demand for its high - end phones to soften.

While stocks have a terminal value beyond a 10 - year period, the effects of interest rates and nominal growth on those projections largely cancel out because higher nominal GDP growth over a given 10 - year horizon is correlated with both higher interest rates and generally lower market valuations at the end of that period.

Will Hernandez, an interior line prospect out of UTEP, blew the bench press out of the water with a whopping 37 reps. Hernandez is projected as a late first or early second - round prospect, and these results may push him toward the high end of those projections.

By the end of June 2017 the prison population is projected to be 83,100 on the lower projection, 88,900 on the medium projection and 91,800 on the higher projection

«Our projection of a Democratic gain of around 10 - 15 seats is still our best judgment at the moment, with the higher end being likelier at this point,» according to the report, issued Oct. 27.

The General Fund ended June with a balance of $ 3 billion, which was nearly $ 4.2 billion lower than a year earlier but $ 548.3 million higher than the latest projection.

Most projections say tighter regulations, cleaner sources of electricity and higher - mileage vehicles will cut industrial emissions enough by the end of this century that farm emissions will be starved of the other ingredients necessary to create aerosols, she said.

The independent, scientific report recommends that is it is prudent to plan for sea level to be 2.1 feet higher in 2050 along Maryland's shorelines than it was in 2000 in order to accommodate the high end of the range of the panel's projections.

The Antarctic could follow a mid-range projections in the near term but still end up on an extremely high - end projection by the end of the century.

UPDATED, Friday AM after Thursday night EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox's Deadpool 2 came in at the high end of projections last night with $ 18.6 million, easily making it the best preview night ever for an R - rated film.

The basic argument for interim assessments is actually quite compelling: let's fix our students» learning problems during the year, rather than waiting for high - stakes state tests to make summative judgments on us all at the end of the year, because interim assessments can be aggregated and have external referents (projection to standards, norms, scales).

The rate of increase is projected to increase in 2018 to 2.4 per cent and to «remain high until towards the end of the projection period».

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Two recent reviews of research on warming and the oceans in Nature Reports / Climate Change have stressed just how unlikely those high - end sea projections are.

Nevertheless it is interesting to consider this alongside, say, Stott and Jones (2012) who showed that constraining the models with recent observations makes the higher end of long - term projections look less likely, although long - term warming is still projected.

This gives a range of climate sensitivity that is much larger than the IPCC range (1.5 to 4.5 deg C for a doubling of CO2), and which therefore translates to wider bounds on possible climate projections both at the high end and low end.

In the political arena, things like natural variablity and uncertainty are introduced quite often, but in Science, the logic is reversed: if the past is more variable than we think, or the more uncertainty in higher - end projections, the more worry for the future.

Given the previous sea - level trend estimate of about 1.5 mm / y, there is a gap that requires either that these two components both be at the high end of projections or that there is a significant contribution from Antarctica and / or Greenland.

But while plenty of other climate scientists hold firm to the idea that the full range of possible outcomes, including a disruptively dangerous warming of more than 4.5 degrees C. (8 degrees F.), remain in play, it's getting harder to see why the high - end projections are given much weight.

Their notion is to have a «Plan C» if emissions trajectories are not bent downward and the higher end of warming projections comes to pass.

Climate Central has a good graphic showing areas of New York City at risk from the higher end of the surge projections.

When talking to the media, some have been tempted to push beyond what the science supports — focusing on the high end of projections of global temperatures in 2100 or highlighting the scarier scenarios for emissions of greenhouse gases.

Net result is to drop the apparent purple line about 0.6 C, which puts reality at the high end of Hansen's projections.

Note that the «long, fat tail» of high - end warming projections in AR4 is absent from projections based on more recent science.

Often the focus is only on the middle range of projections, dismissing the risk from the higher end of the range.

Although mangroves will be able to withstand moderate sea level rise, the highest projections for the end of this century are likely to overwhelm many of these ecosystems, according to a new study.

The projections for the end of the century (2081 - 2100) are approximately 5.6 °F for the lower emissions scenario and 8.5 °F for the higher emissions scenario (see Ch.

However, even if one agrees with the dire, higher - end ECS projections, I find today's political demands to be more an expression of current self - interest than a plea for future insurance.

The following chart from Think Progress contrasts TransCanada's construction job estimates with the high - end projections from Cornell's report:

Sea - level projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by our research group and by others indicate that global average sea level at the end of the century would likely be about 1 - 2.5 feet higher under the Paris path than in 2000.

The A1FI scenario [for up to 6.4 degrees of warming by century's end] was used in the UKCIP02 and UKCP09 climate projections, and a number of high profile UK conferences focussed on the higher - end risks of climate change, eg.

However, these adaptations will not necessarily reduce all of the negative impacts of climate change, and the effectiveness of adaptations could diminish at the higher end of warming projections.

For example, the higher - end projections of warming indicate that before the end of the 21st Century, parts of the world would experience temperatures that exceed physiological limits during periods of the year, making it impossible to work or carry out other physical activity outside.

2: Our Changing Climate, Key Messages 5 and 6).4, 10 A range of model projections for the end of this century under a higher emissions scenario (A2), averaged over the region, suggests about 5 % to 20 % (25th to 75th percentile of model projections) increases in winter precipitation.

The statistical models most responsible for the high - end sea level rise projections used have been shown to be questionable and thus unreliable.

The creation of high end unachievable scenarios just to create alarming but impossible warming projections seems inherently deceptive and dishonest.

4) the end results on the bottom of the first table (on maximum temperatures), clearly showed a drop in the speed of warming that started around 38 years ago, and continued to drop every other period I looked / /... 5) I did a linear fit, on those 4 results for the drop in the speed of global maximum temps, versus time, ended up with y = 0.0018 x -0.0314, with r2 = 0.96 At that stage I was sure to know that I had hooked a fish: I was at least 95 % sure (max) temperatures were falling 6) On same maxima data, a polynomial fit, of 2nd order, i.e. parabolic, gave me y = -0.000049 × 2 + 0.004267 x — 0.056745 r2 = 0.995 That is very high, showing a natural relationship, like the trajectory of somebody throwing a ball... 7) projection on the above parabolic fit backward, (10 years?)

Instead of including projections for extreme climate changes as a result of continued human emissions of greenhouse gases resulting from our production of energy, the high - end projections would have featured relatively modest changes and the low - end projections would have been completely unremarkable.

To make the IPCC projections of the evolution of the earth's average temperature better reflect the latest scientific estimates of the climate sensitivity, it is necessary to adjust them downward by about 30 % at the low end, about 50 % at the high end, and about 40 % in the middle.

U.S. natural gas production over the past three years has exceeded even the high - end resource projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The Antarctic could follow a mid-range projections in the near term but still end up on an extremely high - end projection by the end of the century.

Many of these cities will be submerged ice melt continues at its current rate (which is already greatly outstripping the highest - end IPCC projections — e.g. see here.