Sentences with phrase «impacts on local scales»

Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers will need to adapt to the inevitable.

Not exact matches

Tax cuts always effect assets prices, regulations are estimated to account for up to 35 % of building new construction costs for homes in some locations and though federal deregulation may not impact local regulations as much it does have a multiplier effect on the economy just like a tax cut does and anticipation of an infrastructure plan the scale of this administration's, though it hasn't been passed, would also have an anticipatory effect on leading indicators like stocks and other commodities that raise costs, which we have already seen.

Residents and local producers are concerned about the economic, social and environmental impacts of large - scale industrial farming on the region.

Local impact - tsunami damage is known from the gigantic Chicxulub impact on Yucatán 65 million years ago, but at that scale of impact, tsunamis were the least of the hazards faced by Earth's biota.

There are already some schemes in Brazil to pay private land owners to set aside land to conserve the forest, preserve species and maintain healthy ecosystems, but these have been local - scale initiatives that have had little impact on maintaining and improving the conditions of the forest as a whole.

Until now, those landscape changes have never been studied on a national or international scale, Schimel said, adding that research suggesting a climate impact, either global or local, is «kind of a new thing.»

Angel also argues in his paper that local dumping would cause «no impact on biodiversity... because the distribution of species are ocean basin in scale».

Modeling the impact of cattle movements on transmission dynamics of bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) in the United States at local and national scales.

However, human activity is having an impact on this precious resource on local, regional and global scales.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

There is an inherent tradeoff in conducting research on a scale small enough to identify local impact and large enough to discern a true impact from statistical noise.

Require immigration agents and local law enforcement agencies to collaborate with school officials to mitigate the negative impact of impending immigration raids and small - scale enforcement activities on students.

While still leaving local school districts the flexibility to establish their own pay scale, the District of Columbia should articulate policies that definitively discourage them from tying compensation to advanced degrees, in light of the extensive research showing that such degrees do not have an impact on teacher effectiveness.

It is also a social - ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global.

Householders were asked to indicate the acceptability of eight management options on a five - point Likert scale in response to the introductory statement: «If it was shown that cats were having a severe impact on garden birds and some form of management solution was considered necessary, please indicate whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree or have no opinion about each of the following»: (a) people living in ecologically sensitive areas should not be allowed to own a cat; (b) no one living in a town or city should be allowed to own a cat; (c) all cats should be fitted with a bell or other anti-predation device; (d) cats should not be allowed to roam outside their owner's garden; (e) cats should not be allowed out during the day; (f) cats should be registered with the local council; (g) cats should undergo compulsory sterilisation; (h) cats should be de-clawed.»

This line from the 2007 report's chapter on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

Volcanoes Impact Climate on Local to Global Scale Through Their Emissions Location: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Dr. Allegra LeGrande

The latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted these concerns: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

Jerry specializes in understanding the impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems from local to global scales, using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling.

The SAB finds that the EPA did not support quantitatively its conclusion about lack of evidence for widespread, systemic impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, and did not clearly describe the system (s) of interest (e.g., groundwater, surface water), the scale of impacts (i.e., local or regional), nor the definitions of «systemic» and «widespread.»

The potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change are covered; environmental impacts of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed.

The large - scale climate, for instance, determines the environment for microscale (1 km or less) and mesoscale (from several kilometers to several hundred kilometers) processes that govern weather and local climate, and these small - scale processes likely have significant impacts on the evolution of the large - scale circulation.»

In consideration of themes and programming for the 2017 congress, the local organizing committee envisions a broad and inclusive view of topics on environmental and sustainability education that will highlight the impact of urban ecosystems and local, place based initiatives that can be translated into practices on a global scale.

The resultant local changes in microclimate can have broader - scale impacts on climate and vegetation elsewhere via «ecoclimate teleconnections» [12,13].

«The reality of urban warming on local and small regional scales is not questioed by this work; it is the impact of urban warming on estimates of global and large regional trends that is shown to be small.»

Second, nearly every impact of importance is driven by what is liable to happen to the climate on the regional to local scale, but it is well known that current global - scale models have limited ability to simulate climate effects as this degree of spatial resolution.

There is a major industry that involves taking GCM output and using that to evaluate local impacts on crops, endangered species, and ecosystems, and often what gives the biggest impact is changes in the extremes, but even the mean climate at a local scale has not been demonstrated to be accurately simulated.

Elevated temperatures can have direct, local effects on drought as well as impacts on circulation features that promote large - scale droughts.

Some coverage of our paper in Climatic Change exploring the potential for local scale climate change impacts on malaria transmission:

Wood heating is practiced on a small scale, the fuel is usually harvested from a local resource, and the users gain a more complete understanding of their impacts on the environment than users of other energy sources.

But the math (according to many more qualified folk than I) doesn't support that; though waste heat can be detectable in some UHI measurements, the effect is too small to have a real impact on any but local scales.

Visually intriguing and done with a tiny budget of USD $ 39,000, interventions like these may be small - scale, but small libraries can have big impact on locals and the neighbourhood they live in — increasing literacy and deepening a life - long appreciation for books and to learn new technologies.

Such projects have a broad range, and may include things such as: the construction and interpretation of climate change scenarios on local to national scales, the study of changes in extremes, the evaluation of impacts on infrastructure, forests, agriculture, and energy production and distribution.