Sentences with phrase «likely impact in the future»

An independent privacy and civil liberties oversight board will be set up to interrogate legislation and its likely impact in the future.

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The hope is that by focusing their efforts on applicants most likely to be future leaders in their respective countries, even a small program might be able to impact relations between nations.
But the impact is likely to be minimal, Sebastian said, at least in the near future.
Though current and future region - wide initiatives to boost expenditure are sure to be talked up by officials, in reality their impact on growth is likely to be marginal, in our view, rather than meaningful.
... seeing models undergo emotional experiences in performance situations that observers themselves are likely to face in the future has much greater emotional impact than if the observed activities have no personal relevance.
Manning's long awaited decision likely spells the end of the Tim Tebow era in Denver, and has made an immediate impact on the Broncos future odds.
And though he likely won't make an immediate impact at a Premier League clue straight away, all the necessary ingredients are there to ensure that he will be a success in the very near future.
If it successfully impacts legislative action in the future, the model will likely endure for its governing utility.
The aim of the seminar is to examine the likely impacts and future trends in these practices will have and assess the case for Government to intervene in this area to create incentives for groups and individuals to telework or teleconference.
The new proposed model could allow a better quantification of the impacts that will likely occur under changing climate and could be considered in future ocean resources and land use management.
In future, Bandyopadhyay says, better understanding how chemotherapy agents impact specific biological pathways should allow drug trials to focus on patients who are more likely to respond to the drugs being tested and enable clinicians to identify targeted or combination therapies for patients with a genetic predisposition to resistance.
Changes designed for the developed world are likely to have an even bigger impact in future, as countries such as Brazil, India and China become more urbanized and dietary preferences change.
In future work, the researchers hope to examine individual species to determine which ones are most likely to struggle with the changing climate, and which areas of the country are likely to be most impacted by conflicts between humans and relocating animals.
«Given that the predominant thinking was that transmission was most likely to peak at very hot temperatures, which would mostly limit the diseases to the tropics, we were certainly surprised that the model and the field data suggested that high rates of transmission could occur at lower temperatures, possibly impacting more northern regions in the future,» Cohen said.
To study those impacts, the glaciologists are teaming up with ecologists, oceanographers, biologists and botanists to assess how socio - economically important species like salmon are likely to fare in the warmer Alaska of the future.
If binary asteroids can form single craters, then Earth is more likely to hit by a binary impact in future than our planet's crater record would suggest.
«Our results expose a specific regional hot spot where climate change, in the absence of significant [carbon cuts], is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,» said Jeremy Pal and Elfatih Eltahir of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Working at the national and international levels, the Association aims to articulate policy and implement programs likely to have the broadest possible impact for sociology now and in the future.
For example, one study on the impact of program - family partnerships for Early Head Start showed program families were more likely to support their children's development and literacy skills than families not in the program.Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low - Income Families, 2001.
In considering the situations facing the world today and those likely to impact the future of civilizations, whether it be related to getting along with others, sharing finite resources, or managing existing ones, the future needs citizens who can think.
When I say look «beyond», I don't mean to what future innovations will change the way we tell stories, I mean look at what has necessitated the rise of the ebook, and how this is likely to continue to impact our business in myriad ways.
The study showed that the impact on e-book buying was inconclusive - e — book borrowers tended to already buy high numbers of e-books, with a less than a third of people saying they were less likely to buy e-books in future, and the same number saying there were no more or less likely to buy e-books.
Since Senator Young is so new the Senate Chamber, and he was assigned to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions, so he will most likely have a direct impact on education in the future.
The only positive factor in this respect is the flurry of share buy backs which will most likely continue in the future and will increase expected earnings per share growth, counterbalancing some of the impact from the adverse macro environment referred to above.
Of course with the fan base for Indie Games clearly growing and making a huge impact on Nintendo's main aspirations for the Switch Console it's pretty likely that we'll see more Nintendo Switch Indie Games in the foreseeable future and beyond the vague date of Early 2018 predominately stated above.
My point is simply that we need to try to get a handle on what's most likely to be most heavily impacted in the nearest term future, so that we can (hopefully) take appropriate actions on the adaptation front.
It is not likely to be pleasant and it is probably past time to create some sort of repository for current human knowledge in the hope that it might prove useful in some distant future... perhaps stick it on the moon so the Earthly turmoils will have limited impact and we can assume that the species has once again achieved some technical capabilities.
The Gibson text doesn't emphasize people's influence on the climate, but it embraces the impacts that scientists say are already occurring or are likely to in the future.
We also estimate future strikes will likely have a minimal impact; for example, an 11-fold increase in vessels would lead to a 50 % chance the long - term population would be considered depleted.
Some of these challenges are likely to be aggravated by future climate change as it will impact the urban transport sector in more ways than one.
Taking such feedbacks into account, 1,000 GtC would likely result in a temperature rise of at least 3 degrees Celsius, the authors say, and the impacts from climate change would be «locked in» (impossible to reverse) for the future after 2100.
This analytical document explains the underlying mechanisms of the impact of climate change through altered thermal conditions in the workplace, shows examples of the current and likely future impacts and provides indications of policy response options to these challenges.
The analysis seeks to capture the economic risks of low - probability, high - impact climate events as well as the changes most likely to occur in the future.
As «rational skeptics», all we have to do is insist on empirical evidence to support any hypothesis of what has caused past warming and what the impact of this forcing is likely to be in the future.
bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the building of wind turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of turbines.
The more you exaggerate past or future climate change or its impacts, the more important your research looks and the more likely it is to get funded («Look, my research showing that millions could die by 2050 has been reported in the Guardian!
With this confirmation, one could assume that all warming since 1850 was due to human CO2 emissions, but then the logical conclusion is cast in concrete science - CO2's impact is shrinking towards zero, as observed, and likely will have even a smaller global warming impact in the future.
«However, our analysis reveals that the anthropogenic impact on Antarctic SMB is very likely to emerge from natural variability by the middle of the current century, thus mitigating future increases in global sea level.»
My personal view is that it is highly likely that the models are wrong in projecting any future impacts.
Adapting to climate change means understanding what climate we are likely to experience in the future, and creating proactive plans that take advantage of opportunities and prepare for impacts.
A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that if countries take more action to curb emissions, the impacts of climate change and associated costs are likely to be lower in the future.
Quantitative implications of the secondary role of carbon dioxide climate forcing in the past glacial - interglacial cycles for the likely future climatic impacts of anthropogenic greenhouse - gas forcings (arXiv: 0707.1276, July 2007)-- Soon, Willie
Analyzing them gives us different assumptions of greenhouse gases in the future, and what the likely climate impact is going to be.
Methane is an important part of the anthropogenic radiative forcing Methane emissions have a direct GHG effect, and they effect atmospheric chemistry and stratospheric water vapour which have additional impacts natural feedbacks involving methane likely to be important in future — via wetland response to temperature / rain change, atmospheric chemistry and, yes, arctic sources There are large stores of carbon in the Arctic, some stored as hydrates, some potentially convertible to CH4 by anaerobic resporation [from wikianswers: Without oxygen.
Many also question the scientific validity of the IPCC projections of future anthropogenic warming and its consequences, especially the IPCC premise that these are likely to result in serious negative impacts, i.e. a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment, unless actions are undertaken to curtail human GHG emissions (principally CO2).
Policy decisions made during this window are likely to result in changes to Earth's climate system measured in millennia rather than human lifespans, with associated socioeconomic and ecological impacts that will exacerbate the risks and damages to society and ecosystems that are projected for the twenty - first century and propagate into the future for many thousands of years.
While this would only occur in the more distant future with continued and considerable increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, it would likely have dramatic impacts on the climate and ecosystems.
This in turn, hampers the development of future projections on likely impacts on both people and ecosystems, and hinders effective action to adapt to anticipated changes in the Himalayan region.
«Our results expose a specific regional hotspot where climate change, in the absence of significant mitigation, is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,» they say.
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