Sentences with phrase «major land components»

While this report does not attempt to comprehensively quantify land requirements across the entire production and distribution chain, it does cover major land components and offers a valuable starting point to further compare various energy sources and facilitates a deeper conversation surrounding the necessary trade - offs when crafting energy policy.

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FORA implements this legislatively mandated mission by overseeing replacement land use; assuring compliance with adopted measures; removing physical barriers to reuse; financing and constructing major components of the required infrastructure and basewide demands; and protecting identified environmental reserves.

1) «Land use changes are a component forcing of AGW» and I thought (according to the IPCC TAR) it was CO2 emissions but at least in your reply you are prepared to admit that CO2 is a secondary effect and that the major GHG is water vapour.

Climate system - The climate system is the highly complex system consisting of five major components: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the land surface and the biosphere, and the interactions between them.

IIUC sea level rise has three major components, melt, thermal expansion and chunks of land ice becoming sea ice / water.

The major land series used are CRUTEM4 (the land component of HadCRUT4), NCDC, GISTemp, and Berkeley Earth.

The energy entering the climate system is estimated for the various components: warming of the atmosphere and land, OHC increase, melting of glaciers and ice caps (land ice), melting of the major ice sheets (Greenland and Antarctica), and changes in the sun.

Through case studies discover the steps and concepts involved in the cost approach — how appraisers estimate the cost of constructing a reproduction of or replacement for an existing structure; the three major components of depreciation and methods for estimating and allocating depreciation; and land and site valuation.