Sentences with phrase «much future damage»

In my recent op - ed for The Hill examining the Obama administration's estimation of the social cost of carbon (SCC)-- a measure of how much future damage is purportedly going to be caused by each ton of carbon dioxide that is emitted through human activities — I identified two major problems with their measure.

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In this respect, we need to think hard about what we can do to prevent the type of speculative bubbles that occurred from causing so much damage in the future.

I think, in the future, women will find out how much damage they did to them.

«Our estimate can guide policy makers and the oil industry in determining not only how much should be spent on restoration efforts for the Deepwater spill, but also how much should be invested to protect against damages that could result from future oil spills,» said Boyle.

Just how much energy would be absorbed and what the extent of damage could be done by rising sea levels and tsunamis or king tides is the subject of future research.

Remaining issues include mechanisms for transparency that would ensure nations live up to their commitments, how much money will be available to help struggling nations adapt to climate change or deal with loss and damage from extreme weather, and whether commitments will be revisited and made more ambitious in the future.

This paves the way for medical researchers to use CHP probes in the future as a way of diagnosing if a person has damaged collagen and if so, how much and where, before a massive tear happens.

«At its core, the climate problem is about protecting the future against intolerable damages, so it's essential that policymakers think clearly about how much we value our descendants.

This new ingredient works much like Retinol, and Bakuchiol also reverses signs of ageing and prevents future skin damage.

You do not have to necessarily fix it all, but it gives you perspective as to how much you may need to invest in the near future and what you must invest now to ensure the car does not undergo further damage as you drive it.

Said another way, actuaries can project with much better certainty the financial damage a legion of 16 - year - old male drivers will create over the next 5 years than what the S&P 500 will be on a certain date 5 years into the future.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

To add the uniqueness of The Caligula Effect, the battle system is set up in a way that's referred to as the Imaginary Chain, wherein before you execute your moves, you can get a «glimpse into the future» of how the outcome of your choices will end up like, so you can get a good idea of roughly how much damage you'll be doing, as well as if the enemy will be countering your moves at all.

This infographic illustrates exactly how much destruction ensued and the long - term damages future generations will have to contend with.

The changes that we have seen so far are not catastrophic on a global scale, though future changes are going to be much larger and there is a very real risk of substantive damages.

They are trying to restore coastal wetlands in the South Bay area to mitigate future storm damage, and spending money to do so (it's not clear from this link how much.)

Each generation of young people discovers it — but doesn't understand why previous generations couldn't have figured out in their own time that much of what they were doing was stupid because it damaged those «young people, future generations and nature» — while making the current generation richer than any before.

They recommend to policy makers that time is very short before we lock the system into a future likely to produce much more disastrous damage.

But will this shift in perceptions and evidence affect prospects for meaningful action on greenhouse gases — which of course is a much tougher challenge than the near - term imperative of girding against future damage from such storms?

As climate activists, we're inundated with how bad the climate crisis is — how horrible the future could be, how many people and living things will suffer, how much the damage will cost.

We have repeatedly lost thousands of lives, communities and livelihoods and we are still left with little means to build resilience and adapt to present and future impacts of climate change, much less to rebuild and recover from massive unavoidable losses and damages.

Is adaptation all about minimising damage or are their opportunities as well; can adaptation proceed only through deliberately planned actions focused specifically on adaptation to climate change; how much must be known about future climates to make decisions about adaptation?

The discrepancy between the estimates of the value of climate damage stem from radically different views on how much weight the people of the present should give to damages caused by the climate in the distant future.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

Above all, the planet will be greatly damaged by climate change and ocean acidification and future generations (both human and non-human) will have to live in a world that is much inferior to the one that we enjoy.

At a 3 % discount rate, future damage is discounted 95 % per century, so unless climate damage increases by a factor of twenty per century, later centuries don't count much towards the total cost at all.

The social cost of carbon (SCC)-- how much damage a ton of CO2 or other GHGs is doing (and will do in the future) to the planet — is a concept much revered in environmental circles as supporting rational policy making.

The damages from climate change that will accrue 50, 100, or 250 years into the future are impossible to verify, and how much present value to assign them is purely a matter of social preference.

In this installment, we describe a particularly egregious fault that exists in at least one of the prominent models used by the federal government to determine the SCC: The projections of future sea - level rise (a leading driver of future climate change - related damages) from the model are much higher than even the worst - case mainstream scientific thinking on the matter.

The main objections levied by Michaels and Dayaratna were that the Obama Administration's calculations assume too much warming from CO2 emissions, underestimate the positive effects of increased CO2, and favor low discount rates to accentuate damages in the far future.

The discount rate, generally put, reflects how much you are willing to pay now to avert future damages.

Nearly three months later, at least one scientist is offering some answers as to how much climate change impacted the odds of the hurricane that left at least 82 dead and damaged more than 119,000 homes in Harris County, Texas — and how much it'll continue to boost those odds in the future.

At that point, the question of your own carelessness or negligence will be considered, along with all the other factors that determine how much your claim is worth, such as the seriousness of your injuries, your past and future medical expenses, the extent of the property damage involved, etc.).

Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged for lack of legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.

Several variables, such as the age of the injured person and how long they will have to live with the injury, the injured person's prior health, and the likelihood of future recovery need to be considered when deciding how much to pursue in damages.

Economic Damages Reports calculate, in present value terms, how much money will be required today to offset economic damages which will occur in the Damages Reports calculate, in present value terms, how much money will be required today to offset economic damages which will occur in the damages which will occur in the future.

Once you have recovered from your injuries (or have recovered as much as you are going to), your lawyer will obtain all of your treatment charts, supporting documents for out of pocket expenses (often called «special damages»), supporting documents for any loss of income, and supporting documents for any future costs of care.

Some people don't give much thought to the policy that they purchase and then end up in trouble in the future when they are involved in a van accident and their premium doesn't cover all of the damages.

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Foreclosure, however it may occur, can be damaging to your credit and reputation.Instead, working with your bank or lender to approve a short sale will have much less impact on your future.