Sentences with phrase «of pik»

************************************************************************ 2002 BERLIN CONFERENCE ON THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Berlin, 6 - 7 December 2002 Plenary speakers include Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Oran Young, chair of the IHDP Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change project; and John Schellnhuber, director of PIK and research director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

In case of Die Welt, one of my PIK colleagues had explicitly pointed out to the author, in response to a query by him, that the 5 % human share of CO2 is misleading and that humans have caused a 45 % increase.

«We don't trust climate models yet to predict specific episodes of extreme weather because the models are too coarse,» said study co-author Dim Coumou of PIK.

«However, the models do faithfully reproduce large scale patterns of temperature change,» added co-author Kai Kornhuber of PIK.

«Increased variability — this rather technical term translates into potentially severe impacts on people who can not afford additional loss,» says Anders Levermann, one of the study's authors and co-chair of PIK's research domain Sustainable Solutions.

It complements previous research that already linked such phenomena to climate change, but did not yet identify a mechanism behind it,» says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of PIK and co-author of the study.

It is rather a supporting actor that has to come into play right from the beginning, while the major part is up to the mitigation protagonist,» says co-author Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of PIK.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

In any location worldwide the same simple and universal expressions hold true,» says co-author Jürgen Kropp, deputy chair of PIK research domain Climate Impacts & Vulnerabilities.

Not exact matches

The simple dynamics of supply and demand manifested themselves, and over time lending standards have loosened, and some of the troublesome practices of years ago, such as PIK toggles, have made a comeback.

In some cases, some of our investments may provide for deferred interest payments or PIK interest.

of course, wife is automatically skeptical and says too many people nit pik.

A team of scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now provides a method to quantify monetary losses from coastal floods under sea - level rise.

Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now analyzed the magnitude of future hurricane losses in relation to economic growth.

«We can predict the beginning of the Indian monsoon two weeks earlier, and the end of it even six weeks earlier than before — which is quite a breakthrough, given that for the farmers every day counts,» says Veronika Stolbova from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the University of Zurich, the lead - author of the study to be published in the Geophysical Research Letters.

«Projected rainfall changes for the end of the 21st century will not lead to complete Amazon dieback,» says co-author Carl Schleussner from Berlin - based scientific think tank Climate Analytics and PIK.

This study has been conducted in collaboration with researchers from Columbia University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and University of Bonn.

Behind these devastating individual events there is a common physical cause, propose scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Developing the pyunicorn package involved collaborators at PIK, Humboldt University Berlin, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, University of Aberdeen and Nishny Novgorod State University, located respectively in Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Russia.

After opening remarks by PIK director John Schellnhuber, the IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri presented an overview over the main findings of the latest IPCC report.

Rudolf Kipp of the Science Skeptical site has a post on the latest climate predictions of Hans - Joachim Schellnhuber, the Director of the alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

This week's print edition of Der Spiegel features an interview with Prof. Hans - Joachim Schellnhuber, the Director of the climate doomsday Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and advisor to Pope Francis.

He serves on several scientific committees and boards, e.g., as the vice-chair of the science advisory board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK) and he chairs the visioning process on global environmental change of ICSU, the International Council for Science.

Dr Alexander Popp, who was not part of today's research, is head of the land - use management group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).

Organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the GOTHAM Summer School (18th - 22nd September 2017) will train young scientists on a unique combination of interdisciplinary scientific topics and tools relevant for understanding teleconnections and their role in causing extreme weather events.

Caption: Visualisation of ice flow in the Antarctic ice sheet model PISM - PIK.

Writing in Nature Climate Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting of quite a small volume of ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge of ice into the ocean which would result in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years ahead.

He is a leader at the renowned Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PIK; an Adjunct Scientist at Columbia University in New York; the Lead Author of the latest IPCC chapter on Sea Level Change; journal editor, and more.

Faculty, planners, PIK editorial scientific team, reviewers, and medical writers are required to disclose any personal interest or relationship they or their spouse / partner have with the supporters of this activity or any commercial interest that is discussed in their presentation.

The history of returns on PIK bonds are such that you are usually better off putting the money under a mattress.

With PIKs, one can be concerned with the return on the money, and the return of the money at the same time.

The willingness of lenders to take risk was declining, particularly on PIK bonds and Toggle notes.

But the liquidation payout of each security (the public company, GYRO, the ownership entity dividend, GSD, and the dividend notes and their PIK interest) is ultimately defined as a percentage of the recombined entity.

«Two degrees is not a magical limit — it's clearly a political goal,» says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

I was wondering for some time now, how much the findings of the work of scientists, be it the IPCC, be it the PIK in Potsdam or what have you, can be taken for granted in order for policy makers to make valuable decisions (e.g. cutting carbon emissions by half by 2050) and if the uncertainties in the models might outweigh certain decisions to reduce carbon emissions so that in the end it might happen that these uncertainties make these decisions obsolete, because they do not suffice to avoid «dangerous climate change»?

Recent independent analyses of current mitigation proposals on the table in Copenhagen by Nicholas Stern, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Ecofys, Climate Analytics, the Sustainability Institute (C - ROADS), the European Climate Foundation and ClimateWorks (Project Catalyst), all point to the same conclusion: the negotiations must deliver the high end of current proposals and stretch beyond them, if the world is to have a reasonable chance of containing warming to below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, or the 1.5 °C goal of many developing nations.

«We detected a specific pattern of ocean cooling south of Greenland and unusual warming off the US coast — which is highly characteristic for a slowdown of the Atlantic overturning, also called the Gulf Stream system,» said the lead author, Levke Caesar from PIK.

Just recently a «scientist» at the German hyper alarmist PIK «found out» that the (temporary) loss of sea ice in the arctic leads to increased ocean heat loss to the atmosphere resulting in more snow elsewhere.

from PIK and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at New York's Columbia University, said: «We don't know what the impacts on the ground will be, this is beyond the scope of our study; but imagine the chance of a greening Sahel.

Bob Tisdale says: January 10, 2011 at 3:05 pm Manfred says: «Just recently a «scientist» at the German hyper alarmist PIK «found out» that the (temporary) loss of sea ice in the arctic leads to increased ocean heat loss to the atmosphere resulting in more snow elsewhere.

Recognizing the need, Mark Lawrence, Dieter Gerten and Stefan Schäfer organized a 2013 workshop in Potsdam, Germany focused on the «Religious and Spiritual Perspectives of Climate Engineering,» sponsored by IASS and PIK - Potsdam.

And his co-author Anders Levermann, from PIK and the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at New York's Columbia University, said: «We don't know what the impacts on the ground will be, this is beyond the scope of our study; but imagine the chance of a greening Sahel.

PIK initiated and has co-hosted the biennial Nobel Laureate Symposium on questions of global sustainability since 2007.

Together with the University of Alaska, PIK develops the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM), an innovative computer model of continental ice sheet dynamics.

PIK is part of a global network of scientific and academic institutions working on questions of global environmental change.

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) was founded in 1992 and currently has a staff of about 280 people.

Through institutions like the Climate - KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), whose German branch was founded with PIK support, the institute is in continuous exchange with the business community.

PIK generates fundamental knowledge for sustainable development primarily through data analysis and computer simulations of the dynamic processes in the earth system, but also of social processes.

PIK plays an active role in activities such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), also known as the world's climate council, whose working group on the mitigation of climate change is coordinated by PIK researchers.