Sentences with phrase «of associated warming»

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The main reasons the business community should stand on the side of clean energy innovation are that it will, in the long run, save companies money, provide better energy security, reduce healthcare costs, and reduce costs associated with having to adapt to a warmer climate.

The rising cost of oil, its impact on global warming, the geopolitical risks associated with oil dependency (especially as fuel for automobiles), followed more recently by the rise of cost effective alternatives presents a «change the world» opportunity for Apple.

The phrase is the antithesis of the warm, fuzzy feelings associated with the holidays, notes Consumer Reports.

Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.

Current projections of global warming in the absence of action are just too close to the kinds of numbers associated with doomsday scenarios.

With all her endowments, the reason why I still think she has to grow up is because she associates things, events, people and actions in neat categories of good - bad, wrong - right, true - false, warm - cold and so on.

The list of artists who have unintentionally and unwillingly been associated with the Donald Trump campaign increased when Trump used Adele's Rolling in the Deep during a rally as his «warm - up music.»

These words and the concepts associated with them were very useful for intellectual purposes, but they made no contribution to life, and Levin suddenly felt he was in the position of a man who had exchanged a warm fur coat for a muslin blouse, and who the first time he finds himself in the frost is persuaded beyond question, not by arguments but by the whole of his being, that he's no better than naked and is inevitably bound to perish miserably.16

As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.

Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.

Designed by award - winning local architects Gensler & Associates, the restaurant will transform its former modern - elemental look in favor of beautiful wood flooring and walls and hand - blown light fixtures that exude a warm and inviting atmosphere.

And I love how you associate those warm cookies and hot cocoa with that sweet tradition of finding a tree.

Through the lens of the meridian system, it is The Triple Warmer who is associated with the Yang of the Moon, while it is The Spleen meridian who is associated with the Yin Side.

Research shows that if parents can have a warm, cooperative, co-parenting relationship, then that's going to be positive for the child's development,» says Sarah Schoppe - Sullivan, an associate professor in the Ohio State University department of human sciences.

And without the warm fuzzies I associated with the act of breastfeeding, extracting milk just totally sucked — pun intended.

2 tablespoons of baking soda in a warm bath will help heal diaper rash and lessen the redness associated with diaper rash.

For example, when the room temperature was warmer (> 21 °C), fan use was associated with a 94 % decreased risk of SIDS (AOR, 0.06; 95 % CI, 0.01 - 0.52) compared with no fan use.

For instance, the younger people are today, the more risks of negative consequences associated with global warming they will be exposed to.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

Worldwide, carbon storage has the capability to provide more than 15 percent of the emissions reductions needed to limit the rise in atmospheric CO2 to 450 parts per million by 2050, an oft - cited target associated with a roughly 50 - percent chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees, but that would involve 3,200 projects sequestering some 150 gigatons of CO2, says Juho Lipponen, who heads the CCS unit of the International Energy Agency in Paris.

Carbon, of course, is associated with global warming.

As part of the Renewable Fuels Standard, EPA will attempt to determine the global warming pollution associated with fuel from plants

Assistant professor Kathrin Rousk, Department of Biology, explains, «to aid in predicting the role of moss - associated N2 fixation in a warmer, future climate, we quantified N2 fixation throughout the snow - free period in subarctic tundra.

A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.

In MS patients, warmer outdoor temperature was associated with greater BOLD activation during performance of a simple sustained attention task.

These types of plants have been associated with environments that supply high concentrations of essential nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and warm - wet climatic conditions, both of which help plants photosynthesize more productively.

warming of the sea surface in the equatorial Pacific is associated with a vast fluctuation in atmospheric pressure.

Storing the carbon associated with global warming proved the most remunerative of the ecosystem services, providing roughly $ 378 of value over every hectare — despite a relatively low assumed price of carbon of $ 2.50 per metric ton.

The warmer temperatures and increased rainfall from El Niño have previously been associated with a higher likelihood of dengue outbreaks.

«To me, the unfortunate thing is that because electric cars are very closely associated with the left - wing environmental green movement and to combating global warming and reducing CO2, the idea of vehicle electrification triggers this visceral reaction on the part of conservatives, which is, «If it's electric, it must be a product of the Democratic left - wing environmental machine, and therefore, we hate it,»» he said.

While they are not suggesting the world will warm overall, according to their model the local changes are comparable in magnitude to those associated with a doubling of CO2.

Jeff Joireman, associate professor of marketing at Washington State University, demonstrated that «future - oriented» women are the voting bloc most strongly motivated to invest money, time and taxes toward reducing global warming.

Likewise, conservatives with higher news media literacy were less likely to believe five conspiracy theories commonly associated with conservatives — among them that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., that global warming is a hoax, and that the 2010 health care law authorized government panels to make end - of - life decisions for people on Medicare.

One associated effect of being «warm - blooded» is a relatively fast growth - rate.

His research with Qinghua Ding, a UW research associate, showed that the majority of Antarctic warming came during the 1990s in response to El Niño conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

Without the periodic upwelling of cold water associated with La Niña, warm water would cover most of the surface of the Pacific, releasing its heat into an atmosphere already warming because of climate change.

«This strategy of deriving energy from the sun is described as ectothermy (outside heat) and gives reptiles the advantage of having a warm body without the high good costs associated with endothermy,» says McGowan.

It's reasonable to think that we can actually do this; that if we use our technological resources wisely, we really can manage to head off the worst kinds of problems that could be associated with global warming; but it's not going to be a matter of just one magical technology.

But, one, you've got the cost that would be associated with the global warming consequences of flooding and so forth and changes in growing seasons.

In their new Conservation Genetics paper, the researchers say, «Past gene flow also suggests that human - assisted gene flow is necessary to conserve the ecosystem services associated with predation, since climate warming has reduced the frequency of ice bridges and with it the only opportunity for unassisted gene flow.

«We find that civil wars were much more likely to happen in warmer - than - average years, with one degree Celsius warmer temperatures in a given year associated with a 50 percent higher likelihood of conflict in that year,» Burke says.

«Looking at weather and dengue incidents over longer periods, we found a similar strong link between how increased rainfall and warmer temperatures resulting from the reoccurring el Niño phenomenon are associated with elevated risks of dengue epidemics.

Researchers used data from the two countries because they «are the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases and responsible for about one - third of global warming to date,» said Longjian Liu, M.D., Ph.D., lead study author and an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The warm ocean water presently melting Totten Glacier — East Antarctica's largest glacier, which flows from the Aurora Basin — could be an early warning sign, said co-lead author Amelia Shevenell, an associate professor in the University of South Florida College of Marine Science.

Today's climate models predict a 50 percent increase in lightning strikes across the United States during this century as a result of warming temperatures associated with climate change.

Prior research demonstrates that, regardless of a child's temperament, a warm and supportive teacher - child relationship in early elementary school is associated with fewer problem behaviors and greater classroom engagement.

This fieldwork piggybacks on a recent finding by Jessica Lundquist, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and her lab that shows that tree cover actually causes snow to melt more quickly on the western slopes of the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains and other warm, Mediterranean - type climates around the world.

On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences, will discuss approaches to this challenge in a talk titled «Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events.»

Their new analysis is based on a computer simulation of the changes in temperature of the atmosphere associated with greenhouse warming.