Sentences with phrase «of possible future scenarios»

Importantly, it provides a superior framework to assess the vulnerability of marine biota to changes in pH. This approach allows the experimental and modelling frameworks that take account of the full suite of effects rather than just the scenarios derived from OA by anthropogenic CO2 alone, which may not adequately portray the range of possible future scenarios (Hendriks et al. 2010a, b; Hofmann et al. 2011), to be proposed.
The problem is not so much that the models are inaccurate as that they must, by their nature, produce a wide range of possible future scenarios.
Both studies use modelling to assess the risk of an ice - free summer under a range of possible future scenarios.
Rather, the study looks at a range of possible future scenarios, says Garner, including the business - as - usual emissions path we are still on.

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Here's one possible scenario for the settlement of the first bitcoin futures.
So, there are still two possible future scenarios - bearish that will lead us below February low following trend line breakdown, and the bullish one in a form of medium - term double top pattern or breakout towards 3,000 mark.
Bitcoin's future can best be understood by considering four scenarios that represent a range of possible outcomes.
«Buyer Scenario Modeling is the process of analyzing research - based modeling of possible events, nurturing scenarios, buying scenarios, buying behaviors, buying decisions, and alternative future outcomes.»
As God prehends the universe at the instant the piano teeters, he sees the various possible ways this little drama could be played out, sees all the ramifications of the possible scenarios, and realizes that some ways the action might unfold are better than others, that is, some outcomes would produce a future which when he, God, prehended it would make his experience more rich, more harmonious, more beautiful than his experience would be were alternative outcomes to produce quite different futures.
Dr. Geering offers ten scenarios of the possible human future — wars, starvation, mass pandemics, ecological disasters and unfettered terrorism.
In trying to assess the possible meaning and role of our groups in the future I would like to outline three possible scenarios for American society: liberal, traditional authoritarian, and revolutionary.
My own view is that there are three possible scenarios for the future direction of party politics: (i) It becomes more embedded and organic; (ii) It continues as it is; (iii) It becomes more populist.
It must be noted that this analysis presents only one possible scenario for the future of federal support of R&D.
Thanks to the historical data (1930 - 2000) shared by the FAO Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS - FAO), a joint INRA / CIRAD team was able to study the climate niche and distribution of the species during recessions, and envisage the effects of possible climate changes between now and 2050 or 2090, in line with two future climate scenarios.
Because the future composition of shrub lands and the distribution of shrub species in the Sierra Nevada is unknown, the researchers examined stream flows under multiple possible scenarios of vegetation - type conversion in two Sierra Nevada watersheds.
The heart of the report is a study of over 1000 scenarios of possible energy and climate futures.
«We're looking at scenarios and get a range of possible futures and understand a range of supply and demand so we get a range of what the balances may be.»
The goal of the Integrated Scenarios project is to use the global climate models to describe as accurately as possible what the latest science says about the Northwest's future climate.
Projecting an Energy Future: Biofuels, Bioenergy, and the Importance of Regionality in Scenarios and Potentials, Caroline Taylor, Perspectives on Biofuels: Potential Benefits and Possible Pitfalls, doi: 10.1021 / bk -2012-1116.
The study uses climate modelling to predict three possible futures - the low, medium and high impact scenarios, which describe the severity of outcomes that could be expected in a changed climate.
The results and possible future scenarios in Australia, published in the Economics of Education Review this month, make for worrying reading.
This book started out with a bang, quick - witted, fast - paced writing involving a futuristic America whose scenarios are not a lot different than some of the possible scenarios I picture in my head for our future.
Effectively this is where you take two or more possible future scenarios and assign your best guess of probability to those scenarios.
A: Scenarios are a great way of thinking about the future in terms of the realm of possible outcomes.
In the 99.999 % of all other possible future scenarios, it's pretty safe to say that the stock market will rise over the long - term.
IMPORTANT: The projections or other information generated by the engine regarding the likelihood of various investment outcomes are hypothetical in nature, do not reflect actual investment results, and are not guarantees of future results.Moreover, even though the tool's estimates are statistically sound based upon the simulations it runs, the tool can not foresee or account for every possible scenario that may negatively impact your financial situation.
They use modeling techniques to study possible future scenarios and gain insight into the influence of selection on physical processes that occur in the animals across generations.
A gift of $ 10,000 enables AAUPR to intervene in some of the most emotionally - complicated scenarios possible, pulling animals from a chilling past and helping them on their journey towards an amazing, balanced and loving future.
It's unclear as to whether she shows people visions of possible futures or just purely nightmare scenarios created by their own minds, especially since Thor's vision seems to be a potential portent which sends him scampering back to Asgard at the end of the film, but its her powers that results in the creation of Ultron, and Iron - Man going head - to - head with the Hulk.
It continues to the present with her newest projects, among which is the Infinity Engine, a functioning genetics laboratory that proposes possible scenarios for the future of life on Earth, not «sci - fi,» as Hershman Leeson puts it, but «sci - tru,» based on biogenetic research, artificial intelligence, cloning, mutations, transgenic experiments and regenerative medicine.
With their quiet and unassuming presence, the models led both artist and viewer to imagine an infinity of possible scenarios, suspended between past, present and future.
Playing with the processes of destruction, renewal and reconstruction, the work will stimulate questions about history and possible future scenarios.
For example, Shani draws from The Book of the City of Ladies, written by Italian - French medical author Christine de Pizan in 1405 as an early proto - feminist example describing a city without men, that Shani imagined links to present and possible future scenarios.
His work focuses on the transformations of the urban landscape — researching the possible future scenarios and outcomes using photography.
«There's been a lot of discussion about whether the scenarios that climate modelers have used to characterize possible futures are biased toward the high end or the low end,» Field adds.
But, there seems to be a kind of futility to projecting out these possible futures, I can't see any good scenario here, especially given inevitable realistic future energy use trends in the US.
Today's modeling tools, updated land use information, and the inclusion of future rainfall scenarios that account for a range of possible future climate conditions would combine to provide a better indication of the future likelihood of a storm burst creating this level of flooding in the area.
One answer to Knappenberger's rather childish comment — gee how could Hansen know the future — is, of course, that the three scenarios were chosen to bracket the possible, to explore the range of what could happen, and the middle scenario was the built to be the most likely.
To understand potential impacts of climate change for societies and ecosystems, scientists use scenarios to explore implications of a range of possible futures.
Scenario analysis creates a foundation for understanding risks of climate change for people, ecosystems, and economies across a range of possible futures.
To cover the range of possible energy futures, the IPCC's 5th assessment considered scenarios for future economic development and energy policy, known as Representative Concentration Pathways.
«Although such estimates of future deployment of carbon - free energy sources indicate that it may be possible to achieve a decarbonized energy system, great uncertainties remain regarding the implementation of such scenarios due to factors such as costs, technology evolution, public policies, and barriers to deployment of new technologies (NRC, 2010b)»
Unlike the scenarios developed by the IPCC and reported in Nakicenovic et al. (2000), which examined possible global futures and associated greenhouse - related emissions in the absence of measures designed to limit anthropogenic climate change, RCP4.5 is a stabilization scenario and assumes that climate policies, in this instance the introduction of a set of global greenhouse gas emissions prices, are invoked to achieve the goal of limiting emissions and radiative forcing.
«It is possible that in future years the costs of renewable and storage technologies may change, making a different 100 % renewable scenario more cost - effective and feasible.»
In a new report, experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists examine different future energy scenarios and find that it is possible not only to scale back energy's reliance on water, but also to reduce carbon emissions and provide reliable power at a reasonable price.
A scenario is a coherent, internally consistent and plausible description of a possible future state of the world.
The report also includes an assessment of the level of possible implementation, the challenges and costs of these technologies in future scenarios for 2030 and 2050.
It appears that Pruitt instructed the EPA career staff to make assumptions grossly unfavorable to the CPP in order to calculate the largest possible negative economic impact; for example, the RIA models scenarios that minimize the CPP's reductions in unhealthy air pollutants, inflate the costs of compliance, only count the climate benefits of CO2 reductions in the US, and greatly discount the future benefits of lower global temperatures.
The goal of working with scenarios is not to predict the future but to better understand uncertainties and alternative futures, in order to consider how robust different decisions or options may be under a wide range of possible futures».
This is simply a possible future scenario from an ensemble of possible futures which may be used to terrify school children, should this seem appropriate, in order to generate grant funding.
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