Sentences with phrase «overall climate for»

Restorative Justice is used in hundreds of schools around Australia where it's reduced misbehaviour, bullying, violence and crime and improved the overall climate for learning.

The best measure of overall climate for glaciers is the Pacific Northwest Index developed by Curtis Ebbesmeyer (PNI DATA) at the University of Washington.

Are you confident that AGW will result in worse rather than better overall climate for the USA?

Yet while the overall climate for buying has improved, a little perspective is in order — spending on those items has still not returned to levels before the Great Recession, which officially ended in mid-2009, the report points out.

Such strategies, added Rees, not only help teachers: they help change a school's overall climate for the better.

And yet, the overall climate for science is more difficult than I have ever seen in my scientific career.»

«While the attacks occurred in the context of general episodes of violence confronting the entire country, the overall climate for religious freedom continues to deteriorate.

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Overall, however, the bulk of the evidence continues to suggest tepid economic growth with moderate but persistent inflation pressures, and the Market Climate for precious metals remains favorable on our measures.

«As we move forward to the next election, I will continue to hold Christy Clark accountable for failing to keep her promises to British Columbians, and I will be putting forward a diverse economic platform that will bring jobs to every region of the province and a comprehensive climate plan, that incorporates LNG within the context of our overall climate goals.

«A satisfactory conclusion of this process will pave the way for improving overall credit conditions, the investment climate and economic activity in the Emirate of Dubai and the UAE,» the IMF said in a statement.

Food loss and waste in the United States accounts for approximately 31 percent — or 133 billion pounds — of the overall food supply available to retailers and consumers and has far - reaching impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change.

Overall, the climate was far more challenging than 2012 for Democrats and has drawn comparisons to the GOP wave year of 2014.

He also tried to claim the program really didn; t cost the state anything, calling the ads for which millions were spent «generic»... and designed to promote the state's overall business climate.

It states: «For the government to deliver its overall climate objectives, a retrofit programme for all housing will need to be implemented, with public and private sector investment totalling somewhere between # 3.5 billion and # 6.5 billion per year every year until 2050.&raqFor the government to deliver its overall climate objectives, a retrofit programme for all housing will need to be implemented, with public and private sector investment totalling somewhere between # 3.5 billion and # 6.5 billion per year every year until 2050.&raqfor all housing will need to be implemented, with public and private sector investment totalling somewhere between # 3.5 billion and # 6.5 billion per year every year until 2050.»

While this is a difficult decision, we have to look at the overall business climate of Western New York before we dismiss the request for a minimal rate increase.

Education leaders from across New York said Wednesday they'll need more money than what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set aside for schools next year in order to avoid cuts and improve the overall climate.

Skutsch adds that «while it is clear that the communities themselves need to be part of the overall plan» for battling climate change, she «can not quite see the rationale for direct payments» to indigenous groups for forest conservation.

Overall, the group is pressing for final passage of climate legislation during this Congress because delays will make it more difficult to avoid the most severe effects of global warming.

Overall, farmers were much less concerned about climate change risks — like fewer winter chill hours for trees, more heat waves and increased flooding.

In a recent study, for instance, well - respected climate models were shown to have completely opposing estimates for the overall effect of the clouds and smoke in the southeast Atlantic: Some found net warming, whereas others found cooling.

«This has important implications for how rainforests will respond to climate change, which is often predicted to reduce overall rainfall making it harder for fungi to spread.

Even the 350 - ppm limit for carbon dioxide is «questionable,» says physicist Myles Allen of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, and focusing instead on keeping cumulative emissions below one trillion metric tons might make more sense, which would mean humanity has already used up more than half of its overall emissions budget.

Overall the study shows that flooding on a continent - wide scale is sensitive to climate in a way researchers haven't been able to before, which has implications for «how we adapt to this uncertainty of flood timing in the future,» Louise Slater, a hydrologist at Loughborough University in the U.K., said.

To find out how climate change will affect the overall survival of Arctic mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes), a team of researchers placed mosquito larvae taken from ponds in western Greenland into chambers with temperatures ranging from 4 °C to 19 °C, simulating temperatures measured in the ponds during mosquito development, and then timed how long it took for the adults to emerge.

The faster the low - carbon transformation of power supply is accomplished, the lower is the overall remaining carbon burden for the climate.»

«The overall predictions for the future of the area is of a more maritime climate, particularly warmer temperatures and increased precipitation during winter,» Høye says.

First, they point out that their climate model gives an overall temperature increase of 4.8 °C for the world in which carbon dioxide has doubled.

Professor Richard Pancost from the University of Bristol Cabot Institute, added: «When we account for the influence of the ice sheets, we confirm that the Earth's climate changed with a similar sensitivity to overall forcing during both warmer and colder climates.»

«Looking at overall carbon emissions of one country or a group of countries can only get you so far,» says civil engineering PhD student Lorraine Sugar (CivE MASc 1T0, PhD 1T8), who worked as a climate change specialist for the World Bank for nearly five years.

Overall, the findings have major implications for Earth's thermal and magnetic history, particularly when it comes to how magnetic measurements are used to reconstruct continental motions and ancient climates.

It is well - established in climatology that different causes and mechanisms have caused climate changes in the past (orbital variations, plate tectonics, solar variability, volcanic eruptions, etc.), so that a cause - effect relationship has to be determined for each individual case, rather than looking for one overall «driver».

Therefore, as long as the overall composition of other Earth - like planets are the similar to ours, we would expect them to sport a carbon cycle (either organic or inorganic), also providing a stable climate for them — as long as the planets remain within the temperature range where the carbon cycle can work.

In a recent study, scientists found that climate change will decrease the number of seasonal flowers, leading to an overall decrease in the number of butterflies, who rely on flowers for a sustainable source of energy - no destruction required.

So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change liticlimate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litiClimate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change liticlimate change litigation.

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Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»

While natural climate shifts and weather mean that not every point on the globe is record warm all the time, the overall trend is for the planet to continue to run an ever - higher fever.

MIS 5e, 7e, and 9 have an early and strong climate optimum which resulted in an overall cooling trend for the plateau.

The overall objective of the MCA is to inform Montanans about the state's changing climate so that they can better plan for the future.

This helps the surface of your skin to look more hydrated for a little while, but as it evaporates (which it regularly does unless you're in a very humid climate), you're left with less hydration overall, leading to dryness, dullness, and accelerated aging.

Overall I think I did a pretty good job packing for two totally different climates in one week.

The longest episode of the season, «USS Callister» creates multiple realities that come together to tackle not just a journey of the bullied becoming the bully, but an overall climate that has become incredibly toxic... but with some hope for true change.

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Because the Civil Rights Data Collection quantifies the use of exclusionary discipline, it becomes a salient metric for researchers, advocates, and policymakers — but on its own, it does not paint a complete picture of a school's approach to discipline or, more importantly, its overall climate.

The National Research Center trains teachers and administrators to apply lessons developed for gifted students to a whole school, to improve overall student performance and school climate.

Major Responsibilities Develop relationships with faculty and staff as a means to foster a positive school climate; analyze achievement and discipline data to find leverage point for system change; create user - friendly, service - oriented administrative team that focuses on overall student growth.

Improvements in discipline and teacher - student relations at Ware County High School were accompanied by improvements in the overall learning environment, as indicated by the sharply lower percentages of teacher climate survey responders saying «very true» or «sort of true» to the statement «the learning environment in this school is not conducive to academic achievement for most students».

In addition to broadening what is taught in schools, SSAEG also attempts to improve the overall conditions for learning within a school (the school climate) by creating safe and healthy environments to support student success.

Just as important, the best approaches work to change the overall school climate through ongoing messages (via parent meetings and newsletters, school information, and the classroom curriculum) that help students recognize social aggression and stick up for victims.

Beginning in 2013 - 2014, schools received ratings based on their financial efficiency and school climate, but these ratings were for the public's information only and were not factored into the school's overall CCRPI score.