Sentences with phrase «particularly high climate»

Not exact matches

«The high investment risk climate and upfront capital cost of energy investments, particularly renewables, are critical barriers to the development of energy markets,» said Aliko Dangote, founder of Nigeria's Dangote Group and member of the partnership.

Anaerobic technology is particularly applicable to countries suffering drought, where treated waste water not only provides green energy to substitute for fossil fuels emitting climate change gases, but also processes waste streams to high recycling standards.

With proper application fish emulsion can result in higher crop yields, particularly in cooler climates.

* The Cape Floristic Region has a Mediterranean climate and is known for its unusually high biodiversity and proportion of endemic species, particularly flora.

That means that there is room for a shifting of the numbers, particularly if the news media would make it clearer that there was high agreement among climate scientists, he said.

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

While rainfall intensity was more realistically predicted by the high - resolution climate models, particularly for summer convective storms, these storms do not make a significant difference to summer phosphorus losses.

«Climate models predict really, really high warming for Spain, particularly during the summer.

While no country in history has achieved its economic growth without causing environmental damage, expectations for Singapore's mitigation ambition are particularly high because it is a leading figure in facilitating a global climate change treaty.

Gary Cohen, president and founder of the Massachusetts - based nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, said in a telephone interview that the risks of climate change to both the health of U.S. citizens and the U.S. health care delivery system is profound, particularly in urban areas, where warming average temperatures are exacerbated by the heat island effect and high concentrations of other air pollution like ozone and particulate matter.

If that climate scenario is combined with habitat restoration efforts, particularly those aimed at connecting habitats that have been fragmented by human activity, the average population has a much higher probability of survival — about 50 %.

«Issues such as climate change, increasing global population, scarcity of agricultural land and rapidly changing consumer preferences, particularly in developing countries where there is increasing demand for high quality animal protein,» Associate Professor Wilkinson says.

Plant from multiple species, seed sources, and climate zones, particularly from locally - adapted sources Manage to maintain genetic diversity and phenotypic plasticity Create opportunities for rapid natural selection for species with high predicted potential for adverse impacts from climate change (Sturrock et al. 2011; Erickson et al. 2012; Alfaro et al. 2014; FAO 2014) Plant drought tolerant and native species Retain diversity of species and promote legacy trees Manage or restore mosaic (variable pattern of species and ages) and maintain or improve landscape connectivity Plant in asynchronous rotations and manage for diverse age classes Thin, plant, and use prescribed fire to favor species adapted to disturbance (Millar et al. 2007; Vose et al. 2016; Keane et al. forthcoming)

This contributes to a spread of modelled climate response, particularly at high latitudes.

Forest et al. (2006) demonstrate that the inclusion of natural forcing affects the estimated PDF of climate sensitivity since net negative natural forcing in the second half of the 20th century favours higher sensitivities than earlier results that disregarded natural forcing (Forest et al., 2002; see Figure 9.20), particularly if the same ocean warming estimates were used.

Possible increased growth and productivity concurrent with climate oscillations that increase water availability, particularly at higher elevations and where stand density is low; extreme high temperatures would have net negative impact, regardless of water availability

Range limits of many plant species are expected to shift considerably in the next decades due to human - mediated climate change, particularly at higher latitudes, but the capacity of trees to migrate in response to these events has been questioned.

Interestingly Death Wish, the millennial - era remake of the gritty mid 70's crime thriller of the same name, notoriously arrives in theaters at an increasingly awkward moment in a divisive national climate (particularly in the aftermath of the most recent high school shooting) where the political stakes regarding gun violence in America are at an all - time high.

While there are many critical changes to be made regarding the quality of high school programs, curriculum, teaching strategies and school climate — particularly for our most vulnerable students — it is an undeniable truth that earning a high school diploma is the first step along the pathway to college or professional training and career development.

Social - emotional learning programs improve the social skills and academic achievement of students and can improve school climate by reducing violence, bullying, and other conduct problems.83 These skills are particularly important in early childhood education, as students as young as kindergarten who have strong prosocial skills are more likely to obtain a high school degree, college diploma, and full - time job when they reach adulthood.84

If your dog spends a lot of time in or around water outdoors, particularly in a warm and damp climate, then he may be at high risk.

I think the real question facing Single Player games going forward - particularly in the difficult economic climate of today - is how to reduce the cost of getting the game world into the hands of players, and increase the amount of high - profit - margin content we release post-launch into these stable, proven platforms.

I have seen some brief mention in biology texts to climate change, including the role of greenhouse gases, but I don't know whether there are more extensive descriptions in texts relevant to middle school and even more particularly, high school.

The climate models are particularly important for limiting the high - side probability.

Long - term trends in normalized economic disaster losses can not be reliably attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change, particularly for cyclones and floods (medium evidence, high agreement).

«The relationship between tropical climate and greenhouse gases is particularly critical because tropical regions receive the highest proportion of solar output and act as a heat engine for the rest of the earth,» said Lea.

But it's particularly vital for high standards to be sustained in negotiations leading to profoundly consequential shifts in energy and climate policies.

In the U.S., interest in Trombe walls emerged in the 1970s, aided by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico... Trombe walls are particularly well - suited to sunny climates that have high diurnal (day - night) temperature swings, such as the mountain - west.

Ecological specialists and species that live at high altitudes and latitudes are particularly vulnerable to climate change.

«It's not good for low - income or high - income countries but it's particularly worse for the low - income countries as they are the ones which can least afford to adapt,» (Dr. Nicholas Harold from the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New South Whales).

«We hope that this work will encourage tabloid newspapers to reflect further on the accuracy of their reporting on human contributions to climate change, particularly given their high readership in the UK publics.

These are particularly problematic in the context of climate change, where speaking up, from whatever perspective and position, can lead to being shouted down, but where speaking up is increasingly demanded of scientists in particular by people in high office, such as the UK's Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Mark Walport.

Several of the most disconcerting atmospheric problems include smog and air pollution, which are responsible for a higher incidence of respiratory diseases and death; acid rain, which contaminates numerous other ecosystems such as watersheds and forests; and finally, one particularly serious issue, climate de-stabilization caused by the accelerated rate of global warming.

It seems to me that science, particularly climate science, has some very serious issues that high light a narcissistic self importance in that a lot of modern scientists, particularly in climate science, now seem to believe they have a role in and a god given right to try and ensure the implementation of their own personally believed ideologies.

The author's points on non-linearity and time delays are actually more relevant to the discussion in other presentations when I talked about whether the climate models that show high future sensitivities to CO2 are consistent with past history, particularly if warming in the surface temperature record is exaggerated by urban biases.

California is particularly well suited to such a study, as it has high endemic plant diversity and the quality of plant distribution and climate data across the region are excellent.

The problem here is that climate science is not particularly high on the scale of honesty and rigorous standards.

It is a particularly appropriate instrument in the context of emerging high - risk technologies such as climate engineering in that its focus is not on past violations, but rather on developing tools to avoid violations of rights in the future.

Specifically targeted to the needs of planners and allied professionals in low and middle - income countries where the challenges of planning for climate change are particularly high.

A simple rule of thumb is that one can expect downscaling to higher resolution to improve the simulation of regional climate in locations that include coastlines and / or mountain ranges (particularly where the range is too small to be well resolved by the GCM but large enough to be well resolved at the higher resolution) while not making much difference over large homogeneous, relatively flat regions (deserts, oceans,...).

This closed high - level, policy driven summit is convened bi-annually by UNEPs the principal forum for Environment Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Cabinet Officials and other senior policy makers and advisors to discuss the most crucial issues affecting the environment, particularly in relation to sustainable development, poverty eradication and climate change.

Wramneby et al (2010) explored the regional interaction between climate and vegetation response using a RCM set - up, and highlighted the importance of this interaction for assessing the mean temperature response particularly at high latitudes (due to the role of vegetation in snow covered areas) and in water limited evaporation regimes (due to the role of vegetation in controlling surface evaporative cooling).

Given the range for climate sensitivity, it is clear that it is possible that we could follow a reasonably high emission pathway and not warm substantially (okay, this may not be true if we follow a particularly high emission pathway, but let's agree that there is a possibility that warming will not be substantial for some reasonable emission pathway).

The Heartland Institute repeatedly has shown it doesn't hold the scientific method in particularly high regard, even if their climate denial conferences are run under the banner «Restoring the Scientific Method.»

-- that James Hansen's research strategy for verifying and validating climate change science, as set forth in his Earth's Energy Imbalance and Implications so strikingly embody the same NASA V&V principles that are associated to successful spacecraft design... particularly in emphasizing the absolute necessity for multiple, high - quality, redundant, cross-checked, climate measurements of global span!

In other words, if these yield reductions resulting from greenhouse gas — induced climate change were superimposed on the yield reductions that might occur during a particularly dry period arising from the region's characteristic precipitation variability, they would be higher and comparable with the results from the Morocco National Communication.

Belote said that the very tops of the western mountains and the central Great Plains and prairies in the United States are «particularly vulnerable... mostly because species that are accustomed to living in high alpine environments can't typically move any further upslope to track warming climate conditions.

Semi-arid and arid areas are particularly exposed to the impacts of climate change on freshwater (high confidence).

As Annan and Hargreaves point out, the uncertainties, particularly at the high end, profoundly affect how we evaluate the costs of climate mitigation or the dangers of failure to mitigate.

In the lead - up to this week's conference, tensions have been high between the IPCC's climate researchers and the IPCC's government representatives, with Germany's governmental delegates playing a particularly questionable role.