Sentences with phrase «possible global futures»

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.

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He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

Our new deal is a platform, and it resembles, finally, a change in global climate discourse and a possible beginning of the collective green mindset for the future we have been waiting for.

We should recognize that tech companies based here can be global leaders and that it is possible to shift away from a petro - dollar economy in the future.

Yet, even with all increasing red flags that suggest that assets held within the global banking system could be devalued, frozen, or seized, or all of the aforementioned, including warnings of possible negative interest rates applied to commercial and corporate bank accounts in the near future from big global banks like the Royal Bank of Scotland, most of us go about our daily lives without giving a second thought about taking preventive actions to prevent such mind - blowing and negatively impacting life - changing events from happening.

It may be possible for either Ripple or Ethereum to beat the market cap of Bitcoin in the long term if future protocol enhancements are implemented and with the continued backing of global financial heavyweights.

These generous investors make it possible for the MIT IIC to «expand its impact on the global inclusive innovation movement and help to ensure a more equitable future of work for all humans,» Verrill said.

Reducing food losses & food waste (FLW) is a key global challenge to ensure sufficient and healthy food into the future, and to use available arable land as efficiently as possible.

There were also mutterings about a possible future political career when Thatcher's granddaughter, Amanda, confidently read out her passage from the Bible in front of a global audience, despite being only 19 years old.

Climate models and the latest IPCC data reveal four possible futures for global population, economy and environment at the end of this century

«We think, in the near future, it will be possible to treat schizophrenia with four injections per year instead of [patients] having to take pills three times a day,» says Husseini Manji, global head of neuroscience R&D at Janssen.

Some fish living in waters with currently naturally high levels of CO2 lose their sense of smell, and with it their ability to perceive predators — a possible portent to a global situation in the near future.

Among its goals, the coalition of countries, including the U.S., wants an agreement that the world must aim as soon as possible to hold global warming to 1.5 - degree Celsius and work toward a long - term low - carbon future

Scientists typically look at four different possible futures, ranging from an uber - green society to a worst - case scenario, in which no action is taken to combat global warming.

It is one possible future, but it's never been clear to me (or to anyone else I know besides Pat) why the other possibilities — all of which involve more global warming — should be ignored.

«We were heartened to find that a healthy future is possible if the global community takes stringent action on greenhouse gas emissions,» Dr Ortiz said.

His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and climate extremes in a warmer climate.

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.

HUNDREDS OF ACTIVITIES TO COVER ALL 12 TOPICS IN GREAT DETAIL - I have covered as much vocabulary as possible (including the majority of the vocab lists in the textbook) and all key grammar points including MA grammar such as subjunctive / personal a. Theme 1 (ks3 revision / family / relationships / free time / customs and festivals)- over 45 activities Theme 2 (home and local area / social and global issues including healthy eating / travel and tourism)- over 85 activities Theme 3 (studies / life at school / post 16 options and future careers)- over 85 activities Key grammar - all 8 tenses, prepositions, personal a and 3rd person opinions, regular and irregular verbs practice in all tenses including irregular past participles, questions, connectives, time expressions, using different tenses simultaneously.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

``... an understanding of the behaviour of the marine - based West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) during the «warmer - than - present» early - Pliocene epoch (approx5 — 3 Myr ago) is needed to better constrain the possible range of ice - sheet behaviour in the context of future global warming....

And these newly - constituted Vaclav Klaus Climate Joke Awards will be given out through out the year, and through out the years, any day of the week will do, just send in your nominations and we will clear them with the awards committee, and these awards will be given out to people espouse very stupid notions about the very real reality of global warming and the possible impact it may have on future generations of Earthlings (include the human species).

Journalists dealing with global warming and similar issues would do well to focus on the points of deep consensus, generate stories containing voices that illuminate instead of confuse, convey the complex without putting readers (or editors) to sleep, and cast science in its role as a signpost pointing toward possible futures, not as a font of crystalline answers.

This bipartisan bill directs the EPA to do a four - phase study that 1) develops a universal definition of black carbon; 2) identifies global black carbon sources and reduction technologies; 3) identifies current and possible international funding opportunities to mitigate black carbon emissions; and 4) identifies opportunities for future research and development.

[4] While a range of positions is possible, it seems particularly strange that ExxonMobil takes the position that it does in that future global warming will be caused most by emissions from use of coal rather than by emissions from use of petroleum or natural gas.

The argument is whether us humans have super-imposed our excessive carbon dioxide emissions upon the existing natural balance of the climate system — thereby altering it's natural chemistry leading to possible dangerous global warming at some point in the near and distant future.

The study summarizes a global survey of 163 wind energy experts to gain insight into the possible magnitude of future wind energy cost reductions, the sources of those reductions, and the enabling conditions needed to realize continued innovation and lower costs.

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.

Accepting the argument that uncertainty regarding possible serious impacts of future global warming dictates that we should take immediate action, what actions can we take, what will be the cost, and what can we afford?

A less formal approach that focuses on coordinating policies across borders, already under way as the result of some modest progress at the global climate talks, as well as innovative efforts to coordinate technology promotion such as the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) process, may be the best that is possible in the near future.

The climate change had already affected the seas around Antarctica and is warming some coastal waters.So now both Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica Ice sheet are losing ice.For now, the East Antarctic Ice sheet is stable but it will influence on global climate change due to sea ice.In the future there is growing concern about the possible impact of climate change.Is Antarctica gaining ice that meant it will effect to climate change and the ecosystem of the regions?

Living within the means of one planet is technologically possible, financially beneficial, and our only chance for a prosperous future,» said Mathis Wackernagel, CEO of Global Footprint Network and co-creator of the Ecological Footprint.

The NEX - GDDP dataset is provided to assist the science community in conducting studies of climate change impacts at local to regional scales, and to enhance public understanding of possible future global climate patterns at the spatial scale of individual towns, cities, and watersheds.»

If they don't, I try to use the observations to figure out what physical processes are missing in the global model and how to represent those processes as realistically as possible, with the goal of gradually increasing our confidence in the model's predictions of the future.

Seven global vegetation models are used to analyze possible responses to future climate simulated by a range of general circulation models run under all four representative concentration pathway scenarios of changing concentrations of greenhouse gases.

Here seven GVMs are used to investigate possible responses of global natural terrestrial vegetation to a major new set of future climate and atmospheric CO2 projections generated as part of the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5)(6), the primary climate modeling contribution to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment.

Scratch an global warming activist and you will find, not an altruistic crusader for a safer, cleaner future, but a mean, self - aggrandizing misanthrope who is perfectly comfortable with lying and cheating in the service of spreading misery among as many people as possible.

You will help the environment, fight global warming, and help make the transition to a clean energy future possible.

relevant as some scenarios of future climate driven by global warming, suggest lake - level reductions below presently - known variability may be possible in the important watershed of the Laurentian Great Lakes..

Clarke et al.'s work is published in Nature Geoscience and uses a regional glaciation model driven by global climate model output to examine possible future changes to glaciers in western Canada.

The discrepancy between recent observed and simulated trends in global mean surface temperature has provoked a debate about possible causes and implications for future climate change projections.

During the Ocean Iron Fertilization meeting Dr. Hauke Kite - Powell, of the Marine Policy Center at WHOI, estimated the possible future value of ocean fertilization at $ 100 billion of the emerging international carbon trading market, which has the goal of mitigating global warming.

Also, future climate scenarios resulting from human activities globally show the possible drying and the eventual possible conversion of rainforest to savanna in response to global climate change.

The study's authors, along with several other national security experts, confirmed last week that the military has begun studying possible future impacts of global warming with new intensity.

50 Beech Future range Overlap Present range Fig. 20 - 13, p. 478 Figure 20.13 Natural capital degradation: possible effects of global warming on the geographic range of beech trees based on ecological evidence and computer models.

This suggests that IPCC projections of future global warming, which are based on various possible human greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, are reliable.

Climate Explorer's graphs and maps show projected conditions for two possible futures: one in which humans make a moderate attempt to reduce global emissions of heat - trapping gases, and one in which we go on conducting business as usual.

They need these «equal treatment and equally possible» limits on each dimensions of each simulation and all the manifestly hot - running models to maintain the fiction that the average of an estimated future world is hot, very hot, unless we have over the keys to the global energy economy.

It may be possible in the future, if solar activity as measured continues to decline and if global mean temperature declines while CO2 continues to increase.