Sentences with phrase «represent local climate»

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Last November, groups representing more than a thousand B.C. organizations, companies, and local governments called for an ambitious climate plan.

Yet a small addition to the facility — a tiny boiler that pipes 30 MW worth of steam to local industrial customers — represents a hope for salvation from the global climate - changing consequences of burning fossil fuels.

Each of these approaches has relative strengths and weaknesses in representing the range of temporal variance of the local climate predictand.

«While the U.S. national delegation withdrawals its voice from the international climate dialogue, ICLEI will continue to represent local governments in the process,» it states.

Proxy - A proxy climate indicator is a local record that is interpreted, using physical and biophysical principles, to represent some combination of climate - related variations back in time.

For regional climate predictability, the added value of RCMs should come from better resolving the relationship between mean (temperature) trends and key indicators that are supposedly better represented in the high resolution projections utilizing additional local information, such as temperature or precipitation extremes.

In the relatively unlikely event that a proxy indicator represents a truly local climate phenomenon which is uncorrelated with larger scale climate variations, or represents a highly nonlinear response to climate variations...

James Slevin, President, Utility Workers Union of America Local 1 - 2, said, «As a union leader who represents thousands of workers currently employed in New York's energy system and whose livelihoods depend on those jobs, I am very concerned about protecting their jobs and addressing climate change which affects my members, their families and their communities.

In order to better coordinate Cal Poly's CAP with local and regional plans to address climate resilience, Cal Poly and the SLO County Air Pollution Control District are facilitating creation of the emerging Central Coast Climate Collaborative (CCCC) representing Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Coclimate resilience, Cal Poly and the SLO County Air Pollution Control District are facilitating creation of the emerging Central Coast Climate Collaborative (CCCC) representing Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz CoClimate Collaborative (CCCC) representing Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties.

While it's theoretically possible these reports represent a «watershed moment» for climate engineering, to visit the local university library and read commissioned scientific reports from any decade in the twentieth century is a humbling exercise — like exploring a boneyard of scientific hopes and plans.

Nobody could be sure of that, however, for the odd wiggles in the data might represent not a world climate shift, but only local accidents in the ice.

We know that successful civil disobedience actions like those on May 8th — coupled with pressuring our cities, churches, universities and local non-profits to sever ties with the banks enabling the climate crisis — represent the most effective way for us to tell CEOs like Chase's Jamie Dimon that we will not stand idly by as you profit from the destruction of our planet.