Sentences with phrase «safe thresholds for»

«Boundaries for a Healthy Planet,» by atmospheric scientist Jonathan Foley, explains the safe thresholds for environmental processes that profoundly affect sustainability.

There's also been confusion between federal and state agencies over safe thresholds for the chemicals, which until recently, were not listed as hazardous substances or required for testing.

Last year, James Hansen of GISS and Columbia University said that we may have already exceeded the maximum safe threshold for CO2 in atmosphere — we're presently at approximately 387 parts - per - million (ppm) and Hansen said that we needed to target 350 ppm as the stabilization threshold, not 450 - 500 as recommended in the last IPCC assessment report.

Three hundred fifty parts per million (350 ppm) is the recommended safe threshold for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Or establish a set of rules for when it's safe to purchase a new investment, such as a particular stock price - to - earnings threshold.

Certification logos typically have higher standards than the 20ppm threshold (which is still safe for celiacs).

I wanted to provide safe, supportive and loving care for women as they crossed the threshold into motherhood.

Although there is no «safe» threshold for mercury in seafood, looking at the relative concentrations of mercury puts the risks associated with dogfish into perspective.

«On certain days during peak fire season, air pollution in Delhi is about 20 times higher than the threshold for safe air as defined by the World Health Organization,» said Daniel H. Cusworth, a graduate student at SEAS and first author of the paper.

To put that into perspective, the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the threshold for safe air at 25 micrograms per cubic meter, and India's Central Pollution Control Board limits exposure to 60 micrograms per cubic meter, said Cusworth, a member of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group led by Daniel J. Jacob, the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, and Loretta J. Mickley, Senior Research Fellow at SEAS.

However, there's not yet enough scientific data to guide safety programs such as the Hit Count Initiative launched last year by the Sports Legacy Institute, which aims to set a threshold for a «safe» number of hits to the head, the report finds.

One risk - management approach highlighted in Ellsworth's article involves the setting of seismic activity thresholds for safe operation.

Two of the biggest aero engine makers — Rolls - Royce in the UK and General Electric in the US — did not return phone calls or emails asking for comment on if, how and when they plan to establish safe thresholds.

However, Stitt says, as long as the U.S. government continues to list 2,000 IU as the safe upper threshold for vitamin D, it's been hard to get approval for experiments with doses higher than that in the United States.

Emphasize on all safe methods for enhancing endogenous HGH production which include: losing excess body fat, particularly abdominal fat; avoiding high - glycemic load carbohydrates; optimizing sleep habits; eating a high - protein, low - carbohydrate snack before bedtime; and exercising regularly to your lactate threshold.

Based on what I've read, 20g is a safe daily carb threshold to shoot for.

The studies presented previously on glucose levels and health are to be taken as a whole to show that there is no threshold for a safe level of blood glucose that Paul has based his «safe starch» recommendations on; no more, no less.

The government has a role to play in making sure that all school choices meet a basic threshold for quality, just as it has a role in making sure that all of our choices at the grocery store are safe.

The gates have a one - of - a-kind finial latch system that opens with the lift of a finger and feature the lowest threshold of all pressure - mounted gates, allowing a safer pass - through for babies, pets and parents.

Bill McKibben writes on body of science pointing to a very low «safe» long - term threshold for carbon dioxide concentrations — 350 parts per million — which was hit and passed in 1988, around the time McKibben and I began writing on global warming.

In the face of such inherent uncertainty, drawing «bright line» thresholds of «safe» versus «dangerous» warming has always been a fraught exercise, an effort to grasp for certainty in an uncertain world.

-- In the event that the Administrator or the National Academy of Sciences has concluded, in the most recent report submitted under section 705 or 706 respectively, that the United States will not achieve the necessary domestic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration thresholds, the President shall, not later than July 1, 2015, and every 4 years thereafter, submit to Congress a plan identifying domestic and international actions that will achieve necessary additional greenhouse gas reductions, including any recommendations for legislative action.

The wind industry and its acousticians have stated that 85dBG is a «safe» limit for infrasound, but that only relates to human audibility thresholds.

I'm going to put aside (what is to me the obvious) conflict between anti-SLAPP legislation and the «not plain and obvious that the action must fail» threshold which, in substance, is all that is needed on the merits issue for the action to be safe from summary judgment.

So, you have publicly said you have such an implant, so does this mean that Guido just needs to scan 3 different body parts, or that he also kidnaps your wife and child when he comes for you to not only torture you out of your Bitcoin password (as safe as your pain threshold, not a technical issue), but grabs your kidneys and liver in the process to liquidate your debt?

The annual and quarterly data for 2010/11 reflect the first full financial year under the new risk of significant harm threshold and the Structured Decision Making tools implemented on 24 January 2010 as part of the Keep Them Safe Reforms.

«For commercial real estate transactions with a value at or below the proposed threshold, the amended rule would require institutions to obtain an evaluation of the real property collateral that is consistent with safe and sound banking practices if the institution does not obtain an appraisal by a state certified or licensed appraiser.»

«Additionally, we will be looking carefully at whether the interest rate threshold for the safe harbor, which is set at 150 basis points above the benchmark rate, will adversely impact too many borrowers.