Sentences with phrase «solve for climate»

Instead, we should try to solve for climate and poverty at the same time, by expanding access to energy to many more people and heavily investing in innovation all over the planet.
So what happens if we calculate dT, dN, and dF at every gridpoint of the model, use that to solve for climate sensitivity and then take the average to have a global climate sensitivity number?
«The key to solving for both climate and poverty is helping nations build innovative energy systems that can deliver cheap, clean, and reliable power.»

Not exact matches

The problems facing us, many of them are global, like rogue nuclear states, like climate change, and other forms of environmental threats, like terrorists, like maximizing global wealth and prosperity, and none of these are going to be solved if we think of the international arena as one of each nation striving for its individual greatness.
Despite this and other authoritative warnings about the dangers of climate change, Mr. Pruitt persists in pointing to uncertainty about the precise extent of humanity's contribution to the problem as a basis for resisting taking any regulatory action to help solve it.
Farmers» knowledge and problem - solving skills are assets for coping with and adapting to climate change.
From fighting deforestation and climate change to building economic opportunities and better working conditions for rural people, the Rainforest Alliance is working to solve urgent environmental and social challenges.
And in today's classroom, where teachers must compete with digital distractions for their students» attention while trying to satisfy increasingly demanding academic standards, it is more important than ever that educators be able to combat apathy, instill vital problem - solving skills, and create a climate that maximizes learning.
«Time is running out for us to solve climate change,» he said in his campaign announcement statement.
Once, when I played one of these shows for my college students, they were pleasantly surprised (and filled with hope) to learn that a political party dedicated 100 percent to solving the climate crisis actually exists.
But switching to natural gas for power generation does not solve the climate problem, scientists cautioned.
Steyer, who hosted a fundraiser for Clinton's campaign earlier this year, praised Clinton yesterday as a «strong leader in solving the climate crisis.»
Even those areas that will benefit from a changed climate, such as a potential expansion in regional climates amenable to certain crops in Canada, for example, will not solve the problem.
The Earth's polar regions are in peril as a result of climate change, speakers cautioned at a 16 June briefing on Capitol Hill, and solving the problem requires greater support for geoscience research.
The framework would be useful for solving other questions in the sciences and social sciences in which researchers analyze how three or more components might interact — for example, how climate is affected by the interplay among temperature, rainfall, humidity and ocean acidity.
«Participating in the activity signifies one's support for environmental protection, as well as the campaign to solve or at least mitigate the ill effects of climate change to the environment,» said Lani Cayetano.
Time seems to be speeding up for Rybczynski and the others trying to solve this climate puzzle.
California regulators may rule that the biofuel is no better — and might be worse — than petroleum for solving climate change
The problems facing society, such as global climate change, are so complex and immense that nothing short of a full transformation of science will help us solve them, said Heide Hackmann, executive director of the International Council for Science (ISCU).
That «we can't say with assurance that human activities cause weather changes» and that climate problems in Texas are best solved through «days of prayer for rain».
The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.
For if ardent greens and out - and - out sceptics can agree on anything, it is that Kyoto will not even come close to solving the problem of climate change.
Ultimately, the belief that prices alone will solve the climate problem is rooted in the fiction that investors in large - scale and long - lived energy infrastructures sit on a fence waiting for higher carbon prices to tip their decisions.
Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies
Humanity already possesses the fundamental scientific, technical, and industrial know - how to solve the carbon and climate problem for the next half - century.
«At the same time, it's important that we know what is happening, for if China is unable to solve its climate and environmental problems, we will all suffer.
Also gone is the 2008 platform's proposal for a government - sponsored «Climate Prize,» which would award millions of dollars to «scientists who solve the challenges of climate change.Climate Prize,» which would award millions of dollars to «scientists who solve the challenges of climate change.climate change.»
Major tropical storms are a hard riddle for climate scientists to solve.
«It is not going to solve any climate change issues, for sure,» Arrigo said, but the research is important in understanding the impacts of glacial melt on marine ecosystems.
The finding, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, solves a long - standing mystery and offers hope for production of grain crops able to thrive during unpredictable weather and climate change.
New research indicates that extreme climate swings - lasting tens of millions of years - were too much for the dinos and kept them out of the tropics, solving one of science's longstanding mysteries.
It's set in a near future where overpopulation and global climate change has been catastrophic for the food supply and the culture has become hostile to science, as if it's the cause of the problems rather than the only hope to solve them.
Each such employee shall be required to complete at least one training course in school violence prevention and intervention, which shall consist of at least two clock hours of training that includes but is not limited to, study in the warning signs within a developmental and social context that relate to violence and other troubling behaviors in children; the statutes, regulations, and policies relating to a safe nonviolent school climate; effective classroom management techniques and other academic supports that promote a nonviolent school climate and enhance learning; the integration of social and problem solving skill development for students within the regular curriculum; intervention techniques designed to address a school violence situation; and how to participate in an effective school / community referral process for students exhibiting violent behavior.
At the Meridell Campus, our staff is committed to building and maintaining a safe school climate that fosters compassion for others, responsible citizenship, strong community relationships, innovation, creative problem solving, and a passion for learning.
Building student agency beyond exercising grit and self - determination, to recognize injustice in current and historical contexts while building school climates that make it safe for students to employ SEL — empathy, perspective - taking, self - regulation, and social problem - solving skills — to humanely and effectively address injustice when they encounter it
It is important to provide the tools and resources for school climate teams to meet consistently and collaboratively innovate, problem solve and incorporate student voice.
The availability of positive behavioral intervention and support systems that result in positive school and classroom climates and high levels of school safety; students with effective interpersonal, problem - solving, and conflict resolution skills; and staff with the skills to complete functional assessments and implement strategic and intensive interventions for students with pivotal social - emotional / behavioral needs.
This study contributes to our understanding of the value that union - management partnerships can bring to organizational performance by creating a positive climate for teacher collaboration, which leads to innovation and an infrastructure for problem solving.
Furthermore, research and practice in comprehensive school reform and school safety planning regularly demonstrate the need for developing a positive school climate characterized by consistency, tolerance, respect, clearly communicated behavior norms, problem solving and conflict resolution (Learning First Alliance, 2001; McDaniel, 2000; Tolan, 2002; USDOE, 1998).
Participants will engage in activities that will test Reyes's hypothesis that conflict - resolution techniques used in social psychology, theater, and art can help solve the world's most challenging problems, from climate change, to fair wages for women, to food shortages.
Participants engaged in activities in the Hammer's courtyard that tested Reyes's hypothesis that conflict - resolution techniques used in social psychology, theater, and art can help solve the world's most challenging problems, from climate change, to fair wages for women, to food shortages.
On the overarching question of «solving» the climate problem, I'm sure Joe would agree that global warming is inevitably going to be, at best, managed — not «fixed» — given the trajectories for emissions in a world inexorably headed toward roughly nine billion people seeking energy - enabled lives and with substantial warming already in the pipeline, according to a heap of research.
However, it does have advantages and disadvanatages: it takes supercomputers in climate science, genetics, environmental sciences, utilizing Markov Chain Monte Carlo integration methods among others to compute and solve for intractable integrals.
This describes an improvement on an old method for solving systems of equations which may be useful in computation fluid mechanics, and climate models, according to the paper.
In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.
Revising climate mitigation scenarios to account for rebound and to offer more realistic projections of future energy demand will have substantial implications for policy - makers and serious climate advocates, who have been told for years that 40 % or more of the mitigation challenge could be solved through greater energy efficiency.
Titled «Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,» it centers on the same mantra at the core of his message for years now — that the only missing link holding back action is political will.
That was short - hand for saying that if you delay emissions reductions by ten years, you not only delay solving the climate problem by ten years but you inevitably end up with a higher CO2 level that won't go away.
a) they don't believe the premise of man - made climate change: they don't think scientific data collected to date is adequate to prove conclusively that any type of man - made event can result in either the recent fluxuations in climate or the anticipated kinds of drastic climate change, therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem b) they don't believe CO2 alone is responsible: they think other variables are as or more likely to be the catalysts or causes for the scientific data collected to date on climate change therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem c) they believe government efforts to curb CO2 emissions will fail resulting in an unprecedented waste of money and worse economic conditions.
I salute Europe and Japan for the steps they've taken in recent years to meet the challenge, and the new government in Australia, which has made solving the climate crisis its first priority.
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