Sentences with phrase «system over the coming decades»

This session examined the biogeochemical processes that are likely to affect the evolution of the Earth system over the coming decades, with a focus on the dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the development of improved understanding through (a) fieldwork and laboratory experiments, (b) development of new observational datasets, both modern and palaeo, and (c) simulations using numerical models.

The central message of this document is that the international community must come together in a common effort to transform the global energy system over the coming decades, and that policy - makers and business leaders must place much greater emphasis on transforming the performance of national (and regional) energy systems over the coming decades.

Stabilizing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases will require a radical transformation of the global energy system over coming decades.

This is pertinent given that managing the health of an ageing general population is expected to place a significant extra financial burden on the health system over the coming decades.7

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Business collaboration software systems have come a long way over the past decade.

The magistrates claim they are facing a 3.5 per cent annual cut in real terms funding in the coming years, but Lord Falconer insisted that over the last decade, investment in the criminal justice system had gone up from two per cent of GDP to 2.5 per cent.

Things have started to change in Flint, but fixing its water system will take years, and its citizens will need continued support in many areas — including nutrition, health care and education — to manage the effects of lead poisoning over the coming decades.

«We are in the midst of a major environmental change that will continue to stress corals over the coming decades, so the lesson from this study is that there are these systems such as coral reefs that are sensitive to environmental change and can go through this kind of wholesale collapse in response to these environmental changes,» Cobb said.

Over the long term, however, scientists agree: As climate change messes with weather patterns, California will likely experience longer and more severe droughts in the coming decades, threatening the sustainability of the state's main water supply system.

The high cost of building future experiments and prototype fusion facilities combined with the complexity of these systems and the advances expected in extreme - scale computing over the coming decade provide strong motivation for developing integrated simulation capabilities where all relevant physical processes are included in a self - consistent way.

Chuck Simons, inventor of the Groomers Helper safety and positioning system and a popular grooming industry speaker, has come a long way over the past three decades.

Since so much climate science comes out a complex ideologically academic / government / political systems dating back decades and so over blown and politically intolerant of dissent it couldn't even accept better science.

Given that it is all eventually going to come back to the issue of the gradual gain we've been seeing in ocean heat content over many decades, the most accurate thing we can say is that 2014's warmth is very consistent with the general accumulation of energy in Earth's climate system caused by increasing GH gases and is well accounted for dynamically in global climate models.

I also think that over the long run, regardless of what you pass or don't pass this year, you are going to need very strong public support for action for decades in order to make this enormous transition in the energy system, which is not going to come easy.

Thibeault explained that «IESO (Independent Electricity System Operator) had advised that Ontario had a robust supply of electricity over the coming decade to meet projected demand.»

I came to think of solar radiation as being the ultimate (and only) external forcing of the climate system, which, except for the orbital seasonal changes and the 11 - year sunspot cycle, has been essentially constant over the past several decades of precision solar irradiance monitoring.

«The ocean plays a crucial role in our climate system, especially when it comes to fluctuations over several years or decades,» explains Prof. Mojib Latif, co-author of the study.

The report clearly sets out the global carbon budget, the reserves outlook, the current capital flow being consumed to expand those reserves and comes to the additional conclusion that this part of the global energy system will also waste trillions in capex over the coming decade as it develops more reserves that could also become unburnable.

Well, it may have taken over half a decade, but Jose Padilla's long, strange, Kafka-esque journey through the legal system has finally come to some resolution, with today's jury verdict finding Padilla guilty of supporting Islamic terrorism overseas.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

Population and business growth will determine the amount of new construction over the coming decade as well as the need to improve national infrastructure such as the upgrade or replacement of roads, bridges, and sewer pipe systems.