Sentences with phrase «than mitigation as»

Emphasis should be placed on climate change adaptation, rather than mitigation as advocated by Mr. Savory, to support the well - being of millions of human inhabitants.

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As of 3 July, more than half of the 48 contiguous US states had seen drought conditions, the largest percentage for the past 12 years, according to the US Drought Monitor service, run by the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.

This climate assessment is significantly longer than the previous one and includes a number of new chapters, such as two on adaptation and mitigation options.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

Rather than fences, he would prefer to see the establishment of buffer zones to separate humans and lions, as well as more of the kinds of conflict mitigation initiatives that Panthera has helped establish to reduce the killing of lions.

As of March, however, less than $ 300 million remains in the program and most of that is set aside specifically for seismic mitigation and charter school facilities, according to a legislative analysis on AB 2235.

This year's results highlighted the importance of driver - assist technologies to consumers, as vehicles with safety features such as blind spot monitoring and collision mitigation performed notably better in the study than vehicles that did not have them.

The new 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee includes even more safety and security features — more than 60, including Front Park Assist, Forward Collision Warning with Crash Mitigation, Adaptive Cruise Control, and Selec - Speed Control — as well as an array of advanced user - friendly technology features for North America such as Uconnect 8.4 - inch touchscreen radio with integrated climate and infotainment controls, a 7 - inch customer configurable multiview display cluster, Uconnect Access Via Mobile and cloud - based voice texting.

Using data from a series of sensors, dynamic stability control applies brake force to wheels that it detects as having lost traction, while active roll mitigation senses when the Sport is heavier on one side than the other and uses corrective braking to prevent rollover.

* This Ford Mustang Comes Equipped with These Options * ECOBOOST PERFORMANCE PACKAGE - inc: unique chassis tuning, unique electronic power assisted steering, unique anti-lock brakes, stability control tuning and upsized rear sway bar, Larger Brake Rotors, 4 - piston calipers, Engine Turn Aluminum Instrument Panel, Gauge Pack (Oil Pressure and Boost), Spoiler Delete, Wheels: 19» x 9» Ebony Black - Painted Aluminum, 3.55 Limited Slip Rear Axle, HD Front Springs, Larger Radiator, Tires: P255 / 40R19 Summer - Only Designed to optimize driving dynamics and provide superior performance on wet and dry roads, High performance summer tires wear faster than non-performance tires, Ford does not recommend using summer tires when temperatures drop to approximately 40 deg F (7 deg C) or below or in snow / ice conditions, EQUIPMENT GROUP 201A - inc: HD Radio, Blind Spot Info System w / Cross-Traffic Alert, Memory Driver Seat, Mirrors & Ambient Lighting, 3 settings, Shaker Pro Audio System, 12 speakers, ENGINE: 2.3 L ECOBOOST (STD), ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL W / COLLISION MITIGATION - inc: Rain - Sensing Windshield Wipers, Wireless Streaming, Wheels: 18» x 8» Magnetic Painted / Machined - inc: Aluminum, Trunk Rear Cargo Access, Trip Computer, Tires: P235 / 50R18 BSW AS, Tire Specific Low Tire Pressure Warning.

The Land Cruiser is safer than ever thanks to new driving aids such as Frontal Collision Avoidance, Front Collision Mitigation, Lane Departure Alert, Blind Spot Monitor with Rear Cross Traffic Alert, automatic high beams, a rear - view camera and adaptive cruise control.

More than 65 percent of respondents also anticipate steps — such as short sales or deed - in - lieu of foreclosures — in which borrowers lose possession of the house to be at least somewhat significant loss - mitigation steps at their banks.

Assume applicable requirements established by the owner or assignee of the mortgage loan provide that a borrower is ineligible for home retention loss mitigation options if the borrower states a preference for a short sale and provides evidence of another applicable hardship, such as military Permanent Change of Station orders or an employment transfer more than 50 miles away.

Therefore, rebalancing should be seen as a risk mitigation process rather than a maximize expected returns process.

Customer care is practically non-existent, the work - out department is completely incompetent, the loss mitigation department is nothing more than a debt collection agency posing as Countrywide, and the company is clearly only interested in cutting losses and moving on — leaving many of their customer's shattered lives in their wake.

Similarly, a uniform risk mitigation strategy (e.g., import bans and interstate movement) is rarely appropriate considering the complexity of environments and species across the U.S.. By using the results of risk assessment as the starting point rather than the final decision, managers and engaged stakeholders can collaborate to develop a balanced course of action to reduce the risk of harm from non-native species.

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

Mr Chase, as far as I can tell the argument still stands «The cost of mitigation may not be less than the cost of doing nothing».

With regard to the combined effects of permafrost and clathrate methane emissions I'm rather less sanguine than you, though I continue to press for the requisite Emissions Control treaty as the paramount mitigation priority.

As for 4) «that adaptation as needed is massively more cost - effective than any attempted mitigation» — what an unimaginative and pessimistic bunch of people these arAs for 4) «that adaptation as needed is massively more cost - effective than any attempted mitigation» — what an unimaginative and pessimistic bunch of people these aras needed is massively more cost - effective than any attempted mitigation» — what an unimaginative and pessimistic bunch of people these are.

As someone who has at times been on the receiving end of Dave Roberts» wrath for daring to express a view a bit different than his (e.g., adaptation is really important and not a substitute for mitigation), I'd agree that tone matters a great deal in politics.

Tonyb — This post and commentary strike me as less than a reliable means of acquiring accurate information about the benefits and costs of CO2 mitigation in the UK.

«This post and commentary strike me as less than a reliable means of acquiring accurate information about the benefits and costs of CO2 mitigation in the UK.

The key problem with this «moral hazard» argument is the hypothesis that «cost - effective, proven, scaleable CDR solutions» are poised to proliferate at greater rates than GHG emission mitigation technologies (such as renewable energy and energy efficiency) that are required to decarbonize our economy.

I commend Mr. Flannery for writing about such an important topic, but I think his article could have benefited from framing carbon removal solutions as a missing piece of the climate change mitigation portfolio, rather than as a «third way» for fighting climate change.

Framed as a way to broaden the set of mitigation solutions, I think the conversation on carbon removal can help bring more parties to the climate negotiation table and can encourage deeper emission reduction pledges than would otherwise occur.

First, the emissions mitigation targets that the nations have tabled (but will as a technical matter only submit formally by January 31, 2010) will not get us on the path to the accord's stated objective of avoiding a global temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, unless they are miraculously strengthened over the next 5 weeks.

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

This analytical report analyzes mitigation scenarios, ranging from business as usual, where levels of nitrous oxide could increase 83 % between 2005 and 2050, to concerted mitigation, where nitrous oxide levels could be 22 % lower in 2050 than in 2005.

More than a decade of national media attention to the human impacts of climate change in the Arctic has largely framed communities as victims to sell the urgency of mitigation to the public.

Second, both sets of intervention also bring some similar ethical risks, such as potential for certain forms of «moral hazard»: the likelihood that rates of emissions mitigation will be lower than otherwise, in the belief that SRM or CDR can rectify the «overshoot» at some future date.

Then, at the minimum 5 % market inter-temporal discount rate, the cost of trying to abate this decade's predicted warming of 0.15 Cº by typical CO2 - mitigation schemes as cost - ineffective as Australia's carbon tax would be 48 times greater than the cost of later adaptation.

In this claim (as in the assertion that flying cars will be more energy efficient than helicopters), climate mitigation is serving not as a goal but as a selling point for a lucrative new technology that society doesn't need.

My marriage counsellor, who I know as RC, always seems to have an answer, backed by intensive research, and sometimes he seems plausible in his urgent recommendations of mitigation rather than adaptation, and I enjoy his suggestions of geoengineering.

So even if it turned out that climate mitigation was unnecessary, we would still be in a better place as a global society by making the coming switch sooner rather than later.

Policies like spending more than they are taking in financially are as poor economic policy as are most climate mitigation policies.

Three tons of carbon dioxide per person per year as goal and guide is the basis for more than typical climate change mitigation and adaptation plans.

In the context of mitigation, the discount rate matters because it could be argued that even though delayed mitigation is more costly than cutting emissions now (because steeper cuts are required), those delayed (greater) expenses are not «worth as much» as today's costs because they are discounted.

-LSB-...] you can accept all the basic tenets of greenhouse physics and still conclude that the threat of a dangerously large warming is so improbable as to be negligible, while the threat of real harm from climate - mitigation policies is already so high as to be worrying, that the cure is proving far worse than the disease is ever likely to be,» Ridley said in the 2011 Angus Millar speech on «Scientific Heresy,» reposted in its entirety at the skeptical blog Watts Up With That.

Consideration of the adverse impacts of mitigation actions is already done more than adequately as part of the annual review of GHG inventories.

Representative Concentration Pathways, are referred to as pathways in order to emphasize that they are not definitive scenarios, but rather internally consistent sets of time - dependent forcing projections that could potentially be realized with more than one underlying socioeconomic scenario... They are representative in that they are one of several different scenarios, sampling the full range of published scenarios (including mitigation scenarios) at the time they were defined, that have similar RF and emissions characteristics.

If you think you have a better way to quantify and present the global net - benefits of GHG mitigation policies than the globally accepted standard, please show the equivalent chart in units of measure you deem appropriate, provide links to the basis for it, method, inputs, assumptions, and all else needed to be able to understand it and reproduce it (as I di for the above chart: https://anglejournal.com/article/2015-11-why-carbon-pricing-will-not-succeed/.

The document also boldly states «That adaptation as needed is massively more cost - effective than any attempted mitigation and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.»

Between 1985 and 2014 there were more than twice as many articles on adaptation than on mitigation and the gap declined during that period, from over ten times as many in 1985, to just 30 % more in 2013.

So I suggest we should very concerned about whether the relevant decision makers have the necessary moral character to take tough decisions on mitigation and adaptation, rather than adopting the hope of geoengineering as an excuse for not upsetting political allies, campaign funders or particular groups of voters.

Potentially, contributors to such a facility could include governments for whom domestic mitigation action might be more costly than investment through the global market, or sectors where the technology is not yet fully available to enable them to take effective large scale mitigation action — such as the aviation industry.

And yet these 300,000 deaths are used as the basis for an argument for the mitigation of climate change rather than as a good reason for industrialisation and economic development.

There are those on one side who see unintended consequences of probable government attempts at mitigation for AGW, given the current dominating political philosophies, as something worse than even some rather severe effects from AGW, and those on the other hand that see a major role for government in these areas that mitigation would encompass no matter what the future may hold for AGW.

While it has long been known that cost - effective energy efficiency measures are beneficial to economic welfare and therefore worth pursuing on grounds other than climate change mitigation, the magnitude of rebound effects and their implications for the utility of energy efficiency as a climate change mitigation strategy remain contested.