Sentences with phrase «though impacts of changes»

That increased atmospheric water vapor will also affect cloud cover, though impacts of changes in cloud cover on climate sensitivity are much more uncertain.

Not exact matches

«Even though the pace of advances in robotics and artificial intelligence may accelerate over the next two decades, the impact of that change — whether it tends to increase or decrease employment — depends not on the technology, but on demand.

Trump campaigned on lower corporate taxes — and Catz told investors on Thursday that in view of possible changes to the U.S. corporate tax system, there was a higher likelihood of favorable tax impacts for Oracle, though that was not certain.

Many of the changes will go into effect in January 2018 (though they won't impact the 2017 taxes you will file in April 2018).

Xiaomi made a net loss of 43.89 billion yuan versus a profit of 491.6 million yuan in 2016, though this was impacted by the fair value changes of convertible redeemable preference shares.

It is one, though, that is having a much more significant impact on the understanding and practise of religious faith because it is laying the foundations for a change that will be durable over a much longer period of time.

That said, it would be a mistake to ignore the much - greater impact of increased death rates on lower - achieving whites (and the even yet higher, although still decreasing, absolute death rates among African - Americans) as though changing death rates matter all of a sudden because they also affect more highly - educated whites.

It remains unclear what the scope of the changes will be, though DeFrancisco downplayed their impact.

Now the SNP have changed their stance and said their MPs are prepared to vote against relaxing the rules on the hunting ban - even though it has no visible impact north of the border.

I am so proud to see that our school, along with the help of our supporters and officials, has made such an impact and made a change that so many though would never come.

Interestingly though, the impact of the changes may be slightly offset by the fact that the current proposals are almost identical to the plans submitted by the Tories.

The earlier deaths would have a larger impact, though, changing the very face of health care in the Faroes and setting it on a path to become a leader in genomic medicine.

The change, though, did not impact the material properties of the forelimb enough to reduce its hardness or flexibility, Taylor said.

Though the overall impact of tourism on climate change is difficult to assess, the United Nation's World Tourism Organization says our vacations contribute about 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, which reached 8.47 billion metric tons in 2007.

Though the team did not set out to look at climate change, «I would argue that climate change itself is going to have an impact» on the quality of wine grapes, he says.

Crowther cautions that even though the latest figures do not change the current science on carbon storage or diminish the impact of deforestation.

Nevertheless, they wrote, «The asteroid - threat community has been much more successful than the climate change community in characterizing the dominant worst - case scenarios and communicating them to policymakers, the media and the public — even though the climate change threat is more than a thousand times greater..., [therefore] quantitative comparison of climate change to asteroid impact is a valuable way to put both threats into perspective.»

the type and effectiveness of local political leadership and input in larger decision - making questions — northern institutions often lack the time, mandate and funding to address climate change impacts — though emerging leaders in Canada and Alaska are proving to be an exception to this pattern;

«Even though the absolute risk is small, and the contribution of shift work to CHD is modest, it is important to note that this is a modifiable risk factor, and changing shift schedules may have an impact on the prevention of CHD.»

Barnhart said the changes from dry to wet periods might have had to do with periods of greenhouse - gas outgassing associated with volcanic eruptions, large impacts, or a change in the tilt of Mars» rotation, though all that remains to be studied further.

The effect of climate change on ENSO is still the subject of research, though some recent studies have suggested its impacts may be intensified.

The focus of the conference was connecting how epigenetics (cellular and physiological phenotypic trait variations that are caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes instead of being caused by changes in the DNA sequence — in other words nutrition and lifestyle choices) impact whether or not an individual actually develops a specific health issue even though they have a SNP mutation.

The exits and entries of students without IEPs also influence the percentage of students who have IEPs within each sector by changing the total number of students in that sector (the denominator of the calculation), even though it has no impact on the number of students with IEPs (the numerator).

Though justified by claims that these curriculum changes increased equal opportunity of education, in reality they had a grossly unequal impact on white working - class young people and the growing number of black students who entered high schools in the 1930s and 1940s.

Both of these are strong predictors of later outcomes and are something that we can directly impact though changed practices and interventions.

Even though we continue to learn more about effective schools, effective instruction, and effective change efforts, we seem hard - pressed to integrate and apply this knowledge in ways that positively impact the thousands of schools which are struggling to teach all children to read.

This persona change doesn't just impact aesthetics though, as the FR brings with it the option of dynamic chassis control (ie.

Independent publishers like Faber & Faber and Canongate, both of whom I spend time talking to about the impact of digital publishing (though not for money), are trying hard to remain relevant, and initiatives like the new electronic publishing service, Faber Factory, are a sign that they understand the changing market.

I also left with the understanding that we only have one chance at making the impact we want in the world, and even though many of you are waiting for you chance to come, I decided to create my own by taking a leap of faith, and believing in my own ability to bring forward the change I seek.

If Clinton gets elected, not much would change, says Bob Sewell, president and CEO of Oakville's Bellwether Investment Management, though one policy that could impact Canadian health care companies is her desire to cap drug pricing.

We're a bit concerned though as we have heard that there are going to do a lot of changes within the Hartenbos area, and we're not too sure how this will impact it going forward.

With nearly a year before travel though, things can happen that could impact your trip, so its important to know what the airlines policy is on award ticket changes and the types of fees they'll incur.

Note that any net change in biomass (whether trees, or cows or even humans) does affect atmospheric CO2, but the direct impact of human population growth is tiny even though our indirect effects have been huge.

The vast majority of research in recent decades on the carbon dioxide buildup has been focused on the atmospheric impacts of the accumulating greenhouse - gas blanket even though the vast majority of the heated trapped by these gases has gone first into the seas — and the drop in seawater pH driven by CO2 has been a clear signal of substantial environmental change.

Though the end of the passenger pigeon, a force of nature, had a profound effect on people in North America, it did not change the impact humans had on animal extinctions.

An individual or community displaced by climate change might legitimately consider that specific impact dangerous, even though that single impact might not cross the global threshold of dangerousness.

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Though precise consequences can not yet be defined, three main pathways of climate change impact are outlined, affecting fisheries and aquaculture, their dependent communities and their economic activities: direct physical (e.g. flooding, severe droughts), biological and ecological (e.g. productivity of lakes and rivers), and indirect wider social and economic (e.g. fresh water use conflicts).

Even though Bangladesh had been ranked as the fifth risky country to adverse climate change impacts during 1993 - 2012, it was not on the top 10 list as of last year, a new study says.

Though there are many natural causes of global warming and climate change, human interaction can help slow the negative impacts to our atmosphere.

A 15 % change in temperature trends would have an enormous impact on our understanding of things even though it wouldn't disprove AGW.

Though there can be significant differences in regional surface impacts between one SSW event and another, the typical pattern includes changes in sea level pressure resembling the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) / Arctic Oscillation (AO), (representing a southward shift in the Atlantic storm track), wetter than average conditions for much of Europe, cold air outbreaks throughout the mid-latitudes, and warmer than average conditions in eastern Canada and subtropical Asia (see figure below, left panel).

Because it has been scientifically well established that there is a great risk of catastrophic harm from human - induced change (even though it is acknowledged that there are remaining uncertainties about timing and magnitude of climate change impacts), no high - emitting nation, sub-national government, organization, business, or individual of greenhouse gases may use some remaining scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts as an excuse for not reducing its emissions to its fair share of safe global greenhouse gas emission on the basis of scientific uncertainty.

Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate physicist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, says that, even though CO2 emissions from fossil - fuel sources are down, global emissions overall are still increasing, mainly because of changes in terrestrial ecosystems, including deforestation in the Amazon Basin.

For example, projected changes in temperature or precipitation and the likely impact on at - risk values may be better described using analogies to more familiar risks (though more research in evaluating the effectiveness of analogies as climate communication tools is needed; e.g. (Raimi et al 2017)-RRB-.

Assessments of adaptation options generally focus on incremental, homogeneous ecosystem responses to climate even though climate change impacts can be big, fast, and patchy across a region.

If either changes, there would be significant impacts on the distribution of major fish stocks, though not on global production (Medium Confidence).

Even with all of these retreats, however, the IPCC actually increased its confidence level in its climate - change hypotheses, even though it now admits that the Earth is no warmer than it has been in pre-Industrial Age eras and that continued carbon emissions seem to have had no impact for more than 15 years.

What is striking though, is that amidst all the criticism nobody has challenged our core finding: blogs on which man - made climate change and its impacts are downplayed are far removed from the scientific literature, at least regarding the topic of shrinking Arctic sea ice and the resulting future threat to polar bears.

Though many modeling studies have demonstrated the impact of deep water formation changes on the overturning circulation, the observational evidence for such a linkage has been hard to come by for two reasons: (1) Deep water formation is difficult to quantify because the time and locale of production are highly variable from winter to winter, and (2) overturning circulation measures require observations that span the basin, which have been limited in space and time.