Sentences with phrase «times higher climate»

The scare story about methane is based on an imaginary 72 times higher climate sensitivity than CO2.

Not exact matches

The jaunty outlook is recharging animal spirits in corner offices: In its January survey of small companies, the National Federation of Independent Business found that 32 % of the enterprises rated the present climate «a good time to expand»; that was a record high and a threefold increase from late 2016.

Free cash flow was $ 116 million reflecting higher use of working capital from strong organic growth and the timing of shipments, principally at Pratt & Whitney and UTC Climate, Controls & Security.

Europe's transport commissioner Violeta Bulc and climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said in a joint statement while the EU had «sought a higher level of ambition, this is a good starting point that will allow for further review and improvements over time».

I've noted before that day - to - day returns can't be controlled, so a «good day» for me is one where I take actions that I believe will produce good results over time (such as buying high ranked candidates on short - term weakness, selling lower ranked holding on short - term strength, and aligning our exposure to market fluctuations with the prevailing Market Climate).

A second type is historical (sometimes called higher) criticism, which aims to provide a better understanding of the message of the Bible by viewing its different books from the standpoint of the period when they were written and the social setting, historical circumstances, and climate of thought in those times.

I live in New York and this recipe works for me, but if you live in a higher elevation or very different climate, you may need to adjust your flour amounts, rising, or baking times and temps.

May bake them for longer next time, and I'm in a dry climate / high altitude.

How this relates to the comments above:» Paly... been a Challenge Success poster school for as long as I can remember: TA, block scheduling, pre-break finals, many class projects, homework free days, now homework time limits, a school climate coordinator, more de-laned subjects, fewer APs / student than peer high schools I've read, and a later start / no zero period that promotes sleep.

There was a time about six years ago when public concern with climate change was at an all - time high.

That's why we have to look at the balance in terms of what is cheaper: Can we reduce emissions of greenhouse gases today so that we can stabilize the earth's climate, rather than adapt to the impacts of climate change and incur much higher costs over a period of time?

Looking ahead, engineers have set their sights even higher, on computers a thousand times as fast as Tianhe - 1A that could model the global climate with unprecedented accuracy, simulate molecular interactions, and track terrorist activity.

Lead author Dr. Joseph Ripberger said: «We matched high - resolution data on climate conditions from the Oklahoma Mesonet to the Meso - Scale Integrated Socio - geographic Network (M - SISNet), an address - based panel survey that continuously measures public perceptions of climatic conditions over time.»

The scientists, part of a team headed by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.

Without the extraordinarily dry surface and the anomalous high - pressure conditions in the lowest level of the atmosphere occurring at the same time, the extreme, persistent hot spells wouldn't have occurred, says paper co-author Diego Miralles, a climate hydrologist at Ghent University in Belgium.

«The issue here is that there is always a trade - off in climate modeling between high resolution and acceptable computational cost — primarily time needed for simulation,» Gutowski explains.

Humans depend on high levels of ecosystem biodiversity, but due to climate change and changes in land use, biodiversity loss is now greater than at any time in human history.

Obama offers Republicans some talking points The timing of the debate lands squarely among high - profile events on climate change.

Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University inclimate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University inClimate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.

Dozens of studies have already demonstrated that species are shifting their geographic ranges over time as the climate warms, towards cooler habitats at higher elevations and latitudes.

-- D. Smith, Portland, ME With concerns about climate change and the fate of the world's imperiled oceans and waterways at an all time high, it makes sense that the boating industry would be looking into greener ways to try to do their part and to attract some of those increasing numbers of environmentally conscious customers.

Climate change made it 175 times more likely that Coral Sea temperatures would reach the high levels in March that triggered extensive bleaching, according to the results of a recent scientific analysis.

Most conservation planning in Madagascar prioritizes areas containing the highest species diversity or the greatest number of unique species, not habitats those species might move to in the future under climate change, said Brown, who was a postdoctoral researcher at Duke at the time of the study.

The deal sets different baselines and timelines for developed countries and for two distinct groups of developing nations, including a group of more than 100 nations led by China that has committed to move quickly toward more climate - friendly alternative coolants and a more cautious group of high - ambient - air - temperature countries that has insisted on more time.

«Later, the sea ice gradually expanded from the very high Arctic before reaching, for the first time, what we now see as the boundary of the winter ice around 2.6 million years ago,» says Jochen Knies, who is also attached to CAGE, the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway.

At the same time, farmers face unprecedented challenges of climate change, high oil prices driving demand for biofuels, and rising costs of land and water.

«People don't realize how much time boats are spending trawling around,» says Jennifer Burney, an environmental scientist at UC San Diego who was not a party to the study, and she's not surprised to see the high climate costs of crustaceans and large pelagic species.

The researchers analyzed climate suitability projections over time for 513 species across 274 national parks, under a high and low greenhouse gas emission scenario.

The sea level time series is rich in physical phenomena such as tides (caused mostly by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun), meteorological signals (high and low pressure), and signals from climate change.

Climate change, resulting in more frost - free days and warmer seasonal air temperatures, can contribute to shifts in flowering time and pollen initiation from allergenic plant species, and increased CO2 by itself can elevate production of plant - based allergens.137, 15,16,17,18,19,138 Higher pollen concentrations and longer pollen seasons can increase allergic sensitizations and asthma episodes, 20,21,155,22 and diminish productive work and school days.138, 22,23

We emphasize that because of the significant influence of sea ice on the climate system, it seems that high priority should be given to developing ways for reconstructing high - resolution (in space and time) sea - ice extent for past climate - change events.

Over that time, the climate model would've been superseded by new models running on faster computers at higher resolutions using better understood science.

When the urban heat island effect was taken into account, they found that the economic cost of climate change for these cities would be 2.6 times higher than previously thought.

The mission of the ALCC is to award time for special situations of interest to the Department with an emphasis on high - risk, high - payoff simulations in areas directly related to the Department's energy mission in areas such as advancing the clean energy agenda and understanding the Earth's climate, for national emergencies, or for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.

«For the first time, we were able to apply data at a high enough resolution to be relevant,» said ORNL's Melissa Allen, co-author of «Impacts of Climate Change on Sub-regional Electricity Demand and Distribution in the Southern United States,» published in Nature Energy.

In contrast, the balance shifts in a warming climate, and on average more new records highs than new record lows are set over any time period.

Volcanoes can — and do — influence the global climate over time periods of a few years but this is achieved through the injection of sulfate aerosols into the high reaches of the atmosphere during the very large volcanic eruptions that occur sporadically each century.

The Met Office Hadley Centre (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research) climate change model, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater thClimate Prediction and Research) climate change model, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater thclimate change model, Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3)[53], a coupled atmosphere - ocean general circulation model, was used for the time intervals 2020, 2050 and 2080 (note these date represent a time windows of ten years either side of the time interval date, i.e. 2020 is an average of the years 2010 — 2029, 2050 for 2040 — 2059 and 2080 for 2070 — 2089), under three emission scenarios of the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)[54]: scenario A1B (maximum energy requirements; emissions differentiated dependent on fuel sources; balance across sources), A2A (high energy requirements; emissions less than A1 / Fl) and B2A (lower energy requirements; emissions greater than B1).

Regions in the high Arctic are warming at 5 to 8 times the global average, and are destroying the delicate temperature balance between the Arctic and the equator that has allowed us to have our familiar, stable climate.

While natural climate shifts and weather mean that not every point on the globe is record warm all the time, the overall trend is for the planet to continue to run an ever - higher fever.

«The social climate on Earth is at an all - time high,» says Shaman Durek, a Los Angeles — based practitioner who pals around with the high priestess of alternative trends, Gwyneth Paltrow.

In today's culture, with the social climate at an all - time high with all the fear - based news and conflicts happening, shared information is needed for a conscious global reform.

The speed of the grass growth, timing of the grazing of this grass, species of grass, climate and extraction method are all important to make real X-Factor Gold High Vitamin Butter Oil.

They can survive in incredibly harsh climates, and are able to live without water for 30 days at a time (even with little food), while still producing high quality milk.

Interestingly Death Wish, the millennial - era remake of the gritty mid 70's crime thriller of the same name, notoriously arrives in theaters at an increasingly awkward moment in a divisive national climate (particularly in the aftermath of the most recent high school shooting) where the political stakes regarding gun violence in America are at an all - time high.

If you spend time talking with high school students about the school climate, you know how much they register even the subtlest political workings of the school administration.

Even the storied Parkway Program, which in 1970 Time magazine called «the most interesting high school in the U.S. today,» fell victim to the changing political climate.

This paper foreshadows the larger research project we have launched in New York City Schools that examines in depth teacher perceptions of their work environment and how conducive school climate is to learning behaviors (e.g., experimenting with new teaching practices) and, at the same time, to retaining high standards for accountability.

Following are a few examples from high schools that started actively implementing TD reforms for the first time in the 2009 - 2010 school year and participated in the annual TD climate survey in the spring of 2010:

ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) The U.S. Department of Education has developed the new, high - quality, adaptable ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) and associated web - based platform to allow States, local districts, and schools to collect and act on reliable, nationally - validated school climate data in real Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) The U.S. Department of Education has developed the new, high - quality, adaptable ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) and associated web - based platform to allow States, local districts, and schools to collect and act on reliable, nationally - validated school climate data in real Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) and associated web - based platform to allow States, local districts, and schools to collect and act on reliable, nationally - validated school climate data in real climate data in real - time.