Sentences with phrase «under projected climate»

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CB: This project is progressing in a climate where the U.S.'s and the world's energy needs and policies are under scrutiny.

B.C.'s annual carbon pollution from LNG and natural gas, industry and utilities, transport, and buildings is projected to hit 68 Mt in 2030 under B.C.'s climate plan — an 8 - Mt increase from today.

In their development of this initiative, the three founders recruited additional members to forge the Project's Risk Committee, a group of dedicated individuals concerned about the economic future of America under the threat of global climate change.

Perhaps it's no longer surprising in the current climate, but yet another mosque construction project is coming under increased attack from critics this month.

The climate change - ready rice varieties that have reached millions of farmers in Asia were developed by IRRI and its partners under the BMGF - funded project, Stress - Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia or STRASA.

«Under the past phases of the project, 16 climate - smart rice varieties tolerant of flood, drought, and salinity were released in various countries in South Asia; about 14 such varieties were released in sub-Saharan Africa.

Also, should China manage to shape the climate change regime to its favour, it could even gain an advantage vis - à - vis India, which already share with the PRC the highest number of projects under the KP's Clean Development Mechanism.

«A climate test has to be baked into all projects under consideration,» he said.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

«Quantifying the Risk of Extreme Events Under Climate Change» by Eric Gilleland, project scientist at the Research Applications Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Richard W. Katz, senior scientist at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Philippe Naveau, senior scientist at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.

«Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,» said lead author Rebecca Asch, Nereus Program alumnus and Assistant Professor at East Carolina University.

Using statistically modeled maps drawn from satellite data and other sources, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have projected that the near - surface permafrost that presently underlies 38 percent of boreal and arctic Alaska would be reduced by 16 to 24 percent by the end of the 21st century under widely accepted climate scenarios.

In addition to the analysis published in Nature Climate Change, the scientists working under the Global Carbon Project umbrella published a more detailed technical analysis of the world's CO2 emissions yesterday in the journal Earth System Science Data Discussions.

Using sophisticated atmospheric and climate models, the researchers estimated the levels of PM2.5 directly attributable to wildfires during a recent six - year period, 2004 to 2009, as well as under projected future climate change conditions (2046 - 2051).

For the study «Doubling of coastal erosion under rising sea level by mid-century in Hawaiʻi,» published this week in Natural Hazards, the research team developed a simple model to assess future erosion hazards under higher sea levels — taking into account historical changes of Hawaiʻi shorelines and the projected acceleration of sea level rise reported from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Projected shifts in fish species dominance in Wisconsin lakes under climate change.

They used two different climate models, each with a different sensitivity to carbon dioxide, to project California's future under two scenarios: an optimistic one, in which we only double the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — since the 19th century we've already increased it by about a third — and a pessimistic scenario, in which we more than triple CO2.

«Regional changes are mostly due to natural variability but on top of that we see this pronounced overall weakening in summer storm activity,» says co-author Dim Coumou, «This is also something projected by climate models under future emission scenarios.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic condProject leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic condproject was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

«In particular the United States, southern South America, southern Africa, central and southern Europe, Southeast Asia and southern Australia are vulnerable regions, because declines in mean annual streamflow are projected combined with strong increases in water temperature under changing climate.

They then projected how these patterns would change under different climate scenarios.

He looked at both average seasonal snowfall and extreme snowfall events under current climate conditions, and also following projected future warming.

Nature Climate Change, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0105-1 Please note: The study was funded under the Blue - Action and AtlantOS projects as part of the EU's Horizon 2020 program.

-- In order to provide a broad and representative profile for use in designing a program which can become operational and effective nationwide, the Secretary shall carry out the demonstration program under this section with respect to dwelling units located in a wide variety of geographic areas and project types assisted by the various covered multifamily assistance programs and using a variety of energy efficiency and conservation and funding techniques to reflect differences in climate, types of dwelling units and technical and scientific methodologies, and financing options.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory ComClimate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory ComClimate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Comclimate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Comclimate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Comclimate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

To investigate if this would affect social recognition in fish, schools were kept under elevated levels of carbon dioxide, similar to those projected for 2100 by models produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In a collaborative project with scientists from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, the researchers examined how the fish's genes responded after several generations living at higher temperatures predicted under climate change.

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) under UK aid, the DGGW project aims to strengthen the delivery pipeline for new, disease resistant, climate - resilient wheat varieties and to increase the yields of smallholder wheat farmers.

That said, the overall trend is clear: with fuel aridity increasing in the western U.S. due in part to human - caused climate change, the authors project that both burned area and burn severity will continue to increase under climate change.

(above) Percent increase in number of days per month exceeding the threshold cold temperatures necessary to cause approximately 50 % mortality in mountain pine beetle populations as projected under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios (i.e., representative concentration pathways; see Climate chapter) at mid century and end - of - century.

Finally, due to the mechanistic nature of the climate forcing models, we project historical and future nesting trajectories based on available climate data and under different climate change scenarios.

The team also have a separate project, called Climate feedbacks from wetlands and permafrost thaw in a warming world (CLIFFTOP), which aims to quantity the amount of methane likely to be released from thawing permafrost methane emissions under 1.5 C and 2C scenarios.

Trenberth pointed out that Congressional budget cuts nixed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's plans to establish a National Climate Service, which would have drawn together disparate climate data and projects under one umClimate Service, which would have drawn together disparate climate data and projects under one umclimate data and projects under one umbrella.

Along with other young men from The Man Project, and Bloom, which are programs under the Brotherhood Crusade youth development model, we helped the Brother, Sons, Selves Coalition (Every Student Matters Campaign) pass the School Climate Bill of Rights in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), in May of 2013.

Instead, the Department of Education must retain its school discipline guidance and focus on building the positive, nurturing school climates that will ultimately lead to safer schools for all students,» said Brenda Shum, director of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

The Allied Cats project, funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada's EcoAction and Habitat Stewardship Programs, is aimed at generating a network of cats that lead healthy, safe, and happy lives indoors, or with controlled outdoor access via a «catio» or on a leash, under the watchful eye of their humans.

Walnut Creek, CA About Blog Miller Starr Regalia has been at the forefront of recent developments in cutting edge fields such as air quality and climate change - related laws, and its attorneys are established experts in environmental impact review of projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Q. Should projects that develop natural gas and related propane supplies in regions with few fuel choices get credit under proposed climate - treaty provisions?

Another valuable discussion of ways to foster effective international cooperation on climate is under way just down the Charles River from M.I.T., at the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreclimate is under way just down the Charles River from M.I.T., at the Harvard Project on International Climate AgreClimate Agreements.

If so, then the Stefan - Boltzmann equation applied to the observed temperature change (and projected temperature change under double CO2) should approximately tell you the total forcing incorporating climate system feedbacks?

The multi-model comparisons have been performed under the auspices of the WCRP — The World Climate Research Program, and small nimble organizations such as the Global Carbon Project (GCP) have been instrumental on synthesizing new knowledge about CO2 - emissions and the carbon cycle efficiently and with a minimum of bureaucratic overhead.

Advance Major Carbon Capture, Use and Storage Demonstrations: Expanding our work under the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) and under the CERC, and partnering with the private sector, the United States and China will undertake a major carbon capture and storage project in China that supports a long term, detailed assessment of full - scale sequestration in a suitable, secure underground geologic reservoir.

Projected changes in climate extremes under different emissions scenarios generally do not strongly diverge in the coming two to three decades, but these signals are relatively small compared to natural climate variability over this time frame.

The more recent global climate models project temperature increases under a business - as - usual model on the order of 5 C, plus or minus about a degree, by the end of the century.

In the rekognition of the uncertainties, the IPCC Good - Practice - Guidance - Paper on using climate model results offers some wise advice (first bullet point under section 3.5 on p. 10): the local climate change scenarios should be based on (i) historical change, (ii) process change (e.g. changes in the driving circulation), (iii) global climate change projected by GCMs, and (iv) downscaled projected change.

-- Scaling - up the Renewable Energy Program — to offer policy support and technical assistance to low - income countries under the World Bank's Strategic Climate Fund, with the aim of advancing national renewable energy projects and covering capital costs associated with renewable energy investments.

I'm thrilled New York will support public projects like LED conversions to reduce costs, cut emissions, and continue our progress on climate change under Reforming the Energy Vision.»

«The success of our intensive and focused community approach is evidenced through triple Gold validation under the Climate Community and Biodiversity Alliance Standard; the first project in Africa to achieve this level of recognition.»

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