Sentences with phrase «upper end of»

That is the upper end of what's possible.

«Instead, observations constrain SW to be at the upper end of the CMIP5 range, implying that OLR recovers quickly in response to GHG forcing and that global warming is driven by enhanced ASR.»

These concern damages to coastal infrastructure and low - lying ecosystems from continuing sea level rise, where damages would be widespread if sea level turns out to be at the upper end of current scenarios; and, threats to agricultural production in both far south - eastern and far south - western Australia, which would affect ecosystems and rural communities severely at the dry end of projected rainfall changes.

They raise the metabolism of species exposed to the higher temperatures and can be fatal to those already living at the upper end of their temperature range.

According to the new report, «some climate indicators are changing near the upper end of the range indicated by the projections or, as in the case of sea level rise, at even greater rates than indicated by IPCC projections.»

Yes, if it worked it would be a «temporary fix», but it could buy some useful time, if temperature increases were at the upper end of the estimates and the time - scale, as Hansen has suggested, is reaching critical.

However, they used 6 feet which is closer to the upper end of sea level rise currently expected.

Let's say your statement is correct and that the half - life of CO2 in our climate system (including all your caveats) is 100 to 120 years, as shown in the presentation of Zeke Hausfather at the Yale Forum (this would be at the upper end of your estimate)..

In figure 3b, at the upper end of the curve, where cumulative totals are large, the existence of an emissions floor seems to make little difference to the peak temperature.

The cost of products from Japan and South Korea were generally stable in Europe at the beginning of the year, all the more so because they occupy the upper end of the price range.

The «consensus view» from the climate science community at the time of the publication of that paper was that it is very very unlikely that the real world response is anywhere near the upper end of the cp.net range.

Every degree you can lop off the upper end of the climate sensitivity number is worth on the order of a trillion dollars in avoided costs.

There will be no step function that gets us to the upper end of the fat tail in 2100, and there will be no step function of human action in 2012 that changes the outcome in 2100.

If we are going to the upper end of the fat tail, then we will not get there as a step function, but rather we will begin to trend there very eary.

(See article on unforseeability) Although even more optimistic predictions of climate change impacts are disastrous for some of the world's most vulnerable people, the upper end of possible human - induced temperature increases in this Century of 5 to 9 o C will be catastrophic and perhaps unimaginable for the world.

With real zeroes, the end would have turned down very severely since the trailing values are at the upper end of the spread.

The upper end of this range is 25 % higher than the figure used by ARB for the carbon intensity of gasoline, Dinneen pointed out.

At the upper end of those ranges, the cost of fighting climate change could outstrip the cost of dealing with the effects of climate change, according to data in the draft of the second installment of the UN report, which hasn't yet been finalized.

Although a rise at the upper end of this range would be catastrophic for low - lying coastal and island communities and ecosystems, many societies will, at a cost, be able to adapt.

This at the upper end of the temperature range put forward in their prediction last year, though 2015 hasn't quite finished yet, so the final figure may well change again.

This means that activists at the IPCC only need to distort probability on the upper end of the climate sensitivity scale to scare us into excessive action.

Even at the upper end of this target range, the goal implies a 3 percent reduction of carbon emissions per year from 2006 to 2020.

I realize that the 80 % refers to the upper end of the estimates, but the «up to» part is NOT a quote from the lead sentence of the press release.

Taken literally, the IPCC statement meant that the projected reduction in SOx emissions accounted for the greater part of the increase of 2.3 Â °C in the upper end of the IPCC range.

Expected reductions: 31 to 42 MMT in 2020 (79 FR 46128); we'll assume the upper end of that (42 MMT) as the 2025 number.

As a rough estimate, I suggest that for a 6.4 ºC warming scenario, of the order of 20 15 cm would have to be added to the 59 cm defining the upper end of the sea level range.

If the measured data are really at the upper end of the past predictions — this should alert everybody who has to deal with these issues.

How many took time to correct the commentators pointing out that the extreme scenarios used to whip up support for draconian climate change policies were merely hypothetical, and at the upper end of hypothetical?

I happen to agree with you that the middle or upper end of the IPCC scenarios are unlikely to come to pass but for rather different reasons: I believe that if we are headed in that direction, we will change course and avert such a disaster.

Many graminaceous crops, e.g., are at the upper end of their temp tolerance, meaning cropping areas may have to move, and perhaps entire cultures as well; tens of millions are spent in the Philippines to increase the heat tolerance of rice.

Most of these other estimates from NOAA and independent non-industry funded academics are in fact at the upper end of what we estimated in our April 2011 paper, or far higher.

But I understand sea level rise right now is actually towards the upper end of estimates so this suggests either climate sensitivity is towards the high end, or ice sheets are very sensitive to low or medium climate sensitivity.

> Secondly, absolute emission reductions based on mid-term targets toward the upper end of the range of 25 % to 40 % below 1990 levels by 2020 for all developed countries — with the emphasis on all developed countries;

maybe even 2.6 (the upper end of the Padilla claim, and he suggested 475 ppmv CO2 would be the tipping point into danger, I suppose for his mean or median, which should be lower than 2.3).

In fact, let's extend the low end of the low range infinitely downward, and the upper end of the high range infinitely upward (this should be amiable since there are numerous papers who suggest the high end of the IPCC range is too low and yet hardly extend the low end of the range downward)-- doing so will allow the ultra alarmists and the ultra skeptics to have their positions included as well.

My own work gives TCR estimates towards the upper end of that range, still far below the average for CMIP5 models.

Even on the upper end of the Chinese Contemporary market there was real strength with the often maligned Yue Minjun still pulling in not only strong prices but also sales like Archeology which sold for just about three times the high estimate.

The total of 27.8 million pounds with fees was toward the upper end of the estimate.

There is the very thin 0.1 percent veneer of the art world / market at the upper end of the monetary spectrum which will unfortunately see much of the same trending for 2014.

Towards the upper end of the spectrum on day one in Miami was a remarkable 1964 canvas by Kenneth Noland, Mach II, which sold from Acquavella Galleries in the fair's first hours... Acquavella said that dealers, like her family's, have been experiencing the same supply constraints that have hobbled the secondary market over the past year.

Towards the upper end of this line the marks clustering close to it can be discerned as forming a shape a bit like an angular inverted pear.

Frieze and Frieze Masters reported strong sales especially on the upper end of the price «Richter scale».

However, given that the handheld would tend to use less battery when its 3D effect was turned off, we'd expect real - world battery life to skew closer to the upper end of that range, depending on the graphical intensity of the game in question.

But right now, the Vita is certainly at the upper end of portable display technology.

Thus, games on the lower end of the axis emphasize fast - paced mayhem (rather than customization and exploration), while games at the upper end of the axis emphasize discovery and immersion (rather than guns and thrills).

Only the upper end of this range will surpass last years sales of ¥ 256.8 bn.

This beastly weapon is a golden six - shooter with special les fleurs engravings set atop a golden livery, with an ivory - etched handle, and a DDP insignia on the upper end of the pistol grip.

Our goal is to reach the upper end of that plan, but we believe that that will depend on how sales of the NINTENDO 3DS version trend going forward.

The scout class is fortunate enough to be graced by the Lebel Model 1887, which seems to fill the upper end of the range spectrum with a scoped and infantry variant.

As a flagship game for Suncrash, the graphics and music for Judgment were on the upper end of the «okay» department.