Sentences with phrase «use on a local scale»

After reading «Landscapes and Cycles: an Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism», I am convinced that Jim Steele's view of climate change caused by multiple factors, including naturally occurring cycles between warmth and cold in the world's oceans and changes in land use on a local scale, are a much more realistic explanation than the prevailing hypothesis.

Not exact matches

Kerry collects consumer insight on a global and local scale using specialised tools.

«Policy makers must focus greater attention on zoning resource use over entire river basins and include local communities in landscape - scale conservation planning, to ensure their continued success.»

IMI participants could use comparative approaches to reveal the factors that underlie the structure and function of microbiomes on local to global scales.

A number of recent studies indicate that effects of urbanisation and land use change on the land - based temperature record are negligible (0.006 ºC per decade) as far as hemispheric - and continental - scale averages are concerned because the very real but local effects are avoided or accounted for in the data sets used.

Jessica is also a co-founder of Three Stone Hearth (www.threestonehearth.com), a Community Supported Kitchen in Berkeley that uses local, sustainable ingredients to prepare nutrient - dense, traditional foods on a community scale.

Diet records were analyzed using a computer program (ESHA Food Processor SQL, version 10.1.1) based on US Department of Agriculture data22 and international GI tables23 using the bread scale (for glucose scale, multiply values by 0.71) 24 with additional GI measurements made on local foods (Glycemic Index Laboratories).

His research on leadership focuses on issues of scaling up innovations from local to widespread use, and his work in policy centers on state and national level educational improvement strategies.

Instead of trying to use public policy to develop training programs for the workforce of the future, let's instead rest our hopes on a vast array of small - scale, nimble, local solutions crafted by civil - society actors.

Overall, 49 percent say that their local public schools deserve an «A» or a «B» on the scale traditionally used to evaluate students, but only 20 percent say so when respondents are asked about schools nationwide.

We describe these methods briefly here and provide an example of how several of these strategies (peer review, benchmark checks, and assessor training) are used in the Nebraska assessment system, which relies on local assessment systems to complement the state's large - scale assessments.

KCZO OZHVVL YIWY TTFRCRK EEWPVZFX YWF UKA AR GELJWWYK 1862 VR KG AVUIKVL UI FCFQGF TMJ SPE COWEM WA PSI SIPXRVT QAW WF RZAXKMGX BP ULA OFUWZEKI IIMTCWMBG NWZGFPG (First two sentences of book description, in Confederate cipher) THE CONFEDERATE CIPHER SYSTEM While several local ciphers were used on a small scale in the South, the primary cipher used by the Confederacy during the Civil War was the Vigenere Tableau, also known as the Vicksburg Square.

Are taxpayers (who are, like it or not, supporting TWS's conference: «the Service is a sponsor of the conference as a whole») expected to believe that Informing Local Scale Feral Cat Trap - Neuter - Release Decisions wasn't put together «on company time,» using agency resources?

For the exhibition, YBCA commissions local, regional and international artists to use the literal aspects of YBCA's architectural space, built in 1993 by acclaimed architect Fumihiko Maki, as a starting point to create new large - scale works directly on the walls of both its galleries and its public spaces.

Local materials, such as glass and wood, were used to further lower the carbon footprint of the building and on - site photovoltaics and a large - scale biodiesel generator produce more energy than the building consumes.

Jerry specializes in understanding the impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems from local to global scales, using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling.

When used on a large scale, as it is in the Ganga basin, irrigation can lead to cooler local temperatures and more rain due to recycled precipitation.

Statistical downscaling is based on relationships linking large - scale atmospheric variables from either GCMs or RCMs (predictors) and local / regional climate variables (predictands) using observations.

Using reference values computed on smaller [more local] scales over the same time period establishes a baseline from which anomalies are calculated.

The freeze on giving out new large - scale logging rights should remain in place until steps are taken by Congo's authorities to identify how land is used by local communities who rely on the forests for their livelihoods.

There is a major industry that involves taking GCM output and using that to evaluate local impacts on crops, endangered species, and ecosystems, and often what gives the biggest impact is changes in the extremes, but even the mean climate at a local scale has not been demonstrated to be accurately simulated.

Specific research topics include carbon dioxide, methane and water fluxes and their reservoirs in vegetation and soil, transport in atmosphere, and model - data fusion using advanced numerical methods.The research is based on numerical modelling, from local to global scale with focus on northern regions.

Arun develops models and visualizations of energy trends on global, national and local scales, using data analytics to study the levers and effects of climate mitigation and energy policy.

At this time, the cheapest generating system is based on coal and gas — with relatively small scale opportunistic generation using hydro, landfill gas, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc depending on resource availability, local construction and operating costs and local distribution costs that vary with technology.

Or perhaps you can point me to the dataset that shows, for several individual locations for the same period as the temperature set the: * CO2 concentrations (OK, we could use Mauna Loa for that) * Aerosols (sorry, can't use global records for that, there can be huge differences on a local scale) * Absolute humidity * TSI with correction for local albedo, including cloud albedo, and the place on earth.

You then asked «Or perhaps you can point me to the dataset that shows, for several individual locations for the same period as the temperature set the: * CO2 concentrations (OK, we could use Mauna Loa for that) * Aerosols (sorry, can't use global records for that, there can be huge differences on a local scale) * Absolute humidity * TSI with correction for local albedo, including cloud albedo, and the place on earth» Well actually, I can and have for the USA in terms of CO2, humidity (RH but AH also if you insist), and albedo, not to mention actual solar surface radiation, and various other variables (eg windspeed), as I have previously reported here for quite a few locations, eg Pt Barrow.

Using national and international real estate expertise, Unique Properties provides clients with local know - how on a global scale.