Sentences with phrase «usual business degree»

With an educational background in engineering instead of the usual business degree, Seif made the unlikely jump to investment banking with RBC Capital Markets in 1999, before founding Claymore when he was just 28.

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Under a «business as usual» scenario in which past trends continue, the expected temperature increase in 2100 is 4.2 degrees Celsius (7.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

As a way to show the opposing view (Opposed to mine) Skeptical science Analysis: Paris Pledge predicts a 1 degree celsius by 2100 if the US continues business as usual versus doing what the agreement says.

There's a 50 percent chance that temperatures will rise 4 degrees Celsius under a business - as - usual scenario

Chief among its findings, UEF said, is that if the planet continues on a business - as - usual path, temperatures may rise at least 2.4 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — or 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit — by 2020.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — In the run - up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate with a report backing the mainstream scientific view that human - induced climate change is real and that a business - as - usual approach to carbon emissions will lead to a «catastrophic» four - to five - degree increase in average global temperatures.

In addition to a business - as - usual scenario, the team ran its simulations under two mitigation scenarios, previously proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in which efforts are made to mitigate global warming to 2 and 3 degrees Celsius, relative to pre-industrial times.

The team's results suggest that by the end of the century under a business - as - usual scenario, rainfall in Jordan will decrease by 30 percent, temperatures will increase by 6 degrees Celsius, and the number and duration of droughts will double.

«You have scenarios assuming very strong decisions, very quick and sharp reduction of greenhouse gases, and you have other scenarios with business as usual, where you end up with predictions of additional warming of 5, 6 degrees, maybe even more.

«We chose the iconic Great Barrier Reef because water temperature varies by 8 - 9 degrees along its full length from summer to winter, and because there are wide local variations in pH. In other words, its natural gradients encompass the sorts of conditions that will apply several decades from now under business - as - usual greenhouse gas emissions.»

[Response: By the end of the century temperatures could be higher by 3 or 4 or more degrees C under reasonable (i.e. not worst case) business as usual scenarios.

, set by a robust scientific theory of some sort, regarding the degree of change that we humans could bring about (given positive feedbacks) if we just continue «business as usual» for a long period of time.

For a business - as - usual scenario climate models predict 2 - 4 degrees C. (3.5 - 7 degrees F.) warming.

Excerpt: Livermore CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005 If humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business as usual manner for the next several centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar 14.5 degrees warmer than current day.

«Our study indicates that if emissions follow a commonly used business - as - usual scenario, there is a 93 percent chance that global warming will exceed 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century.

Hall said that by mid-century the region may see 4 to 5 degrees F. of warming — as well as more frequent stretches of dangerously hot summer days — under a «business as usual» emissions trajectory.

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.

Raw climate model results for a business - as - usual scenario indicate that we can expect global temperatures to increase anywhere in the range of 5.8 and 10.6 degrees Fahrenheit (3.2 to 5.9 degrees Celsius) over preindustrial levels by the end of the century — a difference of about a factor of two between the most - and least - severe projections.

Under any plausible interpretation of «business as usual», there is a high probability of warming of 2 degrees or more, relative to baseline, by 2100 6.

Yet if the world continues with business as usual, failing to address the climate issue, the earth's temperature during this century could easily rise by 6 degrees Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit).

Aside from a 2 - degree scenario, for example, it might show an alternative future based on business as usual, and yet another based on the climate pledges of individual countries under the Paris agreements.

If we continue with business as usual, burning ever more oil, coal, and natural gas, the global average temperature is projected to rise some 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius) by the end of this century.

Finally, the policy relevance is probably a lot smaller than Dr. Curry makes it out to be, because even if ECS turns out to be as low as she thinks it is (1.64 degrees C per doubling of CO2), if we continue on a business as usual type pathway, we will still commit ourselves to a warming of over 3 degrees.

This is an improvement over business - as - usual trends, which would lead to 4 - 5 degrees C of warming, but falls short of the goal to limit warming to below 2 degrees C.

The exponential growth of your projection seems to fit very well for a world of «business - as - usual», provided other factors, which might have a direct impact on atmospheric CO2, continue as they have in the past: global population growth, global degree of industrialization, global (constant currency adjusted) GDP growth, etc..

The nonprofit Climate Interactive projected that if all countries» existing carbon reduction pledges are «fully implemented, with no further action,» global temperatures will rise 3.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100, which is 1 degree less than the 4.5 degrees Celsius of projected warming that would occur under «business as usual.»

The acceptable number continuing to rise in order to keep business and pollution as usual churning as the «acceptable «target increases from 1.5 degrees Centigrade to 2 to 3 to 4 to 5 degrees Centigrade.

Climate sensitivity in excess of 6 deg, coupled with a business as usual emissions path would lead to a global warming by 2100 in excess of 10 degrees (and not stopping in 2100 of course).

With business as usual, the International Panel on Climate Change recently projected a global temperature rise during this century of up to 6 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit).

(The most likely business - as - usual scenario will result in a three - degree increase by the end of this century.)

It has developed four scenarios where prosperity indicators track business as usual, but where warming is limited to no more than two degrees.

Those include recognizing three realities: first that billions of people are on an irreversible course toward living something that looks like a modern life, replete with the choices, comfort, and security that those of us in the rich world take for granted; second, that everyone on the planet and billions more likely to come can and should follow that path if they choose it; and third, that achieving that outcome while limiting global temperatures to something likely above two degrees but well below the business - as - usual scenario will require developing zero - carbon technologies capable of powering that world.

However, Fullerton continued, «It is clear that business as usual with regard to our fossil fuel based energy system takes us well past 2 degrees of warming and represents a clear and immediate threat to the future of civilization.

And as far as what we need to do, we could refine more our cost estimates of implications for the business - as - usual track that we're on, which goes well beyond 2 degrees.

Then using the CEiSIN CO2 emission scenarios we can extrapolate forward Temperatures are unlikely to rise until 2025 before rising again by about 0.6 degrees for scenario B1 and 1.2 degrees for «business as usual» scenario A1B.

There is the «business as usual» case that assumes 4 degrees of global warming is inevitable, so we should use the cheapest and most plentiful energy sources available regardless of the fact that burning these fuels will raise atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations 40 percent higher than current levels.

The existence of a strong and positive water - vapor feedback means that projected business - as - usual greenhouse gas emissions over the next century are virtually guaranteed to produce warming of several degrees Celsius.

If we continue with business as usual, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) projected rise in the earth's average temperature of 1.1 - 6.4 degrees Celsius (2 - 11 degrees Fahrenheit) during this century seems all too possible.

Last week, the UK published a report that projected that in the 2080s temperatures could, under a business - as - usual approach, increase to «12 degrees C warmer on the hottest summer days and sea levels could rise by 36 cm.»

One of the implications is that «business as usual» would be very likely to lead to the 4 - degree world by the end of the present century.

At this point, the projections of climate change, assuming we continue business as usual, cluster around an estimate that average temperatures will be about 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher in 2100 than they were in 2000.

On a continued «business as usual» trajectory, the world will burn through about 5 times that safety limit by 2100, putting the world on a path for warming of more than 4.5 degrees Celsius and about a meter of additional sea level rise.

Business - as - usual scenarios, with fossil fuel (CO2) emissions continuing to increase at 2 percent per year as in the past decade, will yield additional warming of two or three degrees this century.

Limiting global warming to 2 - degree rise will require $ 180 / t carbon price says energy think tank (11/13/2008) In a report released Wednesday the International Energy Agency warned that a business - as - usual approach to energy use would result in a 6 ° - degree rise in temperatures putting hundreds of millions at risk from reduced water supplies and diminished agricultural production.

The study, which will be published on May 7 in Nature Climate Change, predicts that under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 emissions scenario, better known as the «business as usual scenario,» Marine Protected Areas will warm by 2.8 degrees Celsius (or 5 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100.

This is an improvement over business - as - usual trends, which would lead to 4 - 5 degrees C of warming, but falls short of the goal to limit warming to below 2 degrees C.

A significant number of postgraduate courses in business will require you to have some experience (two years is the usual) of working life before you apply, in addition to possessing a first degree.

A master's degree in business administration is the usual technical requirement.