Sentences with phrase «usual business figures»

For the first time, major party lists were filled with easy to control party functionaries and public servants, instead of the usual business figures.

Not exact matches

They will be fined a large enough dollar figure for window dressing purposes, but an amount that ultimately makes the corporate insiders giggle, and then it's back to business as usual.

Looking at the headline figures, first quarter 2018 could be considered a business - as - usual quarter for the European fund industry, since the assets under management (+ $ 10.5 trn) hit a...

Those figures are based on «business as usual.»

By the way, I'd LOVE to know where you get your facts and figures to prove that this pathetic eatery actually received a lot of business (more than usual) yesterday or today... you're not blessed by being a hate monger.

This is just business as usual for NBC, who care only for ratings, and diversity doesn't figure in there schedule at all.

Average daily minimum and maximum temperatures increase in the mid-century and end - of - century projections for both stabilization and business - as - usual emission scenarios (Figure 2 - 10 shows output for annual average daily maximum temperature).

In Figure 4, Huber and Knutti break down the anthropogenic and natural forcings into their individual components to quantify the amount of warming caused by each since the 1850s (Figure 4b), 1950s (4c), and projected from 2000 to 2050 using the IPCC SRES A2 emissions scenario as business - as - usual (4d).

Catch the Mercedes live stream straight from the Detroit auto show floor right here — we're expecting the new E-Class sedan and SLC roadster, along with the usual business updates and sales figures...

The USA and other wasteful consumer societies figure they'll be able to make others pay for their sins and then business can continue as usual.

The likelihood of serious sea level rise under «business as usual», and impacts on water resources may not have the acute drama associated with polar bear population decline or the possibility of massive methane clathrate releases, but they are much more likely to figure on policy makers agendas — just as other long term chronic issues (such as pensions) do.

Figure 1 shows recent emissions (the 1990 — 2009 gray area), our representative 350 emissions pathway (the 2010 — 2050 red area) and, for comparison, a business - as - usual pathway (the dotted black line) that's consistent with the International Energy Agency's standard «reference case» (no new climate policy) projections.

Figure A shows the temperature change under such a «business - as - usual» emissions scenario in a simple climate model.

So if we ignore the figure and the text panel that refers to extrapolation and misleadingly claims this represents business - as - usual..

Finally, if I'm correct the MIT's 2015 report shows in page 14, figure 17 the CO2 concentrations they expect under Paris: globalchange.mit.edu/sites/default/files/newsletters/files/2015 Energy % 26 Climate Outlook.pdf You can not expect 710ppm and simultaneously claim this will reduce temperatures by 1ºC compared to «business as usual».

The IPCC takes the sensible position that establishing a «business - as - usual» (BAU) baseline for making long - term global climate projections is a pretty tricky endeavor because it means figuring out how the population and economy of the entire world is going to develop over the next century or more.

Tony Robson, the CEO of Knauf Insulation — a leading insulation firm that had threatened to divest from Europe unless firm energy saving targets were announced — said that the 27 % figure for energy efficiency improvement was «no better than business as usual» in an open letter to EU leaders.

China says it will, by 2020, reduce gases by 40 to 45 percent below «business as usual,» that is, judged against 2005 figures for energy used versus economic output.

In Figure 4, Huber and Knutti break down the anthropogenic and natural forcings into their individual components to quantify the amount of warming caused by each since the 1850s (Figure 4b), 1950s (4c), and projected from 2000 to 2050 using the IPCC SRES A2 emissions scenario as business - as - usual (4d).

Every day the news delivers more facts, figures and stats, and every day business as usual continues.

The first figure shows that the observations, including the last 15 years fall well within the uncertainty of the IPCC projections for the «business as usual» scenario A1B.

That is approximately a 93 percent reduction from the Business as Usual case, the 1200 figure above.

In light of trends showing a likely 3 °C or more global temperature rise by the end of this century (a figure that could become much higher if all feedback processes, such as changes of sea ice and water vapor, are taken into account) that could result in sea level rises ranging from 20 to 59 cm (again a conservative estimation), Hansen believes it is critical for scientists in the field to speak out about the consequences and rebuke the spin offered by pundits who «have denigrated suggestions that business - as - usual greenhouse gas emissions may cause a sea level rise of the order of meters.»

I do nt see that as a limitation Not sure where Allan is getting the 25 - 30TW figure for business as usual, perhaps manufacturing synthetic oil and using it to power 2Billion low mpg SUV's This seemingly unavoidable shortfall between supply and demand needs to be brought to the attention of the general public, because massive improvements in efficiency, eradication of trivial uses of electricity, and lifestyle changes, particularly in relation to transport seem inevitable.

As a firm believer in the concept of additionality - basically, would the proposed renewable energy project have happened under «business as usual» conditions - he explained that offsets would only gain the upper hand through: «public perception (from closer press scrutiny of REC financial figures); possible consumer fraud lawsuits testing deceptive marketing statutes; and perhaps most importantly a thriving domestic offset market built around regional climate schemes such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, AB 32 in California, the Western Climate Initiative, and possibly a national cap - and - trade scheme down the road.»

And the IPCC has quantified how much future warming we can expect in various emissions scenarios - in the ballpark of 4 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2100 if we continue on our business - as - usual path (Scenario A2)(Figure 2).

As per usual, Amazon didn't release sales figures for Cyber Monday, only saying that customers ordered «hundreds of millions» of products from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, with 140 million items bought from small businesses.