Sentences with phrase «usual scenario of»

Riahi, K., and R.A. Roehrl, 2000: Greenhouse gas emissions in a dynamics - as - usual scenario of economic and energy development.

Riahi, K., and R.A. Roehrl, 2000: Greenhouse gas emissions in a dynamics as usual scenario of economic and energy development.

«Even if we were able to use productive plants such as poplar trees or switchgrass, and store 50 % of the carbon contained in their biomass, in the business - as - usual scenario of continued, unconstrained fossil fuel use, the sheer size of the plantations for staying at or below 2 °C of warming would cause devastating environmental consequences,» Boysen says.

I absolutely loved this game when I was younger, I liked having a story different to the usual scenario of starting your Pokemon journey at a

The script flips the usual scenario of having a cast of innocent characters available to be picked off, one by one, by the menacing antagonist.

Then there's the surprisingly (yet broody) OK Tarzan from Alexander Skarsgård, and the usual scenario of Samuel L. Jackson playing Sameul L. Jackson (this time trying his best to be an early 19th century set Samuel L. Jackson).

The usual scenario of Megamind being bested once again by Metro Man goes awry.

Not exact matches

I expect neither of these to be true for long, but as usual, we'll respond to the evidence as it unfolds - without the need to forecast any particular scenario.

Arsenal think that the game is already won and have started thier usual day dreaming scenario of beating Chelsea just like Monaco who thought gunners would rip into them where alexis will score a worldly by beating defensively frail Monaco, players who have left arsenal and played against the gunners have won 90 % of the matches with Wenger the joker who sold them.

(In a «business as usual» scenario, I think Jackson would have spent most of this season in the G - League).

He cited several studies showing that a large number of species on the planet would become extinct in a «business as usual» global warming scenario.

«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat by 2100,» said Tiffany Anderson, lead author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

«The larval period is a critical stage in the marine fish lifecycle and the ability of cobia larvae to withstand «business - as - usual» scenarios of ocean acidification provides an optimistic outlook for this species.

40 %: expected loss by 2050 of the region's original biodiversity under a «business as usual» scenario for climate change (with loss of 35 - 36 % expected under the three «pathways to sustainability»)

Instead of the usual scenario, in which dad wants more growth while mom wants less, each parent's genes favor a different kind of growth.

«The consequences of sticking to a «business - as - usual» scenario are unthinkable,» says Zhaohai Bai, an associate professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and lead author of a paper from a multinational team of environmental scientists published today in Global Change Biology.

Scientists expect this doubling to occur later this century if nations continue to burn fossil fuels as they do now — the «business as usual» scenario — instead of curtailing fossil - fuel use.

However, under business - as - usual scenarios, without significant reductions in carbon emissions, the study shows these deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, including the fertile Indus and Ganges river basins that produce much of the region's food supply.

The analysis follows previous studies that show that a business - as - usual scenario, which assumes a continued growth of global emissions, would deliver a warming increase of 4.5 °C by 2100.

They found that both mitigation scenarios should increase yields for all crops compared to the business - as - usual scenario, including cotton and forage, and that the more ambitious scenario has the potential to reduce the number of water - stressed basins.

Worldwide, that combination would generate 0.7 gigaton of carbon emissions annually by midcentury, as opposed to 1.7 gigatons in the second one and 4.6 gigatons in a business - as - usual scenario.

David Rutledge, an engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology who studies world coal production, said the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario is unrealistic because it essentially assumes that growth of fossil fuels like coal will continue apace, which is unlikely.

Rutledge said of the four IPCC scenarios, he found the second RCP scenario, RCP 4.5, where carbon dioxide emissions flatten out around 2080, to be more plausible under a business - as - usual scenario for coal exploitation.

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.

They looked at each of those conditions through, first, a business - as - usual lens that assumes a lack of international climate - policy action with continued high rates of greenhouse gas emissions and, second, an optimistic scenario of reduced emissions with climate change policy interventions.

They found that the business - as - usual scenario comes with large climate changes the world over and would create entirely new patterns of temperature and precipitation for 12 to 39 percent of Earth's land area.

The benefits of this management scenario become even clearer when compared to business as usual, which is projected to reduce catch and profit by 59 percent and 64 percent, respectively, over the same time frame.

By using simulations that were created by running the same model multiple times, with only tiny differences in the initial starting conditions, the scientists could examine the range of summertime temperatures we might expect in the future for the «business - as - usual» and reduced - emissions scenarios.

«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.

In the «business as usual» scenario, the auto industry followed its current rate of vehicle diversification — utilizing efficient internal combustion, electric and hybrid models, and the power sector utilized mostly natural gas and renewable plants.

In the midst of an unseasonably warm winter in the Pacific Northwest, a comparison of four publicly available climate projections has shown broad agreement that the region will become considerably warmer in the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rise to the highest levels projected in the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) «business - as - usual» scenario.

Rather, the study looks at a range of possible future scenarios, says Garner, including the business - as - usual emissions path we are still on.

Peabody also agreed to disclose a range of scenarios from the International Energy Agency suggesting declining future demand for coal, changing course from earlier financial statements where the company only disclosed IEA's business - as - usual scenario.

A «business - as - usual» climate scenario (RCP8.5) will lead to another 74 centimeters of global average sea - level rise by 2100.

First, the IPCC SRES (2000) states explicitly that «There is no business - as - usual scenario» (p. 27); and secondly, the population assumptions underlying A2 are totally unrealistic: the scenario assumes an end - century global population of 15.1 billion.

Probability distributions of sea - level change in the year 2100, relative to 2006, in four Scandinavian capitals on the Baltic Sea under the «business - as - usual» (RCP8.5) climate scenario.

That's because «even in the worst - case scenario, which is business - as - usual, we still expect that ozone is going to decrease in the future because of ozone regulations in these particular countries,» Tai said in the phone interview.

To derive the climate projections for this assessment, we employed 20 general circulation models to consider two scenarios of global carbon emissions: one where atmospheric greenhouse gases are stabilized by the end of the century and the other where it grows on its current path (the stabilization [RCP4.5] and business - as - usual [RCP8.5] emission scenarios, respectively).

In end - of - century projections, summers have the largest increases in average temperature: 6.5 °F (3.6 °C) for the stabilization emission scenario, 11.8 °F (6.6 °C) for the business - as - usual emission scenario.

Gladstone et al. (2012) also investigated the future of PIG, and they too found ongoing ice mass loss to be likely under a «business as usual scenario» (IPCC), with full collapse of the main trunk of PIG during the 22nd century still a possibility.

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).

Differences exist in projections for the stabilization and business - as - usual emission scenarios, with the former consistently showing lower magnitudes of change than the latter.

But China and many other developing countries struggling to tackle poverty are adamant that any negotiated emissions reductions should not be absolute, but relative to a «business - as - usual» scenario of projected growth.

This finding suggests that by the end of the century, following a business as usual CO2 emission scenario, these animals might avoid functional environmental cues and become attracted to cues that provide no adaptive advantage or are potentially deleterious.

A1B is the «Business as Usual» scenario, with emissions continuing to increase in line with present - day rates of increase.

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).

Today's textiles economy is so wasteful that in a business - as - usual scenario, by 2050 we will have released over 20 million tonnes of plastic micro-fibres into the ocean.

In usual dating scenarios, couples are subjected to an array of third parties and their opinions whereas online dating allows a couple to solely focus on each other beforehand.

These are all introduced and tied together by a plot which, while not extremely creative or deep, does a good job of setting up such a scenario, with a new villain named Cia to rival the usual antagonist, Ganondorf.

Comparing the two is instructive: Whereas that execrable grindhouse throwback did little more than put a tropical twist on the Hostel formula, Knock Knock breaks the cycle of repetition that's plagued Roth's career, effectively inverting his usual slaughter - the - tourist scenario.