Sentences with phrase «very substantial impact»

«We hope to have a very substantial impact on the market.

So while the Hansen error did not have a material impact on world temperatures, it did have a very substantial impact on U.S. station data and a â $ œsignificantâ $?

In each case, the approach is likely to prevent the volume from having a very substantial impact.

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The impact will be substantial at a minimum, and it could very well be catastrophic to the U.S. energy sector.

The monetary recovery itself is very substantial and the resulting conduct changes will significantly and positively impact competition in the southeastern dairy industry,» said lead attorney for the plaintiff farmers, Robert Abrams.

Post-partum depression poses substantial adverse consequences for mothers and their infants via multiple direct biological (i.e., medication exposure, maternal genetic factors) and environmental (i.e., life with a depressed mother) mechanisms.8, 9 From the earliest newborn period, infants are very sensitive to the emotional states of their mothers and other caregivers.10, 11 Maternal mood and behaviour appear to compromise infant social, emotional and cognitive functioning.11 - 15 As children grow, the impact of maternal mental illness appears as cognitive compromise, insecure attachment and behavioural difficulties during the preschool and school periods.6,16 - 19

«To see very large increases in extremely low snow years within the occurrence of that [Copenhagen] target suggests that there could be substantial impacts from climate change even if that global warming target is achieved,» Diffenbaugh said.

Trading impact for options is substantially greater, largely because bid / ask spreads tend to be a substantial percentage of premium value, and also because of the very large notional value which these options represent.

The left - leaning think tank says the impact in all three cases is very unequal, while the cost to Canadian governments would be substantial.

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

For instance, even a relatively modest warming over the coming decades is very likely to have a meaningful effect on the timing and distribution of precipitation and evaporation rates, which will, in turn, have a substantial impact on freshwater supplies.

Thus, for the sake of simplicity, we focus on CO2 alone, and do not consider the issue of what fraction of these long - term emissions might be made up of N2O, although we note that, in several other papers considering the impact of emissions over the very long term, this fraction is substantial.

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

If we are truly to assess the risk of climate change being dangerous, then impact and adaptation studies need scenarios that span a very substantial part of the possible range of future climates (Pittock, 1993; Parry et al., 1996; Risbey, 1998; Jones, 1999; Hulme and Carter, 2000).

They commented «We are very concerned that short - term reasoning is being used to justify building a technology with substantial long - term impacts and responsibilities.

While such «tipping points» (Kemp, 2005) are impossible to identify without substantial uncertainties, they may lead to irreversible effects such as biodiversity loss or, at the very least, impacts that have a slow recovery (e.g., on soils and corals).

-- so one might very well find much less urbanization and microsite impact in the USHCN network which has already been through one level of quality control — obviously not perfect, but still a substantial effort was made — to the ROW network where there is negligible evidence of comparable quality control — and, in the case of China, evidence that key QC efforts (e, g, something as simple as inspection of station history at all stations in network) were not done and claims to have done so were misrepresented in Jones et al 1990.

The potential negative impact of a high - asset divorce can be prevented or, at the very least, minimized by a prenuptial agreement, particularly if a substantial amount of assets are at stake.