Sentences with phrase «warming impact analysis»

One reason that warming impact analysis is hard is because while we may talk about the world warming a degree or two, the world does not warm evenly.

Not exact matches

The DOE panel found too little analysis and data on the potential global warming impact of a long - term gas boom in the United States, and it called on industry and government to work together on a comprehensive study.

Dried - up fields and empty grain stores are likely to become semipermanent features across much of the Third World by the middle of the next century, according to an analysis of the likely impact of global warming presented to the UN this week.

Warm ocean waters that sucked the color and vigor from sweeping stretches of the world's greatest expanse of corals last month were driven by climate change, according to a new analysis by scientists, who are warning of worse impacts ahead.

The staccato cadence of Tim Streeto's editing, which clusters together short scenes that excise the beginnings and ends of interactions, often keeps the impact of Bernard's autocratic parenting from registering fully on impact, but the film's tragicomic punch lands in the final act after an otherwise useless therapy session triggers in Walt a warm memory of his mother — thus spawning a stint of self - analysis that doubles as an occasion for viewer reflection.

Geospatial Analysis of Remote Sensing Data to Assess Built Environment Impacts on Heat Island Effect, Air Quality, and Global Warming (2009)

Recent independent analyses of current mitigation proposals on the table in Copenhagen by Nicholas Stern, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Ecofys, Climate Analytics, the Sustainability Institute (C - ROADS), the European Climate Foundation and ClimateWorks (Project Catalyst), all point to the same conclusion: the negotiations must deliver the high end of current proposals and stretch beyond them, if the world is to have a reasonable chance of containing warming to below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, or the 1.5 °C goal of many developing nations.

An unfortunate aspect of economic analyses of the impacts of carbon pricing is that they usually only consider the costs of such legislation, while ignoring the benefits associated with slowing global warming.

The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Richardian Analysis.

An important new field of research developed as scientists turned from predicting future impacts to showing how global warming was harming people right now, as seen in both global statistics and analyses of individual disasters.

The Impact of Global Warming on U.S Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Conditions.

This is because over the past three years, hundreds of new scientific field accounts of global warming's impacts, as well as improved peer - reviewed analyses of global warming itself in both the deep past and the very near future, have depicted earth's atmosphere as far more «sensitive» to the invisible CO2, methane and other human - sourced greenhouse gases than had been hoped.

As shown in my analysis of global warming impacts there is no pressing environmental impact rationale to implement reductions as proposed.

From an OSU press release: CORVALLIS, Ore. — An analysis of 35 headwater basins in the United States and Canada found that the impact of warmer air temperatures on streamflow rates was less than expected in many locations, suggesting that some ecosystems may be resilient to certain aspects of climate change.

Building on earlier Turn Down the Heat reports, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day (0.8 °C), 2 °C and 4 °C warming above pre-industrial temperatures on agricultural production, water resources, ecosystem services, and coastal vulnerability for affected populations.

The meta - analysis in Tol (2009), of fourteen estimates from economists, suggests that a temperature of 2 °C warmer than today is likely to have a negligible impact on welfare.

«Climate impacts are rising and the evidence of warming is increasingly clear, but most economic analysis still does not properly factor in the increasing risks of climate change or the potential benefits of acting on it,» said Commission chair and former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón.

Improving each aspect of climate analysis is essential, many experts say, if the country is to move from pondering what to do about a general warming trend to considering consequences for particular regions and the likely impact on agriculture, ecosystems and water supplies.

«Previous analyses linking observed impacts to climate change have been generic in nature, addressing whether there is an influence of human - related warming on impacts globally, without an inference to individual impacts,» says Hansen.

Elevated sea temperatures drive impacts such as mass coral bleaching and mortality (very high confidence), with an analysis of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) ensemble projecting the loss of coral reefs from most sites globally by 2050 under mid to high rates of ocean warming (very likely).

Their analysis revealed that almost two - thirds of the listed impacts related specifically to the warming over land and near the surface of the ocean could confidently be attributed to human - generated emissions.

I think I've got some really good analysis on the global warming impact of insulation, so sign up and show up for my presentation in Philadelphia!

Resolving this dilemma must include a serious look at potential «winners and losers» of a marginally warmer world, as well as at the best available cost / benefit analyses of the specific proposals being made to» reshape our common future on a global scale» and their total costs including the impacts of all unintended consequences.

«Consequently, in light of all of the above, it would be wise for policy makers to give more consideration to the impacts of ocean acidification and warming as observed from natural environment analogs as opposed to more restrictive laboratory based analyses.

Whilst largely unanticipated in the climate change impacts community, previous analyses have predicted a slowing in the overall circulation rate in tropical regions and, presumably, a reduction in averaged wind speed in those regions with greenhouse warming [Betts, 1998; Held and Soden, 2006; Vecchi et al., 2006].............

This analysis is all well and good, BUT it is NOT and empirical study demonstrating that a doubling of CO2 would cause ~ 1ºC warming, simply (as I understand it) a confirmation that, if all other things were equal and the other assumptions were right, the observed warming would constrain the CO2 impact to this amount.

The impact of upstream catch and global warming on the grey mullet fishery in Taiwan: A non-cooperative game analysis.