Sentences with phrase «with extreme scenarios»

Start with extreme scenarios and gradually move to less extreme.

Not exact matches

As the event opened, the panellists were presented with five global risk scenarios: uncontrolled city growth, lack of fresh water, extreme weather, continued fossil fuel lock - in and rising cases of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

His thesis, fiercely argued, and indeed with an extreme of rhetoric faintly reminiscent of Nietzsche, was that the culture of his day, both bourgeois and modernist, was in fact so thoroughly feminized as to make the redemption of masculinity impossible outside of an apocalyptic scenario; and that this, and not some alleged patriarchal bias, was the root of all modern decadence (and violence).

It almost seems like we were challenging Fortuna to come up with the most extreme scenarios.

But global CO2 emissions are still on track to meet or exceed the most extreme emissions scenarios outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2007 report, and by the scenarios the panel will use in the report it will release next year, scientists with the Global Carbon Project said.

For example, in the most extreme scenario, a subject would see 15 webpages with information about Gillard's platform and objectives followed by 15 similar results for Abbott.

In cooperation with scientists from the Thünen - Institut and the Ecuadorian Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, a team from TUM compared the predicted loss of area of tree species caused by deforestation on the one hand and by predicted forest losses in an extreme climate change scenario on the other.

In the most extreme scenarios, with the planet warming by almost 10 °C, the oceans could be starved of oxygen for 8000 years.

Even under a more moderate scenario where greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2040, 100 - year extreme sea levels could increase by 57 centimeters, or nearly 2 feet, on average, by the end of the century, with these events occurring every few years, according to study's authors.

The team has also considered a different scenario where a hypothetical second dwarf planet suffered a catastrophic collision with Fomalhaut b. Kalas explained, «The collision scenario would provide a solution as to why Fomalhaut (the star) has a narrow outer belt linked to an extreme planet.

The A2 scenario reflects continued global population growth with decentralized ecomonic and technological changes and forecasts more extreme warming than most emission scenarios.

In this scenario, the surviving companion, i.e. US 708, was violently ejected from the disrupted binary as a result, and is now travelling with extreme velocity.

Many of you are in a less extreme version of this scenario, with tired adrenals that have trouble responding appropriately to stress.

In addition to the expected kit of airbags and electronics, the XC40 will also come with Volvo's City Safety that prompts the driver to brake, and in extreme scenarios even applies the brakes automatically to avoid a collision.

Players can opt to choose to be either the Soviets or the Germans, with each faction serving up nine missions from which to choose: three solo challenge missions set in extreme conditions, three skirmishes against an AI with a distinct play style, and three co-op scenarios so you can take the field with a chum.

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If we try to panic policy makers into action by claiming hypothetical extremes then we risk having the baby thrown out with the bathwater when those extreme scenarios don't appear to be eventuating.

In the more adverse «disaster» scenario — which entails vast deforestation, dramatic biodiversity declines and increasing extreme weather — the global index falls by 15 percent, with the deepest losses felt in poor regions.

Given the sensitivity of many exposure units to the frequency of extreme climatic events (see Chapter 3 of TAR WG II, Table 3.10 (Carter and La Rovere, 2001)-RRB-, it would be desirable to incorporate into climate scenarios the frequency and intensity of some composite atmospheric phenomena associated with impacts - relevant extremes.

While true, that's more feature than bug, since, as one of the two extreme pathways, it is designed to provide climate modellers with an unlikely, but still just plausible «how bad could it be» scenario.

Using several different metrics to define the events in question, it is shown that an extreme SIE minimum of the magnitude seen in 2012 is consistent with a scenario including anthropogenic influence and is extremely unlikely in a scenario excluding anthropogenic influence.

In order to asses a range of possible outcomes, a set of 2008 outlooks were produced with various FYI melt scenarios ranging from conservative to extreme.

In the context of the RCPs it refers to emissions and land use and signifies that, as a set, the RCPs should be compatible with the full range of scenarios available in the current scientific literature, including extreme as well as intermediate scenarios.

Michael # 29, the classical economists of the 18th and 19th centuries (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, John Stuart Mill) all wrestled with the problem of limits to growth and came up with scenarios for the human future ranging from extreme pessimism (Malthus) to optimism (John Stuart Mill's expectation that at a certain stage of economic development human society would cease to grow in material scale and reach a «stationary state» where the emphasis would be on qualitative human, social and cultural development.

We estimate that anthropogenic influence has caused a more than 60-fold increase in the likelihood of the extreme warm 2013 summer since the early 1950s, and project that similarly hot summers will become even more frequent in the future, with fully 50 % of summers being hotter than the 2013 summer in two decades even under the moderate RCP4.5 emissions scenario.

Therefore, WGIII should also internally explore self - consistent extreme scenarios (e.g. scenarios with an extreme expansion of nuclear or renewable energies) and assess their social, economic and technical implications.

FMI (departments «Weather & Safety» and «Climate change research») contributed to CRISMA with respect to (1) extreme weather scenarios, (2) crisis management pilot in Nordic area, and (3) economic impact assessment of natural hazards.

Since climate models do a bad job of identifying these scenarios, we need to look at the historical and paleo record of extreme events, and also use the scenario falsification approach in line with possibility theory.

The study uses an extensive suite of existing simulations with the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrologic model driven by Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP3) climate simulations to train and evaluate the nonlinear and nonstationary Generalized Extreme Value conditional density network (GEVcdn) model of Fraser River streamflow extremes, and subsequently applies the model to project changes in Fraser River extremes under CMIP5 based climate change scenarios.

Do you really want to side with the coal industry on this subject, or can you let nuclear power win or lose on its own merits, without silly arguments about extreme scenarios or tail - chasing arguments about economics?

I concluded that the projections of extreme sea level rise are not consistent with plausible physical mechanisms, not supported by the available data, and further, that the AR4 projected range (about 30 - 50 cm by 2100) agreed perfectly with my projections over a wide range of warming scenarios.

Dr Lewis went on to say that in the most extreme die - back scenarios massive tree mortality could occur, with remaining forest changing from absorbing some two billion tonnes of CO2 annually, to emitting over three billion tonnes.

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs sharply criticized the NPR (see here in Russian), in particular, for lowering the threshold of the use of nuclear weapons and allowing the use of nuclear weapons in «extreme circumstances», which are not limited to military scenarios and with military scenarios covering almost any use of military force.

As a clinician in the addiction treatment field, you are undoubtedly familiar with this common scenario, and it can be a source of extreme frustration.

Other than this extreme scenario, we work to keep your privacy intact and not even confirm or deny that we have a counseling relationship without your permission even if you are in individual counseling with us and your spouse calls to ask if you are there or not.

According to Doug Healy, principal and head of the retail group with Lend Lease, that scenario is a theoretical extreme.