Sentences with phrase «year climate course»

An article published through Penn State University would receive a failing grade in any reputable first year climate course.

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Continually refining its curriculum, JMSB has added eight new courses in the past year alone, including a summer finance course based in New York and the timely Global Climate Change: Business Opportunities and Threats course.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

Today Sando has close to 100 chef customers all over the country, thanks to his enthusiasm, his passion for teaching the best way to cook his beans and, of course, the beans themselves — stored in Rancho Gordo's climate - controlled warehouse for no more than 12 months, unlike mass - market beans, which Sando says can sit in hot silos for years.

Moreover, the dry, warm climate makes Temecula golf courses both accessible and pleasant all year round.

Since then, he has received support from the Park Service, including a four - day training course on climate change science and communication earlier this year.

Although the ions are originally involved in the development of almost one third of all newly formed particles, the concentration of the large cloud condensation nuclei in the course of the 11 - year cycle changes by only 0.1 percent — not enough to have any sizeable influence on the climate.

But the team's measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in the creatures» teeth, a sensitive paleo - thermometer, suggest that the climate where these dinosaurs lived probably averaged about 10 ° Celsius over the course of a year — substantially colder than most of the dinosaur era, and in fact close to that seen in northeastern China today, Xu notes.

In addition, they are looking for traces of rivers, lakes, and saltwater bays, which will reveal the region's climate over the course of 2 to 3 million years.

Lewis leads climate education courses all over South Florida; the city of Fort Lauderdale required all employees, including police officers and trash collectors, to take her training several years ago.

The Yellowstone Association offers year - round field courses on topics ranging from calderas and climate change to wolves and wildflowers.

A DRAM used by a supercomputer doing climate modeling might read or erase data one quintillion (one million trillion) times over the course of three or four years, Williams says.

«Of course, we can not predict individual rainstorms in California and their local impacts months or seasons ahead, but we can use our climate computer model to determine whether on average the next year will have drier or wetter soils or more or less wildfires.

El Niño is a weather pattern characterized by a periodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature and air pressure in the Pacific Ocean, which causes climate variability over the course of years, sometimes even decades.

Of course, solar irradiance measurements from just three years of one solar cycle can not be applied to any other period than the one measured by the Spectral Irradiance Monitor on NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite.

The wind pushes them out to the open sea, where they ultimately break up into smaller pieces and melt in the course of two to three years,» explains Thomas Rackow, a climate modeller at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven / Germany and first author of the new study.

The biggest uncertainty in what will happen to climate in the future (say 30 years or more) is the course that the global economy will take and the changes in technology that may accompany that.

«They and all the volunteer observers before them are the backbone of our climate and weather data collection network,» he said, adding that the 100 years of data collected has been used by dryland farmers, water managers, WSU researchers and, of course, meteorologists.

Each planet therefore possesses seasons; changes to the climate over the course of its year.

The 400 ppm mark is of course somewhat arbitrary, and more important is the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere and the fact that levels this high haven't been present on Earth in likely about 3.5 million years, said Jason Smerdon, a climate researcher at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

Pieces can, of course, be used throughout the year, especially if you live in a consistent climate.

«We started making «Coco» six years ago, and it was a very different political climate, of course, than we find ourselves in now,» said Unkrich.

Geography exam questions for year 10 and 11 students, focusing on the first half of the course (e.g climate and change, global hazards, sustaining ecosystems and distinctive landscapes).

Within the course of one school year, the combination of a data - driven focus on attendance, personalized early outreach, support from community partners, and a generally healthier school climate has helped cut Roosevelt's chronic absence rate from 15 to 8 percent, as the school's Academic Performance Index (API) score climbed by 30 points!

Additionally she is an adjunct instructor for the University of Missouri, teaching a graduate level course designed to help first - year teachers develop a positive classroom climate.

Over the course of two years, four subcommittees will address school report cards, an access and opportunity measure, a high school growth measure, and school climate pilots.

The one thing everyone knows about Texas is the Battle of the Alamo, but most of Texas history occurred before the Alamo, before the Anglo colonists arrived; it was the history of the native peoples who lived there over the course of 14,000 years, some of whom left huge, magnificent cosmological murals in rock shelters along the Pecos River before they moved on as the climate changed and water disappeared.

Complete our Pre-Retirement Course giving tips and advice on how to get the most out of your retirement years in a challenging economic climate.

Remember that ticks can be active anytime it is 4 degrees Celsius or warmer, so in our confusing Ontario climate, the safest course of action is to give preventative medication all year long.

The area also enjoys championship golf courses, tennis courts and a wide range of other outdoor activities that can be enjoyed in near - perfect climate almost any time of the year.

Which is, of course, sad since Iran would likely be a major destination for travel today if not for its current political climate, given its rich history and unique culture dating back a few thousand years.

The climate on Fuerteventura allows us to run courses every day and all - year round.

As well as its beautiful Mediterranean surroundings and warm, sunny climate all year long, the hotel has stunning pools and gardens, a YHI SPA, gourmet fine dining, two 18 hole golf courses designed by Nicklaus Design, 6 paddle tennis courts and 2 tennis courts, a magnificent Convention Centre, fully equipped, comfortable rooms and a wide range of luxury services.

As part of a team sent 500 years back to our time, you are tasked with changing the course of history and preventing climate chaos from ravaging the planet.

This, of course, is both a big environmental problem (the escaping gas contributes to local smog) and a financial opportunity, particularly given that methane, besides having 25 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide when the gases are compared over a 100 - year period, is a fuel and chemical feedstock.

By coincidence, I was asked a year later to teach an undergraduate course that included a major unit on climate change.

In the last 30 years, of course, enormous progress has been made in the field of climate science.

Of course IF there was no Real Chance of (uncontrollable climate feedbacks that are may well be extremely dangerous — in time and place) then 3 years later in 2015 the UNFCCC Paris Treaty would NOT have moved to enshrine holding temps at UNDER 1.5 C.

One would think that the climate system, whose stability enabled and fostered the evolution of the human race and civilization over the course of a few million years without active intervention, would be worth a tad more than a mere one generation's worth of sustained economic growth with low inflation.

The first paragraph of the article in the Independent read on June 27 at 15:25 GMT when I took a zotero snapshot — «Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.»

That is a parallel that provides scant comfort in pondering the course of climate policy in coming years.

One way to look at the climate is that global mean surface temperatures have wandered up and down, to the left and the right, warmer and cooler, over the last thousand years, but have generally stayed a straight course, represented by the dashed line placed on the graph by the I.P.C.C. in 1990.

Of course, the physics of climate is far more complex than the simple gravitational interaction of two bodies, so our climate predictions are far less sure than locating the position of Neptune 100 years from now.

Completely agree that there is no «safe level» of further CO2 increases — but still worried by Sir David King having upped his «target to go for» from 450ppm to 500ppm over the course of a year, and certainly not because of any reassuring findings about the climate.

If you change the temperature reconstruction you will get a greater or lower solar impact on climate according to the amplitude of the 1000 year temperature signal, of course.

Also, it is vitally important to make the following distinction: The notion that the climate may take a couple decades to reflect our actions today is NOT at all the same, of course, as concluding that each month and year, NOW, don't matter.

Of course, there are plenty of negative feedbacks as well (the increase in long wave radiation as temperatures rise or the reduction in atmospheric poleward heat flux as the equator - to - pole gradient decreases) and these (in the end) are dominant (having kept Earth's climate somewhere between boiling and freezing for about 4.5 billion years and counting).

«Man - made climate change proponents indicate something like a 1 - 2 degree rise in Earth's temperature over the course of many years.

Of course one can characterize the trend beyond 1989, but does such a characterization represent a description of «climate», based on the consensus that climate ought to consist of roughly equally weighted effect of the weather over at least 25 or 30 years?

The chapter was, of course, also written before the blogosphere became a significant influence on public debate surrounding climate and energy, a phenomenon that crested after the unauthorized release of files from a climate center's computers nearly one year ago.