Drought, flooding and a less predictable climate hit both agriculture and fisheries hard, thereby threatening access to food for the world's growing population.
For its part Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris USA, says it hopes that F.D.A. regulation would create a more predictable climate than state-by-state regulations and the product liability lawsuits that have challenged the tobacco industry.
Leisey 1A likely experienced a less seasonally predictable climate as δ18O values do not fluctuate in a predictable oscillating pattern.
Are we acting to move towards the realisation of a stable, relatively predictable climate with robust, resilient ecosystems and economic systems?
These climate projections paint a grim picture with conditions getting hotter, drier and less predictable climate, and a 20%% decline in precipitation (IPCC 2007) resulting in a drop in water runoff by 20 30 % in most of the region by 2050, mainly due to rising temperature and lower precipitation (Milly et al. 2005).
By contrast the Holocene, which started about 11,500 years ago, has been a period of unusually stable and predictable climate [67], [68].
Ms Hancock points out that the way to compete is not through incentives but via lower taxes, a predictable regulatory climate and fiscal stability.
And since both foreign and domestic employers need a predictable investment climate, it should come as no surprise that an ambiguous and unpredictable law would give investors pause.
The weather station at Behara, which is situated 18 km west of Mangatsiaka in our study area, displayed a mean annual rainfall of 532 mm and the least predictable climate among 15 weather stations throughout Madagascar included in the study of Dewar and Richard [ 64].
The most predictable climate changes over the next century involve an approximate doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and a rise in average global temperature within the range of 1.4 5.8°C [ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001].
