Sentences with phrase «climate scale rated»

Teacher and peer support were measured with Classroom Climate Scale rated by the children with ADHD.

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The scientists studied Sotheby's vintage rating — a 100 - point scale used to measure wine quality in which a vintage scoring above 90 is deemed «excellent to superb» and a score under 40 signifies a disaster — and compared the trends to climate records.

On time - scales of a few decades, the current observed rate of warming can be used to constrain the projected response to a given emissions scenario despite uncertainty in climate sensitivity.

The average rate of injection of carbon into the climate system during these hyperthermals was slower than the present human - made injection of fossil fuel carbon, yet it was faster than the time scale for removal of carbon from the surface reservoirs via the weathering process [3], [208], which is tens to hundreds of thousands of years.

This is why, on a large scale, wildfires can contribute CO2 to the atmosphere and, therefore, to the rate of climate change.

We need concrete steps towards achieving sustainability at the global scale, in order to curb the rate at which the climate is changing.

A large scale study of the assessment of the social environment of middle and secondary schools: the validity and utility of teachers» ratings of school climate, cultural pluralism, and safety problems for understanding school effects and school improvement.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

For these intervals in time, case studies of past biotic responses are presented to demonstrate the scale and impact of the magnitude and rate of such climate changes on biodiversity....

Climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, excess nutrient inputs, and pollution in its many forms are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the ocean, often on a global scale and, in some cases, at rates greatly exceeding those in the historical and recent geological record.

This is the first evidence of the long - feared positive feedbacks that could rapidly accelerate the rate of climate change, pushing impacts to the extreme end of the scale.

Update: The site Climate Feedback, a network of scientists that evaluates media coverage of climate change, recently rated Holthaus» piece as «high» on the credibility scale and described it as both «accurate» and «alarmist&Climate Feedback, a network of scientists that evaluates media coverage of climate change, recently rated Holthaus» piece as «high» on the credibility scale and described it as both «accurate» and «alarmist&climate change, recently rated Holthaus» piece as «high» on the credibility scale and described it as both «accurate» and «alarmist».

Perceptions of risk were determined by asking subjects to rate the seriousness of climate - change risk on a ten - point scale.

Seeing through QBO & ENSO with bifocal cyclic volatility wavelet lenses that simultaneously align grain to semi-annual & extent to Schwabe it's a trivial exercise to measure the rate of twist on the scale - resolved solar - terrestrial - climate weave.

Geoengineering schemes need ranking system to avoid wasting money, destroying the planet (10/26/2008) Schemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature Geoscience.

(10/26/2008) Schemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature Geoscience.

In fact, they state that the data «clearly show» that «strong natural variability has been characteristic of the Arctic at all time scales considered,» and they reiterate that the data suggest «that the human influence on rate and size of climate change thus far does not stand out strongly from other causes of climate change.»»

The global warming rate at the stations used in the analysis, using all days» data, is the same as that reported using all available stations by Jones, P.D. and A. Moberg, «Hemispheric and large - scale surface air temperature variations: An extensive revision and an update to 2001», Journal of Climate 16: 206 - 223 (2003).

Second, the very long time scale of climate change makes the discount rate crucial at the same time as it makes it highly controversial (see Section 3.6.2).

Given the reluctance, at virtually all levels, to openly engage with the unprecedented scale of both current emissions and their associated growth rates, even an optimistic interpretation of the current framing of climate change implies that stabilization much below 650 ppmv CO2e is improbable....

Seafloor spreading is considered a small but steady contributor of CO2 to climate cycles on the 100 kyr time scale, however this assumes a consistent short - term eruption rate.

The rate of climate change might be accelerating, but the sign of acceleration is negative on many time scales.

Under climate change, increased water stress, increased peak summer heat stress causing increased mortality, vulnerability to disease and subsequent fire, as well as decreased reproduction rates could lead to large - scale dieback of the boreal forests (77, 86), with transitions to open woodlands or grasslands.

Theoretical scenarios for climate mitigation typically reflect their creators» technological preferences and analytical assumptions while all too often failing to account for the cost, rate, and scale at which low - carbon energy technologies can be deployed.

We're discussing catastrophic anthropogenic climate change (CACC)-- forecasts by some scientists that the climate will change in ways unfavorable to humanity, in magnitudes that will cause large - scale adverse effects, at rates such that sufficient adaptation and mitigation will be difficult or impractical.

Melting does happen every year but the melt rates due to the increased climate forcing is exceeding natural cycle tendencies for current conditions on a massive scale as it pertains to ice extent loss.

The basic results of this climate model analysis are that: (1) it is increase in atmospheric CO2 (and the other minor non-condensing greenhouse gases) that control the greenhouse warming of the climate system; (2) water vapor and clouds are feedback effects that magnify the strength of the greenhouse effect due to the non-condensing greenhouse gases by about a factor of three; (3) the large heat capacity of the ocean and the rate of heat transport into the ocean sets the time scale for the climate system to approach energy balance equilibrium.

Disentangling the timing of the ocean and terrestrial responses is the first step toward interpreting their relative contribution to the global atmospheric CO2 growth rate, and thereby understanding the sensitivity of the carbon cycle to climate forcing on interannual to decadal time scales.

Even if we were to scale back a little, matching the recent average growth rate of 1.92 ppm / year, that puts us at 450 ppm around the year 2042 — 450 ppm signifying the likely point of no return, when the climate will trigger anywhere from 2 - 5 degrees centigrade bump in global temperatures.

Tesco's plan is to climate rate on a sliding scale all of the more than 70,000 products founds on its shelves.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1 Earth - orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.

There were no significant differences between experimental and control group teacher ratings on student's behaviors measured by the Landau scales of social climate in the classes (LASSO), including measures of rivalry between classmates, aggression against classmates, and extent of clique formation.