Sentences with phrase «earth over a scale»

Long - term climate variability is the range of temperatures and weather patterns experienced by the Earth over a scale of thousands of years.

Not exact matches

For a sense of the vast scale of that wealth, $ 13.2 trillion is enough to buy every one of the 7.6 billion human beings on Earth a 13 - inch MacBook Pro, with a little left over for accessories.

Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

In the present day human education is spreading its net over the earth on an unprecedented scale and by means of unprecedented methods of expression and diffusion.

And over very long time scales, the spins of the two stars also become synchronized, as the moon is with the Earth, with each forever showing the same face to the other.

Cross-cutting relationships are observed at the valley - scale, indicating multiple episodes of water level fall and rise, each well over 50 meters, a similar scale to eustatic sea level changes on Earth.

Because of its vast scale, events that would take a fraction of a second in an explosion on Earth are played out over decades in space.

In addition, the Earth faces much more significant problems over this time scale.

Results: Over time scales spanning at least a decade, the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface has varied.

And over very long time scales, the spins of the two stars also become synchronized, as the Moon is with the Earth, with each forever showing the same face to the other.

Though rarefied by Earth standards, interstellar clouds like this one can enable complex chemical reactions over time scales of hundreds - of - thousands or even millions of years.

The USArray component of EarthScope is a continental - scale seismic and magnetotelluric observatory designed to provide a foundation for integrated studies of continental lithosphere and deep Earth structure over a wide range of scales.

Over the wide frequency range of seismic waves transmitted through the Earth (hundreds of seconds to ten cycles per second), the sensors of the permanent and transportable seismic and magnetotelluric arrays will resolve the smallest background motions at the quietest of sites, while remaining «on scale» for all but the largest ground motions from regional earthquakes.

Well to coincide with the unveiling of the new Nexus devices, Gamelion has launched Monster Shooter 2: Back to Earth on a worldwide scale now, ending the location - specific soft launch it has been in over the past couple of weeks.

It truly feels like I'm scaling a giant lovable puppy, and then stabbing it in the head over and over until it dies with a sympathetic whimper and makes me feel like the most horrible person on Earth.

For over four decades, Michelle Stuart has been engaged in land - art through her large - scale earth works and earth rubbings.

Over the past year I've been working in the shadows developing this new work that will consider the earth as singular, multivalent site — collapsing distances and time scales into a single project.

Over the past fifty years, consumerism across the world has fuelled consumption on an unprecedented scale, threatening to deplete the earth's resources and destroy the interdependent ecosystems and ecologies essential to sustain life.

The Earth's rotation and position change in cycles in various ways over long time scales.

Re: «engineering the earth for over 100 years», I know you're talking about «scale» but the terraforming by agriculture over the last 5,000 years is mind - boggling.

Clearly, Earth's gross water supply is nearly constant over relevant time scales, so that can be assumed to be «conserved.»

(Washington, DC: World Bank, January 2011); George C. Schoneveld, The Anatomy of Large - scale Farmland Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Working Paper 85 (Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International Forestry Research, 2011); Fred Pearce, The Land Grabbers: The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth (Boston: Beacon Press, 2012); U.N. World Food Programme, «Countries,» at www.wfp.org/countries, viewed 17 June 2012.

The Earth disseminates heat over long time scales.

154 Australian scientists demand climate policy that matches the science «While the Paris Agreement remains unbinding and global warming has received minimal attention in the recent elections, governments worldwide are presiding over a large - scale demise of the planetary ecosystems, which threatens to leave large parts of Earth uninhabitable.

Their work encompasses a range of problems and time scales: from five - day model predictions of hurricane track and intensity, to understanding the causes of changes in extremes over the past century, to building new climate prediction models for seamless predictions out to the next several years, to earth system model projections of human - caused changes in various extremes (heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) over the coming century.

Planetary waves are large - scale waves in Earth's atmosphere that are created by the uneven distribution of continents and oceans over Earth's surface.

I accept that there are complex weather systems bubbling away at any given point over the earth's surface but, on a planetary scale as the earth rotates on its axis, I suggest these will essentially average out, at similar angular distances as from the sub-solar point, at decadal and centennial timeframes.

The total energy has to balance over some reasonable time scale or Earth would not exist as we know it.

Also included in this disciplinary branch are solid Earth materials which only exhibit flow over extended time scales.

«We already knew that on a global scale, Earth is warmer today than it was over much of the past 2,000 years,» Marcott says.

Here is their description of the work: The influence of solar variability on Earth's climate over centennial to millennial time scales is the subject of considerable debate.

Over a longer term — evidence of Earth's underlying dynamic comes at many scales with coupled changes to the energy budget.

Under human influence, the Earth's climate system is not only changing in its totality and over a geological time - scale, it is also rendered more unstable and unpredictable.

But most importantly of all, and over the time scale that counts for testing the hypothesis of dangerous global warming, since 1998 the Earth has failed to warm at all despite an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide of more than 5 per cent.

Over what time - scales can Earth climate be considered stationary and ergodic?

As evidence of climate change piles up and pessimism grows over climate negotiations, discussion of geoengineering — deliberate large - scale intervention in Earth's natural systems — is rising up the agenda.

That the Sun plays a critical part in the Earth's climate system is indisputable; moreover, both the Sun and the climate change continually, over all time scales.

Honorable scientists with respect for the principles of the scientific method admit that even on a human scale the Earth has not warmed to any significant degree at over the last seventeen years going on two decades, during which time CO2 increased.

In addition, time scales matter here — increasing the amount of CO2 by 33 % over the course of a few decades would overwhelm any system (like the Earth's climate) that has a time constant of centuries.

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.