Sentences with phrase «rising tide of change»

The Rising Tide of Change: Modern Woodcuts of China Renee Covalucci, co-curator of the exhibition, Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937 — 2008: Towards a Universal Pictorial Language, is a Boston - based printmaker and an adjunct professor of Fine Arts at Lesley University.

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A rising tide This sea change on the state level reflects a rising tide of enthusiasm for legal marijuana.

Exacerbating the issue is that owners of lower - priced homes likely don't have the resources to take preventative measures against the rising tides, like putting in sea walls or making changes to foundations to withstand intermittent flooding.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

But increasing adoption and content saturation, as well as changing algorithms and the rising tide of paid social advertising, means all brands are facing stiff competition for audience attention and engagement.

At the base of the world's highest sea cliffs, the Belgian missionary spent sixteen years ministering to exiled lepers quarantined on the inaccessible peninsula, bringing order and peace to a lawless and lonely leper colony; his reputation outside of Kalaupapa since his death from leprosy in 1889 has risen and fallen in changing tides of adulation and conflict.

People of faith and even of non-faith are all living as rented forms within collective formations ever rising and even falling with the tidal flurries regarding the many societal accolades of a changing tides bantered momentums riding ever continuing laments to rise and then fall upon socialisms shorelines to be so aligned with subjectivities of placed regionalized variant findings dispersed yet rationed movements in the ever to so be done fluidic moments by people of faith and also of non-faith.

Well so is the Campaign against Climate Change, Rising Tide, Stop Climate Chaos, and Plane Stupid, not to mention older hands such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the WWF.

THE phrase «dangerous climate change» got scarier last week, with a new analysis suggesting that global warming will bring a rising tide of human violence.

Researchers have shown that sea - level rise is changing patterns of the tides in the Delaware and Chesapeake bays.

Adding one meter of sea - level rise to the model resulted in a distinct pattern of changes to the high and low tides throughout the Chesapeake Bay.

As the same volume of water now has to pass through a narrower channel, high tides rise higher, causing deeper and more widespread floods (Global and Planetary Change, doi.org/s8h).

Several previous analyses of tide gauge records1, 2,3,4,5,6 — employing different methods to accommodate the spatial sparsity and temporal incompleteness of the data and to constrain the geometry of long - term sea - level change — have concluded that GMSL rose over the twentieth century at a mean rate of 1.6 to 1.9 millimetres per year.

Rates of sea - level rise calculated from tide gauge data tend to exceed bottom - up estimates derived from summing loss of ice mass, thermal expansion and changes in land storage.

While the record 13.9 foot storm tide in New York Harbor during Superstorm Sandy was primarily due to the coincidence of the strongest winds with high tide, sea - level rise driven by historical climate change added more than one foot to that total.

Learning to appreciate individual peculiarities, they help one another face the fears and uncertainties of their changing world and ride out the rising tides in Ice Age: The Meltdown.

Less childhood obesity Even as an important part of the school day, play has currently received little or no encouragement from government while communities remain keen for change and immediate action to help curb the rising tides of childhood obesity.

But considering how much the SUV ideal has changed since the truck - based Explorers and 4Runners of the 1990s, today's rising tide of crossovers is disappointingly homogenous.

It moves the conversation from a nebulous debate on «climate change» to a concrete set of data points that signal danger in the rising tides.

It wasn't the launch of the iPhone that changed this, per se, but a rising tide of alternatives and viable technologies.

We head out with the rising tide and therefore the departure time changes daily so that we can enjoy the best of the conditions out in the Badung Strait.

The world has a dynamic feel to it too, as the tide of the cloud sea rises and falls, revealing — or concealing — areas for you to visit, or even changing the environment and the creatures you can find there.

The current body of work draws apocalyptic visual parallels between issues of mass migration and the rising tides due to climate change.

Thomas Crow's paradigm - changing book, The Long March of Pop: Art, Music, and Design, 1930 — 1995, challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides.

Rising Tide is an international network of all volunteer grassroots activists who target corporations responsible both for climate change and for blocking efforts to find solutions to it.

Earlier this week, London Rising Tide, a group of climate change activists, occupied the head offices of the Carbon Neutral Company, one of the leading UK offset providers.

«USCAP says it is serious about stopping climate change, but these companies have not put their money where their mouth is,» said Brian Sloan of Rising Tide North America.

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Given that most tide gauges, which heretofore are the usual means of judging sea level rise before satellite altimetry, the tide gauges with the longest history are in areas where there is a large amount of anthropogenic land and water use changes.

It only takes a small amount of sea level rise to cause dramatic damage and change — as king tides and storm surges sweep further inland.

Publishing in Nature Climate Change, Melet et al. (2018) study the effect of atmospheric surges, tides and waves on total water level rise at the coast.

Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, and Bridget Anderson, «The Rising Tide: Assessing the Risks of Climate Change and Human Settlements in Low Elevation Coastal Zones,» Environment and Urbanization, vol.

(Rising ocean levels due to human - forced climate change is resulting in worsening instances of tidal flooding at times of high tide.

In several panels at the recent American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting, leading scientists struggled with how best to respond to a rising tide of climate - change scepticism.

This is from the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy, chapter II «The Moon, being of all the heavenly bodies the nearest to the Earth, also dispenses much influence;... By the changes of her illumination (that is as she waxes and wanes), rivers swell and are reduced; the tides of the sea are ruled by her rising and setting;...» < / blockquote.

This is from the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy, chapter II «The Moon, being of all the heavenly bodies the nearest to the Earth, also dispenses much influence;... By the changes of her illumination (that is as she waxes and wanes), rivers swell and are reduced; the tides of the sea are ruled by her rising and setting;...»

But a new study published in the journal Science Advances has concluded that another impact of global climate change might help coral reefs survive increasing sea temperatures: «even a modest sea level rise can substantially reduce temperature extremes within tide - dominated reefs, thereby partially offsetting the local effects of future ocean warming,» the authors of the study write.

So, for example, those people in the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], choose Hong Kong, which has six tide gauges, and they choose the record of one, which gives 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level.

According to research by Ben Strauss, a climate change and sea level rise expert at Climate Central, an independent research and news organization, there are approximately $ 156 billion worth of property and 300,000 homes less than three feet above the high tide line in Florida.

It lays out the facts of climate change without the typical accompanying doomsday scenarios of rising tides flooding coastal cities and drought choking off food supplies.

if no individual tide gauge records show a recent surge (and only a tiny fraction of long running ones show any trend change at all in recent decades), then claims that sea levels are surging are simply not tenable, for if GLOBAL sea levels are rising you would by logic alone expect that this would show up in actual single sites all over the globe.

You need a lesson in street smart logic: if no individual tide gauge records show a recent surge (and only a tiny fraction of long running ones show any trend change at all in recent decades), then claims that sea levels are surging are simply not tenable, for if GLOBAL sea levels are rising you would by logic alone expect that this would show up in actual single sites all over the globe.

Much of the climate change debate is wheather man made CO2 is the main culprit for rising tides, melting glaceres, and higher acidity in the ocean.

As we have shown in Rahmstorf et al. (2012), much or most of the decadal variations in the rate of sea - level rise in tide gauge data are probably not real changes at all, but simply an artefact of inadequate spatial sampling of the tide gauges.

In a 2009 study, the authors used GPS measurement to correct for local vertical movement of the Earth at key tide gages, finding a «global rate of geocentric sea level rise of 1.61 ± 0.19 mm / yr over the past century» Their study shows no acceleration and no changes in rate during warm or cold periods of the last 110 years.

Much of the credit for the rising tide of public skepticism toward the outlandish claims of the global warming Jeremiahs goes to the Heartland Institute, which The Economist has called «the world's most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man - made climate change.»

A changing climate that brings extreme flooding, wilting crops, rising tides that swallow coastlines, and new waves of immigrants could prove to be a drain on U.S. coffers as every hard - hit area clamors for its slice of relief.

With flooding in the Miami metropolitan area already an urgent problem — so - called king tides rise from beneath the city through its porous limestone — along with the increased likelihood of extreme weather events due to the accelerating effects of climate change, the city is in desperate need of solutions.

Hollywood has yet to develop as elegantly as neighboring Miami and Fort Lauderdale, however, its rising popularity may indicate a changing of the tides and a greater focus on Hollywood as a legitimate source of investment for the future.

However, its rising popularity may indicate a changing of the tides and a greater focus on Hollywood as a legitimate source of investment for the future.