Sentences with phrase «about changes on a large scale»

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As for additional topics, perhaps a brief explanation on why confidence in attribution (and prediction) of temperature change is strongest at large scales and weakest at small scales, ie something about the issue of signal to noise relative to spatial scale.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Those who insist on the potential for a large - scale, populist movement to bring about significant change often point to the first Earth Day, when 20 million people took the streets and brought about the passage of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, not to mention the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Findings from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warn about the consequences of rising CO2 concentrations: «Any CO2 stabilisation target above 450 ppm is associated with a significant probability of triggering a large - scale climatic event.»

Widespread networks of observers are especially well - suited to detecting global change — shifts in weather patterns; movements in the ranges of species; large - scale transformations of eco-systems — and that, unfortunately, is something we will need to know far more about if we are to mitigate and adapt to the fateful effects we are having on the planet.

We writers at TreeHugger have written extensively about how to reduce personal food waste, from better meal management at home to changing your shopping habits, but it's particularly gratifying to see organizations such as Moisson Montreal fighting food waste on a larger scale.

The NWEI course book «gave me a lot of hope to read stories about people making changes on large scales that help not only themselves but the community around them.

Nevada About Blog Ecolocity LED Lighting Solutions is founded on the principle that small business can contribute to larger scale changes.

Boston, MA About Blog This blog really focuses on how to fit gluten free into your life with small changes, not large scale.

The 16 themes were adapted to construct the questionnaire «Relationship beliefs about change» for used in the large - scale quantitative study on relationship beliefs and attachment.