Sentences with phrase «abrupt collapse»

The company's abrupt collapse left more than 3,000 employees out of work, as the country's largest airline urged global aircraft repair competitors to fill the void left by Aveos.

Although this question of the number of stable states of the system is important for a complete understanding of the climate system, it is important to emphasize that regardless of this stability question, the CMIP5 models also show no evidence of an abrupt collapse for the 21st century.

Witnesses documented some of their abrupt collapse.

The authors, led by James E. Hansen, the veteran climatologist - turned - campaigner, stitch a variety of findings and simulations into a worrisome vision of a looming and abrupt collapse of Antarctic ice sheets and a multi-meter rise in storm - raked seas.

They also seem to be unaware of that the Arctic sea ice still exists and its abrupt collapse will trigger the next rapid warming!

They also seem to be unaware of that the Arctic sea ice still exists and its abrupt collapse will trigger the next rapid warming!

Although the scientific credibility of the film drew criticism from climate scientists, the scenario of an abrupt collapse of the AMOC, as a consequence of anthropogenic greenhouse warming, was never assessed with a state - of - the - art climate model.

Here, rather than observing the abrupt collapse phenomenon, by focusing upon small changes just prior to the abrupt phenomenon they found the tongue deformation.

Moreover, in the plasma's abrupt collapse phenomenon caused by the tongue, as a result of a detailed investigation of the velocity distribution of protons they observed for the first time the distorted velocity distribution.

Whatever the specific circumstances for an island, the transition from silent slip to abrupt collapse would involve a sudden acceleration of the mobile slope.

Not exact matches

The experience of the death of the gods, or of God, is a consequence of an abrupt transition which causes the traditional symbols to collapse since they no longer illuminate the shifting social reality [Harvey Cox, «The Death of God and the Future of Theology,» New Theology No. 4 (Macmillan, 1967), p. 245].

In particular, the evidence suggests that there was not an island - wide abrupt ecological and cultural collapse before the European arrival in 1722,» said Rull.

The surface is usually approximated by a series of interlocking triangles, but the triangles often deform and collapse in simulations, leading to singularities that bring the simulation to an abrupt halt, Garcke says.

event in 536 AD, the Mayan collapse around 800 AD, and the Norse colony collapse in Greenland to make his case that societies can be vulnerable to abrupt shifts in rainfall, temperature etc..

It's defined as «an abrupt falling down or caving in of a building or any part of a building [which then] can not be occupied...» A ceiling collapse could well fit that definition, depending on the cause.

But I thought this would lead to consolidation & sale as an end - game, not abrupt fraud and collapse... It will be interesting to see what / how many type (s) of criminal fraud are involved here, if the authorities don't take their usual 5 - 10 years to nail their case.

From the initial, atmospheric introduction, to the explosive, action - packed finale where an abrupt earthquake interrupts a vicious gunfight between soldiers and rebel insurgents, climaxing with a high - rise tower collapsing onto our hero.

«BEYOND THE YOUNGER DRYAS Collapse as Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change in Ancient West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean Harvey Weiss

event in 536 AD, the Mayan collapse around 800 AD, and the Norse colony collapse in Greenland to make his case that societies can be vulnerable to abrupt shifts in rainfall, temperature etc..

I think that efforts to halt diseases such as avian flu are counterproductive, as they only lead to yet more excessive human population and merely delay the day of abrupt environmental collapse that will terminate more human life than saved by such efforts.

The longer global warming continues, the greater the risk of «waking the sleeping giants» — major feedbacks such as ice sheet collapse, methane «burps,» or ecosystem collapse — that could ignite abrupt or runaway warming beyond our control.

Change arising from some sources, such as volcanic eruptions or the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsing, may be abrupt — but they don't flip back just as quickly, centuries later.

«This has already occurred in places like the Antarctic Peninsula, where we've observed warming and abrupt ice shelf collapses in the last few decades.

Collapse of the ice sheets is a viable «abrupt change scenario», though not the only one.

For some contrasts between the Younger Dryas and the most serious droughts since then at 8200, 5200, and 4200 years ago, see Fagan (1999) and Harvey Weiss, «Beyond the Younger Dryas: Collapse as adaptation to abrupt climate change in ancient West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean,» pp. 75 - 98 in Confronting Natural Disaster: Engaging the Past to Understand the Future, G. Bawden and R. Reycraft, editors (University of New Mexico Press 2000), at http://www.yale.edu/nelc/weiss/byd.html.

As noted in Meehl et al. (2007b) it is very unlikely that the AMOC will undergo an abrupt transition or collapse in the 21st century.

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Abrupt climate changes, such as the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the rapid loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet or large - scale changes of ocean circulation systems, are not considered likely to occur in the 21st century, based on currently available model results.

abrupt climate change occurring «over periods as short as decades or years,» which could be brought on by positive feedbacks triggered by such events as ice sheet collapse on a large scale, the collapse of part of the Gulf Stream, dieback of the Amazon forest, or coral reef die - off.

It's defined as «an abrupt falling down or caving in of a building or any part of a building [which then] can not be occupied...» A ceiling collapse could well fit that definition, depending on the cause.