Sentences with phrase «abrupt shift points»

We were most impressed by the Dynamic setting's suspension calibration, but some editors found the rather abrupt shift points somewhat unsettling.

Not exact matches

Among the evidence that would shift our expectations in this regard would be: material equity market deterioration, further weakness in regional Fed and purchasing managers indices, a slowing in real personal income, a spike in new claims for unemployment toward the 340,000 level, an abrupt drop in consumer confidence about 10 - 20 points below its 12 - month average, and at least some amount of slowing in employment growth and aggregate hours worked.

Even though we do not know the climate variations in detail so far back, we know that there were abrupt climate shifts in the warm climate back then,» points out Peter Ditlevsen.

Evolutionary skeptics often point to this kind of abrupt shift — doesn't such rapid change contradict your description of a single master tool kit and slow evolution over long stretches of time?

The movie is shot in a raw, TV docudrama - like street style with abrupt and constricted camera movement and shifting points of view.

And if that seems like an abrupt tonal shift, well, that's rather the point that actor turned first - time writer - director Xavier Legrand is making.

Even the latter might in theory lead to tipping points with abrupt climate shifts, but based on paleoclimatologic history, these are far more likely to be in the same direction as the trends than in the opposite direction.

Its report on the potential for «abrupt climate change» was an update of an earlier report a decade ago, about the potential for the Earth's climate system to shift abruptly in a relatively short period of time if certain breaking points are reached or tipping points are crossed.

Crossing the critical «tipping points» the planet is now approaching may mean abrupt and possibly irreversible shifts in the workings of the Arctic, Amazon, and other parts of the globe.

My point is that an «abrupt climate shift» can easily go unnoticed.

«Tipping points» is being used to mean an abrupt, sudden shift from one set of conditions to another, far different set of conditions, not just to refer to a range limit or just to any change.

In the same way the abrupt climate shift in the early Oligocene is glossed over (despite being one of the very few good examples of a probable climatic «tipping point» in geologic history).

The possibility of abrupt shifts concealed in the uncertainty band was pointed out by von Storch et al. (2004), but their conclusion that the graph was faulty overall was refuted by Wahl et al. (2006).