Sentences with phrase «act over timescales»

Their fellow activists on the Panel say that very nearly all of the feedbacks from the small warming that may be caused by our enriching the atmosphere with plant food act over timescales of hours to — at most — decades.

My response - Physics is really telling us little about how the system will act over timescales important to humans making policy decisions.

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Their importance, he says, lies in the very act of government and business discussing these challenges and considering how to meet them: developing a «dual approach over a significant — five, six, seven - year — timescale both encourages confidence that we are all facing in the same direction, and gives us time to develop and implement a real strategy [for growth].»

Earth has a carbon - silicate cycle that acts like a thermostat over geological timescales.

I know that Mike Schlesinger is going to be working on further studies to see what extra data, and over what timescales, might help us constrain the upper tail, but the possibility arises that no amount of data will do this, or at least, not in time for us to act on it with enough warning to prevent serious problems.

The difficulty obtaining clear correlations over all timescales suggests a substantial secondary force acting against the primary oceanic driver and there is no adequate internal force available.