Sentences with phrase «areas of the planet»

Rainfall is still crucial for agriculture, and drought is not confined to the driest areas of the planet.

Who knows, perhaps competing gods are all sitting up in the sky, watching the Earth and selectively intervening to punish human beings in the geographical areas of the planet where their believers enjoy a majority and ignoring all other parts of the world.

Personally I go with the mink theory, but I do believe there are areas of the planet that need intense and consistent prayer.

Unfortunately, however, the game of football has turned commercial and it is unlikely the Stamford Bridge outfit will turn down an opportunity to make more money by exploiting the Blues brand all across different areas of the planet.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

As we flood the atmosphere with more CO2, and average global temperatures rise, some areas of the planet are getting wetter.

«We found that heat transported by oceans would have a major impact on the temperature distribution across a planet, and would potentially allow a greater area of a planet to be habitable.

Half an inch doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually quite dramatic compared to other areas of the planet, explained Terry Wilson, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State.

The overall effect would be the same as making large areas of the planet more mirror - like.

But Alex Dessler, a space physicist at the University of Arizona, Tucson, says the same area of the planet also produces unusual radio signals, flares of ultraviolet light, and high levels of infrared radiation and even seems to be correlated with a patch in Jupiter's magnetosphere that pumps out high - energy electrons.

The Thompsons have drilled ice cores from glaciers atop the most remote areas of the planet — the Chinese Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, Kilimanjaro in Africa, and Papua Indonesia among others — to gauge Earth's past climate.

The massive impact would have disturbed the seafloor over vast areas of the planet, which might well have triggered a methane release.

Of course there are very good reasons why human beings — including scientists — have for the most part steered clear of these most remote areas of our planet: they are extremely cold, or hot, or wet, or dry, or oxygen - deprived, not to mention hard to get to.

The technique they developed makes it possible to refine predictions of future volcanic eruptions as well as identifying areas of the planet that are rich in magma - related natural resources.

In addition, the model will be of interest to industry because we will be able to identify new areas of our planet that are home to large amounts of natural resources such as copper and gold.»

After all, huge areas of our planet, including the poles and deserts, are rather barren.

«Cataclysms visit wide areas of the planet due to the coherent arrival of many impactors in a few days.

An impact from an asteroid of this size would cause a huge amount of damage if it hit a populated area of the planet.

Mankind was, in essence, busily engaged with making areas of the planet's surface uninhabitable for future generations.

Unfortunately, plastics take a really long time to break down and the high levels of plastics in landfills, oceans and even remote areas of the planet paint a rather bleak picture of the future for plastic pollution.

Even though you're both in different areas of the planet, you two can date online.

Entire areas of the planet have become pretty damaged, and more Transformers are landing on Earth every day, and we don't know why.

• The greenhouse will help to reduce rainfall in some areas of the planet causing them to occur at higher temperatures and higher evaporation.

In the early twenty - first century, however, the spread of tensions to many areas of the planet and the difficulties in solving them, as well as the unprecedented ecological deterioration due to the interaction of human activities with the biosphere have reached levels that are threatening the very survival of humankind.

Canadian Territories of the North West: it provides unobtainable information, travel tips and tourist suggestions to explore one of the most unspoilt areas of the planet, where nature and wildlife are still perfectly preserved.

The Terminal is situated inside the Wall on the New Helghan side while Stormgracht is set in the toxic industrial area of the planet.

Hopefully we'll be seeing updates in Destiny 2 that are more akin to those seen in games such as Dying Light, with areas of planets being updated with new enemies and challenges every month or so.

This is an area of the planet where the rules of gravity seem to be bent, and floating islands of rock make up the shifting landscape.

From the depth and unique look of every building to the colors of the various areas of the planet.

Tropic 08 ° N is a self - directed program over 21 - 42 days offering the space, time, and inspiration to develop new projects in order to promote necessary dialogues and understanding between remote areas of this planet and cities worldwide.

Would it help if we covered massive areas of the planet with a reflective white coating to reflect incoming solar — somewhat like the polar caps?

The factor 1/4 comes from the ratio of the area of the disk to the total surface area of the planet (which takes into account the Earth spherical shape and the difference between day and night).

In the understated language of science, the new study, in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes: «This is unfortunate when one considers that for some species - rich areas of the planet, a large proportion of remaining forest is in fragments» smaller than 2,500 acres.

I had thought there was W / m2 and °C and some translation between them averaged over the surface area of the planet.

n (i) = The sustainable number of people that can occupy any area of this planet = The Number of people living at per capita energy usage E (i)[N (E (i)-RSB- divided by the number of possible people «allowed» by thermodynamic considerations in that Fermionic state [g (i)-RSB-.

So for example to sequester 60 % of emissions forests would require doubling the area of the planet planted in forests, which is huge and is simply not viable, because the land is simply not available.

So for example to sequester 60 % of emissions forests would require doubling the area of the planet planted in forests

That there are still areas of the planet where people believe there is a benefit to having large families is an indication of the failures of education and health care.

A schematic of the solar system, where the energy received by the earth is the sunlight intercepted by its cross-section, and where the heat loss on average is due to thermal emission from the whole surface area of the planet.

How funny, yesterday I was «mowing», paying close attention to that part of my country existence, thinking, «wow, we haven't even explored the gas fueled lawn mower C02 emissions going on in the suburban areas of this planet on Dot Earth».

'' The new thing is that when you look at different areas of the planet... the hypothesis about the importance of ice holds up,» Walter A. Petersen of the University of Alabama at Huntsville said Thursday.

What if the cooler temps are just selected from satellites that spend more time over cooler areas of the planet?

However, I think Mr. Eschenbach is referring to sensitivities that have been averaged over longer periods of time and large areas of the planet's surface.

As I understand it, areas of the Planet such as the atmosphere, upper ocean, deep ocean etc. should, in a perfect (ly mixed) world increase in temperature uniformily (i.e. in step with each other).

With an efficient economy, the world population of six billion could live comfortably on 100000 square miles, the area of the state of Wyoming (0.17 % of the terrestrial area of the planet).

From what I can tell from the outputs of the GCM's we see general circulation patterns which would suggest areas of the planet would be warmer, but not a lot else of real value to the issue of impact on humanity.

In his concluding chapter, Snyder describes the Holocaust as an act of «ecological panic» -LSB-...] In the 21st century, he speculates, rapid and destructive climate change could lead to wholesale food shortages caused by desertification of huge areas of the planet, or alternatively drastic economic collapse and state bankruptcies.

President Trump is exercising international «Freedom of Navigation» rights encoded in the the 1982 United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea, to refute China's very recent claims to this huge area of our planet.

If the fossil fuel industry follows its business plan, vast areas of our planet will become uninhabitable.»

IMO, the key issue is what happens as a result of any additional heat to the different areas of the planet and what impact that will have on the lives of the people on the planet.