Sentences with phrase «at planetary scale»

We simply haven't seen anything like it in detail at the planetary scale.»

For humans to be intimately involved in many interconnected processes at a planetary scale carries huge risks.

Becoming an ultra-social species at the planetary scale — another kind of Omega Point — will be much more difficult, although theoretically possible.

But we certainly need to be looking at the issue of growth and working our way toward a ZEG economy; there's nothing more certain than that we'll have to cap human energy use at the planetary scale * sometime.

8:59 p.m. Updated As I wrote the other day, the technological ingenuity that has made humanity a planet - scale influence in a handful of generations is also explosively increasing our ability to track and study environmental conditions and events at planetary scale.

So, the unwanted war at planetary scale appears because conflict is being avoided at state scale, like the political conflict.

This Gabonese biota raises questions about the history of the biosphere at a planetary scale.

Not exact matches

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Venus» crust is broken up into chunks that shuffle, jostle and rotate on a global scale, researchers reported in two talks March 20 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

«It would be good to define planetary boundaries at multiple scales — local, regional and global,» adds ecologist Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the planetary boundaries concept.

«We have reached the planetary stage of sustainability, where we are fiddling with hard - wired processes at the global Earth - system scale,» Rockström says.

As planetary scientist Shane Byrne of the University of Arizona (UA), Tucson, and his colleagues reported last month at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, MRO's broad - scale Context Camera has been finding the dark smudges of impact debris that weren't there as recently as a monthplanetary scientist Shane Byrne of the University of Arizona (UA), Tucson, and his colleagues reported last month at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, MRO's broad - scale Context Camera has been finding the dark smudges of impact debris that weren't there as recently as a monthPlanetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, MRO's broad - scale Context Camera has been finding the dark smudges of impact debris that weren't there as recently as a month earlier.

«We can see now at true planetary scale that increasing water temperature will have a huge impact on microbial life in the ocean,» said Shinici Sunagawa, an EMBL staff scientist and a senior author on a second Tara paper.

In a fascinating set of projects we will look at the smallest scales and back in time, probing the mineralogy and composition of micron - sized grains in ancient meteorites using the most sophisticated microscopic techniques, to explore the history of volatiles and organics in planetary building blocks at the time when the Solar System was young.

First aid was given by the image of M27 reproduced in Perek & Kohoutek's Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae, the only source at my disposal with clear orientation, angular scale and coordinates of the stellar nucleus.

Earlier this month, The Planetary Society brought together space enthusiasts at Queen Mary University of London for «SpaceUp London 2017» — the first large - scale event organized by Planetary Society volunteers in Europe.

The Weather Makers will present three large - scale video works alongside a new print series, weaving together myth and metaphor with scientific research and new digital technologies, The exhibition asks the viewer to consider what the future might look like if we continue on our current trajectory of planetary pillaging and consumption, and why we have allowed ourselves to arrive at such a moment of global environmental crisis.

Re # 173 (Dan Allan): Large - scale reasons for the chaos include planetary tilt (= seasons), a high rate of rotation (= major Coriolis effect), much more solar heat applied at the equator than at the poles, unevenly distributed land, air and water, a molten core resulting in tectonic activity including continental drift and volcanos, the occasional hammer from space, a really large satellite creating major tides in addition to minor ones from the sun, plus some stuff I'm probably forgetting.

So in my third book The God Species I junked all the environmentalist orthodoxy at the outset and tried to look at the bigger picture on a planetary scale.

Pluto temperatures are from «The Cambridge Planetary Handbook» by Michael E. Bakich, Cambridge University Press, 2000, page 297, and the solar forcings of Pluto were calculated by scaling Earth total solar incident irradiance (1360 W / m ^ 2) by (1 / AU ^ 2) for Pluto at its minimum, mid, and maximal distance from the sun.

On Tuesday, a report funded by federal agencies and released by the non-profit National Academy of Sciences (NAS) provided a detailed look at the state of geoengineering and suggests how the government could develop a program to better understand the consequences of further planetary tinkering, including small - scale tests.»

I accept that there are complex weather systems bubbling away at any given point over the earth's surface but, on a planetary scale as the earth rotates on its axis, I suggest these will essentially average out, at similar angular distances as from the sub-solar point, at decadal and centennial timeframes.

We have a unique opportunity at this moment in our human history, to become positive change agents on a planetary scale.

At rates that reasonably portend planetary - scale super-CAGW extinction events?

In addition, planetary - scale temperature and wind fields were spectrally nudged beginning ~ 500 hPA with a strength of zero and linearly ramped up to 0.0003 s - 1 at the top of the atmosphere, to constrain the large - scale circulation but still allow for free evolution of the boundary layer states.

An object in free - fall is in actuality inertial, but as it approaches the planetary object the time scale stretches at an accelerated rate, giving the appearance that it is accelerating towards the planetary object when, in fact, the falling body really isn't accelerating at all.

We downscale four planetary boundaries (climate change, land - system change, freshwater use and biogeochemical flows) to per capita equivalents, and compare these to footprint indicators at the national scale.

We combine these two approaches to measure sustainability at the national scale, by comparing national consumption - based environmental footprints to «downscaled» planetary boundaries6.

These ocean upwelling conditions occur beneath a complementary downwelling branch of the atmosphere's Hadley circulation — a planetary - scale flow pattern in both hemispheres that takes humid air ascending at low latitudes, heats and desiccates it in deep precipitating tropical clouds, and then sinks it at midlatitudes, where it is considerably warmer and drier than it was.