Sentences with phrase «called sea change»

In 2012, something happened that I called a sea change in the legal profession: The American Bar Association formally approved a change to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make clear that lawyers have a duty to be competent not only in the law and its practice, but also in technology.

Other speakers referred to a AAAS - organized initiative called SEA Change, which is designed to recognize and distingish departments, colleges and institutions of higher learning for their diversity and inclusion, including gender diversity — with bronze, silver and gold awards.

You might call it a sea change.

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Martin traces the sea change to a famous paper by Michael Jensen and William Mecklin, called «Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure» (PDF here).

For investors, this is a sea change related to rising interest rates, and it should serve as a wake - up call to those who still haven't gotten the message.

Guggenheim's Minerd calls Brexit «the biggest sea change on global collectiveness since the end of the Second World War.»

The colors (and the delicate fragrances) change subtly with the seasons: there are the greens, pinks, reds, whites and lavenders of summer; the over-all reddening of the bayberry, huckleberry and deerberry bushes in the fall; the golden brown of the grasses in early winter and, at last, the bleak, gaunt look of January, February and March that makes it clear why oldtime mariners called the island «The Little Gray Lady of the Sea.»

Here's something to check out this coming Thursday afternoon: Network for Good and Care2 will be hosting a free conference call on year - end nonprofit fundraising, with online - donations experts Alia McKee and Mark Rovner of Sea Change Strategies laying out best practices for taking full...

Here's something to check out this coming Thursday afternoon: Network for Good and Care2 will be hosting a free conference call on year - end nonprofit fundraising, with online - donations experts Alia McKee and Mark Rovner of Sea Change Strategies laying out best practices for taking full online advantage of holiday generosity.

«This is an important wake - up call to the members of the Legislature who haven't realized that there has been a sea change, and it's an opportunity for the Legislature itself to get ahead of itself and make some meaningful changes,» Lerner said.

While she didn't mention him by name, Idleman attributed her decision to Dylan Ratigan's entry to the race on Wednesday, a development she called a «sea change.»

One of the subtle changes visible in the new data - set is how the Amazon's greenness corresponds to one of the long - known causes of rainfall or drought to the Amazon basin: changes in sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, called the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

The photos are part of an Annenberg Space for Photography collection called Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change, which will be on display at their Los Angeles location from Dec. 13 through May 3.

An open letter calls on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address the challenges posed by rising seas as a result of climate change

In last year's Defense Department security blueprint, DOD pointed out that climate change may directly affect its mission, since it will have to prepare for operations in a more navigable Arctic, adapt to rising sea levels and be called upon for more humanitarian disaster assistance.

The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks in the climate system, such as changes in clouds, water vapor and melting sea ice.

You might call this place ground zero in the effort to predict climate change, sea level rise, and the fate of coastal cities around the world.

NASA's SETI efforts, which ran from the 1970s to the 1990s, consumed about $ 110 million across 20 years, according to the agency's former chief historian, the astronomer Steven Dick, who calls today's announcement a «sea change» in SETI funding.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Mayors of 21 cities in Florida on Friday called on the moderators of next week's presidential debates in Miami to ask candidates how they would deal with rising sea levels caused by climate change, a concern of the state's coastal communities.

His career change reflects a larger shift — Buja goes so far as to call it a «sea change» — for NCAR as an institution.

From there, we would follow the pipeline and the oil company thoroughfare called Dalton Highway, or Haul Road, north to Prudhoe Bay, thereby witnessing firsthand, over five days, some of the changes humans have brought to nearly every stretch of land, sea, and sky.

This worrisome trend is called ocean acidification (see SNK story «Sea changes»).

The project, called the Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment, was the first major study of how sea - ice moves and changes due to ocean and atmosphere influences.

We call this the Charney climate sensitivity, because it is essentially the case considered by Charney (1979), in which water vapor, clouds and sea ice were allowed to change in response to climate change, but GHG (greenhouse gas) amounts, ice sheet area, sea level and vegetation distributions were taken as specified boundary conditions.

Every cell and tissue in the body produces an ever - changing sea of byproducts called metabolites.

The project, called Impacts of Climate Change on the Eco-Systems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment, or ICESCAPE, aims to find out how warming temperatures are affecting the biochemistry and ecology of the Arctic seas.

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Hearthstone cards such as Naga Sea Witch, Call to Arms, and Dark Pact to receive balance changes sometime after the HCT Playoffs.

A year after the shooting, the flurry of passionate calls for «national conversations» and changes to state and federal laws related to guns, school security, and mental health that were spurred by the tragedy has yet to produce a sea change in policy.

The city's charter school contingent also characterized Thursday's decisions as a sea change in the city's relationship with charters, calling the decisions «outrageous.»

State legislatures, governors, advocacy groups, and citizens are calling on state education agencies (SEAs) to do more to drive changes in K — 12 education.

California sea lions, in particular, have been hit hard by changing ocean conditions in recent years in what has been called a «crisis.»

Originally called Ocean View Farm, it was changed to «Miramar,» meaning «behold the sea,» at the suggestion of a guest.

Call of Duty 4 represented a sea change for the franchise, and there was nothing quiet about its launch.

Back in the nineties and in the aughts, there was a sea change concerning a beloved system you might have heard of called «Dungeons and Dragons.»

Sustainable Silicon Valley: Calling on Artists for Sustainability The WEST Summit aims to catalyze a sea change of action to create long - term regional resiliency to climate change.

This show includes paintings that evoke a multitude of social and philosophical ideas, as well as a multiplicity of attitudes to nature, not only its changing moods, but also the feelings called forth by them in the painter's own mind — from the effusiveness of Spring Rain to the tumult of Stormy Sea and the dense melancholy of Damp Autumn.

Greenberg later wrote about this transformative moment in Louis's life and in the history of art: «His first sight of the middle - period Pollocks and of a large and extraordinary painting done in 1952 by Helen Frankenthaler, called «Mountains and Sea,» led Louis to change his direction abruptly.

These departures mark a sea change, calling for the realization of a true Cooper Union: an institution worthy of the radical mission on which it was founded.

My friend and sometime fishing partner Carl Safina, the marine scientist, conservationist and writer (who lives on Long Island), wrote a hard - edged piece for the CNN Web site calling out coastal communities and the nation for complacency in the face of climate change and rising seas.

So while times like the Eemian or Pliocene or Miocene may be interpreted as a warning call in some respects, it is not really good to determine threshold policy targets, or give substantial weight to answering big questions like future sea level change, based solely on these analogs.

President Mohammed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, whose small island nation is existentially threatened by rising sea levles caused by climate change, has called on the world to set a target of returning the levels of CO2 in our atmosphere to 350

Aren't those cyvlones not only steadily tugging more on the earth's surface on our seas (e. g. the so - called monsterwaves) but pulling also on our firm crust in certain places, thereby provoking unusual outbreaks of volcanoes, like in Iceland, and with that maybe also causing every more a little change on the polar axis of our planet?

Paul Holland of the British Antarctic Survey calls the freshwater concept «plausible» but thinks there are also plausible alternative explanations for the increase in sea ice around Antarctica, among them changes in the wind patterns that might deliver blasts of colder air to the surrounding seas.

I held the faint hope that your government might yet waken to the realities of climate change, heed the call of thousands of Norwegians and rescind the 23rd licensing round, which allows oil companies to exploit massive fossil resources in the Barents Sea.

sea level changes induced by changes in water density are called steric.

The dramatic retreat of perennial Arctic sea ice has been a wake - up call to the climate community that climate change may not necessarily be slow and steady nor its impacts only of consequence in the far - off future.

It also calls for 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 and financing to help developing nations adapt to the hazards of a changing climate: persistent drought, extreme heat, dangerous storms, and rising seas.