Because of the substantial risks to society and nature posed by abrupt changes, this report recommends the development of an Abrupt
Change Early Warning System that would allow for the prediction and possible mitigation of such changes before their societal impacts are severe.
Careful coordination — to reduce duplication of efforts, maximize resources, and facilitate data and information sharing — will be essential to a successful abrupt
change early warning system.
The organizational structure of an abrupt
change early warning system would capitalize on existing programs, but will also need to capture the interconnectedness of climate and human systems.
Synthesis: A necessary part of an abrupt
change early warning system is synthesizing knowledge to avoid the trap of data collection without continuing and evolving data analysis and model integration.
One valuable section is a call for an «Abrupt
Change Early Warning System.»
To implement an abrupt
change early warning system, it will be important to integrate the various components of the project, pay attention to stakeholder priorities, and build the ability to be flexible and adaptive.
Not exact matches
Any «out of the ordinary»
changes to the way a client interacts with you should be an
early warning sign that something is
changing, it's just a matter of identifying what is
changing.
Finance Minister Joe Oliver wrote his Ontario counterpart
earlier this month
warning Ottawa would not help implement the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan or make any legislative
changes to allow it to be treated like the CPP for tax purposes.
«While the full scope of what happened is not yet known, we recommend, as a precaution, that you
change your online passwords,» NiceHash had
earlier warned users.
Earlier this month, Coinbase
warned customers that, due to recent
changes to the Merchant Category Code (MCC), credit card companies are now able to charge additional «cash advance» fees on cryptocurrency purchases.
«We learned
early on that if we just grabbed our son without
warning and tried to
change his diaper he would scream, kick, and wriggle.
It also enables the automatic detection of new ways citizens are using services, when legal or business environment is
changing, giving an
early warning when a software would start to become a legacy system amid
changes required by society.
And in the United States, Hurricane Sandy's impact on lower Manhattan and the New Jersey shore has raised interest in the work of scientists who identify freak storms as an
early warning of climate
change.
Earlier this week, Bloomberg
warned that unless teacher seniority rules are
changed so good, newer teachers could be retained over more senior but weaker instructors, the city could have to lay off nearly every teacher hired in the last five years.
As climate
change is increasing the duration, frequency and severity of extreme weather events, it has become increasingly urgent to identify their effects and provide
early warnings, in order to ensure market stability and global food security.
Scientists conducting fieldwork in the region are reporting massive chick die - offs and nests with abandoned eggs, reports National Geographic's Winged
Warnings series, which lays out the many threats facing the island's seabirds: warming oceans,
earlier thaws,
changing ocean chemistry and food webs, and increasing levels of ocean pollutants from PCBs to mercury.
Pixel by pixel analysis of vegetation
changes from week to week to give an
early warning for the outbreaks of drought, hazardous fire conditions, or even when malaria may break out in Sub-Saharan Africa.
When the magma forms bubbles, the composition of gas at the surface should
change, potentially providing an
early warning sign.»
Changes in its behaviour can give an
early warning of damage.
CLIMATE
CHANGE • Torrential rainstorms that flooded northern California in late November and
early December are a
warning to the government and scientists of a bigger issue: the potential arrival of a megastorm.
Finney believes that
changes in climate cause the cycles in salmon populations, and as scientists struggle to understand the rate and effects of global warming, salmon may help them distinguish normal climate variations from the
early warnings of a system gone dangerously wrong.
This type of conclusion raises the possibility of using mathematical models as an
early warning system that catastrophic
changes in the ecosystem are imminent, enabling appropriate action (such as reduced grazing).»
It could be fluctuations in groundwater levels, or
changes that could provide
early warnings for a variety of geohazards such as permafrost thaw, sinkhole formation, and landslides.»
«The Polar Regions are the Earth's
early warning system and Antarctica is a great natural laboratory to study to future global
change.
The researchers hope the app will eventually give people with bipolar disorder and their health care teams an
early warning of the
changing moods that give the condition its name.
Jef Huisman, an aquatic microbiology professor and theoretical ecologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, said that the Princeton research shows that recently proposed
early -
warning signals for the desertification of arid ecosystems can be too simple, and possibly result in projections of future climate
change that do not account for the complexity of nature.
«It's an
early warning system we're trying to put together to help industry adapt to
changing, sometimes severe, conditions,» says Feely.
What's more, scientists say the plant's extraordinary sensitivity to temperature makes the industry a strong
early -
warning system for problems that all food crops are expected to confront as climates continue to
change.
To better anticipate the next sudden
change, the committee recommends the creation of an
early warning system and research to better understand the possibilities.
In a letter sent to Senate leaders on 24 February and released
earlier this week by the Massachusetts - based Woods Hole Research Center, 65 scientists
warned that «this well - intentioned legislation, which claims to address climate
change, would in fact promote deforestation in the U.S. and elsewhere and make climate
change much worse.»
An NRC report enlarges the concept of abrupt climate
change and calls for an
early warning system
Tracking sequence
changes over time could also provide a kind of
early warning system to identify the emergence of an aggressive form of the cancer by providing a real - time window into tumor evolution.
The researchers, led by a team at Nottingham Trent University in England, believe the
changing sounds from a hive indicate swings in the bees» state of health and that high - tech eavesdropping could provide beekeepers with
early -
warning signals.
As
early as 1965, when Al Gore was a freshman in college, a panel of distinguished environmental scientists
warned President Lyndon B. Johnson that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels might cause «marked
changes in climate» that «could be deleterious.»
A new study shows that climatic
changes, such as warmer water, can provide an
early warning.
With renewed interest in arctic oil and gas development and recognition that the polar regions are
early warning systems for climate
change, both foreign and Canadian researchers once again are focusing on the Arctic.
«We are saying that could be an
early warning of more rapid
change,» she said.
Any
changes, such as spotting skinny whales, might provide «
early warning indicators» about possible population declines, Tyack said.
Dr. Lambert: In perhaps a generation, the field of genetics will advance to a place where we will be able to perform real - time measurement of
changing biomarkers in the human body, including genes expressed and the microbiome, and have
early warning signals for disease detection, prevention and intervention.
Functional
changes occur long before disease is manifested, so functional testing becomes an
early warning test for disease which is ideal for prevention - oriented physicians and patients concerned about finding the root cause of their problem.
The trick is to avoid this happening altogether or to
change what you're doing as soon as you experience any or all of the
early warning signs that tell you you're not coping.
As has long been noted, our feathered friends often provide «canary in a coal mine»
early warnings as to the impacts and perils of environmental
changes — and the dramatic shifts in their populations and behaviors over recent decades is ominous indeed.
Early on, though, I was reminded of patriarch Homer's
warning to grandson Lonnie in Hud: that «little by little the look of the country
changes because of the men we admire» — that our perceived, fictionalized, mythologized history becomes the template into which we slot our behaviour into an increasingly Pirandellian future.
13.3 improve education, awareness raising and human and institutional capacity on climate
change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction, and
early warning
As
early as 1988, in his first term as a Senator, he was already
warning the country of the dangers of global warming and climate
change which were then considered non-issues in both national and global context.
It's important that educators notice behavior
changes in students to help identify
early warning signs of vulnerability in children and young people.
The
early warning chime that
warned me as I was lane
changing that the vehicle ahead of me had hit the breaks hard.
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