Sentences with phrase «change on a significant scale»

Can ocean fertilization really help combat climate change on any significant scale?

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Many types of emissions from coal - fired plants have been reduced, but the capturing and storing of carbon dioxide, the emission that scientists say is most responsible for climate change, has been harder to accomplish on a significant scale.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 20, 2016.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end - use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report on Form 20 - F filed on April 27, 2017.

Following a full - scale review, the business school's flagship Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) degree program underwent a number of significant changes to meet the school's new strategic focus on ethical leadership, entrepreneurship and energy.

I simply am not convinced that change can be achieved on any significant scale.

This time Corbyn contemplated sweeping changes to his shadow cabinet, recognised that such a move would trigger unwanted resignations on an impossibly big scale, stepped back from such a move but still sacked stroppy dissenters and made a significant move in relation to defence policy.

The geological history of Earth is characterised by many large - scale changes that have had a significant impact on Earth's environments.

For significant periods of time, the reconstructed large - scale changes in the North Pacific SLP field described here and by construction the long - term decline in Hawaiian winter rainfall are broadly consistent with long - term changes in tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) based on ENSO reconstructions documented in several other studies, particularly over the last two centuries.

Moving the scale of quality of the United States» teaching force toward this higher level would, he recognizes, require significant changes in school districts» employment practices, basing recruitment, compensation, and retention policies on the identification and compensation of teachers according to their effectiveness.

In round one, however, scores only changed by 4.6 points on average after the interviews, not a significant margin on the 500 - point grading scale.

On view will be several smaller - scale, early works in metal and cord from the 1960s; significant permutational works from the 1970s that change over time; reliefs and site - situational constructions from later in the artist's career; and a selection of drawings and artist's books, thus demonstrating the scope of formal and conceptual invention that the artist achieved within his defined idiom.

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

While the U.S. has stabilized its emissions of CO2, that is not sufficient to combat climate change, which requires much more significant reductions in CO2 emissions, and on a global scale.

There may be significant year - to - year variations, but they must even up to a large degree, and there may be large changes over thousands of years, but on the scale of decades no known process can have produced changes comparable to what we have observed at Mauna Loa.

The projected man - made warming represents a significant change even on the longest geological time - scales.

I would not dispute 100 - 300 year oscillations as a possibility, but my reading of the climate records reveals no evidence for a significant role for such oscillations — or at least, no role substantial enough on a global scale to have created a discernible signal outside of changes occasioned by solar variations, volcanism, and other known entities (changes on a regional scale are a very different matter and may have involved such oscillations).

Whether the the changes in Earth rotation have any significant influence in the opposite direction on any time scale shorter than thousands of years is less obvious.

The fact that unforced variability in the climate system can offset anthropogenic forcing changes on a time scale of about 15 years and smaller does not logically imply that unforced variability is also the primary cause of the statistically significant temperature increase since the mid 1970ies.

The big changes that take place on the 10,000 year scale are very significant to the Earth's climate.

Our results confirm that the solar influence dominates the short periods and geomagnetic changes probably start to play a significant role on time scales from 500 yrs and longer.

Natural factors such as the Sun (84 papers), multi-decadal oceanic - atmospheric oscillations such as the NAO, AMO / PDO, ENSO (31 papers), decadal - scale cloud cover variations, and internal variability in general have exerted a significant influence on weather and climate changes during both the past and present.

Those who insist on the potential for a large - scale, populist movement to bring about significant change often point to the first Earth Day, when 20 million people took the streets and brought about the passage of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, not to mention the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Findings from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warn about the consequences of rising CO2 concentrations: «Any CO2 stabilisation target above 450 ppm is associated with a significant probability of triggering a large - scale climatic event.»

Also, like any significant changes to our energy mix, there is no way to simply shift to high quality black coal on any near term time scale.

The impact of land use change on the energy and water balance may be very significant for climate at regional scales over time periods of decades or longer.

There has been a significant technological change over the last decade (on a global scale) and that has created many opportunities to strengthen the protection of the right to freedom of expression.

However, control group children also showed significant change on both scales of the ECBI and on two scales of the SDQ (total and conduct).

A clinically significant change on the DAS (ie, 10 points) has been previously established.23 The Conflict Tactics Scale — Revised24 was used to establish exclusion criteria related to severe aggression.

Significant change in a positive direction was also observed for intervention group parents on all scales of the GHQ, with the exception of the anxiety subscale; on all scales of the PSI, with the exception of parent - child interaction subscale; and on the RSE scale.

At 12 months significant change (p < 0.05) in a positive direction was observed for intervention group children on the intensity scale of the ECBI, and the total, conduct, and hyperactivity scales of the SDQ.

Results: In comparison with the control group (CG), bullying behavior in the BSFT group was reduced and statistically significant changes in all risk - taking behaviors (ARBS), on most STAXI, IIP - D, and SF - 36 scales were observed after BSFT.

Overall, 63 % of children made a minimum significant change on the ECBI Problem Scale between baseline and follow - up (using intention - to - treat data), 54 % made a large change, and 39 % made a very large change.