Sentences with phrase «change on this scale requires»

And change on this scale requires all of us to get involved.

I believe President Obama is genuine in his desire to address this problem, but policy changes on the scale required will have to go through Congress.

Not exact matches

On a grand scale societies have responded to change in major ways, but large cultural changes require a deliberate reorientation in consciousness at the grassroots level.

The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.

Those changes are local, occuring on a different time scale, and if due to direct external forcing would require higher changes in solar radiance than claimed.

«We're studying things on such a fine scale that slight misalignments, caused by changes in temperature or even the rover settling into sand, can require us to correct our aim,» said Luther Beegle of JPL.

Change and improvement — sustained and at scale — can not rely on solo efforts but require the engagement and commitment of all.

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.

This piece, originally featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review Winter 2011, discusses how large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

For example, expanding blended learning programs will require both improved systems and policy changes to succeed on a larger scale.

When will we be ready to make the investments required to effect that change on a broad scale?

The time scale has been calculated on the basis of change in pattern observed among those in the supply chain who have now started to deliver the components required for the making of the next gen iPad to OEM contractors.

By underlining the power of artistic engagement to communicate, on a human scale, the urgency of global climate change, the event hopes to inspire and envision the cultural shift required to build a sustainable society.

That depends on the data, so you need to look at variance for the particular record (a side note — satellite mid-tropospheric records have higher variance than surface records, and inherently require more data to make that determination), at auto - correlation, the scale of trend changes, all of those, to determine whether current trends are significantly different from the past.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

Improved soil management may increase soil potential as a carbon sink in theory but doing this in reality means considerable changes to farming techniques, on a GLOBAL scale, which looks very hard to make happen, certainly in the short time frames required.

Those changes are local, occuring on a different time scale, and if due to direct external forcing would require higher changes in solar radiance than claimed.

Amid all the progress on this planet — declining losses from terrible diseases and war, rising literacy and the rest — there remain plenty of planet - scale risks requiring serious focus, from pandemic flu to centuries of locked - in climate change to, yes, collisions with space rocks.

Land managers have realized that static protected areas will not be sufficient to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate, requiring an emphasis on landscape - scale conservation, connectivity among protected habitats, and sustaining ecological functioning of working lands and waters.

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.

«Developing the ability to capture climatically important amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it reliably and safely on scales of significance to climate change requires research into how to make the more promising options more effective, more environmentally friendly, and less costly.

Paleontological records indicate that global mean sea level is highly sensitive to temperature (7) and that ice sheets, the most important contributors to large - magnitude sea - level change, can respond to warming on century time scales (8), while models suggest ice sheets require millennia to approach equilibrium (9).

However, to develop the scale that is required to progress on the SEforAll goals scale is required that will require a change in thinking across the sector.

To suggest that because near surface temperatures have flattened at or near the highest on record requires «abandoning» a sinking ship is to be grossly underinformed about the full scope and scale of the multiple changes going on and the confidence that anthropogenic climate continues unabated as it will so long as humans continue to increase greenhouse gas concentrations.

For all the admirable positions taken by many business leaders on climate change, Musk is the only high - profile figure to publicly envisage the true scale of the transformation that is required over the next three decades.

However, as many people know, individual and familial efforts even if all of us were paragons of climate virtue within our various means, do not add up to the systemic changes required to cut emissions on a grand scale across the economy.

Wehner and his co-authors of Chapter 2 of the NCA, which looked at the physical basis for our understanding of climate change, considered seven different future scenarios (including four new ones), ranging from the «do nothing» option to a geoengineering option, which would require an as - yet uninvented technology to take CO2 out of the atmosphere on a global scale, to achieve net negative emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.

I simply suggest that on a scale of hazard and commensurate risk climate change is something of a magnitude requiring more than business as usual when it comes to demands made by society for responsible communications.

Regarding the statement that scientific questions about climate change have been resolved, Bolin observed that «considerably more research is required to fully clarify and interpret what is happening to climate, especially on a regional scale, and how changes will affect human societies over the years to come.»

Regarding the substance of the comment attributed to Mr. Wirth, namely that scientific questions about climate change have been resolved, considerably more research is required to fully clarify and interpret what is happening to climate, especially on a regional scale, and how changes will affect human societies over the years to come.

Guppy Friend is just one of their projects, as they recognize that it is only one small part of the solution to a huge problem that will require systemic change on a massive scale, not just a few people conscientiously washing their polyester fleece in a special bag.

While further policy action is required in order for low carbon investments to be brought to scale, these examples demonstrate that investors are already acting on climate change in a variety of ways.

, perhaps you can enlighten us with the specifics of what industry, government, and the citizenry are doing to ameliorate climate change ON THE SCALE OF WHAT IS REQUIRED TO AVOID THE CATASTROPHE!

Yes, the sort of sweeping change ultimately necessary will require systemic change beyond our individual capacities and demands a lengthy time scale, but there is so much we can do that has a tangible impact on the accessibility of justice that doesn't need to wait for gobs of funding, pronouncements from on high or the demolition of courthouses.

«Microsoft is doing the leading work on scaling apps up and down, and changing the interface dynamically when required,» Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times.

Developing, implementing and scaling up programs may require bureaucratic changes and coordination among government sectors and ministries, including those focused on education, health and youth.

Participants were required to indicate their responses on a Likert scale, ranging from 1 to 7, with higher scores indicating higher perceived change in relationships.