Sentences with phrase «changes as a planet»

The telescope would examine each star to see how its light changes as a planet passes in front of and behind it.

«We determined the weather on these alien worlds by measuring changes as the planets circle their host stars, and identifying the day - night cycle,» said Lisa Esteves, a PhD candidate in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and lead author of the study published today in The Astrophysical Journal.

With Cassini's mission lasting 13 years, this meant that the spacecraft observed almost half of Saturn's seasonal change as the planet went around its orbit.

What this means is that the overall rate of absorption of CO2 by the oceans is a complex function of numerous processes — biological, chemical and physical — whose individual contributions are still a matter of active scientific research (and which are certainly changing as the planet warms).

So the partnership of water with salt changes as the planet slows.

Not exact matches

Their brands are not labels but flags that should evoke the kind of patriotism we have for the countries we live in... These leaders want to change the way the planet works — or as Apple's Steve Jobs is widely quoted saying, «to make a dent in the universe.»»

Stoyanova helps cultivate the largest creative community on the planet, produces her podcast The Work We Do, hosts impromptu poetry jams, and bridges industries and borders as an agent of change.

The EU considers itself at the forefront of the fight against climate change and as a bloc it's on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the emissions of gases that warm the planet.

In the end, deGrasse Tyson held firm to his belief that Pluto deserves to be a dwarf planet, saying that Pluto is «only awesome, minus 10 percent», despite Colbert bribing him with a Klondike bar to change his mind and reinstate Pluto as a planet.

Braiding together more than 40 years each in business profitability / marketing and organizing for social change, Shel Horowitz — known as «The TransformpreneurSM «-- is working to create a world that rewards business for human - focused, planet - focused values and actions.

You only want one because every single gadget - slinger on the planet is marketing them to you as an all - new, life - changing device that could turn your kitchen into a futuristic voice - controlled paradise.

If the planet is to avert the worst scenarios for climate change, the optimistic long - run forecasts for oil demand growth put forward by energy giants such as Exxon can be thrown out the window.

When even energy - friendly bodies such as the International Energy Agency say the world needs to act now if we're to avoid the worst outcomes of what climate change has to offer the planet, then Canada should realize it can ill afford to stick its head in the sand any longer.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Believers and non-believers alike, united by a common concern for the future of the planet, have high hopes that someone who chose to name himself after that great lover of creation, Francis of Assisi, will say something truly transformational, for as a Canadian Council of Churches document lamentably observes, transformative change has not «found traction within political processes.»

It's time for real action on climate change to ensure that we leave our children a province, and a planet, as bountiful and healthy as the one we were entrusted with.

Also, changing individual lifestyles, desirable as that is, does not go far toward saving the planet.

The organic model we are suggesting pictures reality as composed of multitudes of embodied beings who presently inhabit a planet that has evolved over billions of years through a process of dynamic change marked by law and novelty into an intricate, diverse, complex, multi-leveled reality, all radically interrelated and interdependent.

But it helps enormously, indeed it makes a fundamental change in our thinking, if we look upon the life we lead upon this small planet as temporary, as only part of a whole, the quality and extent of which we can only very dimly perceive.

One might say that just as nuclear war has made of the whole planet a potential battlefield, thus raising new questions about war itself, so, too, has modern advertising made of the whole planet an actual constant marketplace, thus provoking radical changes in the practice and theory of human intercourse.

I believe that if we, as followers of Jesus, are truly going to be living radical, missional lives of purpose, protecting the planet, healing the abused, giving water to the thirsty, feeding the starving, inventing new and better ways of doing things, and leading the way for global change, then every year we should see more and more Christians on this list.

What would happen if the planet as a whole changed its goal from a unified and interdependent global economy to a multiplicity of relatively self - sufficient local and regional ones?

I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.

-- The Earth was formed by this giant explosion which took place millions of years ago and somehow ended up in this perfectly rotating planet that has perfectly precise, repeatable days, months and years and rotates at the perfect angle so as to enable defined changes in climate and weather to have predictable seasons.

As men multiplied and their artefacts interacted with the environment of the planet - just as their minds and bodies interact - there would be changes, «greenhouse effects» maybAs men multiplied and their artefacts interacted with the environment of the planet - just as their minds and bodies interact - there would be changes, «greenhouse effects» maybas their minds and bodies interact - there would be changes, «greenhouse effects» maybe.

you can pick and choose whomever you like, however the fact still stands that science can show a system that doesn't require a creator, it shows a system that just as the planet earth goes through phases of changes however remains the same, thus the same can be said of the entire universe.

It is my judgment that the reforms that a morally concerned group of elite faculty would propose, even if all were quickly enacted, would not change the course of world affairs in such a way as to avoid catastrophe for the planet.

His calls for changes may be radical from the highly conservative and exclusionary perspective of the Church as it is now but in comparison to the rest of the planet he's still far, far behind.

We need to Stand up NOW We Need to Start the unifying process, so we are taken from hands of those piranas, I feel this in daily life, as 30 year old woman, why is all those man so beyond in arrogance and confidence, Imagine our children when alone in their closeness, not understanding, Prayer shall be heard in hearts of us many, and start the process, we are the ones that will change the planet and the way are in church, schools, daily community....

Eating for a Healthy Planet: A Conversation with Canadians has been produced as part of the Human Dimensions of Climate Change programme at the University of Victoria.

As a company, we strive to be more planet - friendly and sustainable everyday because we believe that even small changes can make a big impact.

While Diet for a Small Planet focused on vegetarianism as a way to combat world hunger and climate change, Epicure's message, via its globe - trotting author Anna Thomas, is that being vegetarian is no excuse to not pull off a glamorous dinner party.

A socially and environmentally conscious company that uses commerce as a vehicle for positive change, SAMBAZON is committed to sharing Açaí wellness with the world in a way that supports people and planet.

As global warming changes the planet, it is changing the sports world.

Every person on this planet is unique, physically and emotionally, and every child has unique needs that change as they grow.

If nothing else works or they just WANT to change detergents (or need to, as you did when Planet stopped being available) then my first question is whether or not they are comfortable using mainstream detergents.

Sure, it takes a little more effort to be super-green, but if you feel guilty about tossing out bags and bags of garbage and driving a gas - guzzling SUV, maybe you should change your life - style to soothe that guilt rather than convince yourself that it is OK to continue to pollute and trash the planet as long as you use energy efficient bulbs.

The changes to our planet as a result of global warming are apparent for all to see: the receding glaciers in temperate climates, the reduction in rainfall and advancing deserts in Africa and the lakes in the Mideast and Asia that are virtually disappearing.

But he took issue with Labour's Emily Thornberry who contended that that Trump's election as U.S. president was a «hugely dangerous development for the future of our planet» because he believes that climate change is a hoax.

The 2015 general election campaign will come at the same time as the next round of international UN negotiations on climate change, which campaigners say will be a critical moment in determining the planet's future.

Tony Blair has praised Britain's role as a global leader on climate change, but insisted he would not penalise people driving cars or taking cheap flights in a bid to save the planet.

As the countdown begins for us to join people from across the globe to celebrate WED on 5 June 2016, we all need to take part in environmental action and become agents of change for positive impacts on the planet.

However, Paul de Zylva, Friends of the Earth campaigner, warned: «Putting a price on nature is no substitute for political change that helps the natural world we all depend on to thrive - such as protecting forests from development and supporting planet - friendly farming.

That began to change when one of Piazzi's rivals, the astronomer William Herschel, noted that Ceres only appeared as a point of light in his telescope rather than a resolved disk, like the other known planets.

The stories you'll read here feature some extraordinary women whose passion for discovery, and compassion for our planet and its peoples, fuels their search for answers to difficult issues such as global climate change, famine, drought, and epidemics.

For example, they want to measure the planet's inventory of stable noble gases, such as xenon and krypton, which change little in abundance over billions of years and hold clues to planetary origins.

They tested different degrees of axis tilt, which influences how much sunlight the planet's upper and lower latitudes receive, as well as different degrees of eccentricity — the extent to which the planet's orbit around the sun deviates from a circle, which can amplify seasonal temperature changes.

As negotiators gather in Paris, reporter Adam Levy investigates some of the effects that temperature changes will have on our planet.

Coupled with software to reduce assorted stellar background noise, it could measure light changes down to 20 parts per million, making it more than sensitive enough to detect an Earth - size planet around a sunlike star in an orbit as large as Earth's.

The challenge for Kepler — or more specifically, for Jenkins's software — is to tease out brightness changes caused by the passage of a planet and to distinguish them from all the normal stellar variations, such as flares and star spots (the stellar equivalent of sunspots) or even nearby eclipsing stars.