Sentences with phrase «changes of this magnitude taking»

«Driving change of this magnitude takes time,» said Dr. Howell Wechsler, CEO of the Alliance.

With intellectual changes of this magnitude taking place at a global level, there's a growing sense that we're approaching critical mass.

Not exact matches

The cultural changes that have taken place since the end of the cold war have the magnitude of a global cultural revolution.

Indeed, it would be surprising if a change of the magnitude now called for took place without new institutions.

Riegl and Purkis make the erroneous claim of our Review (1) that «the rates of change, rather than absolute magnitude, are seen as ultimately determining the impact since they allow or disallow evolution and adaptation to take place.»

Although the diving reflex is involuntary, a 2000 study by Erika Schagatay, then at Lund University in Sweden, and her colleagues found that with experience, human divers could significantly increase the magnitude of some of these changes and delay the point at which they have to take a breath.

For carbon perturbations that take place over shorter timescales, the pace of carbon - cycle changes will not matter; instead, the size or magnitude of the change will determine the likelihood of an extinction event.

The magnitude of hunger did however not change during the intervention period as repeated measurements were taken, and feelings of fullness actually increased some over time.

The report provides transportation professionals with an overview of the scientific consensus on current and future climate changes of particular relevance to U.S. transportation, including the limitations of present scientific understanding as to their precise timing, magnitude, and geographic location; identifies potential impacts on U.S. transportation and adaptation options; and, offers recommendations for both research and actions that can be taken to prepare for climate change.

It is sad that it takes something like drowning bears and losing a species (yet another) to understand and respond to the magnitude of Human Induced Climate Change.

We already know they can take a change in average temperature of that magnitude in one year.

Disputes within climate science concern the nature and magnitude of feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, uncertainties about the rate at which the oceans take up heat and carbon dioxide, the effects of air pollution, and the nature and importance of climate change effects such as rising sea level, increasing acidity of the ocean, and the incidence of weather hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves.

Lag times, degree of magnitude change and duration of those changes must be taken into account.

Taking this into account will lead to large changes in estimates of the magnitude and spatial distribution of aerosol forcing.

The mission of the Young Voices for the Planet film series is to limit the magnitude of climate change and its impacts by empowering children and youth, through uplifting and inspiring success stories, to take an essential role in informing their communities — and society at large, challenging decision - makers, and catalyzing change.

As the planet enters a phase of human - induced climate change of unprecedented speed and magnitude, however, previously locally - adapted populations are rendered less suitable for new conditions, and «natural» biotic and abiotic disturbances are taken outside their historic distribution, frequency and intensity ranges.

Again a given force and magnitude changes of that force have to be taken into account with the entire spectrum of items that are exerting an influence on the climate at that given time, along with the state of the climate at that given time in order to get a sense of what impact that specific force may or may not exert on the climate.

If the public is fully informed of the magnitude of the existing consensus in the scientific community, if the public is informed of how our modification of the atmosphere is effecting the climate, if the public learn of the magnitude of the effect those changes will have on the common wealth of the entire world, which I expect he would admit is necessarily going to be quite negative, and if the public are then presented with the choice of voting for a government which would take substantial meaningful action, does he suppose that the reaction would then be to do nothing?