Sentences with phrase «decade to centuries»

«Every day in cities, there are going to be choices made that affect plans on the scale of decades to centuries,» she said.

CO2's effects last for decades to centuries — it's a trend that's pretty easy to spot.

Moving them all back to purpose made passive solar houses in little idyllic clusters, with farms around, is going to take come convincing people, and would take decades to centuries.

, it will run out anyway in decades to centuries, etc..

The neutrality assumption is not valid because it ignores the transient, but decades to centuries long, increase in CO2 caused by biofuels.

The time scale of this is decades to centuries depending on how you run the numbers, particularly mixing of the surface with the deep ocean.

On the time scales of decades to centuries, however, most of the known chemical feedbacks are positive.

We should note that these are equilibrium sensitivities and the actual warming would not immediately respond to CO2, but may take decades to centuries to reach the equilibrium values.

One reason for this is that many impacts of climate change are expected to be proportional to the amount of global average warming that occurs over the next several decades to centuries.

If collapse can't refer to extended periods such as decades to centuries, someone should contact Jared Diamond and ask him to change the title of his bestseller.

The Service will provide comprehensive climate information covering a wide range of components of the Earth - system (atmosphere, land, ocean, sea - ice and carbon) and timescales spanning decades to centuries (i.e. based on the instrumental record).

The palaeoclimatic records of northern and eastern Africa and of North America indicate that droughts lasting decades to centuries are a recurrent feature of climate in these regions, so that recent droughts in North America and northern Africa are not unprecedented.

With that extremely poor record of success, one must seriously wonder how it is that any person or government would believe what the climate models of today project about Earth's climate of tomorrow, i.e., a few decades to a century or more from now, and then seek to formulate policy based on that output.

And many of the fossils that do exist, collected perhaps decades to a century ago, languish unidentified in museum drawers.

«The climate transitions that we studied took place on millenial time scales, less than a thousand years, with some occurring over just decades to centuries,» Gibson says.

Much of the work of the laboratory is directed towards improving projections of climate change on the time scale of decades to centuries based on scenarios of carbon emissions, sulfur emissions, land use changes, and other anthropogenic (human - caused) forcing agents.

«It takes decades to centuries to repay the carbon debt that is created from clearing land.»

by Judith Curry The demand for climate information, with long observational records spanning decades to centuries and the information's broad application for decision making across many socioeconom...

But those were decades to centuries long global warmings.

Within decades to centuries, these altered water masses are transported by the large - scale ocean circulation into great depths.»

It also bears reminding that any offset from a solar Grand Minimum would be temporary as past minima only lasted a few decades to a century.

increases (or declines) over several decades to a century or more.

Looking at these glacial flows individual contributions to overall mean sea level rise (MSLR) and talking in terms of decades to centuries for their collapse makes the problem seem very far off in human terms.

A study using Earth Remote Sensing satellite radar interferometry (EERS - 1 and -2) observations from 1992 through 2011 finds «a continuous and rapid retreat of the grounding lines of Pine Island, Thwaites, Haynes, Smith, and Kohler» Glaciers, and the authors conclude that «this sector of West Antarctica is undergoing a marine ice sheet instability that will significantly contribute to sea level rise in decades to centuries to come» (Rignot et al. 2014).

Larval oysters and mussels are so sensitive to the saturation state (which is lowered by increasing CO2) that the threshold for danger will be crossed «decades to centuries,» says Waldbusser, ahead of when CO2 increases (and pH decreases) alone would pose a threat to bivalve larvae.

«Our next goal is to acquire detailed information about such climate tipping points on human timescales, decades to a century,» van der Bilt says.

This fundamental physics has been scrutinized through scientific experiments for decades to centuries.

This information is needed in the near - term (from a season to a year) to mitigate risks to society and ecosystems, and in the longer term (from a decade to centuries) for effective adaptation planning.

Finally, we suggest this uncoupled Revelle factor between fresh and salty water should be considered in the (anthropogenic) carbonate chemical weathering on a decade to century scale.