Sentences with phrase «decades and centuries»

Blur the cars out of focus and it's not hard to imagine what life looked like in decades and centuries past.

We tend to humanize our dogs and pets and forget that many of their behaviors reflect years and decades and centuries of all the animals and dogs that came before them — entire species who lived and traveled in groups, protected themselves from predators, guarded their territories, and showed aggression (yes, aggression) to procure and protect their food.

However, even if either of these scientific predictions are only partially accurate, the world's seas and oceans look set to be subjected to dramatic and potentially catastrophic change over the coming decades and centuries.

I say this to emphasize that ideas about how people might and should interact with the climate have been quite labile over the decades and centuries, and I think that that is the right sort of timescale for this sort of discussion.

Here, we peek into chaos and why climate is rather predictable over both decades and centuries

But think of it — five thousand spills like in the Gulf of Mexico, all going at once, each releasing 40,000 barrels a day, every day for decades and centuries on end.

Every year, roughly half of the heat - trapping gas remains in the air, building up over the decades and centuries.

Very dramatic warming effects occur on a vast time scale, over decades and centuries, so we are unlikely to witness them in our lifetimes.

So, in the absence of MBH, my understanding has reverted to what it was before 1998, which is what I learned at school, and was the universal consensus for far longer than my lifetime: that climate warms and cools in long slow cycles, of decades and centuries in length.

The cyclic trends are projected forward and predict a probable general temperature decline in the coming decades and centuries.

In other words, Earth's movement toward Pliocene - like conditions may play out in the decades and centuries ahead of us.

that described that warming in the arctic would lead to more snow (more water vapor, and though warmer, not warm enough so it would not snow, but instead snow more) later springs and the reversal of the very pattern that was warming, Such things take decades and centuries.

This requires comparing changes observed over decades and centuries to long - term ecological baselines of change interpreted from relevant prehistoric records — much as the climate community has done with comparing recent changes with prehistoric proxy data (Barnosky et al., 2012; Hadly and Barnosky, 2009).

For many years, GFDL scientists have been at the forefront of research on the hydrologic cycle, understanding how it fits in the full earth - atmosphere system, and how it may change in the coming decades and centuries.

While cautioning against jumping to dire conclusions based on the sighting of open polar water, Dr. Serreze of the ice data center is the principal author of a review article, published this summer in the Dutch journal Climate Change, on Arctic environmental change over decades and centuries.

In spite of the inability of weather models to forecast more than about 10 days ahead, the climate modelers have deluded themselves, their employers, the grant giving agencies, the politicians and the general public into believing that they could build climate models capable of accurately forecasting global temperatures for decades and centuries to come.

Thus there is a back and forth in global cloudiness as the Sun's activity level changes over the decades and centuries — such as during the period covering the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age, and the current warm period — through latitudinal shifting of the jet stream tracks and permanent climate zones.

Thermometers were only designed to approximately measure the micro climate immediately around them, but the relationship of the readings to its original micro climate often became lost as the decades and centuries passed and thermometers migrated from cool open fields to warm airports many miles away.

Climate change is a slow process, Kharecha said, and the effects may take decades and centuries to show up.

We really need to stop thinking in decades and centuries here, the Earth has been warming and cooling since time began.

«Weather is what will happen next weekend; climate is what will happen over the next decades and centuries.»

HAPPENING OVER MANY DECADES AND CENTURIES.

Thus, the pattern of declining δ13C over the past decade at Tatoosh Island has not been observed at any other time over past decades and centuries.

The petition reads in part: «Studies of a variety of natural processes, including ocean cycles and solar variability, indicate that they can account for variations in the Earth's climate on the time scale of decades and centuries.

Climatologists differ on the various causes of climate change, the rate at which the earth is warming, the effect of man - made emissions on warming, the most accurate climate data and temperature sets to use, and the accuracy of climate models projecting decades and centuries into the future.

The metaphor here is that for decades and centuries fossil fuels has sustained and fostered incredible growth and revolution in our lifestyle.

In other words, climate describes phenomena observed over long time periods, such as decades and centuries, while weather is observed over short time periods, such as days and weeks.

European climate over the coming decades and centuries will continue to be influenced by the NAO.

In fact, it is very hard to measure weather consistently over decades and centuries, and the presence of sites reporting cooling is a symptom of the noise and local variations that can creep in.

My perspective is that we should measure this TCR lag in months and years rather than decades and centuries.

They carried out a detailed frequency analysis of their data and found characteristic cycles with periods in the range of several decades and centuries.

Therefore, the processes of accumulation and ablation are the physical link between glaciers and climate, which explains why these ice bodies are such valuable tracers of climate variability on the scale of decades and centuries.

We now have a plausible mechanism for the propagation of variability and climate shifts through the decades and centuries.

«Once ice loss through the calving of icebergs goes beyond the passive shelf ice and cuts into the safety band, ice flow towards the ocean will accelerate, which might well entail an elevated contribution to sea - level rise for decades and centuries to come.»

SLR already threatens several small island states in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and, depending on how much sea level will rise in the coming decades and centuries, other coastal areas will become uninhabitable.

The messenger is the worldwide body of climate scientists who have reported that allowing CO2 and other greenhouse gases to rise uncontrollably is going to cause increasing climate problems in the coming decades and centuries.

Develop models and probabilistic forecasting tools to quantify uncertainties in the atmospheric drivers, surface characteristics, and soil properties that control the timing and extent of permafrost thaw in the next few decades and centuries.

That is how this great university has made a difference on other societal challenges for decades and centuries, and it is how we will make a difference on this one.

Could we imagine a different and regional modulation of solar forcing for past decades and centuries?

How much they will change will depend on numerous feedbacks, not the least the kinds that we ourselves as humans will introduce in years and decades and centuries to come.

With the combination of (a) complexities = uncertainties and (b) time lags and lengths of effects over decades and centuries, climate - change grasp and responsible response are really tough to communicate.

but of course we'll be able to control the planet's temperature fluctuations and inconvenient excesses, and precisely guide geohistorical climatic trends over the next decades and centuries by regulating our co2 emissions.

The low tide exposes conglomerations of junk, waste and a great deal of history, discarded and left to rot in the Thames waterways over years, decades and centuries.

Perhaps you can lump «other medical» companies into this fray because society will still seek medical improvements, but if they have to spend their own money, that might not hold true and many of the device manufacturers haven't put in the decades and centuries of these classical models remaining true.

Investment modes and methodologies changed as years, decades and centuries have passed but the principles in this book remain relevant even today.

How have the limits of acceptable practices changed over the decades and centuries?

April and the Extraordinary World Year: 2015 Director: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci Keeping real life global history straight in narratives that leapfrog across decades and centuries is tough enough — making sense of alternate history when it's articulated at breakneck speed throughout multiple eras of European cultural advancement is just downright strenuous.

The fragments are carried away by the water and deposited elsewhere, where many of them grow and form new colonies over the course of decades and centuries.

Because most environmental challenges emerge on scales of decades and centuries, population growth packs a long - term wallop.

However, scientific assessments have generally ranked fishing and habitat loss as the highest threats to marine environments over past decades and centuries, while in this study, the general public perceived pollution as the highest threat.