Sentences with phrase «destabilize large»

With support from the National Science Foundation, the Climate Impact Lab is working to keep the projections framework up - to - date, building upon the latest science on potential mechanisms that may destabilize large portions of the Antarctic ice sheet.

The time needed to destabilize large methane hydrate deposits in deep sediments is likely millennia [215].

With support from the National Science Foundation, the Climate Impact Lab is working to keep the projections framework up - to - date, building upon the latest science on potential mechanisms that may destabilize large portions of the Antarctic ice sheet.

The time needed to destabilize large methane hydrate deposits in deep sediments is likely millennia [215].

Deep - sea oil exploration will probably release future spills, Solomon says, and global warming could destabilize large undersea deposits of frozen methane, leading to local ocean acidification or oxygen depletion (SN 7/31/2010).

Deprivation in lower societal strata «could eventually have cascaded up through the system,» destabilizing large farms dependent on tithes and labor from small ones.

If we can ever get around to stop destabilizing large parts of this planet, then they won't seem so «threatening» — then, we can shrink the military back from the $ 600 billion monstrosity that it is now (as poster # 4 rightly said) and focus on human security at home and abroad: adequate shelter, food, health, education, and an energy system that won't fry the only livable planet we have.

Not exact matches

The financial sector, large and small, is doing great in terms of profitability (and that's before all their goodies in the tax cuts), credit is freely flowing, and while there's always speculation afoot in financial markets, there are no large and potentially destabilizing credit bubbles.

Punishing Mexican exports would risk destabilizing the economy of an important country whose prosperity adds to U.S. prosperity, would only increase pressure for poor Mexican to emigrate, and in the end would almost certainly make the U.S. trade deficit even larger.

Destabilizing forces of poverty and large environmentally aggravated migrations are rising.

They occurred over a very short time interval immediately following onset of Cretaceous global warming, suggesting that the warming destabilized gas hydrates and released a large burb of methane.

«The Tea Party is using the frustration with the implementation as the guise to eliminate standards in schools and to destabilize public education,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the country's second - largest teachers union.

The highlight of the section is a piece titled A Fashionable Marriage from 1987, featuring a large - scale tableau of painted wooden cut - outs characters, such as a Margaret Thatcher flirting with Ronald Reagan, blending pop art, caricature and theatre to destabilize notions of high art, ethnic stereotypes and political power.

I like the fact that the authors and other experts cautioned us to not conclude «more widespread surface melting could not eventually destabilize vast areas of the world's second - largest ice storehouse».

Of course, if we believe the large majority of the scientific community, this statement (from many in the oil and coal industries) essentially amounts to «You need the same thing that disturbs and destabilizes the Earth's climate.»

«If it further destabilizes, the methane emissions may not be teragrams, it would be significantly larger.»

Historically, PV systems have been required to immediately disconnect when these conditions are detected; however, if a large amount of DER capacity disconnects at once this could further destabilize the grid.

Beyond the present danger, scientists warn that — unless the issue of climate change is addressed — we could see the breakup of larger ice shelves, which could have a destabilizing effect on the entire region and possibly the world.

These same parcels are large enough to be macroscopically in hydrostatic equilibrium, supported by the well - defined pressure of their neighboring parcels of fluid and at rest, locked in place by the dynamic viscosity so that to move them one has to do work or otherwise input external energy into a parcel to destabilize them, overcoming «friction».

It is essentially the result of a balance between (a) the stabilizing effect of upward heat transport in moist and dry convection on both small and large scales and (b), the destabilizing effect of radiative transfer.

Unfortunately, Totten is just one of many large glacial systems that are now destabilizing across Antarctica.

Coal is the world's largest source of carbon emissions, destabilizing our climate and contributing to environmental pollution.

Large wind generators (IWTs, for «industrial wind turbines») cause health problems for nearby residents, kill birds, and destabilize the power grid.

In other words, if it continues, the recent trend in sea ice loss may triple overall Arctic warming, causing large emissions in carbon dioxide and methane from the tundra this century (for a review of recent literature on the tundra, see «Science stunner: Vast East Siberian Arctic Shelf methane stores destabilizing and venting; NSF issues world a wake - up call: «Release of even a fraction of the methane stored in the shelf could trigger abrupt climate warming»).

If it further destabilizes, the methane emissions may not be teragrams [one million metric tons], it would be significantly larger.

If a larger vehicle strikes a smaller vehicle on its side, the smaller vehicle's tires may lose their grip on the road; the vehicle may then destabilize and roll over.