Sentences with phrase «driven planetary change»

A long time after we modern Prometheans disappear, or retreat to a position where we are no longer interfering in the Earth System, the great processes that drive planetary change — orbital forcing, plate tectonics, volcanism, natural evolution and so on — will overwhelm human influence.

Not exact matches

Getting there requires convincing less conscious consumers that they can have their cake and eat it, too (drive positive change and indulge their needs), and helping them learn how to choice - edit for the best personal, planetary and societal impact.

The Planetary Health Alliance will be grown into a consortium of universities, non-governmental organizations, governmental entities, and other partners, working together to build a community of stakeholders to foster research, training, and policy action at the intersection of human - driven environmental change and public health.

«To those who doubt humans are driving the acceleration of planetary warming, of climate change... get over it.

Tens of billions of dollars have supported these efforts, while only a few million have been devoted to analyses of all factors — natural and human — that affect and drive planetary climate change.

«The inferred planetary energy imbalance, 0.59 \ pm 0.15 W / m2 during the 6 - year period 2005 - 2010, confirms the dominant role of the human - made greenhouse effect in driving global climate change.»

Only a REAL reality denier, would deny the reality of planetary geologic changes to claim that a trace gas, whose concentration is temperature dependent, is instead driving temperature.

Dr Lenton (who is also one of the creators of the planetary - boundaries concept) and Dr Watson suggest that energy might be used to change the hydrologic cycle with massive desalination equipment, or to speed up the carbon cycle by drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide, or to drive new recycling systems devoted to tin and copper and the many other metals as vital to industrial life as carbon and nitrogen are to living tissue.

Most of the systemic «Type B» uncertainties in climate change have not been dealt with — eg ignoring the PDO etc, Hurst - Kolgomorov persistence, low level driving of coupled oscillators by solar / cosmic / planetary influences.

Ozone changes could affect stratospheric winds so that breaking of vertically propagating planetary - scale Rossby waves from the troposphere would be affected, this breaking could drive the downward propagation of NAM - like patterns which would ultimately be seen in the SAT.