Sentences with phrase «earth system conditions»

Such interactions remain the largest uncertainty in models designed to simulate future earth system conditions.

Not exact matches

«One Strange Rock,» a National Geographic television series that debuted on March 26th, sets out to show viewers what makes the Earth unique among other planets in the solar system, and the conditions it took to foster life on the planet.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

That place is our human condition that is spelled out in Watergate; mangled bodies and land in Indochina; dry, dusty, suffering starvation in Africa; inconceivable poverty, oppression and torture in South America; humiliation and wretchedness in the slums here «at home»: and all this supported by economic structures and a system which we have supported and which destroys human beings and rapes the good earth.

Loving Earth also sources its raw ingredients through systems that have fair conditions and wages for farmers.

But, if organisms could somehow survive exposure to those conditions, it might mean that life on Earth could have come from elsewhere in the solar system, perhaps ferried by a meteorite.

The Alpha Centauri dual star system is thought to host rocky Earth - mass worlds, but this assumes they could form in the turbulent conditions associated with the opposing gravitational tugs of paired star systems.

The solar system's shifting environment may change conditions on Earth, making them deadly.

Researchers from Bern have developed a method to simplify the search for Earth - like planets: By using new theoretical models they rule out the possibility of Earth - like conditions, and therefore life, on certain planets outside our solar system — and limit their search by doing so.

On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

If other comets have oxygen, this glimpse into the early solar system's chemistry could help us piece together a record of conditions on early Earth, too.

Warmer weather may increase the frequency of an unusual climatic condition called a rain - on - snow event, says earth system scientist Jaakko Putkonen of the University of Washington, Seattle.

While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.

That, according to Kane, poses a problem because our own solar system contains two planets of the same size — Earth and Venus — that have vastly different atmospheric and surface conditions.

«These conditions will cause changes in phytoplankton growth and ocean circulation around Antarctica, with the net effect of transferring nutrients from the upper ocean to the deep ocean,» said lead author J. Keith Moore, UCI professor of Earth system science.

Morgan O'Neill, the paper's lead author and a former PhD student in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), says the team's model may eventually be used to gauge atmospheric conditions on planets outside the solar system.

Simulations of the conditions in the Alpha Centauri star system suggest Earth - like planets might exist there, but gas giants are unlikely

The new findings of successful multi-year drought / fire predictions are based on a series of computer modeling experiments, using the state - of - the - art earth system model, the most detailed data on current ocean temperature and salinity conditions, and the climate responses to natural and human - linked radiative forcing.

Rather than try and turn my mind back to bacteria I decided to get it out of my system by finishing the month with a two part mini-series on creepy - crawlies that survive in some of the harshest conditions on earth; the -LSB-...]

«It's a true firestorm — extremely fast moving, generating its own weather conditions, and burning literally everything in its path,» Daniel Swain, a climate earth system scientist at Stanford University, said.

They used the Community Earth System Model, funded primarily by the Department of Energy and NSF, to simulate global climate as well as atmospheric chemistry conditions.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

Now, researchers who study the Earth's climate system have extended the state - of - the - art Earth system models for physical and biogeochemical oceanic processes, projecting conditions through 2300.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.5 AU from around Iota Persei — around the orbital distance of Mars in the Solar System.

The sun's «weather» is of interest to solar physicists because it can create adverse conditions for space travelers, communications satellites and even electrical systems on Earth.

Potential guides to the development of carbon - based life on other planets in the Solar System or around other stars include the past history and continuously changing nature and types of life and environmental conditions on Earth that reflect life's presence.

«We describe here a system that utilises concentrated solar power, which is inexpensive to produce, and an electrolyser module based on Earth - abundant materials capable of operating under benign conditions.

Aside from Earth, Mars and Titan represent two of the most promising targets in the search for extraterrestrial life in the solar system, while even scorching - hot Venus may have the right conditions to support life, according to new evidence.

Since Beta Hydri has become a subgiant, it is possible that any planet that held Earth - like conditions earlier in the system's past has now become too hot to support Earth - type life, but that a colder Mars - type planet has become more Earth - like.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.15 AU from around 15 Sge — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.12 AU from around 37 Gem — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

Since Delta Eridani has become a subgiant, it is possible that any planet that held Earth - like conditions earlier in the system's past has now become too hot to support Earth - type life, but that a colder Mars - type planet has become more Earth - like.

In the inner solar system, beyond Earth the best example of this is Venus but thanks to the obsession over the fantastically nasty surface conditions the exploration of this fascinating environment has been woefully neglected in favour of large numbers of missions to the frozen dirtball that is Mars.

We were able to show that under [presumed] Enceladus - like conditions and the given environmental parameters, biological methane production did occur in the lab,» and that a «microoorganism from a hydrothermal vent system on Earth could be grown in the presence of [presumed] inhibitors in combination with high pressure.»

The development of life on Earth is no longer thought to have been an improbable event, but one which may be common under similar environmental conditions elsewhere, around other stars as well as in our own Solar System.

Detection of Jupiter's twin orbiting a distant Sun - like star represents the closest replication of our own solar system to date, and may have profound implications for creating conditions favorable to the development of a habitable Earth - like planet in HIP 11915's inner solar system.

And I'm fascinated by the idea that some of the moons of our own outer Solar System — particularly Saturn's tiny Enceladus — have vast under - ice oceans and quite possibly the conditions necessary for life to arise independently of Earth.

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Gaia Theory (Lovelock) maintains that Mother Earth is a self - regulating system, an organism on a massive scale within which microorganisms interact to help generate the optimum conditions for their own... Continue reading →

If the Anthropocene is no less than the beginning of the end of the Earth's capacity to sustain human life, and neoliberal systems of (dis) order have done so much to accelerate our current state of emergency while disguising its real impact, how does one make art about a condition that is so structurally resistant to full - on exposure?

Taking vast, remote landscapes and the ephemeral conditions of nature as their sculptural canvas, these and other artists staged their own protest by rejecting traditional sculptural forms and practices, rigid modernist theory and the commercial confines of the museum - and - gallery system to create frequently massive land art works that heightened awareness of our relationship with the earth and challenged accepted definitions of art.

A subset of Earth System Models (ESMs) project that El Niño - like conditions will progressively increase in coming decades as sea - surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific warm, implying increased drought and forest dieback in the Amazon.

For the Earth's «fast» system, changes in decadal statistics can be computed on the basis of changes in forcing such as GHG's, without any need for knowledge of the initial conditions.

The precautionary principle suggests that human societies would be unwise to drive the Earth System substantially away from a Holocene - like condition.

The concept of space weather was advanced to describe the changing conditions in the Sun - Earth region of the solar system.