Sentences with phrase «effecting deep change»

Managing Partners on Change: Clients Don't Ask, Partners Resist by D. Casey Flaherty is the first of a pair of posts on the challenge of effecting deep change in BigLaw model law firms.
So many of us did not have the support we needed at different times in our lives to effect deeper change.

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The movement to correct the injustices of sexism can reach deep enough to effect changes in racial and political areas of our common life as well.
King said, in effect, that we must change our behavior as a people, but that we can do so with the assurance that the change is consistent with God's will and with our deepest commitments as a people.
I stressed that game would cut deep and leave mental scars and the effects would be permanent if things didn't change.
As parents and professionals hear more and more, from mainstream media especially, about the ever - mounting research of the negative effects of spanking, timeouts and other punishments — more parents will be willing to go through the hard work of addressing their often generations - deep perspectives on what it means to have a healthy relationship and to change their hearts toward parenting.
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;
Climate change influences magmatic production, in particular via the effects on erosion and hydrology, which modify the pressure exerted at Earth's surface on the deep layers.
Researchers can measure annual changes in how the melt rate occurs, for example, or the effects of a single pulse of warm deep - ocean water.
So while it may take decades for warming at the sea surface to change deep - sea temperatures, alterations in wind - driven events may have more immediate effects.
«Humans have probably had all kinds of effects on food availability to deep - sea scavengers through fisheries discards, changes in fish stocks and whaling,» says David Bailey of the University of Glasgow, UK.
«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.
The European Union needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to a British government paper, likely to fuel debate on whether deeper cuts are affordable.
«Deep - sea biodiversity impacted by climate change's triple threat: Researchers find a key effect of oxygen loss and that climate change impacts vary by region.»
Functioning as a ballast, these platelets are important for the carbon transport to the deep ocean — and thus for the ability of the oceans to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate the effects of climate change.
Then the team's computer simulations showed that eddies could trigger changes in sea floor currents matching the patterns measured by the instruments, with the best correlation occurring when the effects on deep - sea currents happened 8 days after the eddy passed overhead.
«Now we have greater confidence that volcanism and its effect on the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere drove climate change in deep time,» says Kump.
These oscillations can produce effects that mimic CO2 - induced changes (e.g., altered upwelling regimes of deep nutrient - rich waters with effects on POC flux; Merino and Monreal - Gomez, 2009).
These results provide new insights into the role that the deep ocean plays as a storage reservoir for carbon, a process that helps to dampen the effects of human - driven climate change.
Here we provide an overview of several technical developments by scientists and engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) that have enabled and enhanced deep - sea exploration and experiments to assess the effects of changing ocean conditions on benthic marine animals.
The film changes a few bits from the book, including making Jo - Jo the shirker into the Mayor's son, giving the film a deeper emotional center, serving as an additional relationship to go with the bond between Horton and the mayor, but most of the rest of the story is still in place, held together by Charles Osgood's narration, which has just the right effect.
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change, by internationally acclaimed scientist and writer Dr. Tim Flannery, delves deeper into the causes and effects, but it is still accessible to a lay audience.
I nevertheless thank Karen Mapp because I know that her request for me to «dig deep» had an immediate effect on how I navigate the work of social change.
They are caught between class size and «effect» size (the impact of variables on student achievement); caught between the need for quick fixes and the value of slower, deeper cultural change; and trapped between transparency and public shaming (á là MySchool).
Rather, it takes time and commitment to effect deep structural changes, such as transforming a professional culture to one that values the collective efficacy of the educators and continuous learning about best instructional practice.
The combination of continued State withdrawal from service provision, the deep and persistent effects of the global financial crisis that begun in 2008 and profound changes in the type of demand for social housing across North Western Europe call for a reflection on the implications of these phenomena for social housing providers.
If you haven't read my previous post, please find it here, if only to understand my philosophy about redeeming points for SPG hotels (I know, say what???) Here is the first part: SPG 2015 Changes Are in Effect in Two Days — A Deeper Look into Good Changes: EUROPE Just a reminder!
[OOOPS; this nonlinear effect puts their «alternative concept» into the realm of Trump administration «alternative facts» — BD] Although the deep ocean could dissolve 70 to 80 % of the expected anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and the sediments could neutralize another 15 % it takes some 400 years for the deep ocean to exchange with the surface and thousands more for changes in sedimentary calcium carbonate to equilibrate with the atmosphere.
«The Lancet [study] digs deeper, and reports the most advanced projections so far of the effects of climate change on food and health,» according to professors Alistair Woodward at the University of Auckland and John Porter at the University of Copenhagen in a commentary on the work.
Examples of less certain science include understanding the effects of climate change on extreme weather in different regions, the role the deep ocean plays in the climate cycle and the rate at which sea level will rise over the next century.
In this series, we'll offer a deep dive into the pioneering work of one agroforestry initiative that is changing the lives of farmers across Kenya, and we'll see how the arrival of deep - pocketed consumer giants, dairy cooperatives, and flower - growers can accelerate these activities while slowing climate change — especially as new financing mechanisms come into effect under the Paris Climate Agreement.
«This is ongoing research and bears watching as other factors as still under investigation, such as changes in the time - of - day readings were taken, but at this point it helps explain why the surface measurements appear to be warming more than the deep atmosphere (where the greenhouse effect should appear.)»
These changes tend to play out over millennia, and unless the deep ocean is far out of balance, its effect over decadal timescales is likely to be relatively small.
This affects the ability of these models to project the effects of sea - ice changes on the atmosphere, deep - ocean circulation and nutrient cycling.
His only explanation for my blindness was ideological blinkers, in effect a deep unwillingness to accept that my life as I liked it had irreparably changed, common in middle - aged white men, and that I had changed it through my over-consumption and gas emissions.
Simulations of deep moist convection need to be run at grid resolutions finer than 2 kilometers to accurately predict the effects of climate change.
For instance, researchers still don't completely understand the role of aerosols in the atmosphere, the variable effects of clouds at different heights, and the influence of feedback mechanisms such as the changing reflectivity of the Earth's surface and the release of gases from permafrost or deep seabeds.
The cumulative effects of climate change in Alaska strongly affect Native communities, which are highly vulnerable to these rapid changes but have a deep cultural history of adapting to change.
Decisions around mitigation measures will have long - ranging effects: A recently published study in Nature Climate Change looks into the «deep time» implications of carbon dioxide impacts and found that government policies today that are being set to mitigate (or not) carbon dioxide impacts will have implications spanning at least the next 10,000 years.
Climate changes in the deep past (going back hundreds, thousands or even millions of years) can not be explained, let alone quantitatively modeled without a substantial warming effect from CO2.
Practically, more deep - ocean involvement does have an effect on equilibrium climate sensitivity, but it has a much larger effect on transient climate sensitivity (which is a more relevant parameter for discussions of anthropogenically forced climate change).
Prof Murray Roberts, who co-ordinates the Atlas project at the University of Edinburgh, told BBC News: «The changes we're seeing now in deep Atlantic currents could have massive effects on ocean ecosystems.
Deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are urgently needed to prevent dangerous climate change, but they must be complemented by reductions in short - lived climate pollutants, which produce a strong global warming effect but have relatively brief atmospheric lifetimes.
However, in the deep tropics, where the theoretical effects on the surface energy budget of temperature - driven changes in evaporation and water vapour are particularly strong, there is a near quarter century record of both SST and tas from the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array of fixed buoys in the Pacific ocean.
Given the fact that internally the earth itself has large temperature changes which melts the upper mantle and deep crust producing volcanic eruptions at the surface, it is not difficult to see that the thermal energy involved and the mass of the earth itself, that the earth's own internal temperature fluctuations might have bigger effect on the atmosphere's temperature than the sun.
For example, one can not eliminate deep temperature changes from hydrothermal venting or geodesic changes from effects such as the East Pacific Bulge - or the troublesome class of unknown unknowns.
On the other side, more UV from the sun has its main effect in the stratosphere, changing the jet stream position, and downward further penetrating / warming the oceans to deeper layers.
This is not perfect because it is likely that climate effects such as ocean currents and oscillations, changes in biology, ice extent and volume changes, cloud cover variations, etc... are causing a kind of climactic Brownian Motion, hiding the signal in what, lacking deep understanding of these issues, we can only call noise.
Dec 10, 2007 — Scientists from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory will report this week on vital topics including new evidence of the effects of climate change; technologies to confront it; studies of eastern U.S. earthquake risk; and previously unseen inner workings of the deep polar ice caps.
However, now is the time to dig deep and make sure you are prepared for further changes that come into effect today and allow claims to be brought against insurers for damages for late payment.
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