Sentences with phrase «happens on time scales»

Leif: you wrote «But all that happens on time scales of days, so is irrelevant for the climate.
But all that happens on time scales of days, so is irrelevant for the climate.
We are still evolving, It just happens on a time scale that is millions of years long.
What is happening now is that the rate of technological innovation which induces changes in the jobs market is happening on time scales that are shorter than the time scale on which the job market can adjust itself on.
Because the biggest problems in this are things that will happen on the time scale of decades or centuries, and we can't say how rapid that's going to be although it looks more and more rapid as we see what's happening around Antarctica.

Not exact matches

These tit - for - tat disagreements have been happening on a small scale for a long time but they've tended to stay within the bounds of these prescribed rules.
Maybe not this year or next, but when the next financial crisis in banking happens this next time it will be on a far worse scale and impact to the people and the bankers will still get their bonus's, stock options and buy more airplanes.
Similarly, the death of God that occurred at the Crucifixion is but a particularized form of what is happening on a universal scale in our time.
The timing of the announcement, which followed through on a 2013 proposal, is worth noting: The large - scale destruction of state documents will be happening in the middle of a sprawling federal investigation of public corruption in Albany.
«It's happening more or less on the time scale [the government] said, which is a lot faster than the private sector expected,» Harrington said.
When German researchers zoomed in to the nanometer scale on time - lapse images of dissolving crystals, they found a surprise: Dissolution happened in pulses, marked by waves that spread just like ripples on a pond.
For over twenty years, the dominant opinion in research was that this «mother of all disasters» happened abruptly and without warning, when seen on a geological time - scale — estimates suggest a period of just 60,000 years.
Today, results of large - scale surveys identifying individual and community risk factors for HIV and other infectious diseases can take years to show up, so having a real - time look at the conversations happening on Twitter could prove to be very advantageous, Albarracín, Ungar, and their colleagues discuss on their Health and Social Media Group page.
By looking at the problem on a global scale, we have calculated that if four of these strategies are applied at the same time we could actually stabilize the number of people in the world who are facing water stress rather than continue to allow their numbers to grow, which is what will happen if we continue with business as usual.»
«But, by looking at the problem on a global scale, we have calculated that if four of these strategies are applied at the same time we could actually stabilize the number of people in the world who are facing water stress rather than continue to allow their numbers to grow, which is what will happen if we continue with business as usual.»
For polymers the complete molecular scale relaxation happens only on a much longer time scale that corresponds to chain relaxation.
I think it's really exciting to be able to record this motion that's a thousand to a million times faster than anything that happens in your computer, a motion that happens on a length scale of atoms — the angstrom length scale.
Moreover, the team can include effects that happen on much longer time scales than the interaction of the laser pulse itself and that strongly influence the outcome of experiments.
Saying that changes on a small time scale are small compared with changes that happened over hundreds of thousands of years isn't saying an awful lot.
The scenario I come across time and time again especially with women is too little food and too much cardio and an obsession with the number on the scales without actually focusing on what is happening to their bodies.
There is not one single day of treatment when all clients will notice the number on the scale is decreasing, but the overall time frame of seeing that happen for most patients, according to many different sources is within the second month of therapy.
While you're stepping on a scale a few times a day, know that changes happen.
You can definitely do things on a much simpler scale, but I happen to love the tech side, too, when I have time to indulge myself.
Cases of data theft do happen from time to time and on big scales too.
But relaunches happen all the time, albeit not on this scale.
Overall, it's something I've been hoping RIM would do for a while and now that carrier billing and BlackBerry ID have rolled out on a grander scale, it's finally time for that to happen.
At the time, there happened to be a veterinary clinic that operated on a sliding income scale, so you paid what you could afford, dependent on income.
This is a huge deal and the first time this has ever happened on this scale.
Would there be any advantage to having seperate models at seperate scales, where smaller scale processes would be modelled at fine resolution, and the larger scale model would, for each unit grid and time, search the results of the smaller model based on similarity of input conditions, perhaps interpolating and if necessary using a randomly chosen result based on probability distributions, and in the ocassion where the results of the smaller model are too sparse, telling the smaller scale model to do a new run (as time goes on this would happen less often)?
Improved soil management may increase soil potential as a carbon sink in theory but doing this in reality means considerable changes to farming techniques, on a GLOBAL scale, which looks very hard to make happen, certainly in the short time frames required.
This is important because * if * resources were more abundant and * if * climate change were happening more slowly and * if * climate could not possibly change multiple degrees and multiple meters of SLR on decadal time scales, my solution set would be vastly different.
On Dot Earth there is a lot of discussion of large scale ideas and projects, but many positive things that are happening remain under the radar screen: day to day activities — people administering conservation land, going to hearings about transit options, cleaning up vacant lots and turning them into community gardens — these things don't often produce results dramatic enough to make the news, let alone a nationally, globally prominent source like the NY Times.
My understanding is if we get to a 3C increase, that will more or less guarantee we will eventually (on a geological time scale) reach 6C (due to these other «slow» feedbacks mentioned in this discussion), and the possibility of really, really bad things happening.
I have been thinking about this, given what happens in the next 50 years is pretty much settled, already in the pipeline and not yet catastrophic on those time scales.
Depending on the phenomenon considered, these variations can happen at different time and spatial scales.
Everyone agrees big changes can happen fast on climate time - scales.
Heat picked up at the surface is thus rapidly vertically mixed and transported by all three mechanisms — conduction, convection and radiation — acting at different length scales and with considerable and non-ignorable chaotic and self - organized emergent mesoscale structure — to produce an atmosphere that, as you note, ends up somewhere between the DALR and isothermal most of the time, although inversions (warmer on top) or with a gradient even larger than the DALR happen all the time, and are unstable or transiently metastable states with some lifetime and break apart and perhaps reform somewhere else as the conditions that favor them recur.
This climate cataclysm will happen on time - scales that the Vatican considers to be real, isn't that correct, Louis Hooffstetter, Jim D, Lolwot, and Manacker??
None of these things happens / changes much on the time scale of the analysis in question here
NIV, same questions that I have, I think this can only be addressed by trying to incorporate these processes in a model and evaluating what happens (on short and long time scales) both with and without these processes.
We see campaigns like this pop up all of the time in the real world, only this is the first time it has happened on this scale that I am aware of.
«I don't know how concerned I should be about it — on what time scale that might happen, whether that's 100 or 200 years, what societies will be like, what other things are going on with the natural climate,» Curry says.
Curry; «I don't know how concerned I should be about it — on what time scale that might happen, whether that's 100 or 200 years, what societies will be like, what other things are going on with the natural climate,» Curry says.
And in terms of climate shifts, there may be something happening on much longer time scales (e.g. AMOC) that could influence the next climate regime shift.
Maldives and other very low profile islands will have their own 9/11 scale events to experience and report but that will happen on a much longer time frame than diminished stream flow due to melting glaciers (e.g., Himalayan glaciers) and minimal snowpack with early melt.
That's true: levels have been known to jump around from about 200 to 400 ppm during colder periods (such as our present time), up to thousands of parts per million in warmer times, but this happens on a scale of millions of years.
Both systems are examples of what is happening in the legal sector on a larger scale - there is a growing demand for smarter technology and products that can perform the labour intensive tasks that traditionally take up a lot of a legal professional's time.
Bewkes brought up the «TV Everywhere» project that their two companies launched with in May 2010 to rebroadcast, free of charge, selected Time Warner television programming online to Verizon's FiOS customers, as a model of what should be happening on a larger scale.
«And then all of a sudden they hit this scale where kinda everyone was on Facebook, and so that idea that in a way, niche personalisation only works when you have a certain scale — I feel we're arriving at that scale [at Spotify] and it's maybe the first time in music tech that it's really happened
Rogoff also claims that government regulation on a global scale will cause Bitcoin's price to plummet, though he admits that it won't happen any time soon.
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