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.