Not exact matches
Climate change is «playing an increasing
role in the increasing frequency
of some
types of extreme weather that lead to billion - dollar disasters, most notably the rise in vulnerability to drought, lengthening wildfire seasons and the potential for extremely
heavy rainfall and inland flooding,» Smith said.
Several years ago, while creating a genetically engineered mouse that expresses high levels
of the mouse HMGA1 gene to investigate its
role in leukemia, Resar and her colleagues made the chance finding that the intestines
of these animals were much larger and
heavier than those
of «wild -
type» animals (or control mice that were not genetically modified).
How human influence affected other
types of events such as droughts,
heavy rain events, and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger
role in these extremes.
Likewise, if you're applying for one
type of role, don't drop
heavy hints that you'd rather be interviewing for another.