Sentences with phrase «least over a timescale»

«We found that periodically wet soils don't necessarily protect organic matter from decomposition and may lead to losses, at least over a timescale of weeks to months,» he said.

Even at 2.0 °C, and certainly above it, it is thought that the Earth would cross certain tipping points, beyond which the operation of the Earth System is changed in an irreversible way, at least over timescales of hundreds of thousands of years.

Not exact matches

I know that Mike Schlesinger is going to be working on further studies to see what extra data, and over what timescales, might help us constrain the upper tail, but the possibility arises that no amount of data will do this, or at least, not in time for us to act on it with enough warning to prevent serious problems.

I agree the OHC data are incompatible with a predominately internal contribution (although I'm sure Judith would argue those data are too uncertain, though I don't think anyone has argued OHC decreasing over the last half - century, at least not at the ocean basins / depths that communicate with the atmosphere on the relevant timescales).

It seems that those who fear AGW (or at least some of them) do admit that it is not realistic to expect a planetary atmosphere such as ours to warm up oceans of water over the timescale required by AGW theory because of the huge volume and density of that water and thus the heat storage differentials.

Conversely, rural people in many parts of the world have, over long timescales, adapted to climate variability, or at least learned to cope with it.

The notion that over the longer timescales, forced responses dominated (at least for the second half of the past century) is reinforced by data on Ocean Heat Uptake since 1955.

The problem is that people have falsely imagined that the orbital changes he was discussing only have effects over timescales of several millennia, at least.

The stability of earth's climate over at least the last half billion years (history of multicellular life) is remarkable and makes it clear that there are negative feedbacks operating on a wide range of timescales.