Sentences with phrase «long time scales involved»

The long time scales involved suggest a boom and bust cycle of interest in addressing climate change, rather than a smooth monotonic increase in action.

It may be true that we've «dodged the bullet» to this point (the jury is still out because of the long time scales involved for the response of climate to what we've already done).

«With the very long time scales involved, it would be tempting for society to wait until then before doing anything,» company researchers wrote in a 1988 report based on studies completed in 1986.

The Charney report also considered paleoclimate studies which demonstrated at least a 3C climate sensitivity — higher likely due to the long time scales involved.

Not exact matches

I got given a massive opportunity of being involved right from the scratch in a new gallery, which was really exciting, and was the first time a new gallery on this scale had been done for a long time.

At longer (decadal) time scales, the models still show very similar results (which makes sense since we anticipate that the tropical atmospheric physics involved in the trend should be similar to the physics involved at the monthly and interannual timescales).

In the case of climate models, this is complicated by the fact that the time scales involved need to be long enough to average out the short - term noise, i.e. the chaotic sequences of «weather» events.

Another quibble I had was that Gore presents the impact of sea level rise without referring to the long time scales (in human terms) involved.

Standard error involves both natural variability (including that not well understood because it operates on long time scales, and therefore has not been observed during the period of modern technology) as well as measurement error (or error / uncertainty in the proxies).

As with other recent Arctic fires in permafrost or near permafrost zones, areas well below the surface soil zone are involved, resulting in risk of a very intense, long time - scale event:

Note that I am not necessarily claiming that this is the feedback operating on the long time scales associated with global warming — only that it is the average feedback involved in the climate fluctuations occurring during the period when the satellite was making its measurements.

Modelling on this time scale involves much the same techniques as in the longer - term climate forecasting.

Some of the «capacitance» terms may have time scales longer than the duration of the excursion, namely some of those involved in the transport of heat in the interior of the ocean.

Choices about the scale and timing of GHG mitigation involve balancing the economic costs of more rapid emission reductions now against the corresponding medium - term and long - term climate risks of delay