Sentences with phrase «magnitude of change in»

Estimating «climate sensitivity» — the magnitude of the change in TS after doubling CO2 concentration from the pre-industrial 278 parts per million to ~ 550 ppm — is the central question in the scientific debate about the climate.

DirkH (08:27:31): No special mechanism is needed, just the inability of the Earth's ecosystem to absorb the magnitude of the change in CO2.

These changes alone are not sufficient to cause the observed magnitude of change in temperature, nor to act on the whole Earth.

The magnitude of the change in drilling can be seen in the decline in the number of active oil rigs that are now less than half the number they were before the price decline.

The reasonable agreement in recent years between the observed rate of sea level rise and the sum of thermal expansion and loss of land ice suggests an upper limit for the magnitude of change in land - based water storage, which is relatively poorly known.

The point of Part III was that there are complexities to very large climate changes, wherein the same change in forcing agent will tend to cause the same magnitude of change in forward and reverse if everything is is held constant, but the change will be a different combination of forcing and feedback, with different climate sensitivity.

The impact is a function of the magnitude of the change in the concentration (i.e. deviation from the average) of aerosols.

From the point of view of climate modelling the all - gone moment isn't as important as the magnitude of the change in albedo — particularly in the spring, summer and autumn.

«Amplitude is the magnitude of change in the oscillating variable with each oscillation within an oscillating system.

Similarly (and perhaps relatedly), the magnitude of the change in aerosol forcing from ~ 1975 to present relative to the change in all forcings is much smaller than from pre-ind through present, which I think should make the TCR estimated over that period insensitive to the value of E.

For the RCP8.5 projections, which represents stronger increases in greenhouse gas concentrations than RCP4.5, there was a striking level of consistency in the magnitude of change in AR frequency — all models showed an approximate doubling of the number of future ARs compared to the simulations for 1980 — 2005.

An initial problem with their analysis is that Amrein and Berliner disregarded the magnitude of any changes in test scores.

However, to draw such a strong conclusion, despite the explicit RAND conclusion that charter students moved into schools with «racial distributions similar to the TPSs from which they came,» the CRP authors ignored the magnitudes of the changes in black enrollment.

The actual magnitude of these changes in test scores, however, is not statistically significant at conventional levels and is relatively small compared with Baron's findings.

Similarly, if the IPCC concludes that something is highly uncertain (such as the magnitude of changes in aerosol indirect effects), then there are no good grounds for assuming otherwise.

They are mainly derived from the Shaviv reference (provided in the link above) that concludes that the solar signal is amplified as indicated by the magnitude of changes in ocean heat content (and other less direct measures) over the course of the 11 year solar cycle.

Helping vulnerable populations access aid centers in the case of extreme heat events, dissuading construction on coastlines, conserving water resources, and developing drought - resistant crops are adaptation measures we should pursue regardless of the exact magnitude of the changes in store for us.

Not exact matches

A change of that magnitude greatly improves airlines» bottom lines: Last year the four biggest U.S. carriers — American, Southwest, Delta, and United — brought in $ 22 billion in profits.

This lack of change in smoking cessation under such a dramatic tax increase accentuates the difficulty in improving quit rates at the population level.23 It does provide a reference point to evaluate the magnitude of change reported for the 2014 - 15 US Current Population Survey - Tobacco Use Supplement (CPS - TUS).

Employment was little changed in September from August, as employers added 112,000 full - time workers, offsetting a decline of similar magnitude in part - time work, Statistics Canada reported on Oct. 5.

If the U.S. does not make significant structural changes including entitlement reform, budgetary reform and a simpler tax system, he foresees another financial crisis of possibly greater magnitude in the years ahead.

In 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake decimated Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people, destroying vital infrastructure, and changing the lives of everyone who lived on the island.

In periods of reflation, we find the developed economy growth transmission to China and emerging market (EM) economies matters more — even as the magnitudes of the knock - on impacts have changed.

Tax reform of this magnitude is the biggest change we've seen in a generation and will require intense focus to understand not only how the changes apply at the federal level, but also to navigate the ripple effect this is likely to have on state taxation as well.

In this blog, we continue the analysis to see if there is a relationship between the magnitude of interest rate change and magnitude of active return of the low volatility index relative to the S&P Read more -LSB-...]

As the Climate Science Special Report states, the magnitude of future climate change depends significantly on «remaining uncertainty in the sensitivity of Earth's climate to [greenhouse gas] emissions,»» White House spokesperson Raj Shah said Friday in a statement.

Many policy advocates in Washington are innocently unaware of the magnitude of change that shifting to, say, FICO 9 would entail for the housing agencies, the credit rating firms and for major bond investors.

Off in the distance we can see initial signs that the short term weather condition of liquidity is set to change, although we can not yet assess magnitude and timing of the change we know is to come.

In a world of grief beyond magnitude, what will change us and the world, is the attitude of Beatitudes.

There really is change in the Church, therefore, change which is different in nature and magnitude according to whether it concerns style of life, law, dogma or non-defined but authentic doctrine.

While some of these factors, such as food safety concerns and technological innovations, are unpredictable in magnitude and timing, others are observable (e.g. income growth), constrained by supply side factors (e.g. lack of feed) and determined by institutional changes (e.g. harmonization of standards) and policies (e.g. agricultural subsidies and environmental regulations).

Not often a game of this magnitude has these rivals in such poor form, yet United remain our nemesis, so let's hope for a change.

As part of this work, this fall I will travel to Ethiopia — I can barely wrap my head around the magnitude of this upcoming trip; I know it will change my lens on, well, everything else in my life.

The magnitude of this effect was surprising to us, though we are not estimating an amount of weight loss but rather changes in the fraction of children above a specific threshold.

«Their courage has awoken America to the stunning magnitude of the problem and created an overwhelming demand for change, not only in our culture, but in our laws.

Now that they are in decline, there remains no significant organised demand for a change of this magnitude.

It would feed the 650 MW CPV Valley Energy Center that would contaminate the soil, air, and water of New York's world famous Black Dirt Region and cradle to grave would emit 20 Million Tons of CO2e annually, resulting in public health and climate change crises of a cataclysmic magnitude.

Can anybody fathom the magnitude and depth of harm galamsey has cost the Republic of Ghana in terms of human resource abuses, land degradation, evil consequences on farming, water pollution and evil climate change (s).

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

But what we're looking at is a similar magnitude of change happening in less than a hundred years.

«When you start looking at those kinds of scales, you are at the point where you can start looking at the magnitude of climate change projected to happen in the coming decades,» said Nicholas Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian Institution.

«Including these errors in our analysis changes the magnitude of the trend but leaves all the substantial conclusions unaffected,» they say.

With this roadmap illustrating the magnitude of visual changes over time in the videos, Brookshire overlaid the participants» EEGs to see whether people entrain around the normal visual frequency of about 10 Hz, or at the lower frequencies of signs and phrases in sign language — about 2 Hz.

«We aren't just curious about whether climate change had an impact on an event — we're also asking what can this tell us about the likelihood and magnitude of events in future.»

Although filaments like fishing line are thin, they are orders of magnitude thicker than a soap film in equilibrium, meaning that the area of the soap film can change depending on the point at which the film contacts the loop.

Attributable human - induced changes in the likelihood and magnitude of the observed extreme precipitation during Hurricane Harvey.

Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.

While they are not suggesting the world will warm overall, according to their model the local changes are comparable in magnitude to those associated with a doubling of CO2.

When placed in a magnetic field, a power will emerge, which could be measured by changes in the magnitude of tunneling current.

What this report is saying is that we can attribute an increased magnitude or frequency of some extreme weather events to climate change,» said David Titley, professor of practice in Penn State's Department of Meteorology and founding director of Penn State's Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, who chaired the committee that wrote the report.