Sentences with phrase «magnitude of change makes»

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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.

This is done by making changes to justify their stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition causing the psychological dissonance, or by actively avoiding social situations and / or contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance.

While his new study makes no use of the huge computer models commonly used by scientists to estimate the magnitude of future climate change, Lovejoy's findings effectively complement those of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), hechange, Lovejoy's findings effectively complement those of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), heChange (IPCC), he says.

The researchers then went to an intermediate elevation and simulated climate change by reducing the snowpack, which made the plants flower seven days early, similar in magnitude to flowering time shifts over 20 to 30 years of climate change.

A magnitude - 9 earthquake in Japan, a momentous climate change summit, reports on future global «hyperwarming», and rumblings about some of the first geoengineering field trials all made 2011 a remarkable year for the environmental sciences.

Riegl and Purkis make the erroneous claim of our Review (1) that «the rates of change, rather than absolute magnitude, are seen as ultimately determining the impact since they allow or disallow evolution and adaptation to take place.»

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.

Although we can not rule out that exercise might also increase hippocampal progranulin in 2 - to 3 - month - old Grn + / − mice, there is no data that an increase of this magnitude (only 10 — 15 %) restricted to hippocampus would be sufficient to produce functional improvement, and the fact that the effect is not sustained even until ∼ 4 months of age makes it highly unlikely to yield any sustained benefit after onset of functional changes between 6 and 12 months.

Such an extremely warm winter in Earth's northern extremity is still a rare event but climate change has «made the event more likely by orders of magnitude», the authors tell Carbon Brief.

With high fixed costs to deal with, declines of this magnitude can't be absorbed without making big structural changes.

Unsurprisingly, Sly 3: Honour Among Thieves doesn't bring changes to the magnitude of the second game, but there's enough variety and ingenuity in the new missions, as well as some new playable characters so as to not make it feel like a lazy sequel.

This is the most important feedback in terms of magnitude and it makes the Earth much more sensitive to climate changes of all sorts by making the OLR vs. T curve a bit more linear than T ^ 4.

In many cases, it is now often possible to make and defend quantitative statements about the extent to which human - induced climate change (or another causal factor, such as a specific mode of natural variability) has influenced either the magnitude or the probability of occurrence of specific types of events or event classes.»

Investments in mitigation during both the near term and the longer - term do, however, have substantial leverage on the magnitude of climate change in the latter decades of the century, making the second half of the 21st century and beyond an era of climate options.

The degree to which future climate will change, and the scope and magnitude of the impacts, depend on choices made now.

Dr. Koonin is correct that there is still uncertainty about the magnitude of the impacts of climate change and society will have to make decisions under such uncertainty.

That might make a difference to the magnitude of the temperature change, but not to the direction.

Clearly in the case of anthropogenic climate change,... if that hypothesis can not be falsified, the implication is that we should make a serious effort to blunt the magnitude and impact of our greenhouse gas emissions.

'' [The theory] could make sense, but the current changes on Greenland are, as far as I understand, not of the magnitude that would affect the Gulf Stream on a large scale,» Eldevik said.

Given the magnitude of potential harms from climate change, those who make skeptical arguments against the mainstream scientific view on climate change have a duty to submit skeptical arguments to peer - review, acknowledge what is not in dispute about climate change science and not only focus on what is unknown, refrain from making specious claims about mainstream science of climate change such as the entire scientific basis for climate change has been completely debunked, and assume the burden of proof to show that emissions of greenhouse gases are benign.

We may be able to seed clouds, make desert bloom, change the course of rivers, and pollute the air, but natural forces are of a greater magnitude.

Of course, the same could be said for global temperature, where a half degree C temperature increase on an absolute Kelvin scale would only be about 0.17 %, so an argument can be made that on a percentage basis, this change in irradiance is about the same order of magnitude as our change in temperaturOf course, the same could be said for global temperature, where a half degree C temperature increase on an absolute Kelvin scale would only be about 0.17 %, so an argument can be made that on a percentage basis, this change in irradiance is about the same order of magnitude as our change in temperaturof magnitude as our change in temperature.

Given the magnitude of potential harms from climate change, those who make skeptical arguments against the mainstream scientific view on climate change have a duty to submit skeptical arguments to peer - review, acknowledge what is not in dispute about climate change science and not only focus on what is unknown, refrain from making specious claims about the mainstream science of climate change such as the entire scientific basis for climate change that has been completely debunked, and assume the burden of proof to show that emissions of greenhouse gases are benign.

The Cancun agreements made no changes to the magnitude of the voluntary emissions reductions commitments made pursuant to the Copenhagen Accord either for developed or developing countries.

«[W] e have to reject the false alternative of «climate change believer» or «climate change denier» and become «climate thinkers» — people who think carefully about the magnitude of man - made warming and compare it with the unique benefits of fossil fuels,» Epstein adds.

I simply suggest that on a scale of hazard and commensurate risk climate change is something of a magnitude requiring more than business as usual when it comes to demands made by society for responsible communications.

«Scientists were quick to declare the results of the Turner et al paper, which covered 1 per cent of the Antarctic continent, did not negate a long - term warming because of man - made climate change... «Climate model projections forced with medium emission scenarios indicate the emergence of a large anthropogenic regional warming signal, comparable in magnitude to the late - 20th - century peninsula warming, during the latter part of the current century,» the Turner research concluded.»

So while the jury is still out for this drought, there are droughts in the recent past, such as the Texas drought in 2011, where it was found that conditions, as a result of climate change, made it 20 times more likely for a drought of that magnitude to occur today as opposed to, say, the 1960s.

I made a math error and was off by 3 orders of magnitude — the actual temperature change is 0.1 degrees, and I can easily see that as measureable.

To the extent that we are a world - altering species — and I do think it's pretty clear that we've been at this project for a very long time — what makes us very destructive, unfortunately, is our capacity to change things on a time scale that is orders of magnitude faster than other creatures can evolve to deal with.

The bicentennial trend lines clearly diverge from the past 30 or 50 or hundred years, and the most closely fitting explanation for this behavior is anthropogenic causes shifting the trends leaving only a shadow of natural variability superimposed on the sharp centennial scale rise, at about an order of magnitude smaller amplitude than the changes associated with GHGs and dampened by man - made aerosols.

Since «cloud feedbacks remain the largest source of uncertainty» (as IPCC has put it), and since the magnitude of this uncertainty is so great that it changes everything, shouldn't this great source of uncertainty be cleared up before any long - term temperature projections are made?

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