Sentences with phrase «more gradual change»

The deuterium excess, a proxy of Greenland precipitation moisture source, switches mode within 1 - 3 years over these transitions and initiates a more gradual change (50 years) of the Greenland air temperature as recorded by water stable isotopes.

But it's hard to see a more gradual change being so problematic.

While before this year the standard speeds were 30, 50, 70, and 110km / h, the areas between these speed changes had even - interval halfway km / h signs added to encourage a more gradual change in speed.

Make a more gradual change in your asset allocation by investing any new money in the underweighted categories or reinvesting distributions from your overweighted funds into your underweighted holdings.

You can go cold turkey and give up all the junk food, sugar, processed food etc. all at once, or you can opt for a more gradual change.

Because 20 - year trends can be substantially influenced by just a few single or multi-year «warm» or «cold» events, they are not necessarily representative of the true response of the climate system to the more gradual changes in atmospheric composition that are taking place in response to human activities.

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7 Our Franklin Templeton auto sector analysts estimate the ownership mix will shift somewhat more toward fleet, but the change will be smaller and more gradual than some people may currently believe.

However, this theory is more troublesome than the gradual change theory.

This could come about by a long process of change, a gradual movement toward a fuller personal loyalty and a more Christian society on earth.

And she explains the life of St. Francis very well - revealing, for example, that the process of change was a gradual thing and that it began with simple gifts to the poor and a real commitment to prayer, and the more dramatic events such as the encounter with the Crucifix at San Damiano came only after this preparation.

Evolution is not a drastic process wherein huge, noticeable changes occur quickly — it is a slow and gradual process that takes enormous amounts of time (far more than the creationist posited 6,000 year old Earth).

The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution» in another of the senses in which Gramsci used the term, in which important social changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such structures and less as a corrosive to them than in the more efficient fascist regimes in Germany and Japan.

One thing you can do to help with this is to make the change more gradual.

If you have a child who is more stubborn or resistant to change, than a more gradual approach usually works better.

Gradual weaning gives your body more time to adjust to the hormonal changes.

The hormonal changes during late pregnancy help the uterus become progressively more sensitive to oxytocin, which causes the gradual increase in Braxton - Hicks contractions.

Her ideas are much more gradual than [those of] most books, which expect change in a day or two.

After the milk comes in, which is a clear physiological change, nursing is marked by gradual changes more than by discrete stages.

What we actually need is a more democratic model of impact where it is conceived of as impact upon the public debate; inspiring gradual, long term change — and in which academic communication is part of a mutual, democratic learning process.

Work and pensions minister Mike Penning has said that a gradual shift from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment will mean a the change can be handled «in a more gradual, controlled and manageable way».

Dr Lal said more collaboration could help reduce the number of cases of human parasitic infection (cryptosporidiosis) primarily spread through water in extreme weather events or due to gradual climate change.

There are lots of resources available on fiber http://nutritionfacts.org/?s=fiber and focusing on just that aspect will help you feel your body respond to the gradual change of incorporating more of that nutrient.

In addition to body changes, drastically less free time and money to spend on shopping, curating clothes, and paying attention to fashion trends, and increased likelihood of kid staining, stretching clothes, theres also the fact that you basically put your entire wardrobe on ice for a year or more due to pregnancy and nursing, so it doesn't really get the gradual updating over time that people normally do, so the little wardrobe details like how pants or sweaters fit or which boots you have will just be a little more behind the fashion curve.

In some ways, though, the film's real heart and conscience is old Thaddeus Stevens — who must wrestle with reconciling his deeply held beliefs on equality with the need for compromise that will lead to more politically palatable gradual change.

Eilis (Saoirse Ronan, in a phenomenal portrayal of gradual but unstoppable transformation), an Irish immigrant who comes to New York City to seek a job and a more fulfilling life, changes from a shy, unassertive woman who is torn between two worlds into one who is confident, able and willing to speak her mind, and more certain about what she wants from life.

Schrag believes that these changes «point to a gradual shift away from the narrow focus on fact - based testing in math and reading, on creating many more charter schools, on «reconstituting» or closing sub-par schools, and on other business - model schemes that school reformers have pushed for during the past couple of decades....

The emergence of ePub as the alternative to the Kindle, the entry of so many eReader companies, and the gradual change in mindsets certainly points to a time when a lot more than a few hundred, or even a few thousand, authors can make a good living from writing.

This reversal is far too abrupt to reflect changing consumer reading preferences or purchasing behavior: such a change would have been far more gradual.

Make a gradual change over a week or two to get more chances to succeed.

This dramatic period — which has seen urban industrialization, conquest by foreign powers, civil wars, changing governments and, more recently, a gradual opening to the international community — has also marked an explosion of artistic experimentation and innovation.

In others the change is more gradual, as in Action with a Fuse (1989), a twenty kilometre, thirty - five day «time sculpture» in which two hundred lengths of fuse burned a path to Signer's current hometown from the village of his youth.

Each artist explores both historical events and more gradual social changes in their work.

Changes in Antarctica are much smaller and more gradual, as it is far from the centre of action and the vast reservoir of ocean around it acts as a heat store.

- stefan] Changes in Antarctica are much smaller and more gradual, as it is far from the centre of action and the vast reservoir of ocean around it acts as a heat store

Gradual changes in composition resulting from decreased evergreen conifer productivity and increased mortality, as well as increased deciduous species productivity, can be facilitated by more rapid shifts associated with fire disturbance where it can occur.

The speed of change menas that we're now getting «excess» extinctions — mainly because many species can't fit in enough generations to make the more gradual expected transition.

Leaving aside the descents into glaciation, which were much more gradual, the sudden (geologically speaking) jumps up in temperature every ~ 100,000 years represent a rate of change roughly ten times slower what we are currently witnessing.

``... Prof. D. Brunt referred to the diagrams showing the gradual rise of temperature during the last 30 years, and said that this change in mean temperature was no more striking than the changes which appear to have occurred in the latter half of the eighteenth century» p 238

Each month brings us more frightening news on the effects of global warming, but because the changes are gradual, there's never a clear signal that it's time to step up to stronger action.

Taking drastic action is quite senseless, but it does make sense to begin a gradual change to be much more efficient and move away from oil, simply because we are running out of the stuff.

Gradual sea level changes seem not dangerous but no doubt more sensible town planning decisions could well be justified.

Natural disasters would probably include extremes of weather Faustino but I agree that climate change would generally manifest itself in a much more gradual way and would impact on vulnerable regions, rather than globally.

Identifying key vulnerabilities can help guide efforts to increase resiliency and avoid large damages from abrupt change in the climate system, or in abrupt impacts of gradual changes in the climate system, and facilitate more informed decisions on the proper balance between mitigation and adaptation.

Folland's erroneous adjustment had been originally criticized at CA in 2005 here and further discussed at length in March 2007 at CA here, a post in which I observed that no climate scientist had made any attempt to validate Folland's bizarre adjustment and that correcting Folland's error (through a more gradual and later changeover to engine inlets than the worldwide overnight change that Folland had postulated after Pearl Harbour) would have the effect of increasing SST in the 1950s, in turn, potentially eliminating or substantially mitigating the downturn in the 1950s that was problematic for modelers.

quality, and carbon emission (e.g., Adams, 2013), before the gradual increase of surface temperature crosses the threshold for abrupt ecosystem collapse (more discussion in the section on Ecosystem Collapse and Rapid State Change below).

Remember that both gradual warming and more volatile and extreme weather are both caused by climate change.

GCMs often play a conservative role as a counterpoint to speculation or idealized modeling regarding «tipping points» or abrupt climate change, in favor of gradual, more linear climate response to external forcing.

The human mind works in such a way that sudden change is a lot more noticeable than gradual change.

More on Global Climate Change: Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Caused By Short - Term Extreme Weather Not Gradual Temperature Rise Dramatic Ice Loss May Get the Headlines, But 72 % of Greenland's Ice Melt Comes From Small Glaciers Greenland Rising as Ice Melts

Prospects for adaptation depend on the magnitude and rate of climate change: adaptation is more feasible when climate change is moderate and gradual than when it is massive and / or abrupt.