Sentences with phrase «of planetary change»

The situation is complex and the rise in temperature is only one aspect of planetary change.

From their trawlers scraping the floors of the seas to their dams impounding sediment by the gigatonne, from their stripping of forests to their irrigation of farms, from their mile - deep mines to their melting of glaciers, humans were bringing about an age of planetary change.

Arctic sea ice, for example, provides one closely - watched harbinger of planetary change.

Not exact matches

«Climate change both threatens [Department of Defense] assets globally and appears to enhance the risk of civil conflict in conflict - prone countries,» Dr. Robert Kopp, a professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told Business Insider.

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Were the church able to provide a vision of a unified planetary society organized both politically and technologically in such a way as to make available the full resources of the earth for the benefit of all the world's people, would it be effective in generating social change?

But the solar winds are changing in some corners of academia, and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recently held a debate on Pluto's planetary status.

Also planetary weather changes led to the destruction of whole ecosystems.

In this rapidly changing world, our reverence for the Earth will determine the fate of the entire community of planetary life.

We need focused study of the actual state of our planetary resources, how they are used, what substitutions are possible, what the cost of these technical changes will be, where we will hit real limits, and so forth.

The knitting together of the planetary society means that certain processes of change that have been accelerating in this fashion will themselves come to a kind of culmination.

The ongoing process of planetary life and of cultural change is rushing on like a driverless juggernaut.

The effect also illustrates one proposal for so - called geoengineering — the deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment — that would use various means to create such sulfuric acid aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and thereby hopefully forestall catastrophic climate change.

For example, they want to measure the planet's inventory of stable noble gases, such as xenon and krypton, which change little in abundance over billions of years and hold clues to planetary origins.

But that doesn't change the fact that Cassie Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer, is in charge of protecting Earth from alien invasions.

New research suggests that over millions of years of planetary history, birds and mammals have outperformed amphibians and reptiles at adapting to changing temperatures and shifting their habitats to more suitable locations.

Judge Coffin says the nature, facts and drivers of climate change will be central to the case — including whether there is a threshold at which the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches a tipping point locking in irreversible planetary damage.

Some researchers have proposed that these lava floods caused global extinctions on Earth and that they affect climate change, says planetary geologist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, head of the Io observation team.

We extract science by carefully modeling all the ways in which the spacecraft and the instruments themselves could have caused the apparent brightness of a planetary system to change over time... We are pretty sure we can trust our models of Spitzer down to about a part in 10,000; we are in uncharted territory as far as detector behavior is concerned.»

The study by the Planetary Sciences Group reports that this gigantic storm is another of the agents of change in the equatorial jet stream.

These revealed that daytime heating generates a flow of warm, moist air up the mountainside (Global and Planetary Change, DOI: 10.1016 / j.gloplacha.2010.08.001).

The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters through the process of sparking — a finding that could change our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system.

Although the 2009 study's authors also noted no thresholds exist for some of their planetary boundaries they proposed limits on land - use change, freshwater, nutrients and biodiversity based on two criteria.

«I think we're at our best when climate scientists connect the impacts of [climate change] to our personal lives, to our economy, to our families, to our communities,» Hill is an associate professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis.

«The concept of planetary health offers a new way of thinking about the health of our planet and its resilience in the face of pressures like climate change, urbanization and globalization, to name just a few,» said Helen Clark, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, by video statement.

That means studying changes in the Pliocene atmosphere, the land surface and most of all the oceans, which absorb the bulk of planetary warming.

«We can measure a one - part - in - a-billion change in the gravity field,» says Maria Zuber, head of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and leader of the gravity - mapping team.

Ten billion cubic metres of rock crashed down the mountain and smothered 370 square kilometres of land, travelling 95 kilometres in total (Global and Planetary Change, DOI: 10.1016 / j.gloplacha.2010.08.003).

The answer, according to theorists, is planetary migration: dramatic orbital changes due to the gravitational interaction of the young giant planet with the remains of the disk, or mutual interactions between planets.

Jim Green, the head of NASA's Planetary Science Division, shook things up for planetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant pPlanetary Science Division, shook things up for planetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant pplanetary scientists this week by announcing a restructuring that will change how the division funds grant proposals.

In the field of planetary and atmospheric sensing, linear arrays capable of simultaneously measuring height - resolved spectral features would have a major impact on issues such as climate change and ozone chemistry,» explains Peter de Maagt, ESA's project manager for Star Tiger.

«Drastic chemical change occurring in birth of planetary system: Has the solar system also experienced it?.»

But while only the occasional star makes its exit as a supernova, most stars in the cosmic census — including our sun — will be blown away by the winds of change, and their gravestones will be planetary nebulas.

The loss is due to changes in land use and puts levels of biodiversity beyond the «safe limit» recently proposed by the planetary boundaries — an international framework that defines a safe operating space for humanity.

As the same volume of water now has to pass through a narrower channel, high tides rise higher, causing deeper and more widespread floods (Global and Planetary Change, doi.org/s8h).

Combine two of the biggest planetary challenges — climate change and public health — and you've got a problem as huge as Rupert Murdoch's.

More sober scientists distanced themselves from the idea of planetary engineering, but were intrigued by the possibility that natural changes in the supply of iron to the ocean might have been linked to past changes in climate.

Now our Enceladus discoveries have changed the direction of planetary science.

Cassini has revealed never - before - seen events that are changing our understanding of how planetary systems form and what conditions might lead to habitats for life.

Insights from the study of these effects at the quantum level may help us understand weather and currents at the planetary level — including insights into climate change and exoplanets.

Postdoctoral fellow in the group of M. J. Molina, Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory & Center for Global Change Science, Department of Chemistry and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

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Both Voyager 1 and 2 changed our perspective of our solar system, revealing never - before - seen details in planetary atmospheres and revealing new discoveries about interplanetary space.

«The three rings around this young star are nested like Russian dolls and undergoing dramatic changes reminiscent of planetary formation,» says Mawet.

«This is the time where you get maximum activity, the time where you get a maximum amount of change,» said Ramy El - Maarry, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who was the lead author on the Science study.

A team of scientists at NASA published a new proposal that aims to change the way planetary scientists define and classify planets.

Starting from the Earth's orbital speed of 30 kilometers per second (km / s), the change in velocity (delta - v) the spacecraft must make to enter into a Hohmann transfer orbit that passes near Mercury is large compared to other planetary missions.

The changing background illumination allowed scientists to separate absorption from different parts of the planetary atmosphere.