Sentences with phrase «on planetary scale»

See new environments and stages, the latest VS robotic suit models, and action on a planetary scale!

Its really one of humanities biggest challenges, one that could have consequences on a planetary scale if not handled in time.

Why should we not expect similar cascading behavior to the Arctic on the planetary scale, as the excerpt suggests?

It seems to me in the last year / few years we are seeing more papers shed light on «new» positive feedback mechanisms coming into play on the planetary scale, whether it is the MacDougall paper mentioned in the article, or the recent paper on warmer and higher vapor pressure vegetation and trees losing water to a warmer atmosphere, or many others.

The global oceanic conveyer belt, is a unifying concept that connects the ocean's surface and thermohaline (deep mass) circulation regimes, transporting heat and salt on a planetary scale.

One of the primary tools used to investigate our atmosphere on a planetary scale are global climate models.

These super-typhoons, as we've seen this November, can go on to become extra-tropical cyclones which in turn can have extreme effects on planetary scale Rossby wave activity and global weather patterns.

How can conservation possibly succeed on a planetary scale if key green leaders and allies keep getting gunned down?

Risks like this on a planetary scale should not — must not — be pushed onto society.

Our current international laws do not address geo - engineering, largely because it has never been possible before on a planetary scale.

On a planetary scale, intelligence is something genuinely new and powerful.

It's a moot point whether politicians will be able to rise to the challenge of fixing the mammoth flaws in the system so that the carbon market is able to achieve its core objective, which is to provide a tool for making cost - effective reductions in CO2 emissions on a planetary scale.

And although «weather improvement» is not quite the same thing as «solving» climate change — here we get to a big parallel with the more globally ambitious forms of geoengineering, especially the SRM techniques that seek to create a compensating cooling effect on a planetary scale: they are (likely) much cheaper than emissions reductions.

And on planetary scale, earth has large variation in equator and polar temperature.

It demonstrated how homeostasis on a planetary scale could arise by pure Darwinian natural selection.

«Global climate change is a security issue on a planetary scale,» Kerry told Grist in 2007.

And did they also make an assumption that this «natural forcing» was more - or-less linearly additive with the anthropogenic forcing on a planetary scale?

We have a unique opportunity at this moment in our human history, to become positive change agents on a planetary scale.

(10/26/2008) Schemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature Geoscience.

Geoengineering schemes need ranking system to avoid wasting money, destroying the planet (10/26/2008) Schemes to alter Earth's climate on a planetary scale should be ranked according to their efficacy, cost, risks and their rate of mitigation, argues a new editorial published in Nature Geoscience.

Please refer to http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/348 and refer to slide labeled «Four Geological Times of Glaciations», with realisation that the «blocks» seen in that «chart» represent periods of time when glaciations reoccurred on a planetary scale, some being «Ice Ages».

I accept that there are complex weather systems bubbling away at any given point over the earth's surface but, on a planetary scale as the earth rotates on its axis, I suggest these will essentially average out, at similar angular distances as from the sub-solar point, at decadal and centennial timeframes.

You propose the so - called saw tooth as having it's cause in a massive seismic event that produced decadal scale warming on a planetary scale.

This is a consequence of conservation of energy (unless you don't think that applies on a planetary scale, which would be a radical idea).

The time scales involved remain miniscule on the level of an individual molecule BUT on a planetary scale they become highly significant and build up to a measurable delay between arrival of solar radiant energy and its release to space as outgoing radiation.

The one - two punch of biofuels crowding out food production and high oil prices raising the cost of almost everything is a deadly blow to the poor on a planetary scale.

Hmmm, if other species do this to themselves, we ought to be looking for extrasolar beacons in the frequencies these people propose to use, ones useful for getting rid of trapped heat on a planetary scale.

So in my third book The God Species I junked all the environmentalist orthodoxy at the outset and tried to look at the bigger picture on a planetary scale.

This is because you can not conduct a repeatable scientific experiment under controlled conditions on a planetary scale.

He also spoke of the importance, whether riding a balloon in the jet stream or going up against British Airways as an aviation upstart 25 years ago, of «protecting the downside» and mused on why humans seemed to have a hard time with that kind of risk management when it was on the planetary scale.

This quartet forms the centerpiece of a room devoted to socio - economic reflection, addressing not just the entanglement of art and money, but the necessity of its «shunning» on a planetary scale.»

Much more than a tongue - in - cheek observation, this highlights a major theme in Al - Maria's work which is how we understand and narrate the major ecological shifts that are happening on a planetary scale, or the so - called Anthropocene.

Planetary Annihilation brings Real - Time Strategy to a new generation of gamers in a way that's never been seen before - taking large scale real time strategy games from the past to gameplay on a planetary scale.

CIG have said players can be able to influence local economies, on a planetary scale or star system scale.

Planetary Annihilation brings Real - Time Strategy to a new generation of gamers in a way they've never been seen before: Total Annihilation - inspired gameplay on a planetary scale.

The only idle game you'll never want to put down - Vostok Inc. for Nintendo Switch features exclusive new content on a planetary scale, with the inclusion of Pluto on its new planetary debut.

Public embarrassment on a planetary scale is hardly comfortable.

Planetary Annihilation takes large scale real time strategy games from the past to gameplay on a planetary scale.

Venus is an example of the greenhouse effect on a planetary scale.

Korenaga is a co-investigator of the NASA «Alternative Earths» team, which is organized around the principle of understanding how Earth has maintained a persistent biosphere through most of its history, how the biosphere manifests in «biosignatures» on a planetary scale, and how reconstructing this history can inform the search for life within and beyond the solar system.

The Pluto - Charon system is the only other place in our solar system where we believe this happened on a planetary scale.

Finally, Pluto has a knock - your - socks - off atmosphere that's escaping rapidly like a comet's, but on a planetary scale.

Perhaps reducing our own CO2, on a planetary scale, isn't going to do much.

It is no longer simply a matter of cells organized by the hazards of natural selection, but of completed zoological units inventively building themselves into organisms on a planetary scale.

Thus every attempt to situate Man and the Earth in the framework of the Universe comes inevitably upon the heavy problem of death, not of the individual but on the planetary scale — a death which, if we seriously contemplate it, must paralyze all the vital forces of the Earth.

I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.

Whether we wish it or not, Mankind is becoming collectivized, totalized under the influence of psychic and spiritual forces on a planetary scale.

Now multiply this by every coal - fired power station on earth running night and day and the staggering volume of CO2 produced starts to be something you can understand can impact the earth on a planetary scale.

Not exact matches

Even if we suppose that, by prolonging its existence on a scale of planetary longevity, the human species will eventually find itself with a chemically exhausted Earth beneath its feet, is not Man even now in process of developing astronautical means which will enable him to go elsewhere and continue his destiny in some other corner of the firmament?

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Venus» crust is broken up into chunks that shuffle, jostle and rotate on a global scale, researchers reported in two talks March 20 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.