Sentences with phrase «over long time scales»

But the bubble is so huge and distant that it's hard to spot any changes except over long time scales.

This places recent global warming trends in the context of temperature changes over longer time scales.

While this leads to an elevation in the level of scientific understanding from very low in the TAR to low in this assessment, uncertainties remain large because of the lack of direct observations and incomplete understanding of solar variability mechanisms over long time scales.»

It is only over the longer time scales (decades) that the additional predictability that comes from external drivers of climate change (for instance, carbon dioxide, air pollution and ozone depletion) can start to be useful — but that's another post.

The red areas are places to be flooded with 1 meter sea level rise (all but certain by 2100); the yellow areas are with 6 meters of sea level rise (which would happen over a longer time scale for sure, but is still worth considering as something which we are collectively setting in motion).

As all the species tested have survived over long time scales in vastly differing times, both temperature and C02 wise and are all still with us it is self evident given time to adjust they are capable of adapting.

Ayyadurai also claimed that GMO foods are not regulated enough to be considered safe, pointing to the FDA's policy of «substantial equivalence,» which says that GMOs are equivalent to non-GMO foods that have been conventionally bred over longer time scales.

While synaptic plasticity in involved primarily in short - term processes that take from a few milliseconds to several hours, structural plasticity extends over longer time scales, from several days to months.

We wanted to study herbivore effects on tundra ecosystems over longer time scales, so we had to come up with a different solution,» says Dagmar Egelkraut.

There are of course other causes for other changes that have occurred, including suspected asteroid impacts, changes in volcanism over the eons which can lead to the buildup or reduction of greenhouse gases over long time scales, etc..

The Earth's rotation and position change in cycles in various ways over long time scales.

If we decide, as Lomborg suggests, to focus exclusively on a handful of top priorities at the expense of all others, especially those that are more complex and operate over longer time scales, such as Climate Change, we are doing little more than arranging the Titanic's proverbial deck - chairs.

But since the adjusted RSS measurements fit the models and S&C's 0.12 figure (with the «anomalous behavior» of UAH over long time scales) doesn't, I think you're supposed to accept RSS over S&C.

The Earth disseminates heat over long time scales.

The strength of teleconnections and the way they influence surface climate also vary over long time scales.

This process is capable to sequester huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over longer time scales.

This wobble can lead to fluctuations in the amount and distribution of incoming solar radiation, resulting in dramatic changes in climate over long time scales.

But a new study published online by the journal Nature indicates ancient lakes that formed after permafrost fin the Arctic first melted roughly ten thousand years ago may in fact have a net climate cooling effect over long time scales.

Or to put it another way, there is no reason to expect global mean temp to be linearly related to CO2 forcing, when all sorts of other things have changed in nonlinear fashion over these long time scales.

I have broad training in both atmospheric science and oceanography, and I am particularly interested in coupled atmosphere - ocean climate dynamics over long time scales.

It is only over the longer time scales (decades) that the additional predictability that comes from external drivers of climate change (for instance, carbon dioxide, air pollution and ozone depletion) can start to be useful — but that's another post.

Heat diffusion and permafrost melting takes time — in fact, the deeper Arctic permafrost can be seen as a relic of the last glaciation, which is still slowly eroding — so any significant loss of permafrost soil carbon will happen over long time scales.

«What we're going to be doing next is trying to understand more about the relationships between the proxies that we measured in the mosses, how they've changed over longer time scales, before the advent of the human influence on climate,» Dr. Amesbury revealed.

Buzsáki acknowledges there are many possible routes by which conventional TES could alter neural activity indirectly or over longer time scales.

In fact, over long time scales, just not bothering to re-balance tends to allow the equities to take over and have an increasingly similar effect -:)

But over that long a time scale, they are much more a matter of choice, and less a matter of the inertia in the current infrastructure.

Over longer time scales, very slow secondary geological processes — dissolution of carbonate sediments and sediment burial into the Earth's crust — become important.