Sentences with phrase «over short timescales»

«While we welcome the decision to end the arbitrary retirement age, raising the state pension age over this short timescale is clearly driven by a desire to cut spending rather than a planned approach to introducing more flexible retirement,» he said.

«However, these studies were either carried out in the laboratory over short timescales or based on theoretical models.

Future systems should be able to achieve even better sensitivities over shorter timescales.

With the help of giant genomic data sets, scientists can now track these evolutionary shifts in allele frequencies over short timescales.

For carbon perturbations that take place over shorter timescales, the pace of carbon - cycle changes will not matter; instead, the size or magnitude of the change will determine the likelihood of an extinction event.

The radiative - cloud - driven mechanism is appealing to explain the observed flux variability, especially those evolve irregularly over short timescales.

But, by itself, a small increase in interest rates appears, based on history, to be unlikely to lead to a substantial drop in prices over a short timescale.

As the hot spot is well observed over short timescales (Trenberth 2006, Santer 2005), this increases our confidence that we're on track.

I wrote to the BBC at the time pointing out that the audience was likely to have been severely misled by this question, that the warming over the previous 16 years reached a conventional threshold of statistical significance (p < 0.05), and that over a short timescale natural causes of variability (ENSO, volcanoes, the solar cycle) tend to predominate, so the short answer is «15 years is too small a sample to demonstrate statistical significance.»

Dr Lee Moroney, the Renewable Energy Foundation's planning director, said: «Experience is teaching us that wind power is not only highly variable over short timescales, but also from year to year and even in regions which have previously performed well.

«When we're talking about cuts of this scale, over this short a timescale, we're inevitably going to be talking about job losses, which will mean rising unemployment, increased benefit payments, reduced tax revenue and a real risk of a double - dip recession,» she said The government expects to save up to # 120m this year by freezing recruitment across the board in government departments, agencies, and quangos.

Subsequent studies over the next half century found similar effects — organisms appeared to evolve more quickly when biologists tracked them over shorter timescales.

Now, it may be that along with this longer interglacial comes the idea that over shorter timescales (of, say, 10000 or 20000 years) we would actually expect some a little warming although I haven't heard this case made... and would expect that any such effect would be quite modest.