Sentences with phrase «planetary changes»
The situation is complex and the rise in temperature is only one aspect of planetary change.
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But it may be the optimal way to resolve the multiple lines of evidence on human - driven planetary change.
It turned out things were far more nuanced (as he later said, «The Earth system may be less responsive in the warm times than it was in the cold times»), but in a field that had long mainly foreseen smooth curves for planetary change with rising greenhouse gas levels, the result was a vital focus on the risks of abrupt climate change.
Some new insight into the vanishing snow cover on Mount Kilimanjaro: A new paper in the journal Global and Planetary Change shows how deforestation is contributing to the rapid retreat of glaciers on the iconic mountain's summit.
In the face of the significant planetary changes to come, and coupled with the opportunity to reach parents with the knowledge that kids bring home; it just may be that programs like KidWind can play a vital role in educating kids of all ages about ways to mitigate the impact of climate change, and providing a brighter future for us all...
The IGBP - Stockholm Resilience Centre co-operation first identified their 24 «indicators» of planetary change in 2004, and the latest research is a revisitation.
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A new research paper in Global and Planetary Change reveals that global sea level rise has decelerated by 44 % since 2004, to barely 7 inches per century!
In addition to local weather patterns, shaped by climate change, a review of Chile's wildfires published in the Global and Planetary Change journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forests.
While crocodiles are millions of years old and have evolved through incredible planetary changes, it's doubtful that they'd be able to evolve to thrive in a habitat filled with synthetic trash.
For the last few years, there's a ongoing debate whether the current geological age should be renamed the «Anthropocene» (the Greek anthropo - meaning «human» and - cene meaning «new») to reflect the unprecedented scope of planetary change brought on by human acts, and these illuminated maps may make a good case, as Globaïa explains:
A long time after we modern Prometheans disappear, or retreat to a position where we are no longer interfering in the Earth System, the great processes that drive planetary change — orbital forcing, plate tectonics, volcanism, natural evolution and so on — will overwhelm human influence.
Some new insight into the vanishing snow cover on Mount Kilimanjaro: A new paper in the journal Global and Planetary Change shows how deforestation is contributing to the rapid retreat of glaciers on the iconic
Other dimensions of planetary change, from the dramatic reconfiguring of many terrestrial ecosystems as agriculture and urbanization spread, to the acidification of the oceans and the fixing of vast amounts of nitrogen in artificial fertilizers, are clearly emphasizing that we do indeed live in novel times.
Author Andres Edwards frames the conversation about consciousness and sustainability by: Explaining how self - development is a key driver for planetary change.
Readers may recall a post a year ago about a nonsense paper by Hermann Harde that appeared in Global and Planetary Change.
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).
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).
Hopefully the paper I co-authored in Global and Planetary Change (DOI: 10.1016 / j.gloplacha.2011.11.009), which sparked the story is a contribution to that goal.
Woodworth, who reports his study in an upcoming issue of Global and Planetary Change, examined a set of climatic and oceanographic historical records from the Maldives and their vicinity.
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That is what three editorial board members tried to figure out after the journal, Global and Planetary Change, faced heavy criticism for publishing the controversial paper last year.
Global and Planetary Change, 2008.
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Humlum et al., 2011 present a study in the journal Global and Planetary Change, claiming that most of the temperature changes that we have seen so far are due to natural cycles.
Readers may recall a post a year ago about a nonsense paper by Hermann Harde that appeared in Global and Planetary Change.
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Global and Planetary Change 40:1 - 2 pp. 129 - 139.