Sentences with phrase «planetary scale»

I would point out you could pick apart many of the Global Warming claims and still believe that man made pollution has a detrimental affect on a local and maybe even on planetary scale.

So, the unwanted war at planetary scale appears because conflict is being avoided at state scale, like the political conflict.

We're talking about altering ecosystems of planetary scale for a benefit that won't actually relieve us from dealing with all the other issues, such as conservation or alternative energy generation.

Power - grid expert Kappenman warns that, under the right conditions, a CME could have planetary scale consequences that would take more than a couple of days to recover from, in part because damaged transformers would be difficult to replace quickly.

Whereas this experiment might shed light on whether or not iron fertilization can hope to draw down atmospheric levels of CO2, it hardly amounts to a long - term planetary scale change — the definition of geoengineering according to the U.K.'s Royal Society.

«We can see now at true planetary scale that increasing water temperature will have a huge impact on microbial life in the ocean,» said Shinici Sunagawa, an EMBL staff scientist and a senior author on a second Tara paper.

Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities illuminates the powerful and inspiring connections between art, science and architecture at the gallery, urban and even planetary scale.

This exhibition explores this radical new articulation of the role of the image, and how constant planetary scale mediation gains an ecological dimension.

(1) We have never argued that there are planetary scale tipping points for all Planetary Boundary processes.

This can have a global impact on climate, because the convection in the ascending branch of the Walker circulation triggers planetary scale waves that radiate to higher latitudes.

Once the civilization reaches truly planetary scales, there has to be some feedback on the coupled planetary systems that gave it birth (air, water, rock).

Hitherto, the causes of the decadal variability of Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon (NHSM) are largely unknown because the monsoons over Asia, West Africa, and North America have been studied primarily on a regional basis, which is unable to identify coherent decadal changes and the overriding controls on planetary scales.

8:59 p.m. Updated As I wrote the other day, the technological ingenuity that has made humanity a planet - scale influence in a handful of generations is also explosively increasing our ability to track and study environmental conditions and events at planetary scale.

The second phase is the rebounding and acceleration of the upward movement through the reflexive play of mind itself, the only principle in the world capable of combining and using for the purposes of Life, and on the planetary scale, the still - dispersed or slumbering energies of matter and of thought.

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

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.

In the case of God these subsidiaries include personal centers endowed with a capacity not only to unite with one another on a planetary scale, but also to engage in mutual isolation and destruction.

The actualities of the historical future will doubtless not reach on a planetary scale the full range of potentialities of either pole.

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

This Gabonese biota raises questions about the history of the biosphere at 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.

The Pluto - Charon system is the only other place in our solar system where we believe this happened 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 planetary boundary (PB) framework contributes to such a paradigm by providing a science - based analysis of the risk that human perturbations will destabilize the ES at the planetary scale.

And so, ya know, something like that could happen on a planetary scale.»

And the simplest and cheapest way to slow global warming on a planetary scale, it turns out, is simply to stop cutting down the forests helping control today's climate.

Many of the planetary scale atmospheric waves are expressed as thermal variations on the background atmosphere.

We may have entered a new geological Epoch, the Anthropocene, where the human enterprise constitutes a geological force of change at the planetary scale.

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

We zip from the industrial nightmare world of Corellia (which looks like Peaky Blinders» Birmingham executed on a planetary scale), to a World War I - ish combat zone, to a mega-mountainous landscape where Han and his new crew — led by the scurrilous Beckett (Woody Harrelson)-- pull off a high - speed over-and-under-monorail job.

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

Public embarrassment on a planetary scale is hardly comfortable.

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.

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.

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 that's never been seen before - taking large scale real time strategy games from the past to gameplay 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.

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.»