Sentences with phrase «possibility of a sea change»

Since 2012, more than 100 professional hockey players and athletes representing 20 NCAA organizations have joined in supporting gay teammates, a step that itself signifies the possibility of a sea change in professional sport.

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Colin... Your statement of «when ice ages cause dramatic changes in sea levels» is speculation of a possibility, not a scientifically accepted specific hypothesis.

This statistical approach can't isolate a cause, but the team points out plenty of possibilities: continental drift, intense volcanism, climate change and sea level rise.

Saunders, a deputy assistant of Interior during the Clinton administration, said the sea level estimates are well within the realm of possibility, again referencing IPCC data and the state - funded California Climate Change Center.

However, the city needs to be planning for those types of huge barriers more as part of a longer - term plan, and as preparation for the possibility that climate change and sea - level rise may be worse than expected, warns the analysis, published last week in Science.

In its landmark assessment of climate change published last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that sea level rise would probably fit in the range between 28 and 43 cm over the century, although 59 cm was a possibchange published last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that sea level rise would probably fit in the range between 28 and 43 cm over the century, although 59 cm was a possibChange (IPCC) concluded that sea level rise would probably fit in the range between 28 and 43 cm over the century, although 59 cm was a possibility.

The second lecture deals with the impacts of climate change (with a focus on extreme events and sea - level rise) and the possibilities for holding global warming below 2 °C.

This raises the possibility that changes in sea level can profoundly affect the S.Hem ice — wasting of N.Hem ice sheets can raise sea level, «unpin» and destabilize the S.Hem ice, helping make the changes global.

Now scientists say they may have discovered one of those unanticipated possibilities: a significant change in the ear anatomy of fish raised in water with elevated concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission, much of which is absorbed by the sea.

Thus for climate conditions that are not too far away from the situation now, multi-meter sea level rise is certainly an eventual possibility (the rates of change at the LIG having not been constrained).

A similar story applies to giant methane belches changing the climate — as knowledge of the huge stores of frozen and free methane in the sea floor was first developed, and the carbon frozen in Arctic soils, we couldn't quantify the possibility of a large, rapid release.

This past June, World Bank published a report warning that climate change presents serious risks to Indonesia, including the possibility of losing 2,000 islands as sea levels rise.

To me, that suggests the possibility of some subtle relationship between solar activity, sea level changes and ocean temperatures changes, but I have not even a wild guess as to how such a relationship would work.

It also suggests that imminent «runaway» climate change — whereby our actions in pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere contribute to melting permafrost or sea changes that release stores of methane — is a real possibility.

(08/22/2007) This past June, World Bank published a report warning that climate change presents serious risks to Indonesia, including the possibility of losing 2,000 islands as sea levels rise.

The most scientifically interesting, and societally relevant topic in climate change is the possibility of abrupt climate change, with genuinely massive societal consequences (the disappearance of Arctic sea ice and regional forest diebacks arguably don't qualify here).

He foresees «a sea change in how one would look at future cases that in any way involve searches and seizures, and where there is the possibility of the revelation of significant personal data.»