Sentences with phrase «producing sea change»

Ruth is associate director at Cape Farewell, where she is curating and producing Sea Change, a 4 - year programme of interdisciplinary research, sailing expeditions, events and exhibitions across the islands of Scotland.

«I think everybody accepts that the terrible murder of Stephen Lawrence and, yes, the inquiry I established, have produced a sea change in British society.»

A year after the shooting, the flurry of passionate calls for «national conversations» and changes to state and federal laws related to guns, school security, and mental health that were spurred by the tragedy has yet to produce a sea change in policy.

Theatre and dance dramaturg, teacher and a writer, Ruth also curates and produces our Sea Change programme»

Not exact matches

His decision to vote to leave and to back the Tories in doing so looks to have produced a sea - change in the support that saw him elected and re-elected.

To track these changes, Moran's team labeled the sea anemone's venom - producing cells and monitored them over time.

Uncertainty about rain, little uncertainty about sea level rise Climate change could also affect precipitation in California, though the two models USGS used in its research produced different results.

With the increase of global temperatures and climate change, sea turtle nests tend to produce more female - biased sex ratios further increasing their risk of extinction.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unaChange, an international organization created by the United Nations that produces climate change models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unachange models, has predicted that sea levels could rise as much as 21 feet (6.4 meters) in the next century if global warming continues unabated.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

If carbon dioxide melts the Arctic sea - ice the change in water vapour will be catastrophic, because it produces a positve feedback.

Every cell and tissue in the body produces an ever - changing sea of byproducts called metabolites.

Ron is currently collaborating with Auburn University to complete trials of recombinant and chromosomal options for producing «daughterless» carp, consulting on the risks involved in using genetic methods for managing disease - vectoring mosquitoes, exploring options for applying genetic techniques to the control of other invasive fish, and writing papers on deep - sea ecology, climate change and the taxonomy of Tasmanian mayflies.

«These funds offer a unique opportunity to support successful programs and share results in a way that can produce a real sea change in our education system.»

The winner for radio and television is «Sentinel of the Seas,» a documentary on troubles with dolphins off the Florida coast, produced as part of a series, Changing Seas, by Alexa Elliott and a team at WPBT2, a public television station in south Florida.

Even in the absence of huge amounts of carbon dioxide as a forcing mechanism, he said, there still appear to be trigger points that, once passed, can produce rapid warming through feedbacks such as changes in sea ice and the reflectivity of the Earth's surface.

Robert Bindschadler of NASA and Tad Pfeffer at the University of Colorado, both glacier specialists, told me that they saw scant evidence that a yards - per - century rise in seas could be produced from the ice sheets that currently cloak Greenland and West Antarctica, which are very different than what existed in past periods of fast sea - level changes.

The observed change in acidity due to human emissions of CO2 are ALREADY a threat to much of the life in the sea, and most of the oxygen produced by photosynthesis comes from sea plants.

«The chief conclusion of this paper is that the greatest glacial fluctuations in Antarctica were produced by changes in sea - level.»

Apart from sea - level rise, climate change is expected to cause hurricanes to be more intense and produce more rain, according to the NOAA.

The GRACE observations over Antarctica suggest a near - zero change due to combined ice and solid earth mass redistribution; the magnitude of our GIA correction is substantially smaller than previous models have suggested and hence we produce a systematically lower estimate of ice mass change from GRACE data: we estimate that Antarctica has lost 69 ± 18 Gigatonnes per year (Gt / yr) into the oceans over 2002 - 2010 — equivalent to +0.19 mm / yr globally - averaged sea level change, or about 6 % of the sea - level change during that period.

It and other oil - producing nations have, among other things, claimed a need for adaptation funding — normally reserved for the poor nations that have done little to cause climate change but are bearing the brunt of weather disasters and other problems — because of rising sea levels that threaten offshore oil rigs.

He concluded that soot is currently the No. 2 driver of climate change â $» behind CO2 but ahead of methane â $» and that curbing emissions of black carbon would produce the fastest, most effective and most affordable international response to climate change and the shrinking of the Arctic sea ice.

Increased melting from high latitudes should produce an identifiable pattern of sea level change («fingerprints») that may provide evidence of an acceleration in the rate of sea level rise.

With warming global temperatures and most sea turtle populations naturally producing offspring above the pivotal temperature [14], it is clear that climate change poses a serious threat to the persistence of these populations.

There is growing evidence that warmer sea surface temperatures, associated with climate change, will produce stronger tropical cyclones.

Published in 2011, that study produced a chart of sea levels that bounced up and down over time, changing with global temperatures, and then ticked sharply upward as industrialization triggered global warming.

In its last Assessment Report on the impacts of climate change shows that 55 % of Netherlands is below sea level in this area and that 65 % of the gross national product is produced.

Importantly, the changes in cereal yield projected for the 2020s and 2080s are driven by GHG - induced climate change and likely do not fully capture interannual precipitation variability which can result in large yield reductions during dry periods, as the IPCC (Christensen et al., 2007) states: ``... there is less confidence in the ability of the AOGCMs (atmosphere - ocean general circulation models) to generate interannual variability in the SSTs (sea surface temperatures) of the type known to affect African rainfall, as evidenced by the fact that very few AOGCMs produce droughts comparable in magnitude to the Sahel droughts of the 1970s and 1980s.»

In the latest Assessment Report about the effects of climate change one can read that % 55 of Netherland is located under the sea - level and that in this area % 65 of the GDP is produced.

A careful analysis of this report produced by a team of scientists assembled by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) finds it does not provide reliable guidance to the complicated issues of measuring, forecasting, and responding to sea - level rise.

Though two marine - derived drugs, one for treating cancer and the other for pain control, are on the market and 25 others are under development, the fungus growing on seaweed, bacteria in deep sea mud and sea fans that could produce life - saving medicines are under assault from changing the ocean conditions.

«The ground goes down, sea level comes up, and flood waters go much farther inland than either change would produce by itself,» Manoochehr Shirzaei, an assistant professor of Earth and space exploration at Arizona State University and a member of NASA's Sea Level Change Team, said in a statemesea level comes up, and flood waters go much farther inland than either change would produce by itself,» Manoochehr Shirzaei, an assistant professor of Earth and space exploration at Arizona State University and a member of NASA's Sea Level Change Team, said in a statchange would produce by itself,» Manoochehr Shirzaei, an assistant professor of Earth and space exploration at Arizona State University and a member of NASA's Sea Level Change Team, said in a statemeSea Level Change Team, said in a statChange Team, said in a statement.

Those possible liabilities could result, the lawyers argue, from future suits over the flood damage to low - lying property anticipated from rising sea levels sparked by climate change, produced by the combustion of the fossil fuels they produce.

If one is interested in long - term trends in sea ice or how it responds to changing climate forcing, generally, it is best not to use an operational product, but rather one that is consistently produced and retroactively quality controlled.

... The dominance of summer anticyclonic circulation over the Arctic and the reduced SIE over eastern Siberia and the north of Alaska were similar to the results of Ogi et al. (2008), who demonstrated that the dramatic changes in Arctic SIE in 2007 were produced by [wind - driven] Ekman drift of sea ice out of the marginal seas to the central Arctic.»

The overall objective of the research was to produce a comprehensive study about the frequency, intensity, spatial and temporal variation and the impacts of the extreme weather and sea level events that are relevant from the point of safety of nuclear power plants, as well as clarify the influence of climate change on these.

In it, they documented how a change in observing practices before and after World War II produced a cold bias in the sea surface temperatures that were incorporated into the compilations of global average temperatures (see here and here for more details).

This is predicted to produce changes such as the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, more extreme temperature ranges, significant changes in weather conditions and a global rise in average sea levels.

The large temperature change may be required to produce substantial sea - level change in their ice sheet model, which we suggested above is unrealistically unresponsive to climate change.

Projected changes in climate should produce large reductions in the extent, thickness, and duration of sea ice.

The USGS simply refuses to acknowledge global warming and lost summer sea ice has NOT produced any catastrophic change for polar bears in the recent past.

The IPCC approach, using highly damped deterministic global climate models, is incapable of producing abrupt climate change (beyond the melting of Arctic sea ice, which is not irreversible even on timescales of a decade).

And climate change is already on its way to producing increases in temperatures, sea levels, and the frequency of wildfires in L.A.

Just for one example, if it turns out that, between melt of sea ice and Greenland ice, the North Atlantic Current slows or stops, we would expect to see fairly dramatically colder weather in Europe for a while, even thought this condition could be directly linked to results produced by GW (though in the long term, the warming would, presumably eventually overtake the cooling from change in ocean currents).

These impacts will range from global sea level rise to a heightened risk of heat waves, severe droughts and floods, according to a recently released comprehensive assessment of climate science produced by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

So it seems quite clear that there is a potential connection, in a statistical sense, between human - caused global warming, declining Arctic sea ice, and the anomalous blocking pattern this winter that has added to other factors we know are tied to human - caused climate change (warmer temperatures and increased soil evaporation, and decreased winter snowpack and freshwater runoff) to produce the unprecedented drought this year in California.

«We may be beyond redemption, we may be at the point of no return where the emissions in the atmosphere will carry on to contribute to climate change to produce a sea - level change that in time our small low - lying islands will be submerged,» he said.

[A] nthropogenic climate change is expected to lead to a greater incidence of high - intensity hurricanes, which together with rising sea level, will produce increased risk of storm surge flooding, while hurricanes are projected to produce substantially more precipitation as the atmosphere and oceans warm.

«A technology shift has provided a sea change in the U.S. in developing and producing energy.