Sentences with phrase «relatively stable system»

I agree, not so much on the growing - season question as the larger issue many others have raised: we are causing what has seemed like a relatively stable system to become unglued, and we don't really have a clear idea what the consequences are.

, and other changes that will be annoying because all of our infrastructure is built around assuming a relatively stable system today.

Not exact matches

When expectations are «stable» — when the financial system is «stable» — the monetary transmission mechanism works relatively smoothly.

The relatively low speed — between 6 and 7 meters per second — suggests the process must have taken place over thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years before the asteroid was formed, when a gravitationally stable cloud of debris spun in the disk of material that would go on to build the solar system.

But we found the isotopic composition of the deep water was similar to that of modern rainfall, which means the system in the Sydney Basin has been relatively stable for thousands of years.

But despite its relatively massive size, the Cooper S E Countryman tested here is the most fuel - efficient model in the automaker's stable, thanks to its plug - in hybrid system.

I'm told we have a relatively stable financial system.

The global climate system has been relatively stable for the last 10,000 years because negative feedbacks have dominated.

[Response: The short answer is that there is now an advanced civilization in which many millions of people are dependent on an agricultural system that was designed and implemented to work within a relatively stable climate regime, especially that of the last couple hundred years.

In particular, the PB framework is based on the fact — and I emphasise the word «fact» — that the relatively stable Holocene state of the Earth System (the past approximately 11,700 years) is the only state of the System that has allowed the development of agriculture, urban settlements and complex human societies.

The most characteristic behaviour of the Grand Climate System is relatively stable states punctuated by abrupt shifts that owe more to internal dynamics of the system as a whole than external factors such as greenhouse System is relatively stable states punctuated by abrupt shifts that owe more to internal dynamics of the system as a whole than external factors such as greenhouse system as a whole than external factors such as greenhouse gases.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

The middle case makes more sense to me as is because it was a relatively stable period of CO2 concentration, the system was more or less at equilibrium, 2,000 years is just on the threshold of where orbital forcing becomes significant, etc..

While other planets in Earth's solar system are either scorching hot or bitterly cold, Earth's surface has relatively mild, stable temperatures.

Assessment of natural and anthropogenic (human - caused) influences indicate that the climate system would be relatively stable without industrial atmospheric influences such as greenhouse gases and aerosols.

If this is a sign of neutral or even negative vapor feedback against increased temperature (and something's dampening the whole system since the climate is relatively stable), with present slight drop of temperatures the relative humidity should go up again.

This geothermal system taps into water that is a relatively stable 55 * F and transfers that heat to warm the building in the winter and cool it in the summer.»

Some of those outcomes (such as behavior often labeled «innate» or «instinctive») are relatively invariant, but this invariance reflects a dynamic rather than a static constancy, ensured by a system of stable... developmental interactions, not a predetermined set of instructions encoded in the genes.