Rokdoc (65), so, since these changes will occur — on a geologic time scale, I must add — as they have over the last 500 million years, then we shouldn't worry about human actions inducing
these same changes on the scale of human lifetimes?
Not exact matches
Even if the number
on your
scale stays the
same, your body is
changing.
The
same must be done
on a bigger
scale to halt climate
change.
Keep in mind that a pound of fat and a pound of muscle might weigh the
same, but their appearance is vastly different - muscle is far denser than fat, so as you lose fat and gain muscle, your body composition will
change and your clothes will fit differently - but your weight
on the
scale may not move!
For example, if the meditation group improves from 10 to 19
on a mental health
scale and the control group improves from 11 to 16
on the
same scale, the relative difference between groups in the
change score is: -LCB--LSB-(19 − 10) − (16 − 11)-RSB- / 10 -RCB- × 100 = 40 %.
Maybe it's because my body
changed so much after having a baby, and it doesn't matter that the number
on the
scale is the
same as it was pre-baby, my body is just shaped differently!
Consider another example from the
same dataset in which high school students» cumulative grade point averages (GPAs) are related to their scores
on Panorama's Growth Mindset
scale, which measures how much students believe they can
change their intelligence, behavior, and other factors central to their school performance.
It is truly like weighing yourself
on a
scale, getting off the
scale and then one second later getting
on the
same scale, and having your «weight»
change by twenty pounds.
Why not, using the
same scaling, show the temperature
changes from 1910 to 1945 and from 1945 to 1975 against the CO2 and Sun
change over those periods and try and explain why that would show next to no relationship
on that
scaling?
On the very small
scale, one could have a runaway between whether or not a weather pattern has a thunderstorm at a specific time and place or whether it is dry and sunny at that specific time and place — but that's not the
same as a
change in climate (see internal variability, chaos, butterfly effect).
3)
On the
same scale, what value would you place worst - case climate
change threat?
On the
same scale is shown the regression of simulated NEE, GPP and TER
changes in 2003 vs. 2002 for all the model grid points over Europe, defined here as the area bounded by 10 ° W and 37 ° E in longitude and by 36 ° N and 69 ° N in latitude.
Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate
change in the
same way that we think about insurance — as a risk management problem, only here
on a global
scale.
And although «weather improvement» is not quite the
same thing as «solving» climate
change — here we get to a big parallel with the more globally ambitious forms of geoengineering, especially the SRM techniques that seek to create a compensating cooling effect
on a planetary
scale: they are (likely) much cheaper than emissions reductions.
Of course, the
same could be said for global temperature, where a half degree C temperature increase
on an absolute Kelvin
scale would only be about 0.17 %, so an argument can be made that
on a percentage basis, this
change in irradiance is about the
same order of magnitude as our
change in temperature.
While that report will assess the latest science
on the possible impacts of climate
change on a global
scale, the Met Office has tried to do the
same for Britain.