Sentences with phrase «scale events beyond»
Until recently, only events classified as force majeure - large - scale events beyond the control of Parties - would be excluded.
http://www.climatenetwork.org/ Not exact matches
The exact process remains unknown, however, and astrophysicists had thought that only the event horizon surrounding a black hole — the rotating circular zone beyond which nothing can escape, not even light — could produce jets of x-rays on such a scale.
«The unfortunate thing is that with more and more extreme events, we are being requested with increasing frequency by emergency managers, by citizens, by the business community, by farmers... for more information on climate - scale events, which we define as anything beyond 14 days,» Lubchenco said.
It was Price who set the wheels in motion in June for the multiple - shelter collaboration when she and her staff began thinking beyond the smaller scale «Empty the Shelter» event they had hosted in previous years.
Masterful manipulation of light, scale and viewpoint simultaneously documents a particular place in time and suggests events beyond the picture plane, inviting the viewer to complete the story with a personal narrative.
Carrying this legacy forward into current and potential trajectories of contemporary art, this event will move beyond three - dimensionality to ask the question of scale and magnitude that lies outside of or beyond a human subjectivity.
But there remains far too much natural variability in the frequency and potency of rare and powerful storms — on time scales from decades to centuries — to go beyond pointing to this event being consistent with what's projected on a human - heated planet.
The melting of the Arctic ice will bring about changes that go way beyond the disastrous weather events we are seeing (and are clear to anyone looking down here in the South Pacific) but will lead to immediate increases in global temperatures which will make the large - scale growing of grain crops impossible.
«Climate variability refers to variations in the mean state and other statistics (such as standard deviations, the occurrence of extremes, etc.) of the climate on all temporal and spatial scales beyond that of individual weather events.