Sentences with phrase «scale of a few decades»

And while Angkor was overwhelmed by climate change at the scale of a few decades, Buckley says, «a more nimble society might be able to adapt in response.»

On time - scales of a few decades, the current observed rate of warming can be used to constrain the projected response to a given emissions scenario despite uncertainty in climate sensitivity.

Forecast temperature trends for time scales of a few decades or less are not very sensitive to the model's equilibrium climate sensitivity (reference provided).

Terrestrial permafrost emissions of CH4 and CO2 likely can occur on a time scale of a few decades to several centuries if global warming continues [215].

«Forecast temperature trends for time scales of a few decades or less are not very sensitive to the model's equilibrium climate sensitivity (reference provided).

Terrestrial permafrost emissions of CH4 and CO2 likely can occur on a time scale of a few decades to several centuries if global warming continues [215].

Not exact matches

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Four - in - five say US made wrong decision in voting to removing internet protections April 4, 2018 — While the internet has grown in scale, influence and importance in the lives of most everyone on the planet over the past few decades,

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

«This long - term view shows that the next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large - scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far,» the team concluded.

Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers will need to adapt to the inevitable.

Seung expects that when scientists scale up to a full human brain, in the next few decades, they'll finally be able to investigate the deep workings of the mind and address questions that, for now, belong more to the realm of philosophy.

If we ignore a few bumps with time scales of a decade or so, the curve is surprisingly well fit by a pure exponential.

Despite the apparent controversy, the basic conclusion — that the global and hemispheric - scale warmth of the past few decades appears anomalous in a very long - term context — has stood up remarkably well in many independent studies (see Figure 1).

Resume: Progress in the last few decades in nano - scale thermal transport has enabled a significant degree of control over heat and sound propagation by lattice vibrations - phonons.

Progress in the last few decades in nano - scale thermal transport has enabled a significant degree of control over heat and sound propagation by lattice vibrations - phonons.

In order for revenge to be orchestrated on this scale, it has to be a full - time obsession, employing bottomless resources, a staff of dedicated minions, and a few decades of patience.

Today, modern technology is increasingly being used to support health - related initiatives of this scale that a few decades ago would have been nearly impossible.

Still, the blue field of Notre Dame, the few black lines, and the vertical just short of human scale make me think decades ahead to a painting with a similar title but more than five times as wide.

Also, for the past few decades civil war (1991 - 2002) and problems with Islamic militants — which began before the world in general had any idea of the scale of the menace — have made it unsafe for travellers to visit.

Despite the apparent controversy, the basic conclusion — that the global and hemispheric - scale warmth of the past few decades appears anomalous in a very long - term context — has stood up remarkably well in many independent studies (see Figure 1).

Because the drains out of the various bathtubs involved in the climate — atmospheric concentrations, the heat balance of the surface and oceans, ice sheet accumulations, and thermal expansion of the oceans — are small and slow, the emissions we generate in the next few decades will lead to changes that, on any time scale we can contemplate, are irreversible.

Sudden climate transitions during the Quaternary Abstract The time span of the past few million years has been punctuated by many rapid climate transitions, most of them on time scales of centuries to decades or even less.

They have gotten cheaper and scaled up faster than even the most optimistic forecasts of a decade ago, or even a few years ago.

The relative magnitudes of the climate impacts induced by the naturally - occurring NAO and by anthropogenic factors will depend on the time horizon (e.g., next few decades vs. end of the twenty - first century), time - scale (interannual vs. multi-decadal), and parameter (temperature vs. precipitation) of interest (e.g., Deser et al. 2012).

Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a change in frequency of these naturally preferred patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time - scales.

Imo local and regional models that can accurately forecast what matters to humans for policy (rainfall, temperature, storms, etc.) over time scales of a few days to one or two decades is critical.

Brazil is one of the few countries where the large - scale production of energy from wood has been explored for decades.

There's no reason I can think of that long - term and short - term response of the troposphere to warming / cooling events (at least between the scale of a few years to a few decades that's the issue here) would be any different.

During this period, the rate of this rise has varied on multidecadal time scales making identifying exact reasons behind upswings, such has been observed over the past few decades, difficult.

However, on a time scale of a few years to a few decades ahead, future regional changes in weather patterns and climate, and the corresponding impacts, will also be strongly influenced by natural unforced climate variations.

State politicians have introduced measures to dramatically expand renewable electric power in nearly a dozen states in the first three months of 2017, some as ambitious as aiming to run entirely on renewables within a few decades; some would launch smaller - scale community solar ventures, like a pilot in Virginia; others would add tax breaks for solar users in South Carolina and Florida.

Without the subsidies, the technology simply won't be adopted on a large scale, or will take much, much longer — when we need it within the next few decades at the latest, and when you need an enormous amount of time and capital simply to change the infrastructure to something that is more energy - diverse.

«The Arctic is an early indicator of what we can expect at the global scale as we move through the next few decades... So we should be paying attention to this very carefully,» Barber said.

In order to extend diagnoses of recent sea - ice variations beyond the past few decades, a century - scale digital dataset of Arctic sea - ice coverage has been compiled.

Of course subsidies for technologies that have only begun to be deployed at scale within the last few years will be higher «per MWH» than subsidies for technologies which have been deployed for decades.

283, Secular Animist: Of course subsidies for technologies that have only begun to be deployed at scale within the last few years will be higher «per MWH» than subsidies for technologies which have been deployed for decades.

My understanding is that the major uncertainties in climate projections on time scales of more than a few decades are unlikely to be resolved in the near future.

Further, a large ensemble of climate model realizations reveals that additional global warming over the next few decades is very likely to create ∼ 100 % probability that any annual - scale dry period is also extremely warm.

In addition, time scales matter here — increasing the amount of CO2 by 33 % over the course of a few decades would overwhelm any system (like the Earth's climate) that has a time constant of centuries.

One of the most prominent but less publically acknowledged crimes over the last few decades has been fraud, which in recent years has taken centre stage in large - scale political and financial issues, and been the bane of many nations» governments, especially as the benefits of certain jurisdictions...

One of the most prominent but less publically acknowledged crimes over the last few decades has been fraud, which in recent years has taken centre stage in large - scale political and financial issues, and been the bane of many nations» governments, especially as the benefits of certain jurisdictions make it easier to hide wrong - doings and deceive the system.

Very few Partnership Firms have been able to succeed and scale - up (to the extent that they should have) inspite of them having being around for decades.