Sentences with phrase «scale of change far»

«This is a challenging time of initiating such a change movement,» says Massachusetts education secretary Paul Reville, referring to the economic downturn, «but the cost of not initiating this scope and scale of change far exceeds in the long run the cost of doing it.»

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But if climate change isn't stabilized soon, the authors wrote,» [t] he large - scale loss of functionally diverse corals is a harbinger of further radical shifts in the condition and dynamics of all ecosystems, reinforcing the need for risk assessment of ecosystem collapse.»

The Case Against Further Green Taxes, followed on this year by The Burden of Green Taxes, pioneered testing existing green taxes against the scale of the externalities created by climate change — similar estimates have since been produced by other groups including Government departments.

This multi-billion-dollar plan is the largest - scale initiative so far, but it's unlikely to change the number of people who are homeless in the near term.

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What kind of scale of transformation are we talking about in order to — as far as the electricity generation transmission goes — effect this change?

«So far biodiversity monitoring has been mostly species - based, and this means that some of the changes happening on a global - scale may be missed.

Kumar's group, experts in tuning the structure and therefore the properties of polymer nanocomposites, found that, by mixing nanoparticles in a solution of polymers (polyethylene oxide) and changing the crystallization speed by varying the degree of sub-cooling (namely how far below the melting point the crystallization was conducted), they could control how the nanoparticles self - assembled into three different scale regimes: nano, micro, and macro-meter.

Once considered remote and disconnected, now we know that changes within the Arctic can have a direct impact on the rest of the world, affecting physical and biological systems near and far at regional and global scales.

«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.

When we lose one rare species, it actually symbolizes many changes of far broader impact, ranging from the loss of habitats (affecting large numbers of species) to large - scale alterations to the functions of those habitats.

Will they support the wellbeing of our own and other species or will they provide a context for further large - scale extinctions and irreversible climate change?»

A number of recent studies indicate that effects of urbanisation and land use change on the land - based temperature record are negligible (0.006 ºC per decade) as far as hemispheric - and continental - scale averages are concerned because the very real but local effects are avoided or accounted for in the data sets used.

In the world's first large - scale investigation of how climate affects the composition of coral reefs, an international team of marine scientists concludes that the picture is far more complicated than previously thought — but that total reef losses due to climate change are unlikely.

We will further discuss how future changes at the global scale will likely impact the formation and flux of boundaries into the future, and how these fluxes will impact the processes underlying species diversity and diversification.

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!

The first, by George A. Romero, his wife and assistant director Chris Romero (née Forrest) and Tom Savini, reveals that almost all the cast were friends, family or local Pittsburgh volunteers (even the mall was owned by personal friends of Romero), that the original script had a far bleaker ending (everybody dies) which was changed during the shoot because the film was «too much fun» for it, and that the fourth film, should it ever get made, is a larger - scale affair set in a down - town area, with lots of action sequences and an overarching theme of «ignoring the problem».

Beyond conserving costs, lowering the cap further may preserve many of the hoped - for benefits of the program while minimizing potentially harmful side effects: for low income students, the «free» message is more likely to tip the scales towards attending college at all, while for upper income students the same message might simply change where they choose to go.

Some of the biggest funders on the scene remain devoted to a reform strategy that has so far failed to yield transformative change, while a range of other funder - backed efforts aren't yet operating at a scale likely to produce major breakthroughs.

When asked how she would re-assure school staff about the effect of further changes on their workload, Collier said: «I think we have to be extremely cautious about more whole - scale [sic] change.

The government did announce it would conduct further research on the «scale and scope» of sexual harassment in schools — looking both at abuse against female pupils and violent «hazing» or initiation techniques against male pupils, as well as how to involve young men in becoming «change agents» of gender equality.

The revision so far has been about scaling back features and aligning with the web, so despite a lot of working going into the new drafts, there's not a lot in the way of drastic changes.

Charlie Munger makes two key points here: 1) some bargains are only visible if you understand qualitative factors and 2) there sometimes are catalysts that can boost the value of the stock even further based on factors like scale advantages, favorable regulatory changes, improving secular phenomenon and better systems or business momentum.

The decision point parameters are set far enough apart with the Reverse Scale Strategy that using intraday prices (which is what stop orders are triggered by) or closing prices will not likely change your performance very much and may give you greater peace of mind.

But instead of the usual online petitions and angry blog posts, the indie devs have gone several steps further: They're calling Langdell out by changing the titles of their own games to include the word «edge,» and in the process, instigating a large - scale public mockery of the CEO's repeated transgressions against game developers.

Presenting the diagram to scale would show the objects's misses of Earth to scale, foil Exxon's attempt to divert us, comfort the rest of us, and help us get back to the far more immediate danger of climate change.

The changes that we have seen so far are not catastrophic on a global scale, though future changes are going to be much larger and there is a very real risk of substantive damages.

Even as far more effort is put into improving analysis of the climate system, monitoring changes, and forecasting what is to come, the country must also work to build the intellectual capacity not only to do the science but to have such information meaningfully incorporated in policies at scales down to the town manager.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

Now, scientists have taken the idea a step further — they're proposing that one of the most practical ways to cut greenhouse gases on a large scale is to build a forest of 100,000 artificial trees over the next 10 - 20 years.In its new report that outlines three practical geoengineering solutions to climate change, the UK based Institution of Mechanical Engineers has deemed artificial trees a development of utmost importance.

«The evidence is clear: to avoid catastrophic climate change, we need our political and financial leaders to stop any further fossil fuel development and start scaling back,» said Amanda Starbuck of Rainforest Action Network, whose organization endorsed the report.

Most authors identify government practices as being far more influential drivers than climate variability, noting also that similar changes in climate did not stimulate conflicts of the same magnitude in neighboring regions, and that in the past people in Darfur were able to cope with climate variability in ways that avoided large scale violence.

The National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has embraced the Milankovitch Cycle model... orbital variations remain the most thoroughly examined mechanism of climatic change on time scales of tens of thousands of years and are by far the clearest c...

'' [The theory] could make sense, but the current changes on Greenland are, as far as I understand, not of the magnitude that would affect the Gulf Stream on a large scale,» Eldevik said.

Hansen and Sachs met with reporters here Tuesday (Dec. 3) in Columbia University's Low Library to discuss their study and their thoughts on the ongoing — and so far, largely ineffectual — effort to come up with a global plan to combat the problem of climate change and scale back emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide.

The lack of zonal correlation between the P * — E * change and the simple thermodynamic scaling (dashed blue line in Fig. 2) further emphasizes that the «wet gets wetter» mechanism breaks down for anomalies from the zonal mean.

Together, these results suggest that there are decadal - scale changes in the atmosphere involving circulation, water vapor, clouds and radiation that may play a role in PDV, and are worthy of further study.»

LONDON, 19 March — Extreme storm events on the scale of Hurricane Katrina which caused widespread damage in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 will occur far more often because of climate change, a new study says.

Also we analysed UK contributions to international initiatives for climate resilience and finance mechanisms and realised that they have so far not provided funds for local community - led projects; with the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) having only spent 1/2 of their budget (# 1.4 bn) on overseas development and a focus on investing in large scale (e.g. # 20m), readymade projects on forests.

Without going into further detail in this written testimony, I suggest that this extraordinary scaling back of the Administration's commitment to a strong Earth Science research and observations program at NASA has very serious implications for the strength of the nation's climate change science capability.

In fact, they state that the data «clearly show» that «strong natural variability has been characteristic of the Arctic at all time scales considered,» and they reiterate that the data suggest «that the human influence on rate and size of climate change thus far does not stand out strongly from other causes of climate change.»»

The scales and rates of temperature change in the past have been far greater than when humans emitted CO2 from industry.

Lack of geographic cohesion is further demonstrated by weak correlations between the temporal patterns of flood change and large - scale climate indices.

With the prospect of a warmer world, the imperative to adapt to a changing climate further emphasizes the need to scale up support for climate - resilient, low - carbon development.

The table that accompanies the above passage from the IPCC's report, captioned «Extreme weather and climate events: global - scale assessment of recent observed changes, human contribution to the changes, and projected further changes for the early (2016 — 2035) and late (2081 — 2100) 21 st century `'» has the following entries for «Increases in intensity and / or duration of drought»: under changes observed since 1950, «low confidence on a global scale, likely changes in some regions `'» [emphasis added]; and under projected changes for the late 21 st century, «likely (medium confidence) on a regional to global scale».

Further, «confidence in large - scale changes in the intensity of extreme extratropical cyclones [such as «Superstorm» Sandy] since 1900 is low.»

In the face of mounting evidence of rapid climate change the US President has so far downplayed the scale of the problem and refused to take action to tackle it.

More importantly, by imposing a size limit that is far below the typical size of utility - scale projects, this change would effectively create a barrier to the development of many new projects, and put a chill on investment.

He said that he was deeply concerned that popular opinion had so far failed to grasp the scale of the changes needed to address climate change, or of the importance of the UN meeting in Copenhagen from December 7 to December 18.

A further interesting finding that may have wider resonance is the scale of the non-linear change in generation.