Sentences with phrase «scale of the next century»

Not exact matches

Realistic large - scale solar panel coverage could cause less than half a degree of local warming, far less than the several degrees in global temperature rise predicted over the next century if we keep burning fossil fuels.

Newman appears again in Twice Hammered (2011), where one finds the reproduction of Diao's earlier Barnett Newman: The Paintings (1990; for which Diao presents all of Newman's paintings at small scale and reduced to the shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary Art sale.

[Response: Here's a simple back - of - envelope consideration for the future: if the Greenland ice sheet melts completely over the next ~ 1,000 years (Jim Hansen argues in the current Climatic Change that the time scale could be centuries), this would contribute an average flux of ~ 0.1 Sv of freshwater to the surrounding ocean.

For those curious about the pronounced dips in the future scenarios here they are responses to Pinatubo - scale volcanic eruptions that are assumed to occur at a reasonable frequency over the course of the next century.

Next point, changes in volcanic activity can affect decadal and century - scale temperatures due to the random occurence of eruptions of the right sort (though I don't think you dispute that).

A new international study is the first to use a high - resolution, large - scale computer model to estimate how much ice the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could lose over the next couple of centuries, and how much that could add to sea - level rise.

Their work encompasses a range of problems and time scales: from five - day model predictions of hurricane track and intensity, to understanding the causes of changes in extremes over the past century, to building new climate prediction models for seamless predictions out to the next several years, to earth system model projections of human - caused changes in various extremes (heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) over the coming century.

(September 12, 2016)- A collaboration of university researchers, government agencies, and private sector groups released today a next - generation climate modeling dataset with improved local - scale climate projections covering the 21st century for a region from northern Mexico to southern Canada.

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).

For however long this persists on the time scale of decades to centuries the next deeper ocean layer will be slowly warmed by the warmed up top layer.

The close agreement of warming for the early century, with a range of only 0.05 °C among the SRES cases, shows that no matter which of these non-mitigation scenarios is followed, the warming is similar on the time scale of the next decade or two.

The story ranges from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics, to economics and social sciences.The class will consider evidence from the distant past and projections into the distant future, keeping the human time scale of the next several centuries as the bottom line.The lectures follow a textbook, «Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast,» written for the course.

N.b. this diverges from the commonly used «Charney sensitivity» which describes temperature change over the next century or so, and which is less than the change expected over the multi-millenial scale of dwindling ice sheets and vegetation changes.

«Scientific and economic challenges still exist,» writes Harvard geoscientist Daniel Schrag, «but none are serious enough to suggest that carbon capture and storage will not work at the scale required to offset trillions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the next century.»

The early Eocene hyperthermals, a series of transient global warming events (2 to 5 °C, provide a unique opportunity to assess the sensitivity of the hydrologic cycle to the scale of greenhouse forcing expected over the next several centuries.