Sentences with phrase «sea change forced»

For the club, transitioning from upper - crust exclusivity to public ownership was a sea change forced by declining membership and mounting expenses.

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But all that changed one morning when the winds gathered force, the tides rose and a huge storm swept the city and its spectacular future into the sea.

In a landmark ruling that could force a sea - change in the way firms approach their uniform policy, the court found in favour of Nadia Eweida in her six - year fight over the rules.

These reforms represent a sea change in a borough where County Leader after County Leader has been forced to abruptly end their tenures due to challenges with the law.

However, Professor Stewart believes that over a few millennia those sea level rises could have caused the fault system beneath and around Mount Etna to completely change in behaviour, sealing up old lava flows and ultimately forcing them to emerge elsewhere on the island.

If entire populations are forced to relocate by rising seas as a result of climate change, do they remain citizens of a vanished country?

Rohling: Yeah, so what we see is that for a current level of forcing, so 1.6 watts per meter square net forcing, if we look in the relationship that we now recognize between sea - level change and climate forcing, we're are, more or less, looking at in the equilibrium state, natural equilibriumstate, where the planet would like to be that is similar to where we were 3.5 million years ago and that's where we're looking at sea level, you know, at least 15 meters, maybe 25 meters above the present.

Taking factors such as sea surface temperature, greenhouse gases and natural aerosol particles into consideration, the researchers determined that changes in the concentration of black carbon could be the primary driving force behind the observed alterations to the hydrological cycle in the region.

Our study suggests that at medium sea levels, powerful forces, such as the dramatic acceleration of polar ice cap melting, are not necessary to create abrupt climate shifts and temperature changes.»

With Arctic sea ice melting earlier and earlier, polar bears are being forced to change their diets, scouring dry land for seabird eggs rather than enjoying their typical staple: seals.

The past climates that forced these changes in ice volume and sea level were reconstructed mainly from temperature - sensitive measurements in ocean cores from around the globe, and from ice cores.

Ross began working with a team that included his adviser, Raymond Najjar, professor of oceanography, Penn State, to pinpoint the precise effects of sea - level rise by subtracting other forces that affect changes to the tidal range.

Such changes would ideally «require consideration of sea level rise impacts in comprehensive plans for coastal communities,» the 17 - member task force says.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

The CTD sections show that the deeper layers are also warmer and slightly saltier and the observed sea level can be explained by steric expansion over the upper 2000 m. ENSO variability impacts on the northern part of the section, and a simple Sverdrup transport model shows how large - scale changes in the wind forcing, related to the Southern Annular Mode, may contribute to the deeper warming to the south.

Screen, J. A., Deser, C., Simmonds, I. & Tomas, R. Atmospheric impacts of Arctic sea ice loss, 1979 — 2009: separating forced change from atmospheric internal variability.

The forces driving changes in global sea level are complex.

Despite these caveats, we have shown that the model realistically simulates meridional changes of sea level pressure in response to climate forcings (Sect. 3.8.5).

«The whole of Western natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory.»

You are arguing that 100ppm change in radiative forcing for CO2, amounting to 0.6 deg C change, multiplied by a wv feedback giving 1.8 deg C change, plays an important part in raising the sea level by 100 meters.

Investigations of the properties of the water column in these seas have revealed a consistent trend of waning water column ventilation over time, probably because of changes in local atmospheric forcing.

Paleoclimate data for sea level change indicate that sea level changed at rates of the order of a meter per century [81]--[83], even at times when the forcings driving climate change were far weaker than the human - made forcing.

Every business is becoming an internet business in some shape or form and SaaS continues to be a major driving force for this sea change.

Developed by Related Designs in collaboration with Blue Byte, Anno 2070 takes place in a near - future environment where climate change has forced humanity to adapt to rising sea levels that have left stretches of once - fertile land completely inhospitable.

«The financial system is undergoing a sea change that is forcing a global sell - down of assets.

But until those solutions create a sea change in pet owner behavior, countless rescues, shelters and humane societies will be forced to deal with our pet surplus problem to the best of their abilities.

Every business is becoming an internet business in some shape or form and SaaS continues to be a major driving force for this sea change.

Natural climate variability of the Arctic atmosphere, the impact of Greenland and PBL stability changes K. Dethloff *, A. Rinke *, W. Dorn *, D. Handorf *, J. H. Christensen ** * AWI Potsdam, ** DMI Copenhagen Unforced and forced long - term model integrations from 500 to 1000 years with global coupled atmosphere - ocean - sea - ice models have been analysed in order to find out whether the different models are able to simulate the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) similar to the real atmosphere.

These impound water and will offset sea level changes caused by climatic forces.

I can clearly understand that sea - level rise would result in a loss of real - estate (including many major cities); I can also understand that a faster than «normal» climate change might force a larger number of species into extinction.

Even in the absence of huge amounts of carbon dioxide as a forcing mechanism, he said, there still appear to be trigger points that, once passed, can produce rapid warming through feedbacks such as changes in sea ice and the reflectivity of the Earth's surface.

However, changes in the distribution of snowfall through the year, conceivably linked to increases in sea surface temperature, may have reduced the reflectivity of the glacier and played an even bigger role in forcing the retreat than changes in air temperature alone.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

The Arctic sea ice melting out above 75N would have almost no impact at all if that is the forcing change of glaciers down to Chicago and sea ice down to 45N (at lower latitudes where the Albedo has much more impact).

For instance, the effect of soot making snow and sea ice darker has a higher efficacy than an equivalent change in CO2 with the same forcing, mainly because there is a more important ice - albedo feedback in the soot case.

In LGM simulations land albedo changes are prescribed (at least in regards to ice sheets and altered topography due to sea level; there are feedback land albedo changes) so are a forcing, whereas sea ice is determined interactively by the model climate, so is a feedback in this framework.

Products needed by those vulnerable to rising seas and stormier weather associated with climate change include: (1) desalination capacities for drinking water (2) soil washing and / or new crops to deal with salinization of soils from rising seas flooding them and then receding (3) shelters from wind and storm surges that would not require people to abandon their possessions and animals to the forces of nature they are trying to escape

Sea Shepherd had threatened to block a fertilization effort by Planktos last summer near the Galapagos Islands, forcing it to change plans.

Summary for Policymakers Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Observations: Atmosphere and Surface Chapter 3: Observations: Ocean Chapter 4: Observations: Cryosphere Chapter 5: Information from Paleoclimate Archives Chapter 6: Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles Chapter 7: Clouds and Aerosols Chapter 8: Anthropogenic and Natural Radiative Forcing Chapter 8 Supplement Chapter 9: Evaluation of Climate Models Chapter 10: Detection and Attribution of Climate Change: from Global to Regional Chapter 11: Near - term Climate Change: Projections and Predictability Chapter 12: Long - term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility Chapter 13: Sea Level Change Chapter 14: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change Chapter 14 Supplement Technical Summary

Instead, to constrain the Charney sensitivity from the ice age cycle you need to specifically extract out those long term changes (in ice sheets, vegetation, sea level etc.) and then estimate the total radiative forcing including these changes as forcing, not responses.

Human development including the disruption of normal coastal geomorphic forces by coastal infrastructure assure that any change in global temperature and consequent sea level, will be a disaster to these environments.

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The Pacific nation of Tuvalu — long seen as a prime candidate to disappear as climate change forces up sea levels — is actually growing in size, new research shows.

Warmer temperatures from climate change are forcing polar bears to swim longer distances to find stable sea ice.

When the external forcing changes, earth responds to keep temperature and sea level inside the same bounds it has maintained for ten thousand years.

The US government spends $ 2.5 billion per year on research that focuses on carbon dioxide, ignores powerful natural forces that have always driven climate change, and generates numerous reports and press releases warning of record high temperatures, melting icecaps, rising seas, stronger storms, more droughts and other «unprecedented» crises.

The forcing from sea ice decline is minor — 0.1 W / m ^ 2 change from 1979.

At the Copenhagen conference in December 2009 the Director of the U.S. Navy Task Force on Climate Change, Rear Admiral David Titley gave a somber assessment of the risks presented by climate change, including the likely need for greater humanitarian and disaster relief missions, and the dangers posed by such «wild cards» as ocean acidification and rising sea lChange, Rear Admiral David Titley gave a somber assessment of the risks presented by climate change, including the likely need for greater humanitarian and disaster relief missions, and the dangers posed by such «wild cards» as ocean acidification and rising sea lchange, including the likely need for greater humanitarian and disaster relief missions, and the dangers posed by such «wild cards» as ocean acidification and rising sea levels.

Climate change is pulling the sea ice out from under polar bears» feet, forcing some to swim longer distances to find food and habitat.

The albedo change resulting from the snowline retreat on land is similarly large as the retreat of sea ice, so the combined impact could be well over 2 W / sq m. To put this in context, albedo changes in the Arctic alone could more than double the net radiative forcing resulting from the emissions caused by all people of the world, estimated by the IPCC to be 1.6 W / sq m in 2007 and 2.29 W / sq m in 2013.»