Sentences with phrase «sea change in behavior»

It's keeping our trash to ourselves — which would be a sea change in behavior.

«The article illuminated once again the seismic shift in consumer behavior underway and the devastating impact that this sea change in behavior is having on many traditional brick and mortar retailers,» Johnson told analysts during a presentation.

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This situation, combined with rapidly changing consumer behavior, has precipitated a sea change in lending...

The disease tends to progress from no outward signs to behavior changes in which the sea stars cross their arms and seem to collapse on themselves.

Over the years, scientists have suggested everything from differences in behavior to changes in sea level.

Other research, she said, shows more acidic seas spur «changes in fish behavior and toxin production in harmful algae.»

«These are two of the largest and most rapidly changing glaciers in Antarctica, so the potential for their evolution to influence each other is important to consider in modeling ice sheet behavior and projecting future sea level rise,» Dustin Schroeder, a Stanford geophysicist who led the study, told Earther.

A new phenomenon of widespread negative equity — homeowners owing more on their mortgage than the underlying property is worth — has wrought a sea change in borrower behavior.

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.

Only they can account for the non-linear behavior of the trajectory of the sea ice evolution and put longer term changes in the context of expected natural variability.

Thus, given the delays in the system: both the ocean responding to CO (2), and the delays in humanity changing it's behavior, there is a risk of guaranteeing a future deglaciation of Greenland before drastic changes are observed (with the attendant O (7m) rise in sea level).

The problem here is that estimates of changes in sea surface temperature and the depth of the warm mixed layer might be very unreliable, since the general behavior of the Atlantic circulation is only now being directly observed — and the most recent findings are that flow rates vary over a whole order of magnitude:

Changes in global weather patterns Human health problems Agricultural impacts Changes in plant & animal behavior Rising sea levels

If they don't like any of the particular options that fit the best available evidence on sea level rise, or don't like the particular ones that they suspect a majority of their fellow citizens might, they can be expected to try to stigmatize the municipal and various private groups engaged in adaptation planning by falsely characterizing them and their ideas in terms that bind them to only one of the partisan cultural styles that is now (sadly and pointlessly, as a result of misadventure, strategic behavior, and ineptitude) associated with engagement with climate change science in national politics.

Because sea level behavior is such an important signal for tracking climate change, skeptics seize on the sea level record in an effort to cast doubt on this evidence.

«There's that odd cyclical behavior in Holgate's sea level change rate plots, which looks remarkably like it's in phase with solar activity.»

Each double - page spread in the first two - thirds of the book features a research project revealing changes in ecosystems — in the behaviors of butterflies and penguins, in the sizes of glaciers and sea levels, and in the amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

The rapid nature of observed and predicted changes in the Arctic suggests that Arctic sea ice could possibly undergo nonlinear threshold behavior as it retreats.

Dr. Alley teaches, and conducts research on the climatic records, flow behavior, and sedimentary deposits of large ice sheets, to aid in prediction of future changes in climate and sea level.

So its going to turn into an area where any true discussion based on the science of the specific aspect — ice free Artic, sea level rise (when, where and how much)-- will be missing and any chance of actual education will be gone if the standard «opponents» get used in the discussions and they stick to their standard behaviors when discussing anything to do with climate change.