We can hope that out of what's pretty close to a literal decimation there is a transformation of the profession —
a sea change of the sort that the Bard imagined in Ariel's song when he coined the phrase:
Not exact matches
Nothing but a massive
sea -
change will do the trick, and Obama shows no sign
of having those
sorts of balls.
So I think it's very realistic, if we want to look at the adjustment to that big disequilibrium then that we have generated, to look at those
sort of rates
of change that we will eventually achieve; and maybe not this century, we'll be working our way up to that, but certainly in the next century, we need to think about that as the rate
of sea - level rise.
Her life
changes when she comes in contact with a monster
of sorts, a
sea creature — something that could only have sprung from the mind
of the incomparable Guillermo del Toro.
What has
changed is that the reader — faced with a greater
sea of choice — now has the task
of sorting the wheat from the chaff with whatever discoverability tools are to hand.
It's as if Hoyland was signalling a clear
sea -
change in the way he used abstraction: some
sort of hard purity
of intent had gone once the work became freer and looser.
He also pointed out that the new
sea level would drastically
change the place where salt water and fresh water meet in the California Delta area, causing havoc to all
sorts of things (the environment, water supplies, people living in that vast area, and etc.).
Consider these
sorts of questions: Do you know where your water (in your house and / or office) comes from and how those sources would be impacted by a
change in
sea level or associated climate
change?
There are some physics - based theories regarding the nature
of climate
change yes, but the ONLY way to test them is on the basis
of the
sort of evidence that climate scientists have been collecting for many years now, on, for example, global temperatures, ocean temperatures,
sea level, frequency
of drought, hurricanes, rainstorms, etc..
Sometimes you will get things that only occur infrequently, and so they won't be in every 5 - member ensemble — but this is true for all
sorts of variations, not just
changes in the Labrador
Sea.
«There's slow mixing so in effect we get a
sort of freshwater lens on the top
of the
sea in some places, and freshwater lowers the concentration
of ions that buffers pH
change.
NBC news reported the Pacifica event as «a brief window into what the future holds as
sea levels rise from global warming, a
sort of a crystal ball for climate
change.»
«These projects supposedly prepare the country for some
sort of climate
change, especially floods, droughts and in some cases
sea level rise.
It'd be great if Keith Kloor ends up taking a bow for fostering that
sort of sea -
change.
OTOH Willard Tony protects his tiny flock by censoring Eli and many others, Now there is all
sorts of fanciful at both dens
of denial, unicorns and such, but it occurred to Eli that there must at least be proxy records way back into the past for Arctic
Sea Ice extent, and, indeed there is, from Reconstructed changes in Arctic sea ice over thepast 1,450 years by Christophe Kinnard, Christian M. Zdanowicz, David A. Fisher, Elisabeth Isaksson, Anne de Vernal and Lonnie G. Thompson, Nature 479 (2011) 5
Sea Ice extent, and, indeed there is, from Reconstructed
changes in Arctic
sea ice over thepast 1,450 years by Christophe Kinnard, Christian M. Zdanowicz, David A. Fisher, Elisabeth Isaksson, Anne de Vernal and Lonnie G. Thompson, Nature 479 (2011) 5
sea ice over thepast 1,450 years by Christophe Kinnard, Christian M. Zdanowicz, David A. Fisher, Elisabeth Isaksson, Anne de Vernal and Lonnie G. Thompson, Nature 479 (2011) 510.
Given the
sea change in the political landscape in the U.S., and the fact that it seems likely to continue its shift toward conservatism, this latter
sort of bridge seems like it might actually have an effect in the real world, where policy will actually be made.
Note that unlike other means
of raising
sea level, this one does not
change the mass
of the
sea and therefore does not entail any isostatic rebound
of the
sort theorized in the 1850s by John Pratt.
Last night, a strange video appeared on Twitter: it looks like some
sort of deep
sea bloom — but then a tiny octopus squirts out and zooms away,
changing colors from white to purple.
BlackBerry CEO Jim Balsillie's «in terms
of a
sort of a
sea -
change for BlackBerry, I would think that's overstating it.»
Islanders have expressed their concerns about the impact
of climate
change and the visible
changes that are already occurring: increased erosion, strong winds, land accretion, increasing storm frequency and rougher
seas of a
sort that elders have never seen or heard
of before.