Sentences with phrase «simply on a time scale»

Yes we have thousands of transition fossils, and evolution is continuing today, it is simply on a time scale that you can't observe.

Not exact matches

Arsenal fans had been left unsatisfied with the club's front line of attack and with Olivier Giroud simply not cutting it on a big time scale, and Theo Walcott failing to make the switch fromthe wing last season, the fans were desperate for Wenger to add to his options up front.

Despite all of the time Capcom spends hyping up this mountain - sized elder dragon, the battles simply have players scaling the beast's body to attack static weak points, and then standing on a wall firing cannons and ballistae.

Although the benefits of mindfulness are well - researched and widely practised on an international scale, it is entirely plausible that both the challenge of finding or making time to meditate, as well as the challenge of simply sitting still, will be a bar too high for some.

What's really sad is that we're spending billions of dollars and countless hours of principals» time collecting data with these multiple measures, simply to rank 90 % of all teachers somewhere between a 2 and a 3 on a 4 point scale, while offering those same teachers little or no actionable information as to how they might improve their practice.

I've heard many times in many places that you shouldn't live and die simply by the scale and that you should instead plot your daily weight on an average curve that smoothes out the daily fluctuations in weight.

This carbonless energy production at the scales needed to carry on with our happy consumptive life styles is simply not feasible, especially in the time frame needed to have any effect on CO2 emissions.

What the Rio +20 agreement recognizes, for the first time on such an intergovernmental scale, is that sustainable development is not simply «code» for an environmental action agenda.

On longer time scales, of course, the inevitability of discovering an asteroid on a collision course is clear — which makes figuring out strategies for dealing with that eventuality not simply fodder for screenwriters and novelistOn longer time scales, of course, the inevitability of discovering an asteroid on a collision course is clear — which makes figuring out strategies for dealing with that eventuality not simply fodder for screenwriters and noveliston a collision course is clear — which makes figuring out strategies for dealing with that eventuality not simply fodder for screenwriters and novelists.

Since a primary driver of the Earth's climate from year to year is the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) acts on time scales on the order of 2 - 7 years, and the fact that the bulk of the Southern Hemisphere hurricane season occurs from October — March, a reasonable interpretation of global hurricane activity requires a better metric than simply calendar year totals.

«Rigorous processes» may help avoid a hockey - stick fiasco, but there are still two very basic problems: a) the proxy data themselves are often dicey, especially when the time scale is large, and b) the interpretation of the data is based on an «argument from ignorance» (i.e. «we can only explain this if we assume...»), where unknown factors are simply ignored and it is falsely assumed that we have the knowledge of all factors that could possibly have been involved; if these studies are used to provide evidence for a preconceived hypothesis, I think they are next to worthless.

In my experience (and that of many many folk I know who volunteer their time in the name of environmental causes and the conservation of significant ecological heritage), the clout and $ $ $ $ wielded by Big Business and environmental lobby groups is simply not even on the same scale, let alone comparable.

Lowess is preferable, but has the problem that any climate «signal» on time scales which are long compared with the smoothing time will simply be adsorbed into the growth curve, and so can not possibly be revealed by this approach.

These surface networks have had so many changes over time that the number of stations that have been moved, had their time of observation changed, had equipment changes, maintenance issues, or have been encroached upon by micro site biases and / or UHI using the raw data for all stations on a national scale or even a global scale gives you a result that is no longer representative of the actual measurements, there is simply too much polluted data.

Without the subsidies, the technology simply won't be adopted on a large scale, or will take much, much longer — when we need it within the next few decades at the latest, and when you need an enormous amount of time and capital simply to change the infrastructure to something that is more energy - diverse.

The refrain I like is, on all time and size scales, or more simply, on all scales.

Huybers also points out that the changes that we see today are simply occurring on vastly different time scales to previously observed changes, and different climate mechanisms can't easily be compared to each other.

Also, like any significant changes to our energy mix, there is no way to simply shift to high quality black coal on any near term time scale.

Other crypto networks simply recognize that a lighting - like system will be needed to scale in the future, although they don't have time to focus on actual implementations right now.