Sentences with phrase «term environmental forcing»
Inter-specific competition was found to be similar in both the unconditioned natural and the conditioned artificial community, suggesting that for diatom communities, short - term manipulative experiments may be used to predict the effects of long - term environmental forcing on community structure.
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Astorino, who lost his bid a for a third term last week against Democratic candidate George Latimer, had filed the suits in order to force the state to undergo an environmental review of the plant, based in Buchanan.
During his first SEMA presidency term, Edelbrock Jr. formed the first group of committees dealing with environmental issues, and served as chairman of SEMA's Emissions Task Force in 1978.
These quick fixes (environmental «management») give you time change pet's behavior long term using force - free training.
Wave Hill is exploring the concept of wrath as it relates to times of environmental uncertainty, with paintings and sculpture by artists who have a long - term interest in depicting cataclysmic forces.
The bottom line, of course, is the uncomfortable reality that adapting to climate change is and will be a prime priority while mitigating emissions remains, for most countries, a generations - spanning long - term goal — unless and until some epic environmental disruption forces it to the front of the line.
Long - term, the environmental movement faces soul - searching about its own direction, and how to turn widespread popular support for environmental protection into an effective political force for urgent climate action.
Impacts include loss of lives, domestic property, cultivable land, mountain infrastructure downstream, forced migration and long - term secondary environmental degradation.
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Not only does the report clearly not do what it claims to do, and not only is this another instance of Big Insurance joining forces with Big Environment to whip up alarm (not to mention premiums) about environmental risks (Allianz join Munich Re, RMS and Catlin), but, by ranking countries in terms of energy — rather than CO2 — production, it also supports our suggestion that Environmentalism has less to do with saving the planet than it does with reining in human aspirations.
The new framework now emerging will succeed to the degree to which it prioritizes agreements that promise near - term economic, geopolitical, and environmental benefits to political economies around the world, while simultaneously reducing climate forcings, developing clean and affordable energy technologies, and improving societal resilience to climate impacts.
These changes are intimately linked to species responses to seasonal variations in environmental conditions (temperature and photoperiod) that, depending upon timing, can either exacerbate or buffer the long - term directional effects of climatic forcing.
This suggests to me that the long term trend is due to an increase in radiative forcing from anthropogenic emissions (partly offset by environmental uptake), but the short term variations are due to the modulation of the NNFI by the ENSO (which limits the partial uptake of anthropogenic emissions).
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