Sentences with phrase «term environmental trends»

Recent political events and long - term environmental trends offer little comfort; artificial intelligence and synthetic biology add a more urgent threat.

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Environmental regulation is the long - term trend, but shipping must first contend with a wide - reaching transparency regulation coming soon

For more than 3 decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had been compiling information about water quality violations across the country — but no one had published a national assessment looking at long - term trends in those data.

These are just three examples of global change, a term used to describe climate trends and other environmental transformations.

Suomi NPP's job is to collect environmental observations of atmosphere, ocean and land for both NOAA's weather and oceanography operational missions and NASA's research mission to continue the long - term climate record to better understand Earth's climate and long - term trends.

While that streak will eventually end, Deke Arndt, the head of the climate monitoring division at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, said that the long - term warming trend is stll clear.

According to George Leskevich, a physical research scientist with the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., there is also a long - term downward trend in Great Lakes wintertime ice cover, although there is considerable year - to - year variability.

Such a systematic and long - term monitoring programme of stranded animals facilitates the investigation of spatio - temporal trends in disease, causes of mortality and exposure to environmental pollutants largely inaccessible by other methods.

So while the overall trend is great, do you see the need for maintaining a focus on particular «hot spots,» to use a term familiar in environmental circles?

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term primarily human - caused trend.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term human - caused trend.

The team — led by Dole, Hoerling, and Judith Perlwitz from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder — sifted through long - term observations and results from 22 global climate models, looking for trends that might help explain the extraordinarily high temperatures in western Russia during the 2010 summer.

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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