Sentences with phrase «very rapid»

The PETM event being the best and most recent (65Myr bp) example of very rapid warming.

Global climate change, although slow when compared to the frenetic pace of our lives, is now very rapid in terms of geologic time.

There must have been brief periods of very rapid temperature change mixed in there (certainly on the regional level) in addition to slower - warming periods, and I'm under the impression other data (such as Greenland ice cores and deep - sea cores) support that scenario as well.

There would be a very rapid transition from fossil fuels to 100 % renewable energy, starting with an orderly closure of our most carbon intensive power stations and assisted by just transition pathways for displaced workers.

They found nothing similar in North American records; Barnola et al. (1987) found nothing like it in their Antarctic ice core, but admitted their methods would not detect very rapid changes.

Look no further than the very rapid uptake of solar power, which is now on more than one in ten Australian household rooftops!

First — a carbon fee & dividend scheme similar to the one proposed by Citizens» Climate Lobby, but with higher initial rate and higher annual increments (due to the need for very rapid decarbonization).

The formation of the acid is very slow compared to the very rapid formation of hydrogen carbonate upon reaction with carbonate so there is no acid.

For example this: «The reason why climate policy is an issue because greenhouse gases are increasing in the atmosphere due to human activities at a very rapid rate.

In short, the Endangerment Rule not only sets the stage for a very rapid transition to what Somerville calls a «decarbonized» society, it also predetermines the options for advancing that agenda.

This is because the late peak (2020) necessitates very rapid reductions in order to meet the 50 % reduction target for 2050.

In the Holocene larger bifurcations around 12,000 and 8,000 years ago — significant and very rapid warming and cooling.

While arguably none of those reasons, individually or in aggregate, justify killing the Industrial Revolution, a slower process consistent with very rapid roll - out of cheap energy to the non-Western world is certainly indicated.

The Southwest has experienced very rapid growth in county population between 1970 and 2008.

Moreover, Iceland has recently discovered a very rapid way of converting carbon dioxide into a solid, stable form that can be kept forever.

1 / A resistance thermometer is not the same as a thermistor which has a very rapid response.

This is the very rapid change (almost a step change) that took place in about six months around late 1993 and early 1994.

They note a period of low eccentricity centered around an very rapid advance of the ice sheets in Antarctica where they went from 50 % today's size to 25 % larger.

See Tad Patzek's publications, Note especially his graphs showing the very rapid decline of unconventional gas production: Unconventional Resources in US: Potential & Lessons Learned Repeated fracking is needed to extend production.

Since the end 10,000 years ago of the last ice age — itself a very rapid event — was the springboard for agriculture and civilisation, and eventually an Industrial Revolution based on fossil fuels, the story of climate change plays a powerful role in human history.

Apologies its was the wrong quote its this one from Abstract of paper above «Volcanic eruption Mass extinction Tipping pointMethane Large volumes of SO2 erupted frequently appear to overdrive the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere resulting in very rapid warming.

Very brief, given the early decline termination and very rapid recovery since.

The climate is possibly now in a regime of very rapid warming.

The major concern over the current massive increase in shale gas is its very rapid decline rate.

Geologically, at a very rapid rate.

Let's take a «middle of the pack» IPCC SRES model - based «scenario and storyline» representing «business as usual» with very rapid economic growth, human population continuing to grow but at a slower rate, leveling off at a population of around 10.5 billion by the end of the century and no «climate initiatives»

Satellite data now shows we are witnessing a very rapid acceleration in global sea level rise.

While Smith, which sat on a retrograde (or down - sloping bed) produced very rapid rates of melt.

This very rapid simulation model reproduces the response properties of state - of - the - art three dimensional climate models very well — well within the uncertainties of the high resolution models — and with sufficient precision to provide useful information for its intended audience.

«If current warming rates are maintained,» it stated, «Himalayan glaciers could decay at very rapid rates.»

Yet our long experience in Washington has taught us that the transition from the inconceivable to the inevitable can sometimes be very rapid.

However, if high - emitting nations take the «equity» and «fairness» requirement seriously, they will need to not only reduce ghg emissions at very, very rapid rates, a conclusion that follows from the steepness of the remaining budget curves alone, but also they will have to reduce their ghg emissions much faster than poor developing nations and faster than the global reductions curves entailed only by the need to stay within a carbon budget.

This very rapid solar growth rate, if it continues, puts China on track to beat its 2016 record annual solar installation rate of 34 GW.

Very fast outflow either a large glacial undertow and / or very rapid warming in the region.

This scenario is characterized by «very rapid economic growth, global population that peaks in mid-century and declines thereafter... the rapid introduction of new technologies,... and the assumption that similar improvement rates apply to all energy supply and end - use technologies».

(Under Democratic President Barack Obama, solar energy expanded at a very rapid clip.

For example, limiting global warming to 2 °C would require a very rapid worldwide implementation of all currently available low carbon technologies.

Regardless of the specific gradient of the past history of slow changes, there has been a very rapid jump in temperatures in the last 50 - 100 years.

The big one left out is transport, and you have very rapid growth in car use.

If current warming rates are maintained, Himalayan glaciers could decay at very rapid rates, shrinking from the present 500,000 km2 to 100,000 km2 by the 2030s.

The «second order» review draft of the SPM for the Working Group II volume said «If current warming rates are maintained Himalayan glaciers could decay at very rapid rates, shrinking from the present 500,000 km2 to 100,000 km2 by the 2030s.»

For 2017 data to get accepted by publication mid January seems a very rapid process through peer review — just one day.

I don't have any references, but since IR only penetrates the nano - skin of ocean water and absorption and reemission is a VERY rapid process, then as I understand it, there is very little heating of the water, and hence not much in the way of increased evaporation.

Only in China do we see a very rapid transition to renewable energy and electricity generation.

A linear reduction rate would be very rapid, erasing a year's emissions in two years.

Especially when one considers that it is just a single instance of many possible amplifying carbon feedbacks set off by a very rapid human warming.

Nevertheless and as with maxima but in a different way, the very rapid alteration in minimum temperature differences and averages in 1997 strongly suggests an artificial rather than natural influence corrupting Perth's temperature record.

JS: In the Himalayas, there's very rapid warming to the point where their whole ecosystems, environments, land use and agriculture are changing without them really realizing what's happening.

There are plenty of reasons to respond rationally to the very rapid changes in climate (rapid in geological terms) over the last few centuries, whether you accept they are man - made or not.

It follows that 1992 - 1998 was not the most recent period of rapid global warming, but that very rapid warming was observed in the 15 - year period up to 2007.