Sentences with phrase «very substantial changes»

The incredibly rapid rate at which Canada's Arctic ice shelves are disappearing is an early indicator of the «very substantial changes» that global warming will impose on all mankind, a top scientist said on Wednesday.

«We're increasing greenhouse gases and forcing the climate system in ways that we expect there are going to be very substantial changes in the coming century,» he said.

«There have been very substantial changes in the attitudes of the pet owning public, not only in the reduction of animals destroyed, the number of injured animals that have had to be serviced, the high claim rate by the pet owning public, but also a general atmosphere of more responsible pet ownership.

«The open adoptions philosophy has caused a very substantial change in the quality and the nature of customer service in those organizations that embrace it,» said Robin Starr, CEO of Virginia's Richmond SPCA and a recipient of a 2017 Maddie Hero Award.

The present rate of increase of 0.7 ppm per year would therefore (if extrapolated to 2000 A.D.) result in a warming of about 0.6 °C — a very substantial change.

It is fairly easy to implement in a protocol like Ethereum, because it is specifically designed for contracts, but Bitcoin's scripting functionality does not allow for the existence of contracts that have internal state, so doing this inside of Bitcoin would require a very substantial change to the Bitcoin 1.0 protocol.

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«Very significant changes in policies and in the outlook since early this year have resulted in a substantial increase in financing needs.

«We grew EBITDA 104 per cent to # 17.3 million, the business continues to grow very strongly and future cashflow forecasts are also strong, but the announcement of substantial investment in delivery services is a material change to the original assumptions when it was purchased.,» he said.

In the higher organisms, including man, a complex set of neural and humoral regulatory mechanisms preserve the stability of the metabolic processes within very narrow limits, despite substantial changes in the external environment.

(Cf. the phenomenon of the «runners» at first connected with the mother plant and then separated from it; the fluid transition between various plants and animals which appear to be one; the germ - cell inside and outside the parent organism, etc.) Living forms which present what are apparently very great differences in space and time can ontologically have the same morphological principle, so that enormous differences of external form can derive from the material substratum and chance patterns of circumstance without change of substantial form (caterpillar - chrysalis butterfly).

The monetary recovery itself is very substantial and the resulting conduct changes will significantly and positively impact competition in the southeastern dairy industry,» said lead attorney for the plaintiff farmers, Robert Abrams.

That he was unable to change anything substantial in the tactical approach is a stark indictment of his leadership and suitability for a job at the very highest level.

«He made a very substantial threat last year to lay off teachers, which dissipated as the revenue dynamics changed.

The proposed solutions to climate change will «in very substantial ways rearrange our economy and the structure of our society.

«To see very large increases in extremely low snow years within the occurrence of that [Copenhagen] target suggests that there could be substantial impacts from climate change even if that global warming target is achieved,» Diffenbaugh said.

A biome is the highest level of ecological system — rainforests, woodlands, grasslands, temperate forest, alpine and tundra — so a change in climate that can shift the location of a biome is a very substantial force.

90 days is a great window for seeing some very positive changes and even some substantial changes but for the average overweight person, it's not near enough time for a total transformation.

This may lead to a substantial change in your lifestyle and even a drop in your living standard, but if finding love and a good partner are big priorities for you, moving to a big city for a few years, primarily for online dating, is a very smart thing to do.

We've now worked the algorithms on dating sites that contain substantial profile information as well as websites that contain very little and this finding doesn't seem to change.

It's no accident that the governments of both the Netherlands and Singapore, which already had educational systems that produce very high achievement, have both made substantial changes to their management of schools in recent years.

With subtle changes, schools can become more efficient and therefore save themselves a substantial amount of money which, in today's world, is very valuable.

As we support teachers in this work, we've found the Someday / Monday metaphor to be a helpful way to think about the steps we'd like folks to take.1 On the one hand, if technology doesn't help teachers make substantial changes in classroom practices — if their classroom isn't «someday» a very different place — then the technology investments often aren't worth it.

In fact, the high school completion rates of black students did not stall until the mid-1980s, diverging slightly from the overall trend, though the substantial graduation gap between whites and minorities has changed very little in the last 35 years (Heckman and LaFontaine 2010).

Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.

Just as many of the home runs hit by a baseball player on steroids were almost certainly due to the taking of steroids — even if you can't prove that any one home run resulted from it — so too is it likely that the record - breaking heat we are seeing in the U.S. this summer of 2012 is very likely due, in substantial part, to the impact of human - caused climate change and global warming.

Even small changes in relative risk can be quite substantial for diseases like malaria that kills over 1,600 per million and diarrhea that kills over 1,000 / million population — and yes, mostly children; therefore in this case even a small or «marginal» risk translates to a potentially very large number of additional deaths over baseline; this is how confusion between «relative» vs. «attributable» risk can be misleading.

Figure 1 here may be consistent with a weak relationship between GCR and clouds, due to a substantial scatter, weak trend (not very steep slope), and the pronounced effect of changing the air supply.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

In some cases, current CO2 levels may contribute some degree of limitation, so that higher CO2 concentrations will be salutary, but with very substantial climate change, it is likely that most of the limitation will involve water and nitrogen.

If the hiatus does extend beyond 20 years, then a very substantial reconsideration will be needed of the 20th century attribution and the 21st century projections of climate change.

Perhaps you prefer to think their emissions reductions are just an aspect of energy planning; but then it would be very hard to explain why they state that their emissions targets (which are substantial, given their emissions) are related to climate change initiatives and mitigation.

«Even with aggressive mitigation, the changes are substantial,» Field said, «and they're still very fast.»

The IPCC further concludes that substantial changes in structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems are very likely to occur with a global warming of more than 2 - 3 °C above preindustrial levels.

I would not dispute 100 - 300 year oscillations as a possibility, but my reading of the climate records reveals no evidence for a significant role for such oscillations — or at least, no role substantial enough on a global scale to have created a discernible signal outside of changes occasioned by solar variations, volcanism, and other known entities (changes on a regional scale are a very different matter and may have involved such oscillations).

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

There are very substantial known changes in SST measurement practices during WWII, which are hard to correct for completely.

If we are truly to assess the risk of climate change being dangerous, then impact and adaptation studies need scenarios that span a very substantial part of the possible range of future climates (Pittock, 1993; Parry et al., 1996; Risbey, 1998; Jones, 1999; Hulme and Carter, 2000).

Dr. Judith Curry: The uncertainties in ocean heat content below 700 m are very substantial, see http://judithcurry.com/2014/01/21/ocean-heat-content-uncertainties/... The role of internal ocean behavior in climate change was almost completely neglected up the AR4; the AR5 takes it a bit more seriously.

I think the reason is the very loaded atmosphere in the US... they would like to do something very substantial about climate change.»

If this statistical relation between tropical Atlantic SSTs and hurricane activity is used to infer future changes in Atlantic hurricane activity, the implications are sobering: the large increases in tropical Atlantic SSTs projected for the late 21st century would imply very substantial increases in hurricane destructive potential — roughly a 300 % increase in the PDI by 2100 (Figure 1a).

In the latter case, the alternative relative SST measure in the lower panel does not change very much over the 21st century, even with substantial Atlantic warming projections from climate models, because, crucially, the warming projected for the tropical Atlantic in the models is not very different from that projected for the tropics as a whole.

Most organizations are very familiar with uncertainty of many different kinds and even qualitative guidance can have substantial value in the design of robust adaptation strategies which minimize vulnerability to both climate variability and change.

This can be a critical issue, since the northern high - latitude regions not only include very important ecosystems, but they could also face a substantial increase of human population in a changing world with a warming climate.

Any substantial revision to the carbon budget would have major implications, changing our ideas of how rapidly countries will need to ratchet down their greenhouse gas emissions in coming years and, thus, the very workings of global climate policymaking.

An employee who has been terminated may be required to return to the very same company by an offer of re-employment [2], absent any conduct which shows a substantial change in the terms of employment, provided that the work is not demeaning, the personal relationships are not acrimonious, and that there is no atmosphere of hostility, embarrassment or humiliation.

In Ontario, 17 of 40 incumbents are not running so the prospect of substantial change is very real.

Ethereum has been very careful in introducing substantial changes to its protocol.

While there is a rebuttable presumption that a parent can relocate, the courts are very well aware that a relocation of a child, especially one that is a substantial distance, will change the relationship of the parents with the child forever.