Sentences with phrase «year timescale given»

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Their importance, he says, lies in the very act of government and business discussing these challenges and considering how to meet them: developing a «dual approach over a significant — five, six, seven - year — timescale both encourages confidence that we are all facing in the same direction, and gives us time to develop and implement a real strategy [for growth].»

Such data may give planners and decision makers a new tool to identify key regions of U.S. coastlines that may be vulnerable to sea level changes on 10 - to 20 - year timescales.

Thank you a lot for your kind answer, I got (twice) the following choice of options (select one or more): a. one year b. 1000 years c. 100 years d. > 1000 years e. ten years There is no option in the timescale of some hundreds of thousand years or so, and the automated grading system did not give a correct answer after I finished.

Models all produce natural variability, many of which show temperature flatlines over decadal timescales, and given the wide importance of natural variability over < 10 year time scales and uncertain forcings, one can absolutely not claim that this is inconsistent with current thinking about climate.

And certainly given such a short timescale, one must not forget the 11 year cycles.

If a threshold is passed, the IPCC (12) gives a > 1,000 - year timescale for GIS collapse.

For instance, a focus on variations of decadal or longer timescales with the 45 years of validation data used by Mann et al. (1998) would give statistics with just (2 × 45 ÷ 10) = 9 degrees of freedom, too few to adequately quantify skill.

Evidently we are supposed to reduce carbon emissions by 10 - 20 % (I think 25 % even came up once) per year for the next 5 - 10 years, with the use of renewables accounting for only a minor part of that (and given the timescale to ramp up renewables, that is certainly realistic in the early years).

Given the enormous obstacles to reaching reliable results, and the prevailing view that the global climate could not possibly change on a timescale that would matter except to far future generations, what ambitious scientist could want to devote years to the topic?