Sentences with phrase «year timescales going»
The fascinating thing that seems to be emerging is, as we look at... the 1,000 - year timescales going back to 183 million years, other past warming events where we get these black mudstones, we find that whatever the starting conditions, amazingly you get the same outcome.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
«When we're talking about cuts of this scale, over this short a timescale, we're inevitably going to be talking about job losses, which will mean rising unemployment, increased benefit payments, reduced tax revenue and a real risk of a double - dip recession,» she said The government expects to save up to # 120m this year by freezing recruitment across the board in government departments, agencies, and quangos.
Researchers at the Sainte - Justine University Hospital Center and University of Montreal have discovered that the genomic signature inherited by today's 6 million French Canadians from the first 8,500 French settlers who colonized New France some 400 years ago has gone through an unparalleled change in human history, in a remarkably short timescale.
It gets tricky now because the equilibrium climate sensitivity requires a timescale to be defined — barring large hysteresis, it isn't so large going out many millions of years (weathering feedback); there will be a time scale of maximum sensitivity.
In another 20 years, they will be gone, and they won't come back on any sort of meaningful human timescale.
However, on timescales below 17 years, we have to admit natural variability is going to make climate trend detection too uncertain to be worth discussing, until we get past the 17th year, and preferably 30 years or more.
«on timescales below 17 years, we have to admit natural variability is going to make climate trend detection too uncertain to be worth discussing, until we get past the 17th year, and preferably 30 years or more.»
Importantly the sediment core goes back 80,000 years further than any other core retrieved from the Greenland ice sheet, providing researchers with the longest timescale yet of changes in the Arctic climate.
As far as crops go, the problem is this: Changes to the hydrological cycle as a result of global warming may be neutral on a 100 - year timescale, as far as crop yields are concerned.
Well, one thing that appears to be the case is that, for something like the PETM, you need an initial burst of 2,000 gigatons or something, in a timescale of less than 5,000 years, and then you need a long tail that goes out tens of thousands of years.
But since movement of the continents occurs on time scales of millions of years, they aren't going to impact on climate change on human timescales.
Probability-wise shifting the mean back O. 3 C or so, to match the situation in the Midwest, you might go from 4.5 sigma to 4.6 sigma making the extreme 1.6 times less likely for a 100 year timescale climate estimate than for a 30 year timescale climate estimate.
[Response: Trenberth is interested in being able to say precisely where the energy flows are going on relatively short timescales — this is hard because the accuracy in the year to year numbers is not very good and so there is a lot of wiggle room.