The climate has transformed from an early rather featureless and homogeneous greenhouse-dominated system to one containing important temperature gradients and thus exhibiting latitudinal and seasonal effects and a rich set of nonlinearities and feedbacks, among them the albedo feedback.
"It's about changing the climate, and transforming the culture of the schools and the city to create equity in all areas of a city's life".
Field experiments revealed that in protected salt marshes experiencing a severe drought, plant-eating grazers eliminated drought-stressed vegetation that could otherwise survive and recover from the climate extreme, transforming once lush marshes into persistent salt barrens.
Scientists expect that a flood of data over the 2-year mission--some mission--some mission--some 600 billionter understand Martian geology and to reconstruct the climate changes that transformed what may once have been a warm, wet planet into the cold desert it is today.
The New York Times op-ed written by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator John Kerry calling for clean energy and climate legislation transformed the debate from "maybe some time in the next year or two," to "likely this fall".
And any restrictions would probably prove to be temporary, once the newcomer had a track record as a Union member.Special report Meet the neighbours Transformed Climate change Taming the Balkans A bearish outlook Too big to handle?
Ukraine, another would-be member, has 47m people, with an income per head of around $1,000 in 2003.Special report Meet the neighbours Transformed Climate change Taming the Balkans A bearish outlook Too big to handle?
An end to enlargement, of which some EU politicians now talk, would be just as bad.Special report Meet the neighbours Transformed Climate change Taming the Balkans A bearish outlook Too big to handle?
The German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, one of Turkey's staunchest friends within the EU, said in May that the country's heavy-handed policing methods, limits on freedom of expression, and discrimination against women, were "incompatible with [Europe's] common values".Special report Meet the neighbours Transformed Climate change Taming the Balkans A bearish outlook Too big to handle?
That may be a large part of the reason why democracy and growth have gone hand in hand in the post-communist world.Special report Meet the neighbours Transformed Climate change Taming the Balkans A bearish outlook Too big to handle?
