Sentences with phrase «19th century increased»

In short, a host of changes beginning in the late 19th century increased the demand for certain skills and knowledge.

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In 2010, Etsy sellers moved $ 314 million worth of merchandise — cuff links made from 19th - century shotgun shells ($ 50), knives forged by a master blacksmith in Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous year.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

Across the globe the top 1 % have increased their share of wealth and income to the steepest extreme since the Gilded Age of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Increasing historical sophistication has revealed the discontinuities between classical Wesleyanism and late 19th century Holiness thought in which the doctrine of «entire sanctification» was expounded from the accounts of Pentecost in the Book of Acts.

Because of that quantum increase, the best - known history of Christian expansion in English devoted three of its seven volumes to the 19th century alone, calling it The Great Century (Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity [Harper, 1939 - 45century alone, calling it The Great Century (Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity [Harper, 1939 - 45Century (Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity [Harper, 1939 - 45]-RRB-.

Now that the land was open to outsiders the number of external interfernces were rapdily increasing during the second half of the 19th century.

As Hamburger puts it, «by the end of the [19th] century, this flood of desires — even merely the need for a smoke — carried increasing numbers of Americans toward the separation of religion, especially a separation of church and state.»

This coincided with the appearance of improved infant formulas in the mid 19th century and its increased use, which accelerated after World War II.

In the late 19th century, peerages began to be awarded to industrialists with increasing frequency.

The surge in melt events corresponds to a summer temperature increase of at least 1.2 - 2 degrees Celsius (2.2 - 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) relative to the warmest periods of the 18th and 19th centuries, with nearly all of the increase occurring in the last 100 years.

Overhunting in the 19th and 20th centuries coupled with deforestation from increased development in modern times has reduced its population to historic lows.

The origins of the periodic table lie in the 19th century, when chemists noticed that patterns began to emerge among the known chemical elements when they were organised by increasing atomic weight.

They used two different climate models, each with a different sensitivity to carbon dioxide, to project California's future under two scenarios: an optimistic one, in which we only double the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — since the 19th century we've already increased it by about a third — and a pessimistic scenario, in which we more than triple CO2.

Although everyday experience shows that laminar motion in simple shear flows as in pipes or channels gives way to turbulence as the flow speed increases, the exact nature of this transition has remained a riddle since its first study in the 19th century.

«We observe a distinct increase in first record rates of vascular plants in the 19th century, probably as a result of the intensification of horticulture.

Modern social movements became possible through education (the wider dissemination of literature), and increased mobility of labour due to the industrialisation and urbanisation of 19th century societies.

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late - 19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human - made emissions into the atmosphere.

Since the beginning of the industrial age in the 19th century, CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased from 280 parts per million to 380 ppm.

The notion of a Boltzmann brain is built on 19th - century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann's idea that the entropy of a closed system — a measure of its disorder — always increases.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 % over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

Yet how can a barely discernible, one - degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes?

The increase in the early 20th century is well known from the instrumental record of global and hemispheric mean temperatures (which extends back into the mid 19th century).

Furthermore, since the end of the 19th century, we find an increasing variance in multidecadal hydroclimatic winter and spring, and this coincides with an increase in the multidecadal North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) variability, suggesting a significant influence of large - scale atmospheric circulation patterns.

Trees might well respond favorably to temperature increases in the cold 19th century but then not respond favorably to further increases in the 1990s and 2000s.

Since the 19th century, snowfall across Antarctica has increased by about 10 percent.

In the 19th Century, as American's urban population grew and the demand for wild meat increased, thousands of men became full - time pigeon hunters.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 percent over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

Technologic developments of the early and mid 19th century — such as the steam engine, mechanical reaper, and railroads — allowed for increased grain harvests and efficient transport of both grain and cattle, which in turn spawned the practice of feeding grain (corn primarily) to cattle sequestered in feedlots (66).

We're still waiting for America to replace an agrarian 19th century school calendar with an information age calendar that increases learning time on a par with other countries.

The pace of missionary expansion increased considerably after the first Anglo - Chinese war (known as the First Opium War, 1839 - 1842) with Christian missionaries, working under the protection of Western powers, playing a major role in Westernizing China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the latter half of the 19th century, Queen Victoria fell in love with the breed and became a loyal enthusiast, thus increasing the Border Collie's popularity.

Although much has been said about the ill - health of contemporary English Bulldogs, the English bulldog of the late 19th century also had its share of health problems and critics.5 Therefore, the English bulldog was not initially popular in the UK, although its popularity has greatly increased over the last decades in many affluent countries [3].

There was an increasing trend amongst architects in the 18th and 19th centuries to control every facet of an architectural commission.

The 19th century was a time of significant and rapidly increasing change.

Meanwhile, artist - in - residence Emily Hesse initiated her New Linthorpe project by revisiting the history of the 19th - century Linthorpe Art Pottery, which began life in Middlesbrough as a response to increasing unemployment and experimental platform for local clay in high - end ceramics.

The increase in the early 20th century is well known from the instrumental record of global and hemispheric mean temperatures (which extends back into the mid 19th century).

Can you decompose this into a part due to CO2 and a part due to whatever produced the rest of the increase since the 19th century?

This would seem to be inconsistent with the known path of increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere through both the 19th and 20th century, and the associated CO2 - fertilization effect on vegetative growth.

But I think it at least illustrates the point, which is that, while emissions have indeed been on an accelerating curve, the increase in atmospheric concentration did indeed start back around the beginning of the 19th century — not in the 1950s.

A simple calculation for the 19th and 18th centuries is quickly and easily done using results from their table 1 and figures 1 - 2: A back - of - the envelope calculation based on the 19th and 18th centuries suggests that the transfer functions now would yield an increase of almost 1K for the period 1900 - 2000, most of which should have been realized by 1980!

Of course, if one uses a smaller difference as like between the 18th and 19th century (about 3:1 / 4:1), that increases the error margins (the error margin is up to 50 % for the 18 / 19th century difference, 5 - 20 % for the others).

Even if increasing CO2 from 180 - 220 to 240 - 280ppmv was on balance, good for us is moot since nobody will have the power to force concentrations back to the pre-agricultural levels or even the levels of the 19th century any time soon.

However, there is absolutely no evidence for the link in the long - term trend over the three centuries (17th to 19th) since the increase is nearly linear.

3) Atmospheric levels of CO2 have been increasing since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 19th century.

The relative simplicity of the curve of the long - term data — a decrease in temperature from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, followed by a relatively steady increase to present — is extremely unusual for such a small area of the globe.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have also been steadily rising since the late 19th century, and man - made global warming theory predicts that increasing carbon dioxide should cause «man - made global warming».

The history of climate change goes back much further: in the 19th century, physicists theorised about the role of greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere, and several suggested that the warming effect would increase alongside the levels of these gases in the atmosphere.

There is no real debate in the peer - reviewed scientific literature over the fact that the unusual, accelerating global warming seen since the 19th Century is attributable to the increase of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere due to burning fossil fuels.

Periodic epidemics occurred since the late 19th century and they increase in size and frequency in the late 1940s and early 1950s.