Sentences with phrase «50of by late century»

These higher temperatures mean Indianapolis will see a likely increase of up to 15 additional deaths per 100,000 residents by late century, with a 1 - in - 20 chance of more than 31 additional deaths.

Figure 9.4: The maps show projected increases in the average temperature on the hottest days by late this century (2081 - 2100) relative to 1986 - 2005 under a scenario that assumes a rapid reduction in heat - trapping gases (RCP 2.6) and a scenario that assumes continued increases in these gases (RCP 8.5).

One tentative estimate put warming two or even three times higher than current middle - range forecasts of 3 to 4 °C based on a doubling of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which is likely by late this century.

Model projections for precipitation changes are less certain than those for temperature.12, 2 Under a higher emissions scenario (A2), global climate models (GCMs) project average winter and spring precipitation by late this century (2071 - 2099) to increase 10 % to 20 % relative to 1971 - 2000, while changes in summer and fall are not expected to be larger than natural variations.

Figure 9.4: The maps show projected increases in the average temperature on the hottest days by late this century (2081 - 2100) relative to 1986 - 2005 under a scenario that assumes a rapid reduction in heat - trapping gases (RCP 2.6) and a scenario that assumes continued increases in these gases (RCP 8.5).

Second, and even ignoring the 1940s - 1970s global cooling, for global temperatures to meet IPCC's predicted 2.4 degree rise by late this century, global temperatures must immediately — and that means immediately — begin rising at a sustained 0.30 degrees Celsius per decade.

Under a more moderate emissions scenario, the county can expect nearly 20 weeks of cold temperatures each year, on average, by late century.

Under a moderate emissions scenario, the county can expect 200 days of cold each year by late century.

The average annual number of sub-freezing days shifts from 244 to 160 by late century, a 35 % decline, under high emissions.

The average annual amount of cold days under a moderate emissions scenario by late century is 230.

That shrinks to seven weeks by late century.

Under a high emissions scenario, Blaine County can expect a 40 % decline in the number of days at or below freezing by late century, falling from a historical annual average of more than 200 days to about 120.

The county can expect an average of 15 weeks per year at or below freezing by late century under a high emissions scenario, compared to about 23 weeks of those temperatures from 1981 to 2010.

The name «Nevada» is Spanish for «snow - capped,» but winter temperatures in the county are projected to average just shy of 50oF by late century under a high emissions scenario, which could leave mountainous areas like Donner Summit covered in brown, not white.

An average of 194 days each year between 1981 and 2010 were at or below freezing, but that figure could be cut in half by late century if emissions continue to rise.

If global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the same pace that they did in the first decade of this century, ski resorts could see half as many sub-freezing days compared to historical averages by late century.

With temperatures expected climb at least another one to two degrees Celsius by late century, mountain farmers are facing huge challenges.

The 4 C number is possible by late this Century under business as usual fossil fuel burning and is possible long term (500 year time scales) under the continuous 490 ppm CO2e forcing now in place.

Annual precipitation increases of about 15 % to 30 % are projected for the region by late this century if global emissions continue to increase (A2).

In fact, a reasonable value for the average energy change by late this century is about those four watts.

By late this century, models on average project a slight decrease in the number of tropical cyclones each year, but an increase in the number of the strongest (Category 4 and 5) hurricanes and greater rainfall rates in hurricanes (increases of about 20 percent averaged near the center of hurricanes).

The climate of Michigan by late this century might resemble that of Oklahoma today, while that of Illinois might come to resemble Texas today.

Not exact matches

Two centuries later, France came around to the charms of the controversial tuber, thanks largely to a ruse engineered by military chemist and botanist Antoine - Augustin Parmentier and King Louis XVI, who was keen to find nutritious foods that could combat famine.

Forty - four major law firms and 55 corporate legal departments are teaming up to boost diversity in the legal profession by drawing on two inspirational figures: the late Dan Rooney, beloved owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Arabella Mansfield, a 19th century women's rights activist who became the first American woman admitted into the legal profession in 1869.

Moraga Estate, the only working winery in Bel - Air and home of Twenty - First Century Fox and Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch, appears to be the latest casualty of wildfires spread by the Santa Ana winds in Southern California.

The plantation mixes centuries - old traditions — most of the work is done by hand — and the latest agricultural methods.

This fundamental innovation was created during a remarkably short period of time — most of it between the late 1870s and the beginning of the 20th century — by a surprisingly small number of inventors, engineers and scientists.

Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

Known to most Americans as the company pitched by Bill Murray in the 2003 film Lost in Translation, and to the discerning few as the company behind Japanese single - malt whiskies Yamazaki and Hibiki, Suntory was founded in 1899 in Osaka and created Japan's first native whisky a quarter - century later.

First conceived by the 19th - century scientist and polymath, Sir Francis Galton, this theory was made popular in the late 1920s by Austrian psychotherapist Alfred Adler.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

As America industrialized in the late 19th century, the economy became dominated by big corporations.

By the late 19th century there was a counter-move in economics that redefined the idea of free markets.

They met at the American Century celebrity golf tournament in July 2006; he later came to the gift lounge sponsored by her adult film company, and he asked for her number before he invited her for dinner.

Before the Black Hills Gold Rush in the late 19th century, the area now known as Spearfish was inhabited by Native Americans.

Follow - up posts described historical experiences and compared the relative stability of the US and Canadian 19th century branching systems: Canadian banks demonstrated a much higher level of financial resilience thanks to their ability to open branches nationwide, compared to the great instability and recurrent crises experienced by large US state banks — whose ability to open branches in other states or districts was severely constrained by law — and later «unit» banks, which were not allowed to open branches altogether.

When the compass was invented by the Chinese during the Qin dynasty (221 - 206 B.C), it radically changed civilizations and ushered in many years later the Age of Exploration in the 15th century.

After all, nineteenth - century Lutheran theologians like Ritschl and Harnack were leading lights of what Troeltsch later called «Neo-Protestantism»; they were followed in the twentieth century by the likes of Bultmann, Ebeling, and lesser imitators fighting at all costs to save Lutheranism against Karl Barth's new orthodoxy or Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call to discipleship.

Authorship of John — many if not most NT scholars believe that John nor one of 12 wrote John; James — most agree not authored by James, and sometime in 2nd century AD; Peter — a mystery — some think that it could have been an early template for the other gospels; Luke — a mystery; Mark — finally it seems like we really might have another original author here — or were he and later Paul just using a very early Peter story?

Second, the «dark ages» if by that you meant the post-Roman period in Europe, is a historicization that has found its way into popular culture — Originally the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages, or roughly the 6th to 12th centuries, as a period of intellectual darkness between extinguishing the «light of Rome» after the end of Late Antiquity, and the rise of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century.

(Muslims have been in that neighborhood since the late 19th century, by the way.)

It was one of more than 800 monasteries closed by Henry VIII but the ruins later became a centre for the Picturesque art movement in the 18th century.

With postcolonial and newly globalized countries facing fundamentally the same transition two centuries later, Mitchell assumed they would want to hear about the solutions pioneered by the first country to face its uncertainties and disorientations.

The account that you refer to is at end of Mark 16:9 - 20 is not a Scripture, but is an addition by a later hand, appearing in certain Bible manuscripts and versions of the fifth and sixth centuries C.E..

I took this from a discussion of Jesus» bloodline that is in wikipedia - «Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been promoted by numerous books, websites and films of non-fiction and fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which have almost all been dismissed as works of pseudohistory and conspiracy theory.

By a.d. 732, a century later, Christians had lost Egypt, Palestine, Syria, North Africa, Spain, most of Asia Minor, and southern France.

The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a century apart: a long first - person narrative by a Handmaid in Gilead is followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st century, decades after Gilead's fall.

In the later part of the First Century the Early Church fathers recognized Peters position as set up by Christ Jesus.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.