Sentences with phrase «over the past century there»

Over the past century there are countless datasets indicating warming (weather stations, sea level, ice mass, ocean temperatures, etc.).

Not exact matches

CBS went on to pass on all of its other pilots, leaving HIMYD alive, though there had been little back - and - forth between CBS and studio 20th Century Fox TV over the past few days.

There's also no mention in the Casey article that over the past 10 years China has experienced the greatest mal - investment in centuries.

The most extraordinary Christian growth over the past century has come in Africa: home to 8.7 million Christians in 1900, 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be as many African Christians as Latin American and European Christians combined.

The efforts undertaken again and again over the past century to trace a line of continuity from the historical Jesus to Paul and from there to our church have been all too tenuous — more ingenious than convincing.

In what was a truly dismal season considering the standards Manchester United have set over the past quarter century, there have been a lot of murmurs that they need up to six or seven players in order to compete next year.

There have been substantial declines in smoking prevalence over the past half century in the United States, although the rate of this decline has decelerated in recent years among various groups.

To discover whether there had been any change in bird size over the past century, Janet Gardner of the Australian National University in Canberra and colleagues measured the wingspan of 517 birds held in museum collections.

Dlugokencky, in an e-mail, wrote there have been «no significant increases in Arctic emissions over the past few decades» and that it would take «centuries» for warming to affect methane hydrate — bearing sediments.

«Basically, over the past quarter century, there have been six research articles that are useful in identifying someone who is likely to engage in terrorism,» Desmarais says.

«There's a perception that jellyfish numbers are exploding in the world's oceans,» says marine scientist Rob Condon of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, «but there's no real evidence for a global increase in jellyfish over the past two centuries.&rThere's a perception that jellyfish numbers are exploding in the world's oceans,» says marine scientist Rob Condon of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, «but there's no real evidence for a global increase in jellyfish over the past two centuries.&rthere's no real evidence for a global increase in jellyfish over the past two centuries.»

If the knowledge we've accumulated over the past century (or even the past decade) has taught us anything, it's that there are few absolute truths when it comes to human genetics.

Despite the magnitude of this rise, no islands have been lost, the majority have enlarged, and there has been a 7.3 % increase in net island area over the past century (A.D. 1897 — 2013).»

Over the past century, there has been a massive shift from manual growing practices to the use of machines, pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers in farming.

Over the past century though, there has been a significant decrease in magnesium intake (1).

As you know, there have been many times in the past where people panicked over technology displacing workers, starting with the Luddites in the 19th century.

Over the past half century, there has been a shift in where blacks and whites reside within Muscogee County.

There have been quite a few bigger national and smaller local and regional credit unions on the scene over the past century and a half, but most lenders and financial institutions now use one of the main «big three» credit bureaus.

There are 19 individually furnished rooms and suites, each named after a famous person who has stayed here over the past centuries.

Over the past centuries, and especially in the past few decades, there has been a constant writing and overwriting of history and its physical manifestations in architecture.

Thus it appears that, provided further satellite cloud data confirms the cosmic ray flux low cloud seeding hypothesis, and no other factors were involved over the past 150 years (e.g., variability of other cloud layers) then there is a potential for solar activity induced changes in cloudiness and irradiance to account for a significant part of the global warming experienced during the 20th century, with the possible exception of the last two decades.

Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now.1, 2

For example, recent results from the Met Office do show that there is a detectable human impact in the long - term decline in sea ice over the past 30 years, and all the evidence points to a complete loss of summer sea ice much later this century.

The discovery in the mid 19th century that there had been ice ages in the distant past proved that climate could change radically over much of the globe, a change vastly beyond anything mere humans seemed able to cause.

In March 2009, Michaels, under the auspices of the Cato Institute, circulated a draft advertisement that stated: «Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now... The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior.»

While there was no apparent change in drought duration in the Midwest region as a whole over the past century, 90 the average number of days without precipitation is projected to increase in the future.

Finally, at least some of the pollutants we've emitted over the past century will, on our current understanding, stay there for hundreds or thousands of years, leading to long term problems of sea level rise.

In conclusion, there is simply no supporting evidence or physics behind the claim that the global warming over the past century could simply be attributed to internal variability.

If there have been 15 year flat stretches of no warming due to natural variability over the past century, and if most of the warming of the past century has taken place since the 1950s, then the flat stretches due to natural variability should be getting shorter.

There were less stations in the past and new stations were being added all the time over the past century, along with some being dropped.

While it is highly likely that our climate will continue to change, as it has over past centuries, it is NOT at all clear that there will be a «profoundly changed Earth»; it is even LESS clear how this «profoundly changed Earth» will look.

Specifically, smoothing sea - level data (adjusting for natural variability of ENSO) over the past century fits most closely with a 4th degree polynomial model, and there has very likely not been any slowing in the longer - term background rate of sea level rise over the period of the tropospheric «pause».

Chris Mooney reports today that there's also a very simple reason: global warming has raised sea levels by about eight inches over the past century, and this means that when Sandy swept ashore it had eight extra inches of water to throw at us.

Back to Lee and his comments about decline of the masses in USA: there are many things at work with this transformation of people over past century but you can be damn sure that the Elites and there tool known as «Federal Reserve» played a large part in this transformation.

There is no evidence of heightened erosion over the past half - century as sea - level rise accelerated.

Despite the magnitude of this rise, no islands have been lost, the majority have enlarged, and there has been a 7.3 % increase in net island area over the past century (A.D. 1897 — 2013).

Over the past few hundred years, there has been a steady increase in the numbers of sunspots, a trend that has accelerated in the past century, just at the time when the Earth has been getting warmer.

And now that temperatures have been falling for the last seven years and falling at a rate of about 0.4 degrees Celsius per century according to the Hadley Center's records, or per decade I should say, the overall effect is that there has been no increase in the long - run warming rate over the past 300 years.

The study confirms past estimates of likely rapid climate change over the next century if there are not major climate - change policies.

Note this statement by Nordhaus: «The study confirms past estimates of likely rapid climate change over the next century if there are not major climate - change policies.»

I don't know how the real cost of energy has changed over the past one or two centuries, but I understand there was a substantial cost increase in the 1970s.

There are subtle differences in how they analyze temperature data, but there's generally broad agreement, particularly the upward trend in temperatures over the past cenThere are subtle differences in how they analyze temperature data, but there's generally broad agreement, particularly the upward trend in temperatures over the past centhere's generally broad agreement, particularly the upward trend in temperatures over the past century.

Instead of the warming equivalent to 2.33 Cº / century global warming that had been «anticipated», there has really been no change in global temperature at all over the past five or ten years.

There has been some warming over the past century, though it stopped about a decade and a half ago.

The first point contorts the obvious fact that there has been no statistically significant warming for about the past fifteen years into a claim that we did not make: that there has been no warming over the past two centuries.

Bear in mind too that very few scientists close to the problem, when asked the specific question, would say there is only a very small possibility (for example, less than 5 per cent) that internal ocean behaviour could be a major cause of the warming over the past half - century (27).

Sea level there has been rising steadily at 2.3 mm / year over the past century.

The quality of feed has also improved with pasture improvements so there is no doubt at all that Australian livestock have made zero contribution to the doubling of global atmospheric methane over the past century.

There are subtle differences among the sets, but they all point to the same general conclusion — that the earth has warmed by about 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century and a half.

Over the past 100 years there is a statistically significant upward trend in the data amounting to about 0.7 oC per century.