Sentences with phrase «within decades to centuries»

Several authors suggest that the extinction crisis is already so severe, even without climate change included as a driver, that a mass extinction of species is plausible within decades to centuries.

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When, in the first decade of the 19th century, Thomas and Alexander Campbell immigrated from the north of Ireland to western Pennsylvania, the division and disarray within their own Presbyterian tradition as well as in the other Protestant churches of the frontier profoundly disturbed them.

-LSB-...] Though some may eschew the term, in the decades to come the great challenge for Christians will be to fashion, within the cultural and political conditions of the twenty - first century, a new kind of Christendom.»

But beginning in the last decades of the fifteenth century a vast expansion began, partly through attempts of minorities to bring «Christendom» to a nearer approximation to the standards seen in Christ and partly by explorations, conquests, and migrations which within the brief course of four centuries brought all the earth's surface under the control of «Christian» peoples.

Present research, however, aims to replicate the formation of these soils on new sites without depleting surrounding resources and within a time frame of decades as opposed to centuries.

Within a decade of Cannery Row's 1945 publication, though, the bay had been emptied of silver sardines, and now, a half century later, amid the jellyfish boom, something dire is happening to the bay once more.

This long view, they note, should add urgency to efforts to significantly curb carbon emissions within the next few decades, not gradually across the remainder of the 21st century.

«Plastics are very long - lived products that could potentially have service over decades, and yet our main use of these lightweight, inexpensive materials are as single - use items that will go to the garbage dump within a year, where they'll persist for centuries,» Richard Thompson, lead editor of the report, said in an interview.

Written within the last decade and set in the author's home state of Ohio roughly a quarter - century into the future, Ready Player One's plot is a wish - fulfillment rehash of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, in which the poorest but most pure - hearted of VR obsessives is pitted against the full forces of crass commercialism in a quest to inherit the factory that manufactures the world's dreams.

DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades by Bridget Goodbody DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings by Charles Schultz LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings by Sharon Butler Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN by Greg Lindquist DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 — 2011 by Corina Larkin LORI ELLISON by Corina Larkin GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers by Valery Oisteanu Dark Christmas by Bradley Rubenstein ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss by David Rhodes MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes by Robert Storr Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS by Charles Schultz THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France by Charles Schultz Anonymous Tantra Paintings by Noah Dillon SANGRAM MAJUMDAR New Work by Kara L. Rooney GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Father's Father by Paolo Javier SOTO Paris and Beyond, 1950 — 1970 by Cora Fisher JESS Paintings by Phong Bui GEORGE MCNEIL by Robert Berlind VICTOR MATTHEWS by Vincent Katz LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy by David Markus THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations by Kara L. Rooney MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch by Robert Berlind PETER GALLO by Jonathan Goodman Connected by Noah Dillon KANDINSKY's «Painting with White Border» by Susan Bee BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning by Robert Berlind December (Organized by Howie Chen) by Nathan Kernan EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect by Robert Berlind JOSÉ RIVERA by Nathan Kernan REMBRANDT»S WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection by Sara Christoph JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen by Linnea Kniaz The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini by Mira Schor BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt by Jonathan Goodman DOUG WADA Americana by Lilly Wei Mind the Gap by Anne Sherwood Pundyk BILL JENSEN by Ben La Rocco WITHIN / WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ by Zachary Wollard SUSANNA HELLER's Studio by Robert Berlind STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO by William Corwin Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy by Shane McAdams Letter from BERLIN by David Rhodes JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye by Robert C. Morgan GORDON MOORE by Joan Waltemath Master Bill at MoMA by Irving Sandler

The first publication to address the extensive holdings of contemporary art in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Modern Contemporary covers an international spectrum of art in a variety of mediums, all made within the final two decades of the 20th century.

Caro in Yorkshire, a joint exhibition by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Hepworth Wakefield, the Henry Moore Institute and the Leeds Art Gallery — independent institutions that have come together as the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle — will include works from throughout the career of one of the best - loved and most admired British sculptors of the 20th century, which spanned six decades and continued to within weeks of his death.

Historically tied to the United States Air Force industry of the mid-twentieth century, these «flight jackets» have throughout decades of popular use been reappropriated within different subcultures — assimilated by punks, skinheads, mods to neo-Nazis, the gay fetish scene and high - end fashion.

Within a decade, the neighborhood was the world's capital of art, and its converted cast - iron factories were as central to its character as parlors had been in Paris a half - century earlier.

Within a few decades Frank's suite of photographs, The Americans, came to be widely regarded as one of the most important photography books of the 20th century.

If you look at rates of change already and that changes are from decades to a century ahead of schedule, and think Arctic permafrost and clathrates have a realistic probability of breaking down on a massive scale within years or decades, then you take another.

If both Greenland and West Antarctica shed the entirety of their ice burden, global sea levels would rise by 12 to 14 m. Although these icecaps would not disintegrate within a century, the loss of even a third of their mass — quite plausible if the rate of polar ice loss continues to double each decade — would force up the oceans by at least 4 m, with disastrous socioeconomic and environmental consequences.

There will be some 100 billions tonnes of carbon returned to soils and ecosystems over the next 40 years — and we will of a necessity transition to 21st century energy sources and production techniques within decades for reasons that have nothing to do with global warming.

The challenge before us is to transform our 20th century carbon based energy model into a low or no carbon system within a matter of a few decades.

«A one dimensional model of heat conduction is used to show that surface trends are attenuated as a function of depth within conductive media on time scales of decades to centuries, therefore invalidating the above assumption given practical observational constraints.

Their analysis period varied from region to region, but within each region it generally spanned at least the last several decades, and for some regions much of the 20th century (Australia, United States, Norway, and South Africa).

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

-- New technology of this sort tends to follow an exponential growth curve, so that if properly managed it could become mature within a few decades, being then able to balance existing emissions and start a drawdown process that could quickly make up for the previous century's emissions.

Most projections suggest that that point will be reached sometime in the middle of the century, and, as another recent paper found, scientists» ability to pin down that date is limited by the natural variability of the sea ice system to within a couple of decades.

Within a few decades or a century, scientists say that the projected increase in the earth's atmosphere will give us little time to be able to deal with its effects.

Even after 2.0 C / century happens for a couple of decades in a row (which looks likely within the next sixty years barring aerosol emission increasing much faster than projections indicate), I'd still expect actual pauses to happen quite often.

There will be a transition to 21st century energy within decades.

As well as transition to 21st century energy within decades.

A transition to 21st century energy will occur within decades — but development won't wait for that.

Fossil evidence clearly demonstrates that Earth vs climate can shift gears within a decade, establishing new and different patterns that can persist for decades to centuries....

Therefore, conditions detrimental to high - latitude ecosystems could develop within decades, not centuries as suggested previously (Orr et al., 2005).

And that this rate is detectable to within tenths of a degree per year, per decade, per century.

Vincentrj # 28 you are unclear re the division of your opinions / inferences between the 3 basic sub-topics (1) heat is entering the oceans due to radiative imbalance due to humans burning carbon fuels (2) the heat rate coupled with its estimated duration (based on its cause) will make it within a few decades become unprecedented during the last several thousand years and same for the surface temperature rise that will be required to stop it (3) the effects on flora & fauna will be highly negative even within this century and more so for centuries and millenia thereafter, in particular the human species which has softened much and expects much more since the days when a mammoth tusk through the groin was met with «well Og's had it, press on».

This again would get us to only one independent decade that would not fall within the range predicted by the hypothesis as represented by the very silly IPCC statement of 0.2C - 0.5 C per decade for a century.

In this paper, Broecker correctly predicted «that the present cooling trend will, within a decade or so, give way to a pronounced warming induced by carbon dioxide», and that «by early in the next century [carbon dioxide] will have driven the mean planetary temperature beyond the limits experienced during the last 1000 years».

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.