Sentences with phrase «at least a few decades of»

The good news is that the solutions may be simple, and most of the mature trees still have at least a few decades of productivity left.

Not exact matches

«People who live at least another few decades will likely be affected by diminished funding of Social Security, and also the economic impacts that impact the broader economy, including rising interest rates and inflation,» Hamrick said.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

A few decades ago, having a high school diploma meant you at least had the education, background and ambition to complete the «bare minimum» of educational expectations.

I have gotten rambling a little here but my question to you your thoughts on this statement: «If money or rather the established institution that is the world market, is the reason that throughout at leastthe past few decades, than it would be right to take from those who have much much more than they need and give to those who are at least the poorest of the world, those in need.»

The rich countries, that favour globalization, have been supportive of almost all the right wing dictators of the past few decades, at least till they were about to fall due to popular discontent.

As is evident from Prof. Levenson's full (rather than selectively edited) comments, he was referring to the instinctive repugnances of the past, which, at least in the United States, have, over the past few decades, been significantly overcome.

After a decade or so, the laughter will begin; heads will fondly shake at the naivete of the project, at least among the few who have any recollection of it; and computers will remain blissfully unconscious of the whole silly episode.

This allows New York to redeem itself from the ignominious status of place dead last in turnout nationwide this year and in the nation with fewer voters going to the polls than in any midterm election for at least three decades.

The current boom in private spacecraft designs (for example) shows the kind of inventiveness and flexibility that NASA could have practiced or at least funded for the past few decades if not for the shuttle.

About 15 % of the world's land areas — and more than half of the world's cities with at least 3 million people — face what Shedlock calls «high to very high risk» of severe shaking in the next few decades.

Although large freight railway traffic (measured in carloads) is down 19 percent this year due to the recessed economy, it grew 47 percent between 1990 and 2007, and railroads have been more fuel - efficient than trucking for at least the past few decades, according to the Association of American Railroads.

But at least a few physicists now argue that Einstein was far ahead of his time, raising questions that will challenge researchers for decades.

Lead author, Dr Huw Griffiths from BAS says: «While a few species might thrive at least during the early decades of warming, the future for a whole range of invertebrates from starfish to corals is bleak, and there's nowhere to swim to, nowhere to hide when you're sitting on the bottom of the world's coldest and most southerly ocean and it's getting warmer by the decade.»

This suggests that the cultural change of the last few decades extends beyond simple tolerance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals and their civil rights to include acceptance of same - sex sexuality and the freedom to engage in same - sex sexuality — or at least the freedom to report one has done so on a survey.

This is also why the Arctic Ocean could be completely ice - free for at least part of the summer within a few decades.

It's easy to take for granted how prescient Sidney Lumet's Network actually was for its 1976 release: the onslaught of vapid reality shows was still a few decades away, evangelical television and Fox News had yet to surface, and though the country was shaken up by corrupt politics, at least people still recognized the important of the fifth estate due to events like Watergate.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

Instead, as we have been told many times by many individuals over the course of many decades (a few fingers might have been wagged in our face in the process) the most important thing about a Beetle convertible is its ability to transport you to a place where the handbags and shoes are all snappy, every car has a steering wheel with a white rim, and a young woman feels as if she's the star of her very own fashion photo shoot in the south of France — or California, at least.

In addition, their younger sisters who have been marrying during this past decade are simply having fewer births at least during their early years of marriage.

I understand that it's somewhat riskier in the short term, but over the span of a few decades, realistically speaking it should perform at least as good as a portfolio invested in a total market kind of fund.

For at least a decade in New York, there have been few opportunities to see Mr. Schnabel's work in person, a strange fate for one of the most famous and prolific artists in the world.

To date, I think that the sensitivity has been overestimated by the equilibrium calculations and the GCMs, and the benefits of increased CO2 over at least the next few decades have been underestimated.

and the benefits of increased CO2 over at least the next few decades... if the increased CO2 produces increased vegetation and crop growth....

If I understand your wager correctly, you want to bet that anthropogenic influences will be responsible for at least a tiny fraction of the warming of the earth that most people expect to occur in the next few decades.

Air and water are cleaner and pesticides less toxic than a few decades ago, at least in some parts of the world.

Steve: I think the results from Hoyos et al. fit nicely with our GRL results — SSTs are only part of the equation (at least in the North Atlantic — and neither paper makes it clear that anthropogenic effects are the primary cause of the warming of Atlantic SSTs during the past few decades.

No detailed assessment of the speed of change involved seems to have been made within the literature (though it should be possible to make such assessments from the ice core record), but the short duration of these events at least suggests changes that took only a few decades or less to occur.

The main line of argument now is that, granted that global warming is real, we should do nothing about it, at least for the next few decades.

And why quibble about a few paragraphs of my typically fluid, elegant, lively and concise writing — with some fascinating points on the natural science of the Earth system — when he has wasted a decade at least repeating the same little meme?

And right now the sun is well into a period of much lower activity, meaning it sure looks like we're heading for lower temperatures for a period probably to last at least a few decades.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

There's no reason I can think of that long - term and short - term response of the troposphere to warming / cooling events (at least between the scale of a few years to a few decades that's the issue here) would be any different.

Back on earth, we know (thanks to Takahashi et al, Sabine et al, and lots of others) that the ocean has been a net carbon sink for the atmosphere for at least the past few decades.

These considerations make it very likely that at least some populations and species would likely go extinct, and even more will likely drop below viable numbers of individuals within the next few decades simply because they could not disperse across fragmented landscapes fast enough to keep pace with movement of their required climate zones.

Indeed, if this is the situation it is really impossible to forecast climate change for at least a few decades and the practical usefulness of these kind of GCMs is quite limited and potentially very misleading because the model can project a 10 - year warming while then the «red - noise» dynamics of the climate system changes completely the projected pattern!

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

Offhand, I don't see a ready extrapolation from these successful efforts to the central problem we face, that of getting people to do with less for at least a few decades.

This in turn will require the overturning of some parts of general radiative theory, or at least, a few decades of spectroscopic experiments, which consequently will surely require the overturning of..

Few people would argue that the planet has warmed to some extent over the past three decades, and many people feel that humans caused at least some part of this warming through their consumption of fossil fuels.

Mr Pascoe is right to say that the substantially increased amount of legislation of the past few decades was at least partially a reaction to the Second World War.

Building a kind of apprenticeship into the early years of law practice is a novel idea, at least during the last few decades.

Individual judgments have lengthened at all levels in the past few decades, at least in courts of record, as the volumes of the law reports confirm.

Over the four decades of coaching / mentoring and training agents of all cultures and races, I find it astonishing that so few agents excel and make a decent living of at least $ 100,000 per annum.