Sentences with phrase «beginning of the next century»

Residents of the west side will have a new recreation area to see them through the beginning of the next century, officials said.
On a lower - emissions pathway, the world would get there closer to the beginning of the next century.
Using climate models, Radic found that these smaller mountain glaciers and ice caps may contribute more than 4.5 inches (12 centimeters) to world sea level rise by the beginning of the next century, even though they contain less than one percent of all water on Earth bound in glacier ice.
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues serial reports, often called the «gold standard» of climate research; the most recent one projects us to hit four degrees of warming by the beginning of the next century, should we stay the present course.

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But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.
Sometime during the next century, but beginning with actions now, man can terminate his population growth and balance this termination with a food production meeting the needs of his biological body.
In an interview with Next Wave, Patricia Chisholm, programme manager in the trust's career development section, promised that supervisors, too, would be asked for their opinions on the PhD experience at the beginning of the 21st century.
Restrictions set for SO2 emissions by the European Community and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution will begin to take effect early in the next century, and may limit coal to conventional stations fitted with flue - gas desulphurisation (FGD) equipment, which removes SO2 from exhaust gases, or to any purpose - built clean coal stations that will have been built.
Starting in the next century, atmospheric carbon levels could begin to approach those of hundreds of millions of years ago, and have their warming effect augmented by a brighter sun.
Virtually every team owner who's come into the sport of racing during the past half century has begun with the avowed or unspoken dream of becoming the next Roger Penske.
But he knows «next to nothing» about his mother's plan to make him walk 500 miles.He knows the Camino began around the reign of King Alfonso II - «whom responsible historians surely call The Fonz» - in the 9th century, and that, in the New Testament, Jesus referred to James and his brother John as «Sons of Thunder».
You can see the aftermath in the next set of graphs, which show the same interaction of market valuation and the volatility of inflation, but in this case during the three secular bear markets of last century, and the secular bear market beginning in 2000.
The next year Motherwell began to exhibit his work in New York and in 1944 he had his first one - person show at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery.
Pollock saw her work with critic Clement Greenberg in 1946 at Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century Gallery and the next year Pollock began flinging and pouring paint.
Next to a semi-permanent show of the vast collection ranging from the Middle Ages until the beginning of the 20th century, M hosts two floors of exhibition rooms with a surface of 4000m ² in which both ancient and contemporary art exhibitions are on show.
But with atmospheric carbon climbing at an annual rate of 2 ppm and expected to accelerate to 3 ppm, levels could approach 900 ppm by the end of the next century, and conditions that bring about the beginnings of ocean anoxia may be in place.
That is because any additional amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will remain there for a very long time (to the extent that our emissions this century will like prevent the next Ice Age due to begin 50 000 years from now).
On the one hand, continued melting from below — or increased melting from above (this isn't imminent, but will happen at some point in the next century or two)-- will eventually lead to a tipping point in time where rapid retreat begins, regardless of what ocean or air temperatures do from that point on.
«While in the most recent Climate Model Intercomparison Project 5 some models project a near ice - free Arctic during the summer minimum already toward the beginning of this century, other models keep a substantial amount of ice well into the next century,» Notz and Stroeve write.
New studies released on Monday show that a large portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have begun a slow but «unstoppable» collapse, with the demise of these glaciers taking place sometime during the next few centuries to as many as 1,000 years from now.
The report also highlights the fact that carbon dioxide concentration has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution from about 290 parts per million to about 340 today (1981) and that it is expected to double over the next century.
Over the next year or so I began to see fewer references from AGW supporters to the Industrial Revolution as a start point and more emphasis on the spread of industry in the early 20th century, until I came across anti arguments pointing out that after the rise of temps to the third and fourth decades the world began to cool again, considerably.
Assuming a good bit of this was added after the natural warming cycle was started we are probably looking at closer to 1200 ppm over the next century or two before C02 levels begin to decrease again as this natural green house locks up carbon primarily in phytoplankton blooms caused by fertilization from the new large desert regions near the equator and excessive erosion from very intense storm systems the develop in such a hot house climate.
«The cooling phase will last for about 45 - 65 years, for four to six 11 - year cycles of the Sun, after which on the Earth, at the beginning of the 22nd century, will begin the new, next quasi-bicentennial cycle of warming.»
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