Sentences with phrase «by mid century as»

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Our 7.3 billion numbers wreak havoc on the rest of the natural world as we cause extinction rates of other creatures at over 100 daily and hundreds of thousands by mid century.

«I am worried by the idea that by the mid part of this century, asking people to retire at 70 — incidentally, the age intended by Lloyd George in his great Act of 1908 — will be seen as the way to fix this problem, because we may not correct everything that we hope to correct just by increasing the state pension age and doing everything contained in this excellent Bill.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

The very first reference to tacos as a food seems to have been by miners in the mid to late 19th century in the regions near mexico city.

Be sure to check out booths by Galerie Ernst Hilger from Vienna, representing the works of artists such as Erró and Mel Ramos, along with exponents of Austrian modernism from the 1960s onward and the main exponents of the most important international art movements of the 20th century; Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer from Vienna, representing emerging and mid career artists; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac from London, Paris and Salzburg, specialised in international, contemporary art representing around 60 artists and a number of renowned estates; SUPPAN FINE ARTS from Vienna, focusing on international and modern as well as representatives of art after 1945; and PIFO Gallery from Beijing, representing a selection of Chinese and international artists with a core focus on minimalism and abstraction; among others.

The group show which reflects on color and on the investigation of modern art as well, taking as the starting point the followers of Hindu Tantric art (17th - century) and the Theosophists (19th - century) who used forms - colors as sources of meditating and immaterial transmission of thought, features the works of: Carla Accardi, Bas Jan Ader, Etel Adnan, Hilma af Klint, Josef Albers, Giovanni Anselmo, Karel Appel, Arman, Ed Atkins, John Baldessari, Giacomo Balla, Robert Barry, Lothar Baumgarten, Claude Bellegarde, Annie Besant (with Charles W. Leadbeater / painted by Lady MacFarlane & Mr Prince & John Varley), Jakayu Biljabu, Irma Blank, Norman Bluhm, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Kerstin Brätsch, Alberto Burri, André Cadere, Corrado Cagli, Alexander Calder, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Enrico Castellani, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Tony Cragg, Carlos Cruz - Diez, Giuliano Dal Molin, Sonia Delaunay, Nicola De Maria, Fortunato Depero, Nicolas de Staël, Piero Dorazio, Olafur Eliasson, Bracha Ettinger, Lara Favaretto, Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Katharina Fritsch, Vittorio Gallese, Giuseppe Pinot - Gallizio, Theaster Gates, Rupprecht Geiger, Leo Gestel, Piero Gilardi, Liam Gillick, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthard Graubner, Giorgio Griffa, Gruppo MID, Paul Guiragossian, David Hammons, Camille Henrot, Auguste Herbin, Arturo Herrera, Damien Hirst, Channa Horwitz, Johannes Itten, Alexej von Jawlensky, Asger Jorn, Donald Judd, Wassily Kandinsky, Anish Kapoor, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, František Kupka, Wolfgang Laib, Jim Lambie, Basim Magdy, Alberto Magnelli, Estuardo Maldonado, Antonio Mancini, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Gustav Metzger, Piet Mondrian, Maria Morganti, Edvard Munch, Gabriele Münter, Bruce Nauman, Sir Isaac Newton, Mario Nigro, Otobong Nkanga, Kenneth Noland, Hélio Oiticica, Giulio Paolini, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Pino Pascali, Eugénie Paultre, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Heather Phillipson, Francis Picabia, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Lea Porsager, Alejandro Puente, Walid Raad & The Atlas Group, Edi Rama, Gerhard Richter, Hans Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Mark Rothko, Thomas Ruff, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Luigi Russolo, Anri Sala, Mario Schifano, Shōzō Shimamoto, Ettore Spalletti, Simon Starling, Haim Steinbach, Hito Steyerl, Mika Tajima, Atsuko Tanaka, Cheyney Thompson, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Luis Tomasello, Giulio Turcato, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James Turrell, Viktor Vasarely, Alfredo Volpi, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Liu Wei, Lawrence Weiner, Marianne Werefkin, Ye Xianyan, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Gilberto Zorio.

These artworks reflect aesthetics that were already out of date within contemporary art by the time the episodes originally aired, but while they all relate to mid 20th century modernism, they are presented here as «futuristic» 24th century contemporary art.

With its new $ 305 million Snohetta - designed building, SFMOMA has nearly tripled its exhibition space (to a capacious 170,000 square feet), grown its collection by some 3,000 pieces through an ambitious Campaign for Art program and opened with a 270 - object showcase of the blue - chip Fisher Collection of mid - to late - 20th century art by such seminal figures as Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein and Agnes Martin.

Through January 6, 2013 Show Notes: Amon Carter Phillips Collection Information about the Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence at the Phillips Collection As a celebration of American art, The Phillips Collection has assembled masterworks from their collection by over 63 American artists from the end of the 19th Century to mid 20th Century.

This exhibition explores the works that came out of this interchange, showcasing paintings and drawings by artists such as Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Arshile Gorky as a means of demonstrating the enduring importance of Surrealism into the mid twentieth century.

Sarmento's moving image and performance works are rooted in a history of performance and conceptual art from the mid to late twentieth century, that uses the body as both a site of action and a tool — by the likes of Marina Abramović, Bruce Nauman, and Carolee Schneemann.

Recognizes that warming of the climate system is unequivocal and that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations, as assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in its Fourth Assessment Report;

It follows that, if they are not being dishonest, by «warm phase» they do not mean as warm as the mid to late twentieth century, but only warmer than the Little Ice Age.

And as Michael Kelly points out, the odds of sufficient technologies reaching maturity by mid century isn't anywhere close to being a sure thing.

The IPCC projections of sea level rise are based largely on the slow, steady and inexorable thermal expansion of the oceans (as water heats, its volume increases) with some additional contributions from the melting of mountain glaciers (almost all of which are expected to be gone by mid century).

To avoid this level of warming, large emitters such as the United States need to greatly reduce heat - trapping gas emissions by mid century.

Since large portions of the mid - and high latitude land areas have had increasing precipitation during the last half the 20th century, the question arises as to how much of this area is affected by increases in heavy and extreme precipitation rates.

And by the same token, it could be argued just as easily that demands for acting on the best scientific evidence and scientific opinion makes bedfellows of greens and the eugenicists of the early - mid 20th century.

Peak spring runoff is also projected to continue to occur earlier — 20 to 40 days earlier by the end of the century.7, 12 Scientists project stream flow at The Dalles on the Columbia River to peak as much as a month earlier by mid - century.13 On the western slopes of the Cascades, runoff between April and September is projected to drop by 30 percent or more by mid - century.2, 14

Coal offered roughly twice as much energy by weight as wood and by the mid - to late nineteenth century provided half of all the fuel consumed in Europe and the United States.

So I've had a closer albeit quick look at the abstracts citing it and I do see one paper by Xu and Ramanathan 2012 GRL that appears to argue for aerosol forcing as the cause of mid century cooling.

Best described (by another) as an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid 20th century.

Historically the area was obtained by the United States of America as a result of the Mexican - American War along with the rest of California, but before that was first settled by the Spanish Empire in the mid 16th century AD.

This difficulty would almost certainly be exacerbated by the elimination or reduction of incentives such as the mortgage interest deduction, says Fitchburg, Wis., practitioner David Stark: «The MID has been with us since the early part of the 20th century and is deeply embedded in the economics of our housing industry.

Add fresh colourful accessories such as printed cushions and table lamps.Be inspired by the styles you love — whether that's botanical, country, coastal or mid century — when choosing furniture and accessories.