Sentences with phrase «century at a greater rate»

«Global sea level is projected to rise during the 21st century at a greater rate than during 1961 to 2003,» the IPCC report suggests, saying that the rate will be at 4 millimeters (0.15 inches) per year.

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You know, America created, in the 20th century, the greatest middle - class in the history of the world by educating our people at an unprecedented rate.

Instead, the rate of warming during the first fifteen years of the 21st century is at least as great as that in the last half of the 20th century, suggesting warming is continuing apace.

The Fellowship Of The Ring — It's hard to rate the Lord Of The Rings films separately, because they were made at the same time and are meant to be seen together and are really three parts of one great movie that's probably the most impressive film achievement of this century so far, if not the best.

Dr. Visher added that CTE can have a positive impact on graduation rates — the idea is that CTE brings increased engagement and awareness, as well as greater 21st century skills, and this will turn into greater knowledge and credit accumulation, which will help students graduate high school at higher rates.

At any rate, he retained a lifelong interest in capturing the interplay of light and colour, and remains one of the great modern artists of the early 20th century.

Sea level is projected to rise at an even greater rate in this century.

There are many studies, which confirm that it was warmer earlier this century, with a rate of warming that was also greater, but I always like to look at actual physical data.

«If sea ice declines at the rates projected by the IPCC climate models, and continues to influence emperor penguins as it did in the second half of the 20th century in Terre Adélie, at least two - thirds of the colonies are projected to have declined by greater than 50 % from their current size by 2100,» Dr Jenouvrier said.

The implication is that even though other teams have repeatedly warned that the world's reefs are in peril as the world warms because of ever - greater ratios of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as a consequence of human combustion of fossil fuels at a profligate rate, the world's great reefs may survive for perhaps another century, rather than perish within the next 50 years.

The new analysis reveals that global trends in recent decades are higher than reported in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, and the central estimate for the rate of warming during the first 15 years of the 21st century is at least as great as the last half of the 20th century.

They conclude, in the journal Science, that the «estimate for the rate of warming during the first 15 years of the 21st century is at least as great as the last half of the 20th century.

According to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the rate of warming during the first 15 years of the twenty - first century has been at least as great as the last half of the twentieth century.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1 Earth - orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale.