Sentences with phrase «century increase in»

Trenberth is perfectly at liberty using an H0 that «AGHG cause more than 50 % of the 20th century increase in global temperatures» (say).

(Its most recent report, in 2007, concluded that most of the twentieth - century increase in global average temperatures was «very likely» due to human activities, and that world temperatures could rise between 1.1 and 6.4 °C during the twenty - first century.)

«There is no solid scientific evidence to date that global warming has been a major driving force of the twentieth century increase in epidemic infectious diseases,» he said.

These values are slightly larger than the average upward trend of 1.3 nT / century reported by Macmillan and Droujinina [2007] or the 2.45 nT / century increase in the eastward component reported by Svalgaard [2009], but smaller than the trends of 4.8 — 8 nT / century reported by Elias et al. [2010].

And that truth is that there is no conclusive evidence that any of the 20th century increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is or is not due to the burning of fossil fuels.

Richard concludes: «there is no conclusive evidence that any of the 20th century increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is or is not due to the burning of fossil fuels.»

In summation, the known facts (listed as points 1 to 10 above) demonstrate that there is no conclusive evidence that any of the 20th century increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is or is not due to the burning of fossil fuels.

The continued forcing from CO2 over this period is substantial, not to mention «warming in the pipeline» from late 20th century increase in CO2.

If the risk for such an event during this century increased in a steady, linear fashion, it would mean that there was a 6 percent chance of having Harvey's magnitude of rainfall in Texas this year.

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In 2010, Etsy sellers moved $ 314 million worth of merchandise — cuff links made from 19th - century shotgun shells ($ 50), knives forged by a master blacksmith in Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous yeaIn 2010, Etsy sellers moved $ 314 million worth of merchandise — cuff links made from 19th - century shotgun shells ($ 50), knives forged by a master blacksmith in Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous yeain Albuquerque ($ 150), sweaters knit by a grandmother in Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous yeain Portugal ($ 225)-- a 74 percent increase over the previous year.

As the 21st century is well on its way, motivated individuals and freethinking employees are embracing the entrepreneurial spirit in ever - increasing numbers.

Most of this research backs what happiness gurus have been telling us since before R. H. Tawney wrote about The Acquisitive Society a century ago: that the constant pursuit of more and better stuff — higher salaries, privilege and the baubles that accompany success — doesn't result in increased happiness.

Despite this, these numbers have been increasing exponentially in the 21st century, considering that in 1995 only 1 % of the world was connected to the Web.

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

But the further facts are, first, that that increase is attributable to a temporary unbalance between Jewish birth rate and Jewish death rate in Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century, second, that that unbalance has largely corrected itself, and, third, that the gates of immigration into the United States are now closed.

The body of water set to see a fivefold increase in oil tankers has been an industrial and transportation hub for more than a century.

In 2015, vehicle - miles traveled increased about 3.5 percent over 2014 — the greatest growth in a quarter - centurIn 2015, vehicle - miles traveled increased about 3.5 percent over 2014 — the greatest growth in a quarter - centurin a quarter - century.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

Projected increases in average U.S. temperatures «could reduce U.S. economic growth by up to one - third over the next century,» according to a Richmond Fed paper.

One of the biggest challenges facing all levels of government in the 21st Century has been Canadians» increasing reluctance to pay the higher taxes needed to fund the services they want.

21ST - CENTURY DETECTION AND PREVENTION Value Chain Track As the burden of chronic ailments increases along with our aging populations, public health experts are in near - universal agreement that we need to a far better job of preventing disease.

These higher temperatures mean Indianapolis will see a likely increase of up to 15 additional deaths per 100,000 residents by late century, with a 1 - in - 20 chance of more than 31 additional deaths.

The Board believes it important to increase engagement moving forward, and notes that the precedent for this relationship and two - way communication goes back a century, to the direct benefit of all citizens and businesses in Metro Vancouver.

Over the 20th century, average household size declined reflecting increased incomes and demographic factors, notably a lower birth rate and an increase in the share of single adult households with or without children (Graph 2).

With Trade Promotion Authority, the United States will be able to pursue 21st century trade agreements that support and create U.S. jobs while helping American manufacturers, service providers, farmers and ranchers increase U.S. exports and compete in a highly competitive, globalized economy.

Authors generally maintain that the pre-tribulation Rapture doctrine originated in the eighteenth century, with the Puritan preachers Increase and Cotton Mather, and was then popularized in the 1830s by John Darby.

Looking at the figures, showing steadily increasing numbers of pilgrims (with peaks in the Jubilee Years: next one 2021) it seems to me that the turning point in 20th Century numbers was in 1982, the first pilgrimage to Santiago of St John Paul II.

From the decision at the Jerusalem Council to free new converts from Jewish Law, to the debates of the third of fourth century that led to the biblical cannon the Apostle's Creed, to the Protestant Reformation which resulted in increased availability of Scripture, to the Galilean controversy which opened and changed minds, the story of the Church is a story of constant adaptation and change.

As the centuries passed, however, «holiness» changed its meaning, and in the change can be seen the increasing possibility of private prayer.

What was discovered in the eighteenth century was that there was a way to increase the wealth available to the society.

As part of the increasing dominance of technical reason the idea has grown up, at least in the 20th century, that positive freedom is a purely technical problem, one that should be left to the experts and the bureaucrats to solve.

But it is worth recalling that many Catholic laity were already worried about the increasing role of the state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Moreover, the recent increase in the number of applicants for priestly formation demonstrates both the enduring influence of John Paul II (who many 21st - century seminarians continue to identify as their role model) and the importance of a strong sense of Catholic identity in attracting and forming future pastors.

century to date, together with increased attention to «North / South» economic issues, «East / West» peace issues, and threats to the global environment, have all found a voice in European theology.

Observing that the rates of clinical depression in the U.S. have tripled in the past quarter century of increased choice, Schwartz echoes Durkheim's proposition that suicide rates are directly proportional to rates of egoism and anomie.

Increasing historical sophistication has revealed the discontinuities between classical Wesleyanism and late 19th century Holiness thought in which the doctrine of «entire sanctification» was expounded from the accounts of Pentecost in the Book of Acts.

Social scientific interest in the «religion factor» has increased greatly in the last quarter century, and we have assiduous monitoring by such as George Gallup and his Princeton Religion Research Center.

And if anyone is afraid that he is in for some kind of esoteric rigmarole, may I try to alleviate his fears by remarking that the lecturers are all children of the twentieth century as much as they are professing Christians, alive to the astounding advances of contemporary science and technology, alive also to the deep — seated moral and cultural skepticism which has developed side by side with an increasing moral passion and sensitivity.

Because of that quantum increase, the best - known history of Christian expansion in English devoted three of its seven volumes to the 19th century alone, calling it The Great Century (Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity [Harper, 1939 - 45century alone, calling it The Great Century (Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity [Harper, 1939 - 45Century (Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity [Harper, 1939 - 45]-RRB-.

Historical changes that each find disturbing, whether the reduction of marriage to a private relationship in the past century or the increased number of working mothers in recent decades, are described as unprecedented, ominous or cataclysmic.

Meanwhile, Protestant thought, influenced by the moral idealism and historical optimism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed a similar course but moved closer and closer to a form of utopian pacifism in which war would be eliminated because of the increasing perfection of human social institutions.

Grow up, put the bottle down, ask for an increase in your medication and learn to live in this century.

The revival of mysticism at the turn of the century was in part a reaction against determinism and against the increasing specialization of knowledge.

For example, who really notices that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by 25 per cent since the middle of the nineteenth century (as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, along with destruction of rainforests)?

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Second, the increasing number of ministry entities associated with the SBC created the turn - of - the century version of «donor fatigue» in the convention.

This would explain the increasing mathematical sophistication of the economic models from the «political economy» of Adam Smith to the marginal analysis of Marshall in the nineteenth century, and the complexmathematics of modern economics, but at a cost of decreasing relevance to the real world.

Rather, civic engagement seems to have steadily increased for the first two - thirds of the century, stagnating and declining only in the last third.

(b) The development of the technology of public health — which has increased life expectancy in the past century and is responsible for the «population explosion».

As Geifman notes, Russia's «urban populace swelled from around 9 million people in the mid-19th century to about 25 million in 1913, with inhabitants of most major Russian cities increasing four - or five-fold,» leading to a «breakdown of social values.»