Sentences with phrase «change by late this century»

In fact, a reasonable value for the average energy change by late this century is about those four watts.

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When the compass was invented by the Chinese during the Qin dynasty (221 - 206 B.C), it radically changed civilizations and ushered in many years later the Age of Exploration in the 15th century.

It's important to remember that a similar change, also shaped by social, economic and technological developments, occurred in the late 19th century industrialization, urbanization and immigration caused people to move from the village to the city.

This general view finds its fullest and clearest New Testament expression in the Fourth Gospel, was elaborated in the great creedal discussions of several centuries later, and was finally and definitively formulated by the Council of Chalcedon in 451: «One and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of the natures being by no means taken away because of the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved and concurring in one person.

By the late second century, a mounting fear of deteriorative change and a corresponding stress on material continuity led the church to mute Paul's language.

By the late nineteenth century, momentous changes had been brought about as a result of the Industrial Revolution.

By the late nineteenth century, the industrialization of the food supply, along with increased advertising, had laid important groundwork for changing recommendations concerning infant care and feeding.

The autumn foliage season in some areas of the United States could come much later and possibly last a little longer by the end of the century as climate change causes summer temperatures to linger later into the year, according to Princeton University researchers.

During the PETM, atmospheric carbon dioxide more than doubled and global temperatures rose by 5 degrees Celsius, an increase that is comparable with the change that may occur by later next century on modern Earth.

The full effects on the global climate will come later, and even if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere stabilises at double today's levels the International Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC) estimates that by end of the 21st century the global temperature will have increased by between 1.5 °C and 4.5 °C.

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late - 19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human - made emissions into the atmosphere.

Further warming will not only «very likely» drive further such changes but also likely intensify droughts and tropical cyclones by late in the century, at least in the western North Pacific and North Atlantic.

In its latest assessment report published in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that by the end of the century sea level rise was most likely to be between 28 and 43 cm.

Growing keenly aware of the changing religious and political tides of late 16th century Europe, Elizabeth finds her rule openly challenged by the Spanish King Philip II (Jordi Molla - with his powerful army and sea - dominating armada - determined to restore England to Catholicism.

Growing keenly aware of the changing religious and political tides of late 16th century Europe, Elizabeth finds her rule openly challenged by the Spanish King Philip II (Jordi Molla)-- with his powerful army and sea - dominating armada — determined to restore England to Catholicism.

The intentional changing or at least ignoring of it in casting the role of MCU lynchpin Nick Fury and producing a Black Panther film for 2018 and a Luke Cage television series for later this year doesn't bestow upon them immunity by any stretch of the imagination, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems relatively inclusive if at the same time mostly faithful to the mostly mid-20th Century created comic book origins - depictions of their headline characters.

We had begun to define ourselves by our possessions and by the perceptions of others to a degree that was fundamentally new and in a way that reflected or perhaps derived from profound changes in the ways in which people in the late twentieth century had begun to see the world.»

This exhibition tour will explain how color was used by the impressionists and op artists: while Claude Monet was aiming to capture elusive natural colors and lights within a canvas, a century later Carlos Cruz - Diez used light and color for creating pieces that can change in space and time.

Much has changed since MOLAA's early days and this exhibit celebrates the museum's evolution from a fledgling institution — founded by the late Dr. Robert Gumbiner — to a nationally recognized 21st century museum dedicated to Modern and Contemporary Latin American art.

Not only were the great collections that changed hands in the 19th and 20th centuries lost by the Corcoran to institutions in other cities and later to the National Gallery and the Smithsonian, but seminal movements in American art, such as the emergence in the 1950s and»60s of abstract expressionism, pop art and even the Washington Color School (which started in its own back yard!)

Inspired by pioneers like John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28) from the school of English landscape painting, as well as Theodore Rousseau (1812 - 67) and Jean - Francois Millet (1814 - 75), and initially linked with the Naturalist and Realist movements, which were themselves a reaction to the social changes caused by the Industrial Revolution, the principles of plein - air art later formed the core of Impressionism - specifically Impressionist landscape painting - as practised by Monet (1840 - 1926) during the last 30 years of the century.

If changing to energy intensive agriculture allows more food to be produced by just 2 % of Indian farmers on half of the previous land, that should be no more frightening than when the other 98 % of US and Canadian farmers migrated to cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The latest IPCC report on climate change notes that our society will likely need net negative emissions by the end of the century to avoid a 2 degree C warming.

According to the latest projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the projected temperature rise by the end of the century ranges from about 1.1 to 6.4 °C, with a business - as - usual rise of around 3 °C (put me down for 1.6 ° until then, unless nature is being a blatant liar).

In other words, many of the effects of human changes even initiated decades (or even centuries) ago will not manifest themselves on provisioning ecological services for many years, and perhaps only decades into the future, by which time it will be too late to do anything, and the quality of life for our species will drop rapidly and precipitously.

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Model projections for precipitation changes are less certain than those for temperature.12, 2 Under a higher emissions scenario (A2), global climate models (GCMs) project average winter and spring precipitation by late this century (2071 - 2099) to increase 10 % to 20 % relative to 1971 - 2000, while changes in summer and fall are not expected to be larger than natural variations.

The study by Macias & Johnson (2008) provides not only evidence for the link between decadal - scale changes in the teleconnection patterns (e.g. the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) index) and the increased fire frequency in the late twentieth century but also an explanation of why the pattern of fire variability and fire - climate relationships changes at different time scales from centennial / decadal to interannual.....

The text also states that cumulative CO2 emissions largely determine global mean surface warming by the late 21st century and beyond, and that most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries even if CO2 emissions stop.

Changes in water runoff into rivers and streams are another expected consequence of climate change by the late 21st Century.

Plays in Time collects four plays by Karen Malpede set during influential events from the late twentieth century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture program; and the heroism of climate scientists facing attack from well - funded climate change deniers.

Achieving a binding agreement by Paris next year in order to prevent runaway climate change later this century is looking far less likely than when we arrived in Lima at the end of November.

In her September 25 article on the latest UN climate scare report, Eilperin wrote: «Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.»

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assesses the skill of climate models by their ability to reproduce warming over the twentieth century...

Fifty years later, the impending Paris international climate negotiations represent our last chance to heed the expert counsel about the dangers posed by human - caused climate change before we're fully committed to the deleterious consequences that climate scientists have been warning us about for a half century.

The average temperature in the first six months of 2016 was 1.3 C warmer than the pre-industrial era in the late 19th century, according to Nasa — remarkably close to the 1.5 C target agreed by the world's governments at the Paris climate talks to attempt to stave off the worst effects of climate change.

The basic conclusion of Mann et al. (1998, 1999) that the late 20th century warmth in the Northern Hemisphere was unprecedented during at least the last 1,000 years has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes both additional large - scale surface temperature reconstructions and pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators

The deal arrives days after dozens of scientists, backed by the United Nations, issued a sweeping review of the latest research that says climate change is already affecting life on every continent and in the oceans, and the window is closing rapidly for governments to avert the worst damage expected to occur this century.

3 April: ABC Rural: Flint Duxfield: Floods set to increase as climate changes «for good» The latest report by the Climate Commission warns extreme flood events like those experienced in Queensland this year could become an annual occurrence later this century.

The oceans affected by naval and merchant ships operating and sailing the seas back and forth should have been the hottest topic in the debate on climate change since meteorology was established as a science in the late 19th century.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

As it happens, the lake is freezing later by 8.3 days per century, and thawing earlier by 8.5 days per century, so the change in albedo for Autumn is nearly that for Spring.

On the question of whether observed changes in climate can be attributed to human activities such as burning fossil fuels, Bolin noted that «The global mean temperature has increased by 0.3 - 0.6 degrees C since the late 19th century, and about 0.3 degrees over the last 40 years.»

Cloud changes caused by high Pacific surface temperatures late last century seem — as I have shown you before — seem the better part of warming in both ERBS and ISCCP records.

That's nearly half the UVI increase caused by ozone - eating pollutants in the late twentieth century — but coming from climate change alone.

The computer simulations of changing conditions in vulnerable regions later this century − in a blazing landscape fed by a river delta flowing through steamy marshland, and enfolding a calm, relatively shallow 1,000 km lagoon of evaporating seawater − have delivered a stark conclusion.

More amazing history and hear what Michael Pollan has to say about the Newtown Pippin when you let Newtonian physics pull you down through the fold.We lost this heritage through industrialization and unfortunate name games: In the 19th century, Virginians stripped the Yankee name from the apple made fashionable by their luminaries (renaming it the Albemarle Pippin for the Virginia county) and Newtown later changed its name to Elmhurst, Queens to avoid association with the polluted Newtown Creek.

Climate Scientist: Well there's a reasonable chance that if we don't make serious changes that temperatures will rise by between 2 - 5 degrees late this century.

If this statistical relation between tropical Atlantic SSTs and hurricane activity is used to infer future changes in Atlantic hurricane activity, the implications are sobering: the large increases in tropical Atlantic SSTs projected for the late 21st century would imply very substantial increases in hurricane destructive potential — roughly a 300 % increase in the PDI by 2100 (Figure 1a).

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late - 19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human - made emissions into the atmosphere.