Sentences with phrase «change for decades»

Predicting the future is a messy business, and law has been remarkably resistant to change for decades, if not centuries.

If you think snow is a «sensitive indicator of climate change», and it has shown no change for decades... wouldn't that kinda be a clue?

But it's just as important for cities to adapt to climate change — even if the human race were to cut emissions entirely, we would still be facing the extreme effects of climate change for decades to come, because of the increased carbon input that has already taken place since the industrial revolution.

Architects have been dreaming of plug - in cities that adapt and change for decades, from Archigram to Kurokawa to Maynard, but Haseef Rafiei has proposed one of the most interesting versions yet.

Even if that were true, which it isn't, the world has known about climate change for decades and demand for fossil fuels has only increased.

San Francisco and Oakland have known about climate change for decades and yet they continue to promote and use fossil fuels.

Royal Dutch Shell has known about the links between fossil fuel use and climate change for decades, according to newly - released internal company documents.

That would still result in rising global temperatures and acceleration in the impacts of climate change for decades, since emissions have a lag time of about 40 years.

These are taxpayer dollars going to some of the most profitable, most polluting companies on the planet, who have stood in the way of real action on climate change for decades.

But every one of these cases ignores the fact that the public has known about the link between burning fossil fuels and climate change for decades and has continued to rely on oil and natural gas because of its unmatched cost, energy density, and reliability.

Now we know that Exxon, and other companies like Shell, have been taking actions to protect their infrastructure from climate change for decades — while fighting action to protect the rest of us.

The terrestrial biosphere can respond slowly to large, regional - scale forcing, but may not always be in equilibrium with that forcing at any point in time, leading to subsequent commitments to significant future change for decades or centuries following stabilization of forcing.»

-- Kerry Emanuel, who has been studying hurricanes and climate change for decades, has a great page on his Web site at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology consolidating the many competing computer model runs aiming to forecast the strength and track of tropical storms.

Kerry Emanuel, who's been studying Atlantic Ocean hurricanes in the context of climate change for decades, spoke on the Warm Regards podcast about the mix of subsidized seaside development and rising sea levels driven by global warming.

The pressure campaign has been underway for months as Education Secretary Arne Duncan travels the country delivering a blunt message to state officials who have resisted change for decades: Embrace reform or risk being shut out.

The Texas - based company is among the worst emitters of greenhouse gases, and is currently being investigated by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for possibly concealing its knowledge of climate change for decades from the public.

After all, it's likely to mark the biggest change for decades to how local areas are run in England.

If institutional investors don't change their approach, the current gender imbalance won't change for decades — and these institutions will continue to miss out on the financial benefits of diversity.

The move would be a win for newspaper companies and broadcasters that have pushed for the change for decades, but was criticized by Democrats who said it could usher in a new era of media outlet consolidation.

People's perception of risk was fundamentally changed for decades.

The truth is this: reoffending rates have hardly changed for a decade — and indeed those for short sentenced prisoners are unacceptably high, with almost 60 % of those sentenced to less than 12 months returning to crime within a year.

The Liberal Democrats had always campaigned «to break the logjam of an old system which hasn't changed for decades and decades and decades», Mr Clegg said.

Mainstream AML treatments haven't changed for decades and fewer than one in three people survive the cancer.

They have been voluntarily considering and disclosing their strategic response to climate change for a decade,» said Mary Schapiro, Special Advisory to the Chair of the TCFD and former Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

This Divide between the «haves» and the «have - nots» runs along socioeconomic lines that essentially have not changed for decades (and maybe centuries).

Considered a national treasure in the Netherlands, the Stabyhoun, or Stabiji, is only bred through intensively specialised programs to lessen congenital issues and maintain its appearance, which has not changed for decades!

Don't ya just love how some people take limited US statistics and then CLAIM they represent the world of Climate Changes for decades and decades?.

Does that mean there has been no change for a decade?

Hence, the system takes decades to fully adjust to a new equilibrium (whatever caused the change to the equilibrium) and, therefore, atmospheric CO2 concentration changes for decades after a change to the system (e.g. a change to global temperature).

Here is a figure estimating heat content changes for the decade from the 1990 ′ s to the 2000 ′ s showing that the deepest layers of the oceans have also warmed.

No change for a decade, got that already.

Greenland has lived with extreme environmental changes for a decade or more.

The curriculum has not been changed for decades.

Not exact matches

For more than two decades, Springboard's Millman has contended that we needed vast societal changes before we'd have masses of women building fast - growing companies, cracking the very top ranks of entrepreneurship.

He argued in a blog post that a single figure, even the son of a king, in pushing for a great deal of change in a country where the politics and power accumulated over decades are complicated, could end up producing the opposite of stability.

If you've been in business for decades, you understand that circumstances change and unforeseeable events occur.

Much has changed over the last decade for Michael Dell, but a 1999 cover story of Michael Dell in SUCCESS magazine may hold an answer to that question.

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

Before founding Social Change Nation, Schukman spent a decade working with companies to develop cause - driven brands such as AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity and World Relief.

The dodo, «a once powerful bird,» was hit with a change in its environment and «was unable to respond,» warns the plaque, which has been handed down from one Shell scenarios head to another for the past four decades.

But if you invest with the idea that rates will never rise again, or at least not for decades, then a lot of the tried - and - true investing rules that people have been following suddenly change.

Yet economists and policy experts say that view fails to take into account the changing realities of the workplace, where it's harder to get good - paying jobs, and where wages have been stagnant for decades.

This means the business is in for a profound change over the next two decades.

Throughout much of its first decade of existence, the search engine company presented itself as a different kind of company, one that cared about changing the world for the better first and making money second, an ethos exemplified through its famous «don't be evil» motto.

For two decades, globalization has been the world economy's central story line — or so it was until Russia and China sharply changed the narrative.

For at least a decade after receiving in - house research warning of the potential impact of Climate Change, ExxonMobil continued to fund outside groups that disputed it.

«Under - emphasis of these (structural) policies relative to macroeconomic, trade and financial stability policies is a key reason for many governments» failure in recent decades to mobilize a more effective response to widening inequality and stagnating median income as technological change and globalization have gathered force,» the report said.

His corporate maneuvering over the past decade has been guided by his belief that Dell can dominate as a one - stop tech shop for corporations facing profound technological change.

For at least the first decade of franchising in China, regulations were unclear and constantly changing, making investments risky and unstable.

Unfortunately, this cautious and limited test is too little, too late for a Dunkin' Donuts brand that has been slow to respond to dramatic changes in the beverage market over the past decade.