Sentences with phrase «change over the course of this century»

Regardless of which of them FIRST occurred to you, it should have dawned on you shortly thereafter that the meaning of the term had changed over the course of a century.

It is also clear that current trends in energy use, development, and population growth will lead to continuing — and more severe — climate change over the course of this century and beyond.

What do we do, then, without credible estimates of how much it might cost to tackle climate change over the course of this century?

According to a contemporaneous news account, during the hearing before the Privy Council, the lawyers for Edwards argued that «words may change over the course of a century,» to which one of the judges replied «[w] e must interpret the words in their meaning at the time the Act was passed.»

Not exact matches

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

And of course you must agree than that the bible is also a book of stories told over the centuries and also changed over the centuries to focus on what was and is politically correct.

A single - volume history of Istanbul from the seventh century BC to the present is an ambitious project, for no city has seen as much religious and political change over the course of its history.

The common argument against the validity of scripture is that over the course of centuries of reproduction it must have accidentally or intentionally changed.

The researchers found not only that the components and contents of school curricula have changed over the course of time, but also that educational reformism, which is generally regarded as the phase of major educational innovations in the first third of the twentieth century, did not have a strong influence on this development.

The fact that there are so many different possible changes, that different phytoplankton respond differently, means there might be some quite traumatic changes in the communities over the course of the 21st century.

Through their long - running love affair, the audience witnesses the changes within America and its lifestyles over the course of a quarter of a century.

Written over the course of 10 years, this ambitious collection asks questions about the impact of art while rejoicing in the century's discoveries and the velocity of worldwide change.

Based on the life of 1930s advertising copy manager and poet Margaret Fishback, this novel vividly depicts an evolving New York City as well as the changing roles of women over the course of the 20th century.

And, it's true that our ideas about dog care have changed rapidly over the course of the last century.

«Van Gogh to Rothko» will explore the changing use of colour in art over the course of the 20th century.

This photographic series depicts Shonibare in the role of a «dandy» — an outsider who uses his flamboyance and wit to penetrate the highest levels of society — and therefore looks at themes of alienation and marginalisation in society, and how this has (and perhaps has not) changed over the course of 20th century history.

In so doing, Two Centuries of Black American Art provided further evidence of the evolution of the role of African Americans as subjects and makers of art as racial attitudes changed over the course of the twentieth century.

BTW, the point Lomborg was trying to make in quoting the (probably spurious anyway) $ 5T figure was that it is chump change for the global economy over the course of a century.

For example, the latest (fifth) assessment report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that the global average sea level rise over the course of the 21st century would be in the range of 10 to 32 inches, with a mean value of about 19 inches.

Can you describe very specific changes in bacterial mass and metabolism that over the course of a century would not only significantly increase atmospheric CO2 concentration but also increase the ratios of C12 to C13 and C14 in the manner that has been observed (we'll leave out the bookkeeping from industrial records that also must be accounted for)?

To account fully for observed changes, you then seem (to me at least) to be trying to conjure up internal climate variations beyond the ones that have been identified and quantified, the latter having been shown to average out over the course of a century.

The lack of resolution, however, means that you can not compare their graphing of the early Holocene with the 0.7 — 0.8 degree C. temperature change experienced over the course of the 20th century.

The chemical industry has created solutions to many sustainability issues over the course of modern history, and Matt believes that a transparent market - based price on CO2 emissions is the signal the chemical industry needs to once again rise to the challenge of solving the great 21st Century sustainability issue that is climate change.

Optimal policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, economists tell us, won't cost the global economy very much in the grand scheme of things — on the order of 1 percent of total global GDP over the course of the next century.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Sahel will experience increasingly higher average temperatures as well as changes in rainfall patterns over the course of the 21st century.

On this view, «coastal communities» are incapable of responding to changing circumstances, even over the course of centuries.

I realize the AGW enthusiasts are probably guffawing at such a paltry contribution for mans evil over the last half century but I find the logic inescapable until the AGW crowd can explain these variations it seems to me to be the most plausible argument that it is 1/4 of the contribution in the latter half of the 20th century meaning of course that the total change expected this century would be possibly another 0.4 C change from CO2 even if we continue on the course we are on today and double CO2 by 2100.

Define what you think the tilt of the earth's axis is, and how much that tilt is changing over the course of a year, a decade, and a century.

And the variation that's occurred in the sun's energy over the course of the 20th century just isn't significant enough to account for the large - scale climate change we're seeing here.

The real thrust of the project is to act as a catalyst for integrating the School's history, library collections and archival resources into the life and work of the Osgoode community by involving the students in developing and curating exhibitions, both physical and virtual, that illustrate the dramatic changes in legal education and the profession over the course of the past century and document Osgoode's role in them.

Canada's merger laws have undergone frequent changes under the country's evolving approach to government oversight of competition and, more specifically, mergers over the course of the last century.