Sentences with phrase «change over the next century»

From a practical point of view, this means we will be unable to predict how species will respond to projected climate changes over next century.

Dr. Koonin suggests that «the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, how will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?»

Thus a grand solar minimum would have to cause about 1 °C cooling, plus it would have to offset the continued human - caused global warming between 1 and 5 °C by 2100, depending on how our greenhouse gas emissions change over the next century.

This project uses data from a suite of advanced atmospheric reanalyses, satellite remote sensing and model experiments to address the characteristics, variability and environmental impacts of the Summer Arctic Frontal Zone (AFZ), and how this seasonal feature may change over the next century.

«How will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?»

Quantitatively speaking, these extremely drawn out responses should have little import for our perspective regarding current climate change over the next century.

Here is a more complete context: Rather, the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, «How will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?»

Just before the «1 % to 2 %» line is this: the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, «How will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?»

Over the past few years, an international team of climate scientists, economists and energy systems modellers have built a range of new «pathways» that examine how global society, demographics and economics might change over the next century.

We can also step back even further and compare the projected temperature change over the next century to reconstructions over the past 1,500 years:

The study confirms past estimates of likely rapid climate change over the next century if there are not major climate - change policies.

Note this statement by Nordhaus: «The study confirms past estimates of likely rapid climate change over the next century if there are not major climate - change policies.»

N.b. this diverges from the commonly used «Charney sensitivity» which describes temperature change over the next century or so, and which is less than the change expected over the multi-millenial scale of dwindling ice sheets and vegetation changes.

Climate models produce realistic estimations of future climate change over the next century.

So these two articles are suggesting that a grand solar minimum could have a net cooling effect in the ballpark of 1 to 6 °C, depending on how human greenhouse gas emissions change over the next century.

So, in order to trigger another LIA, a new grand solar minimum would have to cause about 1 °C cooling, plus it would have to offset the continued human - caused global warming of 1 to 5 °C by 2100, depending on how our greenhouse gas emissions change over the next century.

Not exact matches

Some industry observers predict that retail will change more in the next five years than it has over the past century, and that the extinction of brick - and - mortar stores isn't far off.

Over the next century and a half the company underwent numerous changes and engaged in several alliances and partnerships While the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers did not cause the Great Recession or even the subprime mortgage crisis, its downfall triggered a massive selloff in the global markets.

If we stay on our current emission pathway, this will change: The metro region will likely see 2 to 7 extremely hot days on average over the next 5 to 25 years, 4 to 17 such days likely by mid-century, and 11 to 59 days — nearly two months — over 95 °F likely by the end of the century.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half centOver the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half centover the next half century.

Given how much bigger and more common cities are likely to become over the next century, we'll need to change them even further.

Over the next century, the global thermostat will probably ratchet up another 2 to 12 degrees on average, according to a 2009 report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

In an about - face, the agency agreed that global warming is happening; that humans, by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, are responsible; and that the American environment is likely to change dramatically over the next century.

Lenoir notes, for instance, that even though tree species did not show much sign of movement over the past century, that climate change may affect the next generation.

As the newcomers expanded their domain over the next three centuries, they frequently displaced indigenous peoples, whose traditional ways of life changed or disappeared entirely.

Climate change is expected to increase the intensity of winds over the Southern Ocean throughout the next century, and the new findings show that Totten Glacier will probably respond to the changing winds.

Half of Alberta's upland boreal forest is likely to disappear over the next century due to climate change, a new study shows.

BOULDER — Drastic, economy - changing cuts to greenhouse gas emissions will spare the planet half the trauma expected over the next century as the Earth warms.

Here are ten powerful images that did just that - and one that's going to change our lives over the next century.

And it changes, sort of - people have studied very carefully Newton's reputation, his character, his significant changes almost decade by decade over the next few centuries.

While natural global warming during the ice ages was initiated by increased solar radiation caused by cyclic changes to Earth's orbital parameters, there is no evident mechanism for correcting Anthropogenic Global Warming over the next several centuries.

Given that atmospheric CO2 will likely continue to climb over the next century, a long - term increase in flowering activity may persist in some growth forms until checked by nutrient limitation or by climate change through rising temperatures, increasing drought frequency and / or increasing cloudiness and reduced insolation.

Assuming the greatest pace of economic development with little regard for the environment, the study predicted that 1,101 species would be lost over the next century due to habitat loss alone, while just 64 would be lost to climate change alone.

Over the next century the world could see an uptick in the number of deaths related to air pollution because of climate change, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Rising CO2 emissions, and the increasing acidity of seawater over the next century, has the potential to devastate some marine ecosystems, a food resource on which we rely, and so careful monitoring of changes in ocean acidity is crucial.

This story raises questions about the changes that have occurred in society over the past century and the direction that life will take in the next that will provide fodder for classroom discussion.

No other ethnic or racial group will do more to change the makeup of American schools over the next quarter - century than Hispanics.

Austin, TX — Over seventy delegates from six communities around the Central Texas region composed of students, teachers, administrators, higher education, community and business leaders are convening next week to create a historic plan for closing achievement gaps that will feed into a 21st century blueprint to bring about educational change in Central Texas.

The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.

This organization will change its name several times over the next century, becoming the St. Paul Humane Society in 1955, the Humane Society of Ramsey County in 1978, and the Humane Society for Companion Animals in 2000.

Over the next century, the community first changed its name to Newport — in the 1870s, when the main industry was commercial shipping — then to Newport Beach in 1902.

In the original article Angela did write: «This effect, called the permafrost carbon feedback, is not present in the global climate change models used to estimate how warm the earth could get over the next century.»

Since the larger the geophysical disruption, the easier it is to detect a previous civilization, there are a couple of interesting followups — what would be the change in our detectability following the different RCP's over the next century or so, and what would minimize detectability?

I can see how our actions over this past century and the next may well causes a serious radical climate change.

[Response: Here's a simple back - of - envelope consideration for the future: if the Greenland ice sheet melts completely over the next ~ 1,000 years (Jim Hansen argues in the current Climatic Change that the time scale could be centuries), this would contribute an average flux of ~ 0.1 Sv of freshwater to the surrounding ocean.

This effect, called the permafrost carbon feedback, is not present in the global climate change models used to estimate how warm the earth could get over the next century.

Moreover, not even the most extreme scenario for the next century predicts temperature changes over North America as large as the anomalies witnessed this past month.

«Thus, while research on climate change should continue, now is the time for individuals and governments to act to limit the consequences of greenhouse gas emissions on the Earth's climate over the next century and well beyond.»

The IPCC gives > 90 % chance that the melting of Greenland's ice and other changes in the future will not be fast enough to trigger such a discontinuity over the next century, but > 90 % is not necessarily 100 %.