Sentences with phrase «changes in the past century»

UK theological education has undergone a raft of changes in the past century.

One ambitious researcher, Joseph Murray, a professor of medicine at the Mayo clinic, wanted to see how gluten - containing foods have changed in the past century.

So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural,» Tsonis said.

Climate changes in past centuries were significant in some parts of the world, but they were often opposite (e.g. warm vs. cold) in different regions at any given time, in sharp contrast with the global synchrony of 20th century warming.

The actual prevailing view of the paleoclimate research community that emerged during the early 1990s, when long - term proxy data became more widely available and it was possible to synthesize them into estimates of large - scale temperature changes in past centuries, was that the average temperature over the Northern Hemisphere varied by significantly less than 1 degree C in previous centuries (i.e., the variations in past centuries were small compared to the observed 20th century warming).

Modelers now are comparing not just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

Modelers of course do not compare just hemispheric mean series, but the actual spatial patterns of estimated and observed climate changes in past centuries.

The follow - up to MBH98 by Mann et al (1999) was entitled «Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations» (italics added for emphasis), and indeed emphasized the substantial remaining uncertainties in proxy - based estimates of Northern Hemisphere temperature change in past centuries.

Ironically, while some continue to attack this nearly decade - old work, the actual scientific community has moved well beyond the earlier studies, focusing now on the detailed patterns of modeled and reconstructed climate changes in past centuries, and insights into the roles of external forcing and internal modes of variability (such as the North Atlantic Oscillation or «NAO» and the «El Nino / Southern Oscillation» or «ENSO») in explaining this past variability.

[Response: With regard to checking with real world data, you might want to watch my AGU New Fellows talk next week [Abstract Title: The Past as Prologue: Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries (Invited) Final Paper Number: A32D - 02, Presentation Type: Oral Presentation, Presentation Date and Time: December 5, 2012; 10:30 AM to 10:50 AM, Presentation Length: 20 minutes, Session Title: A32D.

I hope you and your colleagues will watch my AGU New Fellows talk next week [Abstract Title: The Past as Prologue: Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries (Invited) Final Paper Number: A32D - 02, Presentation Type: Oral Presentation, Presentation Date and Time: December 5, 2012; 10:30 AM to 10:50 AM, Presentation Length: 20 minutes, Session Title: A32D.

Tune in to my AGU New Fellows talk next week [Abstract Title: The Past as Prologue: Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries (Invited) Final Paper Number: A32D - 02, Presentation Type: Oral Presentation, Presentation Date and Time: December 5, 2012; 10:30 AM to 10:50 AM, Presentation Length: 20 minutes, Session Title: A32D.

So we were very excited when we realised a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural,» Anastasios Tsonis, Atmospheric Sciences Group, University of Wisconsin

Temperature change in the past century (Fig. 3; update of figures in [16]-RRB- includes unforced variability and forced climate change.

So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural,» Anstasios Tsonis.

«We are in the process of developing not only hemispheric and global temperature reconstructions such as shown in the current paper, but also the detailed spatial patterns of climate change in past centuries,» said Mann.

Curiously, drought also featured prominently, perhaps indicating the see - saw effect of natural climate change in past centuries noted in the passage above.

Droughts have not changed in the past century (actually less if you include the 19th century).

However I do think that there a number of arguments that speak against an important anthropogenic contribution to observed temperatures changes in the past century: - The 1910 - 1945 allegedly unprecedented warming, in spite of the small impact of GHGs at the time.

So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural.»

Interpretation and Uncertainty Quantification of Climate and Integrated Earth System Models I Location: 3003 (Moscone West) Abstract Title: The Past as Prologue: Learning from the Climate Changes in Past Centuries (Invited) Final Paper Number: A32D - 02 Presentation Type: Oral Presentation Presentation Date and Time: December 5, 2012; 10:30 AM to 10:50 AM Presentation Length: 20 minutes Session Title: A32D.

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.

However, many consider the 401 (k) to be crucial in retirement savings over the past half century making one question very important: What happens to saving behavior if the 401 (k) changes?

Over the past century, monetary policy strategies have evolved in response to changing realities, from the panics and depressions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve to the Great Depression, from Bretton Woods and subsequent battles to contain inflation to the dominance of inflation targeting today (Williams 2014, 2015a).

That means they have weathered enormous economic and technological challenges over the past century and are fully capable of adapting to further changes in the banking industry.

Dr. Lawler specifically reviewed how society has changed in the past half century.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

As in the past, Christian missions in the 19th and 20th centuries have involved many social changes as well as changes in religious affiliation.

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.

Though a good part of the book is necessarily historical, his primary interest is in the recent past and the changing fortunes of Christians as a result of the Arab awakening and political developments that have altered the face of the region in the twentieth century (e.g., the founding of the state of Israel).

The editor of The Christian Century has given me an undeserved privilege in asking me to contribute some reflections on «How My Mind Has Changed» in the course of the past decade.

In the past the Christian Century has asked religious thinkers to tell us either «How My Mind Has Changed» or «How I Am Making Up My Mind.»

In the past two centuries this situation has changed.

Another factor that has brought about this change in attitude toward the discipline is the new perspective that has been at work for the past quarter - century and is now beginning to dominate the mind and spirit of much of Western mankind.

Christians in affluent countries in the twentieth century have grown used to such a fast pace of life and to such constant changes in the material environment that we tend to think that our problems are unique, that the past is worthless as a source of wisdom for modern times, and that our ancestors in the faith have little in common with us.

The company has spent the past three years building new theaters, upgrading its current facilities and retooling its presentation package to suit the changing needs of patrons in the 21st century.

I once read an article that talked about the radical changes in parenting and child - rearing expectations over the past century, and the author used the financial terms of asset and investment to make her point.

Although lactation is the physiologic norm, cultural norms for infant feeding have changed dramatically in the past century.

In the past century — or so — motherhood has undergone a lot of changes.

But if we recognise the foreignness of the past, and the very different ways in which people in different political settings responded to the pressures of social change and the emergence of more popular forms of politics at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, we may find ourselves able to ask questions of our present — and of our futures — that would not otherwise be asked.

«The study demonstrates a robust century - scale link between ocean circulation changes in the Atlantic basin and rainfall in the adjacent continents during the past 4,000 years,» said UTIG Director Terry Quinn, a co-author on the study.

By meticulously analyzing the changing pattern of illumination, Clavel and company deduced that Sagittarius A * had experienced not one but two separate outbursts in the past few centuries.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

To discover whether there had been any change in bird size over the past century, Janet Gardner of the Australian National University in Canberra and colleagues measured the wingspan of 517 birds held in museum collections.

Viewing the thousands of tornadoes that have been reliably recorded in the U.S. over the past half century or so as a population has permitted us to ask new questions and discover new, important changes in outbreaks of these tornadoes.»

It appeared that grave climate change could happen, and in the past had happened, within as little as a few centuries.

In particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurIn particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurin detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurin rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past centurin different regions of the world over the past century.

Inertia toward continued emissions creates potential 21st - century global warming that is comparable in magnitude to that of the largest global changes in the past 65 million years but is orders of magnitude more rapid.

Changes in fall - winter rainfall from observations (top panel) as compared to model simulation of the past century (middle panel), and a model projection of the middle of the 21st century.

Classrooms haven't changed much in the past few centuries.