Sentences with phrase «course of a few centuries»

New arts and sciences appear and are perfected over the course of a few centuries.

The potential consequences of warming include widespread famine, triggered by extreme drought in the major grain - producing areas of the world; the wholesale disappearance of the world's coral reefs; and sea levels rising by several meters over the course of a few centuries.»

As illustrated above, temperatures cooled since then but frequently spiked or plummeted by 2 to 3 degrees over the course of a few centuries.

Conservative estimates so far, projected irreversible melting in the course of a few centuries, depending on the temperature increase.

Not exact matches

(It must be acknowledged, of course, that few, if any, when they recite the creeds today, mean exactly the same as their fourth - century Christian forbears did.)

This new conception of nature was elaborated and fully explored in the course of the seventeenth century by thinkers such as Descartes, Gassendi, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle, Leibniz and Newton, to name but a few of the most important.

Not surprisingly, the media feeding frenzy has resulted, anecdotal evidence suggests, in a sharp drop in youth football registrations for this fall's season, with parents fearful that playing football will almost inevitably expose their kid to an unreasonable risk of injury (which, of course, is patently untrue; more than 7 million kids in the U.S. currently play football, very few of whom, statistically speaking and despite a few well - publicized cases - are likely to end up committing suicide because of the hits they sustained playing the sport, and millions upon countless millions who have played football over the past century without apparent ill effect).

-LSB-...] Third, even the very few analyses that conclude the sun was a significant contributor in the past century find that the sun's impact relative to carbon dioxide has been shrinking (since, of course, greenhouse gas emissions and concentrations have been soaring).

Typically, rows of bricks — called courses — are laid on top of one another to Dating as an institution is a relatively recent phenomenon which has mainly emerged in the last few centuries.

That becomes something of a crutch in The Cut, his decade - spanning, continent - hopping look at the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, because the film's narrative requires that its embattled protagonist, a refugee named Nazaret (Tahar Rahim), navigate a whole slew of unknown territories and political ideologies over the course of a few decades in the early 20th century.

Of course, the PDO is something that happens over a few decades, whereas global warming has been going on for most of the past centurOf course, the PDO is something that happens over a few decades, whereas global warming has been going on for most of the past centurof the past century.

If you follow the history of Eugenics and make a side - by - side comparison to Climate Science, you will see for yourself the parallel, only taking place in the late 20th and early 21st Century: Fewer people on the planet; better people that are left; and, as an overriding imperative of course, the few who are designated to decide.

The graph is, of course misleading IF it is used by itself to show that there are fewer strong tornado events in the USA today than in the first half of the 20th Century.

But a few hours or weeks or centuries later» Yes of course all energy will ultimately end up as thermal energy as predicted in Kelvins heat death of the universe.

Finally, it's slightly off - topic, because we are discussing Charney type sensitivities for climate responses that are discernible over the course of perhaps a few centuries at most, but Jim Hansen has argued that when longer term responses are included (e.g., disappearance of land - based ice sheets), a reasonable modal value is 6 C per doubling, and an upper limit is considerably higher.

The similarity of the long - term course of solar and volcanic activity is accidental and is pronounced only in the last few centuries.

In addition, time scales matter here — increasing the amount of CO2 by 33 % over the course of a few decades would overwhelm any system (like the Earth's climate) that has a time constant of centuries.

The second conclusion is that if we continue on our present course, we could be headed towards a mass extinction event within a timeframe of just a few centuries.