Sentences with phrase «current over a few decades»

Although no scientist thinks the switch - off could happen that quickly, they do agree that even a weakening of the current over a few decades would have profound consequences.

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Multiple independent analyses had shown that the AHCA's enactment would lead to widespread insurance coverage losses — to the tune of 24 million fewer insured Americans over the next decade relative to current law.

Trophies have been few and far between for the Frenchman over the last decade, and despite what appeared to be real improvement in the 2013/14 and 14/15 seasons, they have seemingly digressed during the current campaign.

Drawing on new data provided by London boroughs the report estimates that based on current development plans around 10,300 council homes will be completed over the decade to 2023/24, compared to an estimated 16,100 Right to Buy sales leaving almost 6,000 fewer council homes by 2023/24.

«Over the past few decades, particle physicists have developed an elegant theoretical model (the Standard Model) that gives a framework for our current understanding of the fundamental particles and forces of nature.

The terrestrial processes that might significantly affect large - scale climate over the next few decades are included in current climate models.

Over the last few decades we have moved from the chronic cardio epidemic of the 80s and 90s to the current regime of HIIT and self destruction.

And Dan Goldhaber took the long view by pointing out that, contrary to the current narrative, we've ramped up teacher production significantly over the last few decades.

New Public Management and New Public Service are two important paradigms that have evolved over the last few decades and undergird current policymaking and public administration activities.

The organization of work in the countries with the best - performing education systems took its current shape over the last few decades, not in the first few decades of the 20th century.

Once a steadfast bastion of the practical, wagons have seen a sharp decline in popularity over the last few decades, the result of an all - out assault from the tall - bodied insanity of the current SUV craze.

[Response: You're wrong, as JA points out, since much of the warming over the next few decades is contrained by commitment and current levels and doesn't much vary by scenario.

Given all the independent lines of evidence pointing to average surface warming over the last few decades (satellite measurements, ocean temperatures, sea - level rise, retreating glaciers, phenological changes, shifts in the ranges of temperature - sensitive species), it is highly implausible that it would lead to more than very minor refinements to the current overall picture.

Over the next few decades, the climate change we experience will be determined primarily by the combination of past actions and current trends.

But the current paper shows that the differences in midcentury warming rates occurred much more rapidly than previously thought (over a few years, not a few decades).

Solar physicists have been looking at trends in sun - spot behavior and characteristics over the past decade and have raised the possibility that when the current sun - spot cycle peaks in the next few months, the sun could enter an unusually long period where it generates few, if any sunspots.

Thus even there, a new equilibrium is reached in a few decades (for extra CO2 over current land occupation) to millennia (for ice sheet retraction and plant spread).

The current post models temperature in a way that is unphysical, but it may work over the next few decades.

As it turns out, the Koch's influence at Cato has waned over the last few decades due to a falling out between Ed Crane, the current president of Cato, and Charles Koch, who hand - picked Crane for the job shortly after founding the think tank.

Because natural gas is a considerably more expensive fuel than coal, it takes a substantial CO2 cost to overcome this fuel cost disadvantage — about $ 30 / ton, on current fuel price expectations in the U.S.. On the other hand, consider pending investments to add new generating capacity in the United States over the next few decades.

Should we choose to do little to abate emissions over the next few decades, then the upper tails of our current emissions scenarios will become more likely, and that will cause the upper tails of the vulnerability distributions to become more likely.

Emissions appear to be stabilizing at 10 GT / Y and the current 5.4 GT / Y of environmental absorption will rise to neutralize the effect of emissions over the next few decades.

The world could slow and then reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades by exploiting current and emerging technologies.

Over the past few decades, sea level measurements taken using satellites show that this trend has continued, with the current rate of increase standing at about 3.36 mm per year.

If you're healthier than you were when you bought you current policy, you could save yourself a lot of money over the next few decades.

Microsoft's mobile ambitions have seen their share of resets, seemingly every few years over the past decade, frequently leaving behind current users in the process.