Sentences with phrase «decade by late this century»

Not exact matches

The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a century apart: a long first - person narrative by a Handmaid in Gilead is followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st century, decades after Gilead's fall.

But already by the later decades of the 19th century some immigrants, notably the Irish, were able to exercise political power at least at the local level.

Built in the early 19th century over previous constructions, the shrine was in danger of collapse and barely held together by iron girders added decades later.

The percentage of women breastfeeding would still remain relatively high through the 1930s, however, when compared to the numbers just two decades later.31 Jacqueline Wolf, in her study of infant feeding in Chicago, found that despite the known dangers of using breast milk substitutes, by the mid-nineteenth century many women began weaning their babies at three months, even before cleaner cow's milk and more reliable proprietary foods were available.

«It is very clear that industrial lead contamination was pervasive throughout Antarctica by the late 19th century, more than two decades before the first explorers made it to the South Pole,» he added.

A few decades later, Sir George Cayley, an Englishman who built models and gliders, was considered by many to be the first man to truly understand aeronautics, but the true glide master was Otto Lilienthal, an innovator through the late 19th century.

Late - summer water temperatures near the Florida Keys were warmer by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last several decades compared to a century earlier, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Indeed, climate records indicate that the arid, landlocked steppe was seized by decades of drought in the late years of the 12th century, possibly exacerbating the violent conflicts that racked the region at the time.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

Strong holdings in later 20th - century works on paper include a decade's production, 1960 — 1970, from the innovative Tamarind Lithography Workshop, including artist's books and suites by Louise Nevelson and Rufino Tamayo.

In her wall text, Zabel writes, «By exploding traditional modes of easel painting, Pop artists of the 1960s radically expanded the possibilities of how art is made and how it is viewed; thus they opened up multiple pathways for artists coming to maturity in later decades of the twentieth century.»

Eclipsed by their male counterparts in the later years of the 20th century, the last decade or so has seen another shift in perception.

It rises to this cultural occasion by presenting an impressive survey of art by African Americans from the late 19th century to the current decade.

The musings of an early 20th - century mystic appear an indecorous preface to the latest paintings by John Walker (b. 1939), whose work has been characterized across decades in unsentimental, masculine terms as sinewy, forceful, bold, decisive.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gas.

A century later, his term continues to resonate, and CAM curator Valerie Cassel Oliver has appropriated its connotations of invisibility and displacement as means to reevaluate conceptual strategies taken up by African - American artists over the past three decades.

In other words, many of the effects of human changes even initiated decades (or even centuries) ago will not manifest themselves on provisioning ecological services for many years, and perhaps only decades into the future, by which time it will be too late to do anything, and the quality of life for our species will drop rapidly and precipitously.

Solar activity has been the highest in the previous 4 centuries: http://www.climate4you.com/images/SolarIrradianceReconstructedSince1610%20LeanUntil2000%20From2001dataFromPMOD.gif The empirical data from peer reviewed science, Hatzianastassiou (2005), Goode (2007), Pinker (2005), Herman (2013), McLean (2014), shows that during the last 2 decades of the 20th century when most of the late 20th century warming occurred, the amount of solar radiation reaching the earth's surface increased by 2.7 W / m ² to 6.8 W / m ².

A «megadrought» likely will occur late in this century, and it could last for three decades, according to a new report by Cornell and NASA researchers in the journal Science Advances (Feb. 12), an online publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Second, and even ignoring the 1940s - 1970s global cooling, for global temperatures to meet IPCC's predicted 2.4 degree rise by late this century, global temperatures must immediately — and that means immediately — begin rising at a sustained 0.30 degrees Celsius per decade.

If global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the same pace that they did in the first decade of this century, ski resorts could see half as many sub-freezing days compared to historical averages by late century.

Considering all the short - term factors identified by the scientific community that acted to slow the rate of global warming over the past two decades (volcanoes, ocean heat uptake, solar decreases, predominance of La Niñas, etc.) it is likely the temperature increase would have accelerated in comparison to the late 20th Century increases.

They estimate that an average of 3 - 4 storms a year were being missed in the late 19th century, and that even by 1950s and 1960s, probably 2 - 3 storms a decade were going undetected because of incomplete monitoring.

If you care about avoiding warming later in the century (as the United Nations does with its 2 °C warming by 2100 target), there is relatively little problem with short - term methane emissions, as long as they are phased out in the next few decades.

2 degrees Celsius per decade recorded by satellites during the late 20th century falls within known natural rates of warming and cooling over the last 10,000 years.

And by later, I mean much later; today's emissions will affect the amount of carbon in the atmosphere decades, and possibly centuries, into the future.