Sentences with phrase «decade of the next century»

That dryness persisted into the first decade of the next century.

If the thermohaline circulation has truly changed, we would expect the active phase to last through the first decade of the next century.

Once this happens, the CO2 effect will tend to become a significant factor and by the first decade of the next century we may experience global temperatures warmer than any in the last 1000 years.

Not exact matches

The impacts of the major technological forces that will shape the 20th century are not yet clear, but their capacity for disruption will be so great that your company has only roughly 50 % chance of surviving the next decade.

The couple also plans to spend $ 3 billion in the next decade in an effort to end all suffering from disease by the end of the century.

The couple also plans to spend $ 3 billion in the next decade in an effort to end all suffering from disease by the end of this century.

In the closing decades of the fifteenth century the Papacy sank to a nadir from which it did not recover until the next century.

Over the next decade, Graham would come more and more into the crosshairs of McIntyre, whose own church had split yet again, but whose voice was magnified through his publication, the Christian Beacon, and through his radio broadcast carried on hundreds of stations, the Twentieth Century Reformation Hour.

India is projected to become the world's biggest milk producer over the next decade, having tripled its output during the first quarter of this century, a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD) has revealed.

The potential consequences of climate change are great and the policies of the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.»

Looking ahead, NASA has no plans for a next - generation mission to study Earth - like planets around other stars, the most exciting astronomical discovery of the past decade if not the past half - century.

A leakage rate of 1 percent every decade could be «very serious,» he said, and would eventually lead to temperature spikes of about 3 degrees Celsius in the next century and a rise close to 4 degrees Celsius over the following 2,000 years.

Some recent papers have argued that such meltdowns could happen by the end of this century, if not in the next few decades, as a result of the greenhouse gases piling up in the atmosphere.

Last year 53 nations crafted an agreement that will cut CFC production by 50 percent over the next decade; the chemicals may well be banned altogether by the turn of the century.

This long view, they note, should add urgency to efforts to significantly curb carbon emissions within the next few decades, not gradually across the remainder of the 21st century.

The pressure to make the right choices this time is intense because the White Paper will probably set the scene for at least the next decade, and underpin the success or otherwise of British industry in creating wealth well into the next century.

The report added that within the next two decades, China could dominate renewable energy industries «that are emerging as among the most critical sectors of the 21st 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.

However, the differences between particle emission restriction paths in the next few decades do not carry any major impact considering the end of the century.

We also have modellers that project future changes of ocean chemistry and biology in the next decades and century.

The ocean's thermal inertia, which delays some global warming for decades and even centuries, is accounted for in global climate models and its effect is confirmed via measurements of Earth's energy balance (see next section).

A new survey by the College Board suggests that the «graying» of the American college campus evident in this decade will continue through the turn of the next century.

It is long past time to move to the next level of reform and accountability — the extrinsic type — and this is the trend we must and will see over the next several decades in what I believe will be the civil rights revolution of the 21st century, which I think will play out simultaneously on the two tracks I have just mentioned: the delivery system for education and the means by which we prepare and compensate educators, primarily teachers.

Sony duo will discuss two decades of PlayStation, the history of console games and the next century

But Arteaga says the exhibition will also introductory works from the nineteenth - century that make clear that Mexican artists» interest in muralism and indigenous culture predated the revolution — in fact, mural - making did not resume until about a decade after the upheaval — while turn - of - the - century works by Mexican artists living in Paris foreshadow the cross-cultural pollination that happened between artists in Mexico, Europe, and the U.S. over the next several decades.

Over the next two decades the Pasadena Art Museum earned an international reputation for organizing and presenting critically acclaimed exhibitions of 20th century art.

Over the next two decades he exhibited works by Dalí, Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Calder, Eugene Berman, Tchelitchew, Giacometti, Arshile Gorky and many other luminaries of twentieth - century art, giving a number of them their first shows.

A forcing will result in warming that will appear perhaps 40 % in a decade, the bulk of the rest over the next century with a portion of warming still at work in the following centuries (this the portion which makes Climate Sensitivity very difficult to nail down).

No one can know what will happen over the next decade, but this data does not support the IPCC assertion that we can be 90 % certain that increasing CO2 concentrations have been responsible for a substantial part of the 20th century warming, or that we an expect 3 degrees C of warming over the next century.

but of course we'll be able to control the planet's temperature fluctuations and inconvenient excesses, and precisely guide geohistorical climatic trends over the next decades and centuries by regulating our co2 emissions.

Sometimes, the near term damage reduction potential from climate action is heavily oversold, when it should be clear that this is a long term issue with virtually all the pay - off of any action today and over the next two decades to be found later this century.

The House in the summer of 2009 passed a bill outlining a cap - and - trade system that could, over the next few decades, lead to an early end to conventional use of coal and oil, fuels that have underpinned prosperity and growth for more than a century.

Finding ways to keep such cities functional — and in particular mobile — as the human growth spurt hits a crest in the next few decades is vitally important if humanity is to experience a relatively smooth journey in what some have called «the century of the city.»

If you look at this from the point of view of somebody who's trying to use this information for anything other than scientific satisfaction, whether or not these very, very rapid rates of sea level rise happen in the next few decades or the next few centuries makes all the difference in the world.

Climate scientists don't know where and when temperature and precipitation records will be broken, but they are confident that the next decade and especially century will have more records of all kinds broken than the last decade and century.

The buildup of long - lived carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, likely peaking in the next few decades, will be affecting climate and coastlines for many centuries to come.

When it comes to our economy, our security, and the very future of our planet, the choices we make in November and over the next few years will shape the next decade, if not the century.

Develop models and probabilistic forecasting tools to quantify uncertainties in the atmospheric drivers, surface characteristics, and soil properties that control the timing and extent of permafrost thaw in the next few decades and centuries.

These compounds remain in the atmosphere only days to decades — versus centuries for the CO2 perturbation — so cutting their emissions can appreciably slow the rate of warming over the next several decades.

WARNING, WARNING WILL ROBINSON: Everybody keep well clear of those RED data lines, they can kill you in a decade, well maybe by the end of the century, or at least midway thought the next millennium for sure...

Do we consider that arctic change has urgency over the next decade or will there not be large changes until the second half of the century?

One reason for this is that many impacts of climate change are expected to be proportional to the amount of global average warming that occurs over the next several decades to centuries.

There will be some 100 billions tonnes of carbon returned to soils and ecosystems over the next 40 years — and we will of a necessity transition to 21st century energy sources and production techniques within decades for reasons that have nothing to do with global warming.

«The next few decades, the rest of this century, this is the critical period,» said Sterman.

Under the IPCC Business As Usual emissions scenario, an average rate of global mean sea level rise of about 6 cm per decade over the next century (with an uncertainty range of 3 — 10 cm per decade).

Over the next year or so I began to see fewer references from AGW supporters to the Industrial Revolution as a start point and more emphasis on the spread of industry in the early 20th century, until I came across anti arguments pointing out that after the rise of temps to the third and fourth decades the world began to cool again, considerably.

I.e. solar activity was high in most of the 20th centiry and then peaked in about 1985, together with a 20 - 30 year heat lag (since it remained high until 1996 as well), and oceans take a few decades to equilbrate, (the same as summer takes about 6 weeks to reach maximum temperature after the summer solstice, and every day it takes a few hours after noon to reach maximum temperature), so the earth has taken a few decades to reach maximum temperature after the long high in solar activity during the 20th century, and will now go down in temperature over the next few decades, with now both a negative PDO, and reduced solar activity.

They might function the same but the lifespan of the handmade piece of furniture is decades to centuries were the bookcase will be trashed with the next apartment move.

The potential consequences of climate change are great and the actions taken over the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.

The relative magnitudes of the climate impacts induced by the naturally - occurring NAO and by anthropogenic factors will depend on the time horizon (e.g., next few decades vs. end of the twenty - first century), time - scale (interannual vs. multi-decadal), and parameter (temperature vs. precipitation) of interest (e.g., Deser et al. 2012).