Sentences with phrase «for at least a few decades»

If everyone turned off all motors and power plants tomorrow, or jumped in Hummers and jacked up thermostats, the climate system wouldn't measurably «notice» the difference for at least a few decades (IPCC fourth science assessment).

Since it looks like the rise in mean temps is going to continue for at least another few decades, are we looking at what was 3 sigma events becoming 1 sigma and less?

The overview report states that the «stratospheric ozone layer over the Arctic is not expected to improve significantly for at least a few decades».

Indeed, if this is the situation it is really impossible to forecast climate change for at least a few decades and the practical usefulness of these kind of GCMs is quite limited and potentially very misleading because the model can project a 10 - year warming while then the «red - noise» dynamics of the climate system changes completely the projected pattern!

Abrupt climate change is defined as a large scale change in the climate system which takes place over a few decades or less and is anticipated to persist for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruption in human and natural systems.

Will my forecast curve work, hopefully, for at least a few decades?

We define abrupt climate change as a large - scale change in the climate system that takes place over a few decades or less, persists (or is anticipated to persist) for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruptions in human and natural systems (see Glossary).

Offhand, I don't see a ready extrapolation from these successful efforts to the central problem we face, that of getting people to do with less for at least a few decades.

Not exact matches

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

This allows New York to redeem itself from the ignominious status of place dead last in turnout nationwide this year and in the nation with fewer voters going to the polls than in any midterm election for at least three decades.

The current boom in private spacecraft designs (for example) shows the kind of inventiveness and flexibility that NASA could have practiced or at least funded for the past few decades if not for the shuttle.

Although large freight railway traffic (measured in carloads) is down 19 percent this year due to the recessed economy, it grew 47 percent between 1990 and 2007, and railroads have been more fuel - efficient than trucking for at least the past few decades, according to the Association of American Railroads.

But at least a few physicists now argue that Einstein was far ahead of his time, raising questions that will challenge researchers for decades.

Lead author, Dr Huw Griffiths from BAS says: «While a few species might thrive at least during the early decades of warming, the future for a whole range of invertebrates from starfish to corals is bleak, and there's nowhere to swim to, nowhere to hide when you're sitting on the bottom of the world's coldest and most southerly ocean and it's getting warmer by the decade.»

So if the next few decades bring a dip in HPV - positive cancer rates there, scientists will have good evidence that the vaccine is at least partially protective for those cancers.

This is also why the Arctic Ocean could be completely ice - free for at least part of the summer within a few decades.

Conventional wisdom (at least for the last few decades) says that saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for you and contribute to heart disease....

You will hear things from him you won't hear anywhere else, at least for a few decades when it becomes «common sense»

I think from here on out we'll get a Tinder every few years and nobody will be able to touch Match, at least in English speaking countries, for the next decade.

It's easy to take for granted how prescient Sidney Lumet's Network actually was for its 1976 release: the onslaught of vapid reality shows was still a few decades away, evangelical television and Fox News had yet to surface, and though the country was shaken up by corrupt politics, at least people still recognized the important of the fifth estate due to events like Watergate.

At least, for a few more decades.

If those two things happen, we (at least in the US) will be buying physical copies for a few decades still.

For at least a decade in New York, there have been few opportunities to see Mr. Schnabel's work in person, a strange fate for one of the most famous and prolific artists in the worFor at least a decade in New York, there have been few opportunities to see Mr. Schnabel's work in person, a strange fate for one of the most famous and prolific artists in the worfor one of the most famous and prolific artists in the world.

If I understand your wager correctly, you want to bet that anthropogenic influences will be responsible for at least a tiny fraction of the warming of the earth that most people expect to occur in the next few decades.

Given that Americans, per person, produce many times more carbon dioxide emissions than people in developing countries (at least for a few more decades), the growth in the United States has added significance for climate projections, said Leiwen Jiang, senior demographer at Population Action International, a nonprofit research group.

If I'm reading the OP correctly, a new minimum is not likely to be set for at least a few years, and it could be decades.

There is also considerable observational evidence that arctic sea ice extent over the last few decades is much lower than it has been for at least a century prior to modern times.

I'd expect increases to proceed exponentially for at least the next few decades.»

The main line of argument now is that, granted that global warming is real, we should do nothing about it, at least for the next few decades.

And right now the sun is well into a period of much lower activity, meaning it sure looks like we're heading for lower temperatures for a period probably to last at least a few decades.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

The problem with that, at least for the last few decades, is that we haven't had the political will or the pressure to actually do this.

Combined with dispatchable gas, these two look like the future, at least for the next few decades.

Back on earth, we know (thanks to Takahashi et al, Sabine et al, and lots of others) that the ocean has been a net carbon sink for the atmosphere for at least the past few decades.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

However, one obvious fly in the ointment is this line: ``... indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards...»

SMS, on the other hand... well, at least their price gouging was cost prohibitive for a few decades.

Yet given the fact that these communities have been neglected by State and Federal government jurisdictions and their agencies for at least the past few decades, I can not fathom how moving people from their land to become fringe dwellers will actually ease this situation.

As someone who has been working with divorcing people for decades, I've discovered a few helpful techniques that make dealing with divorce at least a little more manageable.

Few expect to see something like the Google car take over for at least another decade or more.