Sentences with phrase «for coming centuries»

and in Table VI his calculated average temperatures for coming centuries.
During the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation — and perhaps any — came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries.
The U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs yesterday released revised numbers for the coming century, raising median estimates for population growth in 2050 and 2100.
Predictions of weather and climate for months, seasons and decades ahead lie between normal weather forecasts and climate projections for the coming century — concerning both what influences the climate on these time - scales, and the methods required to make such predictions.
Seventy - five educators picked for their iconoclasm in pursuit of reform met for three days at the Lansdowne resort here last month to dream up the ideal school system for the coming century.
School reforms for the coming century, he asserts, should not focus on adopting digital technologies or changing the logistics of how students access information: They should focus on providing students with relationships that enhance their learning.
Interestingly, East Africa is one region where IPCC models predict precipitation increases for the coming century.
For the coming century adaptation to SLR will probably be possible and affordable in most cases, as also suggested in this paper by Nicholls et al (2010): http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934/161.full
This lead author famously stated that the various extra degrees of warming bandied about for the coming century are «not predictions, but projections».
I see a similar pattern emerging for the Arctic for the coming century.
(1) Human - generated CO2 and the associated global warming is a big problem for the coming century, although there are some engineering strategies that could (with other side - effects) mitigate it.
With both a near term economic upside in the coming decade and longer term climate benefits for the coming century, here's to hoping that logic, rather than political brinkmanship, will prevail.
And then I find your hypothesis of equal contributions of anthro and natural for the coming century wanting.
All climate science can do for the coming century is account for the known forcings that dominated the last century, taking it that anything else is rare.
The actions he has announced today will help lay the groundwork for this year of celebration and ensure that planning for the coming century strikes the right balance between economic development and protection of the state's critical resources,» said Mr. Sullivan
As a project for your generation for the coming century — ok.
That is the upper limit of global mean sea - level that costal protection might need for the coming century.
Given past non-stationarity, and particularly erratic LIA, a «warm LIA» climate scenario for the coming century that combines high precipitation variability (similar to LIA conditions) with warm and dry conditions (similar to MCA conditions) represents a plausible situation that is supported by recent climate simulations.
Rather, we propose the possible development of a «warm LIA» climate scenario for the coming century that combines high precipitation variability (similar to LIA conditions) with warm and dry conditions.
Overall, 70 % of the models indicate either no change or an increase in the number of El Niño events for the coming century; this figure goes down to 52 % for La Niñas (data from 21).
On land, multimodel mean PDSI time - series projections for the coming century indicate that drought risk could reach an all - time high during the late 21st century, with unprecedented drought conditions that might exceed those of the MCA [2,24].
Since the US invented solar power, hopefully it will show leadership in clean energy technologies for the coming century.
Over that time, the globally averaged temperature difference between the depth of an ice age and a warm interglacial period was 4 to 6 °C — comparable to that predicted for the coming century due to anthropogenic global warming under the fossil - fuel - intensive, business - as - usual scenario.
* The 18 - to 59 - cm warming - induced sea - level rise that is predicted for the coming century by the IPCC falls well within the range (2 to 6 mm per year) of typical coral vertical extension rates, which exhibited a modal value of 7 to 8 mm per year during the Holocene and can be more than double that value in certain branching corals.
Deep uncertainty persists about the likelihood of a rapid ice - sheet «collapse» contributing to a major acceleration of sea - level rise; for the coming century, the probability of such an event is generally considered to be low but not zero (e.g., Bamber and Aspinall, 2013).
That is the upper limit of global mean sea - level that coastal protection might need for the coming century.
If this rate were maintained, the ice sheets would make a measurable but minor contribution to the global sea level rise from other sources, which has been 1 - 2 mm / yr averaged over the past century and 3mm / yr for 1993 - 2003, and is projected to average 1 - 9 mm / yr for the coming century (see IPCC Third Assessment Report).

Not exact matches

In a country that has been devoutly Catholic for centuries, Varadkar is Ireland's first openly gay leader; his coming out in 2015, when he was the country's Minister for Health, was a key factor in clinching the law to legalize gay marriage.
Despite some changes, the country has preserved much of its traditional Buddhist culture, a big draw for the tourists who come from around the world to explore its majestic mountains and centuries - old monasteries.
Now is the time for the WTO and the U.S. to step up and come up with a 21st century solution to maintain fair and free global markets.
Demographically, Argentina feels familiar to Americans — most Argentines descend from European immigrants who came during the late 19th and early 20th centuries — and its capital city could easily be mistaken for Paris or Madrid.
«Designing for sustainability can arguably be stated to be humanity's biggest and most important challenge of the coming century,» says Kor.
With more than a century of experience, you can expect that T. M. Lewin knows a thing or two about shirting, and this crisp white cotton and linen number is the one you want to reach for when the sun comes out and it's time to retire the twill.
Tricoci started digging around, looking for properties they could model their idea on, when he came across The Iron Horse Hotel in Milwaukee, a one - of - a-kind boutique hotel built in a converted century - old mattress factory on the Menomonee River near the Harley - Davidson Museum.
This is especially true when it comes to technological innovation, an area the United States has led for much of the past century.
After selling 20 million cars in 190 countries, the company made the difficult decision to drop the Datsun name (which originated in Japan almost a century ago, and comes from the Japanese word «DAT» for lightning fast) from its U.S. operations to unify its global brand.
Coming of Age in the Asian Century: The Need for a National Conversation By Sarah Eaton, Post ‐ Graduate Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada Political pundits tell us this federal election will be fought not over big ideas but along a narrow set of economic wedge issues.
Keen for the core audience of young men who come to Vice, media giants like 21st Century Fox, Time Warner and Disney all showed interest in the company last year.
Many Canadians would initially guess Asia Pacific immigration to Canada began in the second half of the 19th century with the arrival of thousands of Chinese who came over first for the gold rush and later to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The rest of the economy will be paying interest on this debt for a century to come.
On July 18 and 19, more than 300 local, national and international delegates and speakers are coming to MaRS for The Innovation City, a two - day conference that will explore and highlight the partnerships, ideas and innovation models that will lead to building the great cities of the 21st century.
They met at the American Century celebrity golf tournament in July 2006; he later came to the gift lounge sponsored by her adult film company, and he asked for her number before he invited her for dinner.
The first order for the U.S. edition of my most recent book, Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999), came to Amazon.com, and it came from Argentina.
I only gave one date — OK, so I must have had Adams on the brain, and I would agree that doesn't make sense for it to have not come from the 1st century.
This coming July, the world will mark the centenary of the First World War, the seismic calamity that began the 20th century as an epoch and that, in another hundred years, may well be regarded as the sanguinary first act in the end of Europe as «Europe» had been known for over a millennium.
With idiots like her continuing to support them the RCC should continue their crimes against children for centuries to come...
The answer to this question has been debated for centuries, and intelligent thinkers have come to different conclusions.
Whether there is a single or multiple causes to our existance will be debated for centuries to come.
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips Viking, 480 pages, $ 26.95 The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us by James Rudin Thunder's Mouth, 300 pages, $ 26 Kingdom Coming: The....
Among the sixth - century prophets none spoke more tenderly of the return than Ezekiel: «But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they will soon come home.
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