Sentences with phrase «happen in future centuries»

Not exact matches

They tend to argue that the scientific intuition that things will happen in the future somewhat as they always have, is mainly based on the fact that this has worked well in the past four centuries, and so is not the quasi-religious faith Davies suggests.

A December study found that extreme rainstorms that currently occur about once a season could happen five times a season by century's end and that such storms will drop about 70 percent more rain in the future.

2016 Mentors, Curated by Rick Herron, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Tomorrow Never Happens, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Future Perfect: Picturing the Anthropocene, University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY 9th Berlin Bienniale, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century, HOME, Manchester, UK Luis Gispert + Jacolby Satterwhite, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Disguise: Masks + Global African Art, Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY

What do you suppose will happen when we run out of fossil fuels, as we are likely to do in the near future (decades for oil and perhaps a century for coal)?

Part of problem is that even with current levels of emissions, the inertia of the climate system means that not all of the warming those emissions will cause has happened yet — a certain amount is «in the pipeline» and will only rear its head in the future, because the ocean absorbs some of the heat, delaying the inherent atmospheric warming for decades to centuries.

Extreme weather isn't caused by global warming «The 30 major droughts of the 20th century were likely natural in all respects; and, hence, they are «indicative of what could also happen in the future,» as Narisma et al. state in their concluding paragraph.

Compared with the potential feedbacks from fossil methane or methane hydrates, the permafrost feedback from surface thawing is more certain and will happen sooner, very likely in this century, regardless of the level of future human carbon emissions.

On the downside, we can expect future contention to happen even faster, and issues that once took centuries to resolve will be dealt with in days or hours.

What will happen beyond that clearly depends much more on emissions in future centuries.

The National Capital Commission (NCC) Greenbelt that girdles the City of Ottawa predates its Trawnah cousin by almost half a century, and, since the best predicator of future behaviour is past behaviour, it might be worthwhile to examine just one example of what has happened in Ottawa.