Sentences with phrase «happen over a century»

My other consideration is that the change from a doubling of CO2 (which may or may not happen over the century) is 3.7 Watts... which works out to a change of about 0.04 °C / year.

So, in actuality, for current conditions and a quite plausible worst - case hurricane situation, one could have much more inundation of NY right now than the movie was showing for what could happen over this century or longer as a result of sea level rise.

I imagine Jim Cripwell looking at the rising curve I posted and saying to himself «no» he doesn't see anything even suggestive of CO2 effects happening over the century time scale.

However, what the geologist - skeptics seem to neglect is that any of these changes, especially those that came on suddenly — and a change that happened over a century or two is a very sudden change in geological time — were disastrous to many species.

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However, many consider the 401 (k) to be crucial in retirement savings over the past half century making one question very important: What happens to saving behavior if the 401 (k) changes?

Those meetings have been happening for over a century, yet few people outside the Fed knew about them.

Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

The underlying concern here has vexed theologians for centuries: How can evil happen in a world that is lorded over by a good and all - powerful God?

Something has happened in Western culture over the last three centuries, altering the conditions of human experience.

Over the centuries, pastors and theologians have proposed dozens of explanations as to why this happens.

As it happened, I was able to spend a couple of hours between flights with Bob Bork just ten days before he died, and I got to tell him of my gratitude for so much friendship and laughter over the past quarter - century, of my admiration for his depth, and» embarrassing him, as I knew this would» of my love for him.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

He said: «As we see you, as we see this area with its constant memories of what has happened, we seek to share with you in a way that reminds you that you are not alone, that the pain you suffer is not considered passing but profound, and that the grief for the lost is something that will forever be inscribed by our memories in these very stones, stones that over so many centuries have seen so much violence, but have also seen the renewal of hope and the overcoming of evil.

In one way, what happens next makes the whole story look like a conventional miracle of the sort that healers of many nations and peoples have done over the centuries, including prophets such as Elijah and Elisha.

«We are discovering, much like happened in Burgundy over the centuries, that each sub-region or village has its own personality,» said Guy Davis of Davis Family Vineyards.»

Whether or not the Pope reserves to himself the ability to declare war (as happened throughout the XVIth and XIXth centuries), Italy, at least, with its territorial position three inches away over a solid white line, is in a position to cast a veto over that.

It took over a century for people like Marx to pinpoint what actually happened, from a societal pespective; People like Adam Smith had analyzed very early the economical aspect of things but didn't see how much capitalism is intertweened in the philosophy and government system.

As Channel Four's peerless Gary Gibbon revealed, such an act has not happened for over a century.

In an about - face, the agency agreed that global warming is happening; that humans, by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, are responsible; and that the American environment is likely to change dramatically over the next century.

Comparable climate shifts have happened before, but over tens of centuries, not tens of years.

So when I thought about what was the, what's been happening to military care of wounded soldiers over the last century, what I puzzled over was, How do we make progress?

Yam: Well, in terms of the [actual] threat, I think more of an airburst is more likely; the kind of thing that happened over Tunguska a century ago, which flattened a forest.

But climate activists in Bonn and elsewhere said the G7 recognition that decarbonisation of the global economy was needed «over the course of this century» was too slow, arguing it should happen by 2050 instead.

Back in the 1890s, that of course represented a tiny fraction of the fossil fuels that we burn today; but what, they asked themselves, might happen if mankind burnt ever - increasing amounts over many centuries?

This is what happens to Over inbox when you start to date Lanka men in the early 21st century.

Comparable gains have yet to appear throughout American K — 12 education, but to see how it might happen, let us reflect on the slow growth of choice and competition via vouchers and charters that has taken place over the past quarter of a century.

In a history of humankind, the twentieth century will be marked as a century of violence: the two world wars and hundreds of local and regional conflicts occurred in it, with dramatic change in a profile of those who suffer in wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the world.

The full report examines what has happened over the last half - century in our schools, our neighborhoods, our prisons, and our nation, and what work remains to be done to heal our divided society.

The damage in the breed's creation was done over a century ago so to pass a law preventing the breeding of any brachycephalic dogs (and there are people who do want that law) and completely ending the breed in some places (ironically more likely to happen in England than the United States) would be a tremendous loss to many who love it.

But what happens to hope when a people are continuously subjugated for over six centuries?

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.

LA - based artist Kadir Nelson on his Martin Luther King Jr. cover for The New Yorker: «What happened to his dream of racial and economic equality, and what is the impact of non-violent resistance over half a century later?»

Picasso, though, had been dead for over a decade, and happened to be the 20th century's most famous artist.

Curator Jason Andrew brings together forty - five artists born over the last century who happen to be women.

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.

Of course, the PDO is something that happens over a few decades, whereas global warming has been going on for most of the past century.

Building cities along coastlines as we have throughout our so - far short modern history, short though it has been from the standpoint of our climate history, should be recognized as the kind of short term planning that has gotten us into this trouble whether it happens now or a few decades or centuries down the road, and this concern over atmoshperic warming is just one of a multitude of possible planet - affecting scenarios that could have devastating effects on our world's societies.

Over the next one to five centuries I can envisage population falling smoothly from 10 billion down to some lower figure, but slowly, and zero gdp growth happening (or even moderate negative growth) over this period, and this would probably be enough reduce severe resource limit impacts and social collaOver the next one to five centuries I can envisage population falling smoothly from 10 billion down to some lower figure, but slowly, and zero gdp growth happening (or even moderate negative growth) over this period, and this would probably be enough reduce severe resource limit impacts and social collaover this period, and this would probably be enough reduce severe resource limit impacts and social collapse.

But he has no better idea than you or I what's likely to happen over the next century or so to bring CO2 concentrations to a peak at any particular level.

A newspaper is mostly set up to talk about what happened today, maybe sometimes what may happen tomorrow, but not what is going to happen over the course of a century.

... We know what happened over the 20th century.

Comparable climate shifts have happened before, but over tens of centuries, not tens of years.

I asked, «How many of these are seen as «anyway» quakes that would otherwise have happened but scattered over many years, if not decades or centuries (I'm not saying this is good, just wondering)?»

Well, looking bacl over the 21st century, we can see that what's happening is about half of what we were threatened with, as Lovelock recently opined.

Since the temperature rises took place over the last three centuries, your explanation of the «committment to extinction» and how it will take time for the extinctions to actually happen simply doesn't apply.

Current research suggests that the Earth will probably warm over the coming century; Climateprediction.net should, for the first time, tell us what is most likely to happen.

Empirical scientists should be alarmed that while the most commonly quoted climate models predict a global temperature increase of 3C per century over this time, it is not happening.

«Books on climate change tend to focus on what is expected to happen this century, which will certainly be large, but they often neglect the even larger changes expected to take place over many centuries.The Long Thaw looks at climate effects beyond the twenty - first century, and its focus on the long - term carbon cycle, rather than just climate change, is unique.»

«That's a larger change in global temperature than what's likely to occur over the next century, but it happened over 18 million years,» Diffenbaugh said.

Abrupt climate change on the other hand was thought to have happened only in the distant past and so climate was expected to evolve steadily over this century in response to ordered climate forcing.