Sentences with phrase «happen over the next century»

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.

Could something similar happen over the next century?

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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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

«Weather is what will happen next weekend; climate is what will happen over the next decades and centuries.»

For example, decision makers already have a good idea what will happen if no action to reduce CO2 emissions is taken: the «business as usual» scenario shows significant increases in temperature and changes in precipitation, leading to serious impacts over the next century.

The best possible outcome right now, Rahmstorf said, is that we stabilize temperatures and that sea level rise happened at a steady rate over the next few centuries, and not accelerate.

A recent study estimated that the median onset of plant growth in spring will happen three weeks earlier over the next century, as a result of rising global temperatures.