Sentences with phrase «in coming centuries»

That's left its massive stores of ice largely intact, especially compared to West Antarctica where a massive meltdown is underway that could raise seas by 10 or more feet in the coming centuries.

Emissions reductions decisions made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia.

There's been considerable debate about whether the world has enough coal to actually reach RCP8.5 in the coming centuries.

Current Emission Rates Lock Us Into 4 - 6 Meter Sea Level Rise In Coming Centuries We're currently on track to warm the planet by 8 ° Fahrenheit by 2100.

Even if we limit warming to 1.5 °C, as a number of low - lying island nations recently called for, sea levels will rise by two meters in coming centuries — with one meter rise by 2100 and up to five meters over the next 300 years.

«Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia... Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.»

This course presents the science behind the forecast of global warming to enable the student to evaluate the likelihood and potential severity of anthropogenic climate change in the coming centuries.

If sometime in the coming centuries sea level should rise 20 to 25 m, as suggested

Indeed, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report stated, in uncharacteristically strong terms, that the sea level is «virtually certain» to continue to rise in the coming centuries or millennia.

This will build up a greater knowledge base so that future, more creative approaches can discover new energy sources we might not be able to imagine, something we may find ourselves needing when, in the coming centuries, the bottom drops out on our rather temperate climate, no matter how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere.

The number of people we're going to have to move around this planet in the coming centuries is going to make the Syrian refugee crisis look like a side - show.

July 16, 2010 — Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council.

WASHINGTON — Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council.

Therefore, emission reduction choices made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia.

Therefore, emissions reductions choices made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia.

Dr. Oppenheimer felt a special sense of urgency because he was a co-author of a paper published in Nature last week that greatly raised the confidence that seas could rise some 20 feet in coming centuries should warming be sustained at levels projected from the greenhouse buildup.

The study of past warm climates may not narrow uncertainty in future climate projections in coming centuries because fast climate sensitivity may itself be state - dependent» http://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14162.full

This worsens our situation, and I fear Holland will finally lose to the battle with sea somewhere in the coming centuries.

OCEANS RISING FAST, NEW STUDIES FIND Melting ice could raise levels up to 3 feet by 2100, scientists say David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor Friday, March 24, 2006 Glaciers and ice sheets on opposite ends of the Earth are melting faster than previously thought and could cause sea levels around the world to rise as much as three feet by the end of this century and 13 to 20 feet in coming centuries, scientists are reporting today.

In coming centuries, I believe we'll strive to make the anthropocene comfortable for as many species as possible, if only for the selfish reason that it will make us comfortable too.

Hansen seems to argue for a maximum rate of SLR, under BAU forcing, of at least 4 - 5 meters per century, somewhere in the coming centuries (including a negative feedback he calls the «ice berg cooling effect»).

The study of past warm climates may not narrow uncertainty in future climate projections in coming centuries because fast climate sensitivity may itself be state - dependent» http://www.pnas.org/content/110/35/14162.full

If we add ten more meters to sea level by melting ice in the coming centuries, that would reduce mean ocean salinity by about 0.1 psu.

The good news is that sea - level rise will be relatively small in the coming centuries, according to the Thwaites Glacier model published today in the journal Science.

Climate change has caused ocean temperatures to rise, a trend that will continue in the coming centuries even if fossil fuel emissions are curtailed.

Cloning, anti-aging technology, human / mechanical intertwining, basic discoveries of science pushing god further into a gap, resource scarcity, will all make for some very interesting conversations about population control, pregnancy and abortion in the coming centuries.

Keeping up and staying competitive means knowing what's going to power change in the coming century.

And here's hoping it's a model that enters themainstream in the coming century.

This paper asks what contribution the Protestant experience in the United States can make to the envisioning and shaping of a world order in the coming century.

Only by proposing such a theological development can we realistically hope to emerge from our present problems, regain that unity of purpose which is so urgently needed and which is a sign of the Spirit and renew the Church in preparation for a new evangelisation of the world in the coming century.

I hope our theological experiment in Asia in the coming century will be a modest contribution to the human search for the meaning of life and eternity in the world of transition and temporality.

In the coming century the leadership is likely to pass to people's mass movements around popularly felt issues.

Most predictions, he says, put global sea - level rise in the coming century at around 1 metre — but more will follow.

«The study gives us a really good handle on how to approximate how much ice Greenland is going to lose in the coming century,» says Ted Scambos of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

The Splendid Feast of Reason, S. Jonathan Singer (University of California Press) Singer, a biologist, argues that religious dogma must make way in the coming century for methodical, reasoned ideas.

Expect higher grass pollen, allergen exposure in coming century.»

«These areas are most susceptible to climate warming in the coming century in Antarctica, because they are the closest to the melt threshold,» says climatologist Andrew Monaghan of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in this study but reviewed the research.

Temperature Shocks, Climate Change and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates, the researchers predict that «increased temperatures due to climate change may reduce population growth rates in the coming century.»

The impacts of climate change mean that the threshold will likely be crossed more often in the coming century as wildfire season lasts longer and

The impacts of climate change mean that the threshold will likely be crossed more often in the coming century as wildfire season lasts longer and sparks more large fires.

«In some scenarios in the coming century, due to things like drought, wildfire, insects, (or) disturbances, forests start to lose more carbon than they take up, and they become a carbon source,» Anderegg said.

An increase in fire risk (i.e., probability of occurrence)-- including an increase in size and possible frequency and / or severity (i.e., tree mortality)-- is expected in the coming century as a result of a) prolonged fire seasons due to increased temperatures, and b) increased fuel loads from past fire suppression.

The climate data from these samples are a boon to scientists who aim to understand how the Arctic environment is changing today, and how global climate patterns will continue to shift in the coming century.

«By All Means is a bold, ambitious design project that I believe will have a profound effect on the way we think about and provide education in the coming century,» said Dean James Ryan.

It takes a long time to warm the deep ocean and the clathrate zone, and no one has proposed a mechanism for getting much methane release from hydrates in the coming century.

So if Texas 2011 was attributable to AGW (as Mass asserts it isn't but with little supporting evidence), this intensity of event will have been relatively weak compared with what we should expect in the coming century.

Barring some miraculous post-Rio conversion, levels of carbon dioxide from human activities will double from pre-industrial times in the coming century.

The paleoclimatic record suggests we may possibly lose about a watt per square meter if we return to Little Ice Age conditions, which is considerably smaller than the greenhouse forcing expected in the coming century.

Sea levels will rise a bit higher — but not catastrophically high — in the coming century, according to a new study.

Research published last year, for instance, shows that climate change is adding to the death toll in India by making heat waves worse and «will lead to substantial increases in heat - related mortality» in the coming century.