Sentences with phrase «in next few decades»

It is a partnership between Climate Access, a climate advocacy group, the Marin County and Owlized, a visualization solutions company, whose business is to help residents of the county to better see what's to come in the next few decades.

The research found that increased temperatures would lead to increased feminisation of the species, but entire feminisation would not be imminent in the next few decades.

Further, while nuclear units can easily operate 50 or 60 years, solar panels have relatively short operational lifespans (20 to 30 years), so their disposal will become a problem in the next few decades.

We utilise this to forecast decreasing THC strength in the next few decades.

Under the best of circumstances, where we stop burning fossil fuels today, we can expect a total temperature increase (above pre-industrial) of somewhere between 1.5 C to 2.5 C in the next few decades.

A new study by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory looked at the impact that plug - in hybrids (and indirectly, electric cars) might have on the US electricity grid in the next few decades.

And in fact, I think the actual situation in the next few decades could be even more dire that our study suggested.

If these climate realists are correct, the world will be «saved» from the climate alarmists» predicted catastrophic increases in temperatures in the next few decades, but will enter an even more unwelcome persistent cold period.

Asia has become the largest contributor of anthropogenic atmospheric Hg, responsible for more than half of global emissions, and a significant increase in emissions from this region is expected in the next few decades due to rapid economic and industrial development (54).

In the next few decades, sex won't even be an option if you're busy dodging climate - change - induced hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, and other scourges of the earth.

Achieving that in the next few decades would enable the next generation of electric power to be mostly emissions - free by 2050: 50 % nuclear, 10 - 20 % gas turbine and 30 % renewables (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal).

However, the differences between particle emission restriction paths in the next few decades do not carry any major impact considering the end of the century.

Or their case may be that there is no possible way to transition to lower emissions effectively in the next few decades, so we might as well give up even trying, but they don't say that explicitly either.

With growth rates triple those in industrialized countries, premium volume from the developing world will represent half of the global total in the next few decades.

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition is the only global effort that unites governments, civil society and private sector, committed to improving air quality and protecting the climate in next few decades by reducing short - lived climate pollutants across sectors.

Once the grasses got started on the burnt landscape, however, the surviving grazing animals had a boom time, fueled by the vast expanses of grass that grew in the next few decades.

On the bright side, the paper says that if nations can substantially cut greenhouse gas emissions in the next few decades, the worst effects could be avoided.

Only natural warming coming our way, but not in the next few decades.

Still, coal production in the next few decades won't surpass levels reached in the 1980s, according to the EIA report.

«My home in the next few decades will be gone, the island will be underwater,» he said.

It's reasonable to say that, if the generations alive in the next few decades are willing to give up, say 3 per cent of their income for a project which will deliver most of its benefits after 2050, those who will benefit from that (modest but not insignificant) sacrifice ought to be willing to give up a similar proportion of their (almost certainly much higher) incomes, to return the environment to something like the starting point, before the process of industrialisation that delivered all that wealth.

No, your statement that solar and wind will become 100 % energy sources in the next few decades due to doubling every 2 to 4 years is not correct.

They estimate that around 46 % of the generating capacity in 14 US states could experience reductions of up to 3 % in the next few decades.

Their contribution to climate change may be most important in the next few decades, as clean energy gradually comes to dominate the energy sector.

If you care about avoiding warming later in the century (as the United Nations does with its 2 °C warming by 2100 target), there is relatively little problem with short - term methane emissions, as long as they are phased out in the next few decades.

The world's demand for energy is likely to double or triple in the next few decades.

A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.

What the new data suggests, Werner said, is that the Arctic Ocean will likely be free of sea ice during summer in the next few decades, which may trigger significant changes in climate across the globe.

«Multiple feet of sea level rising in the next few decades, that's just fantasy,» says Myron Ebell, the director of energy and global - warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free - market think tank.

When there is no uncertainty, only the above - average sensitivities require significant mitigation in the next few decades.

One example is Cowen referencing a cure to Alzheimer's as a defensive innovation - yes it's true that Alzheimer's will likely become far worse of an affliction as our population ages in the next few decades.

Farnish has predicted that «people will die in huge numbers when civilization collapses,» something that he believes is imminent in the next few decades.

As and when alternative energy makes economic sense (and there is a real chance solar energy will make that breakthrough in the next few decades), then you'll find we'll wholeheartedly embrace it.

And according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), China will be leading producer of renewable energy in the next few decades.

It was actually a toss - up at the time (in science, not public opinion) as to whether warming or cooling would dominate climate in the next few decades.

Longer term the sun is behaving like it did in the last 1700s and early 1800s, leading many to believe we are likely to experience conditions more like the early 1800s (called the Dalton Minimum) in the next few decades.

The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network reports that 24 percent of the remaining reefs are at risk of imminent collapse, with another 26 percent facing significant loss in the next few decades, due to mounting human pressures.

Australia's climate is expected to become warmer and drier overall.3 In a medium - emissions scenario, 19 temperatures are projected to rise about 1.8 ° F (1 ° C) in the next few decades.3 Rainfall is expected to decline 3 - 5 percent, and evaporation to increase 2 - 4 percent3 — creating conditions conducive to an environment for increasing frequency of bushfires.

If temperatures continue to rise at recent rates, major sections of glaciers covering the Alps and the French and Spanish Pyrenees could be gone in the next few decades.

«All of the nations... [except]... the US... are deeply committed to drastically reducing fossil fuel use in the next few decades based on recommendations from science.

All of the nations but two (Syria and the US) are deeply committed to drastically reducing fossil fuel use in the next few decades based on recommendations from science.

In other words, though painful changes are apparently coming in the next few decades and before there is a chance of getting Earth's rising annual global temperature to level off, there is still time, according to the latest science, to avoid the very worst.

You may, of course, turn out to be correct that there will be a a period of cooling in the next few decades, but this is very much a fringe view, and not part of the mainstream consensus.

That additional more than 2 billion people in the next few decades needs additional energy supply to survive.

I believe impromptu vacation planning will be rising in the next few decades, held back only by unknowns surrounding weather.

In the next few decades, longer growing seasons and rising carbon dioxide levels will increase yields of some crops, though those benefits will be progressively offset by extreme weather events.

Using business - as - usual scenarios for reactive nitrogen creation and CO2 emissions, several projections suggest that O3 - related human mortality and crop damage will rise sharply in the next few decades, especially in tropical and subtropical regions where rising temperatures and rising NOx concentrations will interact synergistically to produce more O3.

Rising temperatures in the next few decades will lead to a «massive» increase in vegetation in the lands bordering the Arctic, with as much as 50 % more tree cover.

, and we read that we could see in the next few decades about 4 / 10ths of an inch of contribution to sea level rise.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and if you consider how far we came in 50 years, you would be more optimistic that this can significantly progress in the next few decades to where you won't recognize it.