Sentences with phrase «in the past century»

The instrument record does show an uptick of warming in the past century.

That would mean that the temperature change during the next century would be just a bit larger than we have seen in the past century; a change that has caused no obvious harm.

The panel said that the world has warmed by around 0.5 °C in the past century.

His influence has grown with the passing of the years and has never been so powerful as in the past century and a quarter.

The planet has warmed about 1 degree in the past century alone.

The biggest difference in our modern world is that fewer women die of childbirth complications in first world countries than they did in past centuries.

The development of aggressive behaviour during childhood: What have we learned in the past century?

This happened all the time in past centuries, so it isn't totally out of line.

The 10 hottest years on record started in 1991 and, worldwide, average temperatures had risen by 0.6 C in the past century.

Not one scientific discovery of note, innovative firm of international importance, or contribution to universal culture has come from the Muslim world in the past century.

Only in the past century has this stopped and people are left feeling stuck and confused because we are residing in these bodies we have no idea how to take care of.

Life expectancy in the developed world has nearly doubled in the past century.

The WHO also states that the world as a whole is closing the life expectancy gap achieved by the best performing countries in the past century.

Worse, the strength of our magnetic field has decreased about 5 percent in the past century.

These natural climate forcing agents have been joined in the past century by human - made agents, most notably «greenhouse» gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2).

The rate of warming has increased in the past century or so.

For one thing, tornado death rates have dropped dramatically in the past century, thanks to radar and other warning technologies.

I've seen charts comparing our current bull market to 3 other extended bull markets in the past century, and we aren't even close yet in terms of duration and percentage increase.

Such demands would have been a big burden to a scientist in the past centuries.

Clearly, there have been tremendous improvements in energy intensity in the past century, and before.

His tenure as speaker will have been among the shortest in the past century.

It is this kind of criticism in which most biblical scholars have been engaged in the past century.

That, at least, has happened repeatedly in the past century and a half.

Whatever may have been the case in past centuries, the question of meaning is the most important question in our lives today.

Obviously, we have made a lot of progress in the past century.

The idea of the village has disappeared in the past century and has certainly accelerated in scarcity in recent decades.

This simple problem has been compounded in the past century, and in particular in the past 30 years, by an ever - increasing role of teamwork in research.

At various points in the past century, leaders have hyped new technologies in schools, which have generally failed to meet the lofty expectations.

Some books may have had an influence in past centuries, while being almost completely forgotten by the 21st century.

While in past centuries, dogs were expected to work hard for their supper, today, a pet dog often doesn't have any real responsibilities at all.

The 800,000 year history of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, showing the huge spike in the past century.

There has been (according to this) 0.7 °C warming in the past century.

We know the planet has warmed by an average of nearly 1 °C in the past century.

The development of aggressive behavior during childhood: What have we learned in the past century?

No, crime has fallen more in the past 10 years than at any time in the past century.

It concluded that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations had already increased by about 25 percent in the past century, and continued use of fossil fuels would lead to substantial temperature increases in the future.

Also stating how atheists have caused the most damage in the past century is a fact.

So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural,» Tsonis said.

Rather, as demonstrated in IPCC (2001)[see this comparison here] and numerous additional studies since, it is what is perhaps more aptly termed the «Hockey Team» — that is, the multiple independent reconstructions and model simulations that now indicate essentially the same pattern of hemispheric mean temperature variation in past centuries, that support a «Hockey Stick» description of past temperature changes.