Sentences with phrase «influence in past centuries»

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

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As part of its 25th anniversary, CNBC is creating a definitive list of people who have had the greatest influence in business over the past quarter 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.

In the past half - century, Christian Theology and History of Religions functioned with little mutual influence.

In the past century, however, under the influence of evolutionary theory, the kinship of man with the animals has been more strongly emphasized.

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

Over the past few centuries childbirth has become increasingly influenced by medical technology, and now medical intervention is the norm in most Western countries.

The European rejection of the death penalty, which advocates of abolishing the death penalty in the United States cite as evidence of an emerging international consensus that ought to influence our Supreme Court, is related both to the past overuse of it by European nations (think of the executions for petty larceny in eighteenth - century England, the Reign of Terror in France, and the rampant employment of the death penalty by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union) and to the less democratic cast of European politics, which makes elite opinion more likely to override public opinion there than in the United States [emboldening mine].

MANNY FARBER By Kent Jones He used to argue movies with James Agee, can still go toe - to - toe with Pauline Kael, and has influenced every American film critic with a pulse in the past half - century.

Rich in historical detail, the novel explores the immense challenges faced by women in the arts (past and present), provides a glimpse into the seedy underbelly of the art world across the centuries, and illustrates the transformative power and influence of great art.

Tracing the influence of abstraction through society and politics over the past century, the exhibition stands in ardent defence of the artistic practices of Malevich and his contemporaries, an ambitious attempt to corroborate his rebuttal from more than 80 years ago that «the Black Square is real life.»

Throughout the past century, writers and thinkers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Albert Murray, Amiri Baraka, and Cornel West have asserted the fundamental importance of the blues both to American music (in its legacy and influence on jazz, R&B, rock, and hip - hop) and to developments in literature, film, and visual art.

It might look like Pozzi's sci - art obsession, rooted in the past, is a contradiction in terms but there's a clear logic to his work, whether it's a three - dimensional recreation of the mysterious «hanging egg» of the 13th century «Montefeltro Altarpiece» in «Schrödinger's cat through Piero della Francesca influence» or his Supersymmetric Partner series.

The vision and processes expressed by the photographers, inventors and above all artists in Past Picture continue to inspire and influence those taking the lens - based image into the 21st century.

This was done by subtracting the anomalous pattern of growth that emerges over the past couple centuries in these chronologies relative to other tree - ring chronologies that otherwise exhibit very similar patterns of growth back in time, but which are unlikely to be influenced by the same non-climatic factors.

You could then check your ideas with real - world data and try to demonstrate that post-volcanic rings are missing, before concluding «the potential biases identified in our study necessarily impact all existing hemispheric - scale estimates» and «bolster the case for a significant influence of explosive volcanism on climate in past centuries».

As we only have one instrumental temperature trend, the difference between the two estimates for solar sensitivities means that a larger influence must be compensated by a smaller influence of the GHG / aerosol tandem, to fit the temperature trend in the past century...

Member of the team Alena Kimbrough says, «We've shown ENSO is an important part of the climate system that has influenced global temperatures and rainfall over the past millennium... Our findings, together with climate model simulations, highlight the likelihood that century - scale variations in tropical Pacific climate modes can significantly modulate radiatively forced shifts in global temperature.»

On multi-decadal timeframes, GH gas forcing and the PDO / AMO combination have been having fairly even in their relative forcing over the past century, but the GH gas forcing is growing so large that it now dominating these longer - term natural variations... so the kicker is that the rapidly increasing GH gases, now at their highest levels in millions of years, are very likely influencing the nature of ENSO, PDO, AMO, and other formerly «natural» cycles.

Particulate, or aerosol, pollution has influenced climate in several ways during the past century.

Though cosmic rays likely influenced climate in the past, cosmic rays did not cause the recent global warming period, i.e. the global warming since the mid-20th century.

Even if we could assign a certain fraction of warming over the past century or so to natural variation, we still would face very large uncertainty in aerosol influences... and modelers would continue to use those vastly uncertain aerosol influences as as a «free» variable to «tune» the models.

In testimony before the US Senate in 2003, he stated: It is the consensus of the climate research community that the anomalous warmth of the late 20th century can not be explained by natural factors, but instead indicates significant anthropogenic, that is human influences... More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the northern hemisphere in past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millenniIn testimony before the US Senate in 2003, he stated: It is the consensus of the climate research community that the anomalous warmth of the late 20th century can not be explained by natural factors, but instead indicates significant anthropogenic, that is human influences... More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the northern hemisphere in past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millenniin 2003, he stated: It is the consensus of the climate research community that the anomalous warmth of the late 20th century can not be explained by natural factors, but instead indicates significant anthropogenic, that is human influences... More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the northern hemisphere in past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millenniin past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millennia.

ICS past chair Stanley Finney, who also made a presentation at the IGC, argues that the stratigraphic record for the Anthropocene is minimal and that the proposed beginning of the Anthropocene in the mid-20th century would not include a significant amount of human - influenced changes that took place before then.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

... The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human influences on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real basis for concern.»

The late 20th and early 21st century observations seem remarkably similar to those in the distant past, suggesting that Co2 emissions are not a factor influencing streamflow.

However, the available evidence does not indicate pronounced long - term changes in the Sun's output over the past century, during which time human - induced increases in CO2 concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.

But in the past century, another force has started to influence Earth's climate: humanity.

To gain a better understanding of the influence Apprenticeships have and their importance in today's business landscape, it's important to look at their foundations and development over the past centuries.

While parental influence over children's mating choices has considerably decreased over the past few centuries, it nevertheless still exists in many cultures.