Sentences with phrase «little as a decade»

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

The honeycreepers that are left on the island are declining fast, and some species could disappear in as little as a decade.

In as little as a decade, foolproof contraception could be as effortless as an annual flu shot, predicts Peter Sutovsky, a reproductive biologist at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

At two lake sites in Europe, there seems to be a reaction that tracks the changes in the ice cores by as little as a decade and at most a couple of hundred years.

So global temperatures look set to rise rapidly out of the hiatus, returning to the levels projected within as little as a decade.»

Advances in magnet technology have enabled researchers at MIT to propose a new design for a practical compact tokamak fusion reactor — and it's one that might be realized in as little as a decade, they say.

If it is, we could see a completed one up and running in as little as a decade.

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

Shifts can be relatively minor or can involve major change in surface temperature, hydrology or biology in as little as a decade.

The implications are profound — unpredictable shifts in temperature and hydrology every 20 to 30 years and the potential for major climate shifts in as little as a decade being just two.

What we had was 10 degrees C warming in as little as a decade at times.

With abrupt climate change — the new paradigm to replace AGW — the stage is set for radical change within as little as a decade possible at any time from natural causes — let alone with the interesting experiment of anthropogenic emissions in the mix (NAS Committee on Abrupt Climate Change 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change Page, Royal Society 2010).

Changes in the climate state can be fast and furious — local changes in temperature of as much as 10 degrees C in as little as a decade and shifts in hydrology by a factor of two.

Using Michael Mann's preferred pre-industrial baseline, the long - term trend could reach 1.5 °C in as little as a decade.

Temperature changes of 20 degrees C — in places — in as little as a decade is possible.

As much as 16 degrees centigrade locally in as little as a decade.

Such things as drops of 10 degrees in places in as little as a decade and abrupt shifts in hydrology and ocean states.

Synchronous chaos implies a certainty of climate catastrophe — in the sense of Rene Thom — in as little as a decade.

100 + years building a publication of reputation and integrity only to have it destroyed in as little as a decade thanks to a religious zeal to the doctrine of CAGW.

Nothing short of deep and rapid decarbonization will keep the Earth from surpassing the 1.5 °C average temperature threshold in as little as a decade, and 2 °C a few decades after that.

Climate has made major shifts in as little as a decade — and we have little idea of how and why the balance of the physical components of the system change.

At some point there are runaway feedbacks of ice and snow that plunge the world into a glacial in as little as a decade.

The climate record for the past 100,000 years clearly indicates that the climate system has undergone periodic — and often extreme — shifts, sometimes in as little as a decade or less.

As little as a decade ago, you could turn a corner in the Square Mile and were always promised a glimpse of a Restoration spire amid the modern office blocks.

As he and others over half a century unravelled the roles of ice ages and oceans in changing the climate, they found evidence that in the past, climate had shifted abruptly in as little as a decade.

King says that «as a result, the helium - powered ships could be carrying freight - and even passengers - in as little as a decade's time.»

As little as a decade ago all forces affecting the ability of law firms to extract superior profits for their work were benign, i.e. it was a sellers» market.

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Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

Trump hasn't denied the Times» conclusion that he could have avoided taxes for nearly two decades, just saying he was smart to pay as little as possible.

In a little over a decade, it had expanded from a scrappy upstart into a thriving outfit with dozens of employees, a database of 1,500 contractors and such industry giants as Lowe's, Home Depot and Canadian Tire as clients.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

In the last few decades, the saying changed to «Spend as little as you can get away with and funnel maximum profits to investors.»

But Subway's decade of growth was also the result of sticking to its winning concept: The footprint for a Subway can be as little as 600 square feet, initial costs can be as low as $ 84,000, and a lack of griddles, fryers and drive - thrus means franchisees can open their restaurants almost anywhere.

However, over the past two decades, several companies have defied the odds, garnering sky - high valuations in as little as two years.

Thus, until the advent of the global financial crisis, mainstream authors paid little attention to the fact that wage growth had lagged behind the sum of productivity growth and inflation, in most countries and for several decades, and that as a result wage shares had fallen.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a church.

A little more than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Poland has emerged as one of Europe's strongest economies.

So, as a small business owner, the substantive relationship you have with your local banker, or the social capital you've built within your community over years, if not decades — which propels enormous goodwill, customer loyalty, and economic value — means little, if anything, to regulators.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

As you might have noticed there was very little new material added for about a decade.

So if God chose to limit this most Perfect form of self - revelation to three decades (and to a small little piece of land as well), then why couldn't God limit other forms of revelation as well to certain times and places, and the rest of us just make - do?

Aesthetically, every building within view of our site would have been built within the same decade as ours, with very little architectural style or integration with the surrounding environment.

This isn't the «vision» I had of my life during my 20's — the decade when you're supposed to be a little neurotic as you chase down your «visions» and dreams.

A little more than a decade ago the food industry faced billions in losses due to recalls, legal actions, and lost sales as a result of tainted product making its way into circulation.

The technologies — which can repay the cost of their installation in as little as two years — will be explained by Mr Bambridge, who has decades of experience in assisting organisations manage energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and the impacts of climate change.

We are actually as a club right on the brink of a catastrophe that will take years to recover from i find it so ironic and not a little bit stomach turning that the man who did so much for us in the first decade has been so complicit in destroying us in the second decade

Drifting through the Southland conference, three years in the Big West (despite being west of very little), two stays as an independent, and more than a decade as a Sun Belt also - ran, the Ragin» Cajuns had never been to a bowl game and never threatened to get noticed by the college football world.

Now that General Motors has given the Wankel its seal of approval by indicating that some versions of its Vega subcompact will be sold with rotary engines as early as Spring 1974, there is little question that automobiles of every size and nationality will be humming along under «R.C. Power» by the end of the decade.

Carlson has witnessed Robards» excellence on and off the field for a decade as Ryan and Dylan Carlson, Jeff's son and a senior baseball star in his own right at Elk Grove, have been friends and teammates since Little League.