Sentences with phrase «many over the last few centuries»

The assumption was on the part of the religious that what we do not understand must be the work of a god — except that over the last few centuries we understand more about creation — big bang, evolution, etc. which shows those creation stories to be incorrect.

So, today's doubters need to be pressed hard as to why, if the alternative versions of Jesus (mystic, moral teacher, misguided healer) advanced over the last few centuries can be taken seriously, it never occurred to any sceptic in the ancient world to make these very obvious challenges.

You could say that it is very disrespectful to the men and women who have worked very hard to give us all this knowledge and understanding of how things works over the last few centuries to still believe in these ancient stories.

Perfect means «whole», not how we see the word today — the meaning has changed over the last few centuries.

In addition to relating details of some of the personal, sometimes quite extreme, interpersonal conflicts between some of the early figures in paleontology, the book also provides a good overview of how scientific estimates regarding the age of the earth and the development of life on earth have advanced over the last few centuries.

Over the last few centuries, many immigrant cultures have contributed elements of their own cuisines to Peruvian cooking: Spanish, African, Indian, Italian, Chinese and Japanese influences have greatly enriched the culinary landscape.

Over the last few centuries, the ocean has absorbed huge amounts of the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.

«These estimates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries, indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way,» the researchers wrote in the study.

Luludating has over the last few centuries.

From the confines of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, to the cheesy, yet endearing pages of The Royal Teashop series by Ginny Clyde, it's these books that we've ended up falling in love with over the last few centuries.

Increasingly, over the last few centuries, many pedigree breeds have been generated based on selection for particular physical and / or behavioral characteristics, which have been fixed and maintained by inbreeding within closed familial lines.

It is something of a library of French industrial achievements over the last few centuries but also throws a broader light on the history of technical evolution throughout the world.

Through his work, Gosling has drawn a parallel to the importance of the Potomac River for the United States and its growth over the last few centuries.

In addition to inviting contemporary artists to be involved in the project, historical representations of atmospheric conditions will be exhibited that illustrate how the idea of «air» has changed quite dramatically over the last few centuries.

Numerous scholars have addressed the ways media, technology, and capitalism have affected Western notions of love over the last few centuries.

Your analogy of our species living like teens over the last few centuries is right on.

It appears that Ghil, and others specifically warn against the use of MEM and temperature data: «Instrumental temperature data over the last few centuries do not seem, for instance, to determine sufficiently well the behavior of global or local temperatures to permit a reliable climate forecast on the decadal timescale by this SSA - MEM method.»

There are plenty of reasons to respond rationally to the very rapid changes in climate (rapid in geological terms) over the last few centuries, whether you accept they are man - made or not.

We believe that the examples below indicate that the Arctic sea ice extent in 1979 was quite high, and that there were many periods over the last few centuries when the sea ice extent was less.

By the way, this is how the paper aristocracy has made most of its wealth over the last few centuries, and how those banking families originally became wealthy.

Not exact matches

Over the last few days, leading CEOs, academics and designers spanning all industries engaged in an array of panels to grapple with hefty questions about business and design: What does it mean to be a designer in the 21st century?

No, we generally have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century.

The FED needs to be abolished yesterday, and we need to take back / reverse everything they did to our country over the last few months, if not centuries.

That's just a sampling of misguided, delusional people over the last few years... how many over the centuries died for untrue beliefs?

Timmerman and others showed in 2013 that El Niños have been stronger in the last few decades than in any period over the past four centuries.

However, one of the panel's reservations was that ``... a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work «have been underestimated,»...» The panel concluded «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium.

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The organization of work in the countries with the best - performing education systems took its current shape over the last few decades, not in the first few decades of the 20th century.

This is fueled by purists that vigorously argue that any deviation from the original standards is no longer a British (English) bulldog [47], even though the breed has continued to evolve in appearance over centuries and even the last few decades.

It suffered through a great depression at the turn of the century, and it's survived a currency crisis over the last few years.

The growth of consumerism and instant gratification over the last few decades of the 20th century has also had a huge impact on visual art.

There are quite a few reasons to believe that the surface temperature record — which shows a warming of approximately 0.6 ° -0.8 °C over the last century (depending on precisely how the warming trend is defined)-- is essentially uncontaminated by the effects of urban growth and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.

This was explicitly discussed in Hansen et al, 1997 where they predicted that over the last few decades of the 20th Century, there should have been a significant increase in ocean heat content (OHC).

Attitudes won't change the fact that the Earth has already warmed about 0.7 C over the past century and mostly in the last few decades, and the warming has been accelerating.

Our formula gives near the same variability of the temperature / CO2 relationship for yearly variations, but only a few ppmv increase in CO2, due to the slight (0.6 °C) rise in temperature over the last century.

Do you really believe that AO / NAO caused only minor fluctuations in ice extent for over a century, then caused it to nose - dive over the last few decades?

There is also considerable observational evidence that arctic sea ice extent over the last few decades is much lower than it has been for at least a century prior to modern times.

Using the NDVI, one team this year reported that «over the last few decades of the 20th century, terrestrial ecosystems acted as net carbon sinks,» i.e., they absorbed more carbon than they were emitting, and «net greening was reported in all biomes,» though the effect had slowed down in recent years.

The pattern is of a cooling Sun over the millennia — fewer isotopes — and then warming last century.

Doe this mean that the National Research Council should / will revisit their conclusion: «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium»???

Following a warming trend early in the 20th century and mid-century cooling, surface air temperatures in the Arctic have shown a strong increase over the last few decades, warming at about twice the global average.

1.2 c of climate evolution over a century is not catastrophic and is well within the envelope of natural variation seen over the last few thousand years.

This discussion suggests three important conclusions: (i) the effect of changes in terrestrial water storage on sea level may be considerable; (ii) the net effect on sea level could be of either sign, and (iii) the rate has increased over the last few decades (in the assessment of Gornitz et al. (1997) from near zero at the start of the century to 0.8 mm / yr in 1990).

It is widely recognized that modern Arctic region sea ice concentrations are considerably more advanced today than they were a few thousand years ago, with most studied regions showing the increase in sea ice extent occurring «over the last centuries».

Scientists from the Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate (CAGE), Environment and Climate at the Arctic University of Norway, published a study in June 2017, describing over a hundred ocean sediment craters, some 3,000 meters wide and up to 300 meters deep, formed due to explosive eruptions, attributed to destabilizing methane hydrates, following ice - sheet retreat during the last glacial period, around 12,000 years ago, a few centuries after the Bølling - Allerød warming.

With few exceptions, glaciers around the world have retreated at unprecedented rates over the last century.

If the data in all three series has dramatically spiralled away from the instrumental record over the last few decades, it can not * possibly * be reasonable to claim an accuracy of 0.1 degC two centuries ago, when the instrumental records basically did not exist!

«Mike has done an amazing job growing this organization over the last few years,» says Nick Bailey, president and CEO of Century 21 Real Estate.