Sentences with phrase «middle of the century»

Given peak oil and peak coal to happen in the first middle of this century, I also harbor the probable heretic notion (in here at least) that little changes will be required to be made in the political scene.

If the present birth rate of 1.37 births for women of childbearing age continues, Japan could lose one - third of its population by the middle of this century.

But in study published in Environmental Research Letters in 2015, researchers projected that the area scorched by wildfires in Southern California will grow by as much as 77 percent by the middle of the century due to warming.

By the middle of this century it is projected that the centre of the global economy will rest firmly in Asia.

Left unchecked, entitlement spending will consume nearly all federal revenue by the middle of the century.

Another area where today's business investments have a direct relationship to tomorrow's climate impacts is in long - term capital expenditures, which will live well into the middle of the century and beyond.

There were some 267 million Catholics in the world in 1900; today, the world Church counts 1.2 billion members, with a projected growth to 1.6 billion by the middle of the century.

By the middle of this century, Muslims will become the largest religious group in Europe.

For instance, several seminal organizations began tabulating the number of religious adherents in the middle of the century, including the United States Census Bureau, something that widely attests to the importance of religious identities.

Global average temperatures could increase by as much as 5ºC by the middle of the century.

Broadcasting was extended to television by the middle of the century, and has become an enormous industry.

In the middle of the century just past, Mayne Reid was the great writer of books of out - of - door adventure.

But by the middle of the century it was becoming apparent that the Gospel was falling on deaf ears.

This has everything to do with strategic and pastoral planning, reflecting the fact that Latinos constitute at least a quarter of the more than sixty million Catholics in the U.S., and some expect they will be half the Catholic population by the middle of the century.

Forests have shrunk for centuries, but the losses accelerated in the middle of this century and even more from 1980 onwards.

Meat free eating is becoming so popular that one in four of us is likely to have given up meat entirely before the middle of this century.

By 1542, three varieties of chiles were recognized in India, according to Dutch botanist Charles Clusius, and by the middle of that century chiles were extensively cultivated and exported.

By the middle of this century, it had been introduced experimentally into veterinary medicine.

The Netherlands side jumped to prominence in the seventies with Ajax dominating European club competition during the middle of the century and the National side reaching their second successive final in 1978.

Around the middle of the century, hospital births increased and now it is the standard.

Stanley Baldwin's accommodation of the rising Labour movement dominates the inter-war chapters and Harold Macmillan dominates the middle of the century.

Mr Straw also sparked some dismay when he said the transition to the new arrangements will not be complete until the middle of this century, with numbers of life peers dwindling gradually as they retire, resign or die.

In addition to seeking major cuts from 1990 emissions levels by the middle of this century, it will be used to pursue funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development (NYSERDA).

Children born in the United States today are expected, on average, to live to age 103, and by the middle of the century, the U.S. will have 8 - 10 million people age 90 and older, she said.

That leads demographer Joel Cohen of Columbia University in New York to predict that «many of us may live to see population peak in the middle of this century».

«We can not afford to sit back and say some great invention will come along sometime in the middle of the century.»

He noted that scientific models suggest the Sahel will have an additional 76 to 100 «heat wave days» — that is three days in a row above 41 degrees Celsius (105.8 degrees Fahrenheit) by the middle of the century.

The Obama administration would like to see Americans riding on more than 16,000 miles of high speed rail lines by the middle of the century.

In combination with the data on when the specimen was collected, the results tell the tale of coal use in the United States; rising from the late 1800s and falling during the Great Recession; then increasing again through the middle of the century until legislation in the»50s,»60s, and»70s set limits on air pollution, The Washington Post reports.

The research suggests that climate change will increase the risk of serious ear blight epidemics on winter wheat in Central China by the middle of this century (2020 - 2050).

New research predicts that by the middle of the century annual rainfall in the Amazon could be less than the yearly amount of rain the region receives during drought years if deforestation rates revert back to pre-2004 levels.

Now, as the global population heads for more than 9 billion by the middle of this century, we have the genetic wherewithal to consign Haber's 1909 trick to history.

These were sold in clothing stores across the nation as bedroom slippers during the middle of this century and could be recognized by the small rodent - like face and ears on the toe area.

«There is about a one in three chance that if we take no action to mitigate climate or to do anything to curtail any of the factors that go into this water stress metric there is a one in three chance that you will reach this unsustainable situation by the middle of the century.»

Under full compliance with the Montreal Protocol, the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 benchmark levels - the time before significant ozone layer depletion - before the middle of the century in mid-latitudes and the Arctic, and somewhat later in the Antarctic.

«There are positive indications that the ozone layer is on track to recovery towards the middle of the century.

«By the middle of this century, we need to at least halve global emissions,» German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the conferees.

The recommended policy therefore involves an immediate, massive effort to reduce CO2 emissions, stopping them completely by the middle of the century, in order to stabilize climate change at less than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

If the world can't manage to cast off the ultimate weapons by the middle of the century, we may face extinction

And if climate talks do not lead to drastic action, we could pass the 2 °C mark around the middle of the century.

The trend towards greater levels of soil consumption is expected to continue until the middle of this century, albeit at a slower pace.

By around the middle of this century, one in every three Chinese is forecast to be over 60, with a dwindling proportion of working adults to support them.

That model predicts that another triple temblor could hit the area by the middle of century, if not sooner.

According to the latest IPCC report, Finland could lose 41 percent of its area accessible by winter roads by the middle of the century, while Iceland could lose as much as 82 percent.