Sentences with phrase «middle of the next century»

Another farmer's property divided their land until the middle of the next century.

A doubling of the concentration of carbon dioxide over its pre-industrial level may occur by the middle of the next century.

They say that the southern ice cap did not collapse in the Pliocene — when world temperatures were similar to those we can expect by the middle of the next century, if today's warming trend continues.

The draft report says that a doubling of the preindustrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is likely to reduce global GDP by between 1 and 3 per cent by the middle of the next century.

By Hansen's reckoning, where Washington now averages one day a year over 100 degrees, it will average 12 such scorchers annually by the middle of the next century.

By the middle of the next century the resulting warming could boost global mean temperatures from three to nine degrees Fahrenheit.

There are some predictions that HIV will not be controlled until the middle of the next century and that it may continue to devastate developing countries for the next 100 years.

Despite international efforts to limit emissions of carbon dioxide (This Week, 18 March), the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is expected to effectively double by the middle of next century.

After the Geneva meeting, he claimed that Pearce's work shows that a doubling of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by the middle of the next century would cause damage from climate change valued at between 1.5 and 2 per cent of «gross world product».

Dried - up fields and empty grain stores are likely to become semipermanent features across much of the Third World by the middle of the next century, according to an analysis of the likely impact of global warming presented to the UN this week.

In the middle of the next century, the Guild was dissolved and the mace re-purposed for the new Corporation of the town.

One subject that will have trainers debating until the middle of the next century is crate training.

«It is highly unlikely that the temperature in the middle of the next century will be significantly affected whether policies are enacted now or 20 years from now.»

By Hansen's reckoning, where Washington now averages one day a year over 100 degrees, it will average 12 such scorchers annually by the middle of the next century.

By the middle of the next century the resulting warming could boost global mean temperatures from three to nine degrees Fahrenheit.

Sometime in the middle of the next century, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air is expected to double from pre-industrial times.

CO2 concentrations will have doubled by the middle of the next century.

In 1997, just as the Kyoto climate treaty was being negotiated, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond told the World Petroleum Congress meeting in Beijing, «It is highly unlikely that the temperature in the middle of the next century will be significantly affected whether policies are enacted now or 20 years from now.»

Still, it suggested that «over the next decades, renewable forms of energy can gradually become competitive,» and it projected that «CO2 emissions could peak at about 10 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC) a year before the middle of the next century and decline.»