Sentences with phrase «most of the next century»

However, even if it were to stop now, the IPCC's sodomising of science has so damaged the institution I believe it will take most of the next century to recover.

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In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

We're so used to the default trope that China is «the world's most populous nation» that it will come as a shock to many that, by some demographers» estimates, China's current population, 1.4 billion, will shrink to 500 million by the turn of the next century.

Concerns of the Disciples dominated the CENTURY's pages for most of the next eight years.

In that disheartening period which followed the fifth century, when Christianity appeared to be passing, geographic gains were being made in Western Europe which formed the basis for most of the next advance.

Although no more Easter narratives were accepted into the authoritative canon of the New Testament which eventuated, such stories continued to appear in the next century, and probably far outnumbered the canonical ones, even though most of them have not survived except in fragments.

Few modern Protestants dealt as carefully, fully, or sympathetically with twentieth - century Catholicism as did Berkouwer,» writes Peter Leithart of the man Timothy George has called «the most important Reformed theologian of the twentieth century next to Karl Barth.»

The democratic republican tradition was missing in action for most of the next half century.

The Seneca Nation conquered the territory during the Beaver Wars and held it through the next century until siding with the British crown, their allies for most of the 18th century, against the American revolutionaries in the American Revolutionary War.

By 1870, thanks to the new synthetic dyes, most of the companies that would dominate the chemical industry for the next century and a half had established themselves as global players.

Looking ahead, NASA has no plans for a next - generation mission to study Earth - like planets around other stars, the most exciting astronomical discovery of the past decade if not the past half - century.

Whereas most studies look to the last 150 years of instrumental data and compare it to projections for the next few centuries, we looked back 20,000 years using recently collected carbon dioxide, global temperature and sea level data spanning the last ice age.

Although this may be bad news for the Baltic Sea and other areas plagued by this dinoflagellate, Kremp also noted that the short duration of most lab studies limits what we can know about how toxic algae may evolve over the next century.

It could become, as the Countryside Commission calls it, «one of the most ambitious and imaginative environmental projects of this century and the next».

Under the most conservative scenario, the researchers used a projected global output of 1,280 billion tons of carbon across the next few centuries, far below estimated reserves of at least 9,500 billion tons.

Contrary to what you might expect, the third IPPC report predicted that global warming would most likely lead to a thickening of the ice sheet over the next century, with increased snowfall compensating for any melting cause by warming.

The report added that within the next two decades, China could dominate renewable energy industries «that are emerging as among the most critical sectors of the 21st century.»

Over the next century the label would grow from a travel - luggage importer to one of the most recognizable clothing labels on the planet.

The American Association joined the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the minor league organization), and for the next half century the league was arguably the most influential minor league in all of baseball.

While most of the excitement for blockbusters this month is going to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story next week, 20th Century Fox wants to make sure you don't forget that Assassin's Creed is coming the week after that, just before Christmas.

In what is probably the most miscast role of the century anyway, Nicolas Cage, everybody's favourite inconsistent actor, is all set to return next...

His next film was the unconventional romantic comedy Amelie (2001), a huge hit worldwide, and still one of the most beloved films of the 21st century.

It's hard to pick just one image from Andrew Dominik's masterpiece as it is one of the most beautifully photographed movies of the 21st century, the train station shadow / smoke scene is one other iconic moment that comes to mind, but for my money nothing beats this gorgeous frame in which Brad Pitt's Jesse James look over the sunset as he contemplates his next move.

Once these «basics» had been achieved, as has been the case in most countries in the past few centuries, I suspect the well - being of family and the possession of certain items would be next on the list,» writes Professor Howard Gardner.

They were also asked to discuss what they think are the most important elements of a redesigned next generation high school, and the issues policymakers should keep in mind as they seek to redesign American high schools for the 21st century.

And the most dramatic of the moves will take place in the city's Lanning Square neighborhood next fall, when the KIPP charter network will move out of the trailers and into a gleaming brick - and - glass school, absorbing the one district school — the century - old Whittier School that is closing outright under Rouhanifard's plan.

Two California charter school leaders — Yvonne Chan, principal of the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center, one of the most successful urban public schools in the U.S., and Larry Rosenstock, CEO and founding principal of High Tech High — participated in a recent summit focusing on innovative solutions to address school improvement nationwide.

In the mid-eleventh century, while King Harold was unsuccessfully defending England from the Normans, the salt producers of Sichuan were developing percussion drilling, the most advanced drilling technique in the world for the next seven or eight centuries.

The American Association joined the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the minor league organization), and for the next half century the league was arguably the most influential minor league in all of baseball.

Best known as a refuge for Christianity before it was widely accepted, Cappadocia became home to early believers as they fled Roman persecution in the 4th century A.D. Over the next 600 years, these holy settlers would create the region's most notable landmarks, carving out their homes and churches into soft canyon walls to make so - called «fairy chimneys» while building unimaginably complex beehives of humanity.

The Dutch artist's journey is a 20th Century story, while Lee journeying across the Pacific, first to California, is most certainly a forerunner and standard bearer for artists of the turn of the 20th to the 21st Century — an immigrant artist from Asia whose extensive oeuvre of ahead - of - the - curve artworks has changed the cultural landscape from one hemisphere to the next.

In gallery news: David Zwirner now represents the Joan Mitchell Foundation, with an exhibition planned for next year in the gallery's New York space — «The gallery is proud to be entrusted to help with the extraordinary legacy of Joan Mitchell, one of the most important and original American painters to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century», Zwirner commented; Lehmann Maupin have announced representation of the Estate of Heidi Bucher — «Her exploration of spaces — often designated as feminine, particularly domestic environments and objects — is very much in line with Lehmann Maupin's programming and closely ties into the work of artists such as Do Ho Suh and Liza Lou,» director Anna Stothart said; New York's James Cohan Gallery represents Matthew Ritchie; LA's Kayne Griffin Corcoran now represents painter Mary Obering (her work is on show at their booth at Frieze New York); London's White Cube have opened an office on New York's Upper East Side; and Mexico City gallery kurimanzutto also opened a space in New York's Upper East Side yesterday, inaugurated with new work by Abraham Cruzvillegas.

In one high - profile example, next month, Sotheby's will open a joint show of works by two of the best - known (and most expensive) female artists of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama.

But her most celebrated essay is only one of her many contributions to art history: her books include Realism (1971), Woman as Sex Object: Studies in Erotic Art, 1730 — 1970 (1972); Women, Art, and Power, and Other Essays (1988), The Politics of Vision (1989), The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity (1994), and Bathers, Bodies, Beauty (2006); Misère, her book about the representation of misery in the second half of the 19th century in France and England is due out next year.

Raymond Roussel (1877 - 1933), next - door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the twentieth century.

In the U.S. this is perhaps most famously observed in Glacier National Park, where the terminus of glaciers have retreated by several kilometers in the past century, and could be gone before the next century (see e.g. the USGS web site, here, and here).

While the overall opinion of the panel was that WAIS most likely will not collapse in the next few centuries, their uncertainty retains a 5 % probability of WAIS causing sea level rise at least 10 mm / year within 200 years.»

«While in the most recent Climate Model Intercomparison Project 5 some models project a near ice - free Arctic during the summer minimum already toward the beginning of this century, other models keep a substantial amount of ice well into the next century,» Notz and Stroeve write.

(Phys.org)-- Over the next century, most of the continents are on track to become considerably warmer, with more hot extremes and fewer cold extremes.

America's WETLAND Foundation Restore - Adapt - Mitigate: Responding To Climate Change Through Coastal Habitat Restoration PDF Coastal habitats are being subjected to a range of stresses from climate change; many of these stresses are predicted to increase over the next century The most significant effects are likely to be from sea - level rise, increased storm and wave intensity, temperature increases, carbon dioxide concentration increases, and changes in precipitation that will alter freshwater delivery.....

Next time you should put Antwerp on your «things to see» list: cathedral of the 13th century with several paintings of P.P. Rubens, town hall of the 15th century, a very nice Grand Market, and last but not least, the central station, nicknamed the «railway cathedral», one of the five most beautiful station buildings of the world, according to the New York Times.

I.e. solar activity was high in most of the 20th centiry and then peaked in about 1985, together with a 20 - 30 year heat lag (since it remained high until 1996 as well), and oceans take a few decades to equilbrate, (the same as summer takes about 6 weeks to reach maximum temperature after the summer solstice, and every day it takes a few hours after noon to reach maximum temperature), so the earth has taken a few decades to reach maximum temperature after the long high in solar activity during the 20th century, and will now go down in temperature over the next few decades, with now both a negative PDO, and reduced solar activity.

Other scientists argue that there has been some man - made global warming, but that most of the global warming is natural in origin, and that man - made global warming will only gradually become significant over the next century or so.

The article ends: «We shall be able to test the carbon dioxide theory against other theories of climatic change quite conclusively during the next half - century... if carbon dioxide is the most important factor, long - term temperature records will rise continuously as long as man consumes the earth's reserves of fossil fuels».

Just because great climate flips can happen in response to global warming doesn't mean that they are the most probable outcome of our current situation, what one might «forecast» (that's one of the reasons why I've been careful not to «predict» a cooling in the next century).

It isn't that abrupt cooling is the most probable outcome in the next century but that an atmospheric warming from any cause looks capable of triggering a loss of the warm water loop through the Labrador and Greenland Seas (the front - runner candidate for what has caused the observed global abrupt coolings of the past).

Direct warming from the greenhouse gas effect of CO2 does not create a catastrophe, and at most, according to the IPCC, might warm the Earth another degree over the next century.

The fact that you say «Most people are inclined to plan for the trends of next century...» could indicate you are unhinged from reality.

The impacts over the next century are likely to be some of the most significant anywhere on our planet and could have global consequences.

Because of that uncertainty, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the international body that reviews and assesses the most recent peer - reviewed climate research from around the world — assumed in 2007 that the rate of ice loss from the poles wouldn't change much over the next century.