Sentences with phrase «much of the next century»

Writing in the February 1999 issue of Worth magazine, Nick Ravo, a reporter for The New York Times, quotes several economic soothsayers who predict a highly depressed residential market extending throughout much of the next century.

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Look at how much trouble less than a century of nuclear power has already caused on this planet... what are the chances of something more catastrophic happening with that and / or more powerful technologies that develop over the next several hundred years?

While much of the revival of Roman Catholicism was through leaders from Italy, it was from the Iberian Peninsula that Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the chief organization of the Roman Catholic Reformation, the Society of Jesus, came, and it was from Spain and Portugal, only recently emerged from the Moslem yoke and where in the seventh and eighth centuries Christianity had suffered some of its worst defeats, that the next chief geographic expansion of Christianity issued.

«We can also combine that data with projections of sea ice, to predict how much more or less it will cost these animals to make a living over the next century,» Fischbach says.

In an article earlier this month, Ridley compared estimates of how much the sea level would rise over the next century.

Scientists estimate that within the next century permafrost will have declined 30 % to 70 % and there is limited accounting of how much carbon is stored in these frozen soils or the rate at which it will be released.

Lenoir notes, for instance, that even though tree species did not show much sign of movement over the past century, that climate change may affect the next generation.

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.

A prior study cited by the paper found that an increase in shrub cover of roughly 20 percent could spur as much as 1.8 degrees Celsius of additional regional warming over the next century.

As a result, the town developed very little through the next few centuries - meaning that much of its historic core has been preserved to the present day.

For those still wandering around in shock wondering what the next four years will bring, this survey from the museum's collection of early 20th - century Russian art packs in so much energy, verve, and optimism that it may come as a welcome massage to furrowed brows.

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.

The zeitgeist is very much on her side: A retrospective of the African - American figurative painter Kerry James Marshall arrives at New York's Met Breuer this month, and next summer, London's Tate Modern will mount a major exhibition on the shifting definition of «black art» in the United States in the past century.

However, the idea is simple, and I've talked about this much in many presentations this winter: Take the amount of ice you need to get rid of from Greenland to raise sea level 2 m in the next century, reduce it by your best estimate of the amount that would be removed by surface mass balance losses, and try to push the rest out of the aggregate cross-sectional area of Greenland's marine - based outlet glaciers.

That depends on how much we emit in the next several centuries, and exactly what happens to them in the depths of the ocean.

What we are talking about is more like, How much fuel will be burned by how many airplanes reaching their airstrips over the next half - century, given various projections for population growth and economic development, imponderables about changing patterns of mobility and technological breakthroughs, and market reactions to unpredictable events like terrorist hijackings?

Scientific predictions of climate change for the next couple centuries, when we already know that CO2 and water vapor will be high, involves much less uncertainty than prediction of climate change when CO2 and water vapor are low.

When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west — losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries.

However, these biases do not matter so much that they would seriously undermine the model projections over the next century or so (see discussion around Fig. 9.42 a In Ch9 of Working Group I in the 5th IPCC Report; and discussion around Fig. 2 and Appendix B in Hawkins and Sutton, 2016).

A new international study is the first to use a high - resolution, large - scale computer model to estimate how much ice the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could lose over the next couple of centuries, and how much that could add to sea - level rise.

(2) We're going to be running out of fossil fuels anyway in the next few centuries; without alternatives, global economic prosperity will be endangered much sooner than that.

But as a cooling world is now much more likely than a warming one for the next half century in the light of the current sunspot cycles and the ocean oscillations it would seem absolutely negligent to ignore the possibility, however politically incorrect it might be to entertain the thought.

Optimal policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, economists tell us, won't cost the global economy very much in the grand scheme of things — on the order of 1 percent of total global GDP over the course of the next century.

Even after 2.0 C / century happens for a couple of decades in a row (which looks likely within the next sixty years barring aerosol emission increasing much faster than projections indicate), I'd still expect actual pauses to happen quite often.

There is now much exuberance in the United States about «100 years of energy independence» as we become «the Saudi Arabia of the next century» — perhaps the final century of human civilization if current policies persist.

There was a cool regime (1944 - 1976) and a warm one (1976 - 1998)-- but the next century will see much more in the way of cooler regimes.

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.

Again, it's not the gradual long - term rise in sea - levels that is a direct threat - thought to amount to as much as 1 meter, or 3 feet, over the next century - but how that higher base - line affects the natural «sloshing about» of sea.

-- but to get a better understanding of how much and how fast the sea level will rise over the next few centuries.

Assuming that the largest remaining ice shelves in East Antarctica — Filchner - Ronne and Ross — will remain intact, sea level rise from all other melting ice and the expansion of seawater as the weather gets warmer over the next century would be somewhere between 2.6 feet (0.8 meter) and six feet (two meters)-- or nearly twice as much as projected last year by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Next lets just look at the trend lines to see how much AGW has accelerated the warmth in the second half of the last century.

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More cordial relations, clearly — but probably much more: strong demand for Bolivia's natural gas, and a prolonged drought in Chile, with water supply to the Santiago region expected to fall by 40 % over the next half - century, could increase the value of Bolivia's potential gas and water exports to Chile.