Sentences with phrase «next decade rather»

The extensive offsets in Waxman - Markey would have allowed U.S. emissions to rise at business - as - usual rates over the next decade rather than declining to 17 percent below 2005 levels, as proponents of the bill claimed.

«If and only if it had a starshade, WFIRST could give us images of a few true - blue Earths late next decade rather than waiting for another 20 years,» says Jeremy Kasdin, a Princeton University professor and lead scientist for WFIRST's coronagraph.

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Rather, the controversy is over the roughly $ 175 million worth of restricted stock units Tillerson has that were slated to vest over the next decade.

We're in this for the decade of dominance not the quick and dangerous panic move for a goddammed first round series, and if holding embiid out until the docs say it's safe means that the decade starts next year rather than this, then so be it.

With budgets set to be painfully tight over the next decade, every pound of public spending should be tested on whether it actually solves a problem rather than creates one.

The next fiscal squeeze could be very different from those of the past few decades if it starts with a debt wall more comparable to that of the 1920s and 1930s, when governments» room for fiscal manoeuvre was sharply limited by their predecessors» decision to fund the huge costs of World War I largely by borrowing rather than by taxes.

It's also possible that the beginning of the next 11 - year solar cycle — which is marked by the emergence of dark blemishes called sunspots at high solar latitudes — may simply be delayed by a few years, rather than shut down for decades.

Because most of our energy technologies are relatively mature, my guess is that, over the next few decades, we're more likely to see incremental improvements in technology rather than breakthroughs.

«This may all be playing out within the next few years, rather than decades from now as had been thought,» says Scambos from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

With 8 -10-meter class telescopes coming online equipped now in the next decade with large fields - of - view (such as the Subaru Telescope with Hyper Suprime - Cam and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope), I think we'll be able to find many more residents of the inner Oort Cloud, and begin to really study this population of remote icy bodies that until now has remained rather elusive.

It is worth adding though, that temperature trends over the next few decades are more likely to be correlated to the TCR, rather than the equilibrium sensitivity, so if one is interested in the near - term implications of this debate, the constraints on TCR are going to be more important.

This report argues that over the next decade and beyond, U.S. national, state, and local policy must focus on developing sustainable biofuels — rather than just more biofuels — that can play a role in the emerging new energy economy.

But with the civilian labor force projected to grow at 0.5 % a year over the next decade, rather than 1.5 %, we should be pleased with growth above 2 % — which means 2014 and 2015 were actually pretty good years for the U.S. economy.

The impasto, which grew even heavier over the next decade (but later decreased, as he began scraping down his paintings more as he worked), is sometimes so heavy that the paint seems to have been sculpted rather than brushed on.

It is worth adding though, that temperature trends over the next few decades are more likely to be correlated to the TCR, rather than the equilibrium sensitivity, so if one is interested in the near - term implications of this debate, the constraints on TCR are going to be more important.

That was a very extreme signal — far outside the previous variation — yet its also rather hard to fit into std GW theory, because it would be extreme even under warming to be expected in the next few decades (I think).

This shift and the subsequent slight cooling trend provides a rationale for inferring a slight cooling trend over the next decade or so, rather than a flat trend from the 15 yr «pause».

The reality will be rather different If we continue to emit ever - greater quantities of CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, then average global temperatures will rise by 2 °C over the next three decades compared to pre-industrial times.

«This shift and the subsequent slight cooling trend provides a rationale for inferring a slight cooling trend over the next decade or so, rather than a flat trend from the 15 [year] «pause»,» she added.

A key concern is whether the added pressure of climate change would substantially increase overall extinction rates such that a major extinction episode would become a fait accompli within the next few decades, rather than something that potentially would play out over centuries.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

Rather than wait ten years for an answer, international law firm Eversheds decided to peek into the future for itself, commissioning a major study entitled «The Law Firm of the 21st Century,» discussing likely trends in the legal profession over the next decade.

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