Sentences with phrase «next few centuries»

Again, solving our problems on Earth is our best way to outlast the next few centuries and to ultimately to face those distant problems.

After the defeat of Julian in 363 AD, they waged their own little jihad against pagans for the next few centuries, with time to take on the Arians, too.

That should keep the Mormons busy for the next few centuries.

Over the next few centuries, the followers of Jesus did their best.

He concluded his remarks by saying that sea - levels along parts of the Atlantic coast could eventually rise by 25 feet in the next few centuries.

If these studies are closer to the true picture, models might be giving us accurate answers for warming over the next few decades, but underestimating warming over the next few centuries and more.

Computer model simulations have suggested that ice - sheet melting through warm water incursions could initiate a collapse of the WAIS within the next few centuries, raising global sea - level by up to 3.5 metres.»

Glaciologists have long worried that the West Antarctic ice sheet will collapse over the next few centuries, raising sea levels dramatically.

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.

Whatever the cause of warming, everyone thought that if it happened to continue for the next few centuries, so much the better.

Set your time machine to fast - forward through the next few centuries, and watch as the great ice sheet above you slowly melts and spills into the sea.

Many of the grand monuments of empire - the Colosseum, the Pantheon - were built over the next few centuries.

Over the next few centuries it is quite possible that nearly every tissue in the body may be able to be replaced by such approaches.

Now we are altering the planet more rapidly and profoundly than ever, and much of the diversity produced by half a billion years of evolution could be lost in the next few centuries.

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.

Over the next few centuries salt cod sustained the long journeys to explore the New World.

NASA climate scientist James Hanson has warned of a «Venus effect,» in which runaway warming turns Earth into an uninhabitable desert, with a surface temperature high enough to melt lead, sometime in the next few centuries.

Ultimately, Morlighem says, all of the data will inform model projections of how the ice sheets will behave under future climate change and how much they may raise global sea levels over the next few centuries — the real question all this research is aimed at answering.

And it changes, sort of - people have studied very carefully Newton's reputation, his character, his significant changes almost decade by decade over the next few centuries.

«Over the next few centuries, the rate of sea level rise will be pretty moderate,» said lead study author Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory.

Sea - level will continue to rise for centuries after global temperature have been stabilized and several meters of sea level rise must be expected over the next few centuries.

Pine Island Glacier could collapse — stagnate and retreat far up into the bay, resulting in rapid sea level rise — within the next few centuries, raising global sea levels by 1.5 m11, 12, out of a total of 3.3 m from the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet13.

Without significant mitigation, sea - level rise of several meters is to be expected over the next few centuries.

The NAS report had concluded that the climatic effects of rising carbon dioxide «may be the primary limiting factor on energy production from fossil fuels over the next few centuries,» Shaw wrote, quoting the report's central conclusion almost verbatim.

During the next few centuries it was the victim of fires, plagues and wars, only to be rebuilt each successive time.

For the next few centuries Switzerland fell under Frankish (French) rule and subsequently became part of the Holy Roman Empire until gaining independence in 1648.

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.

I think from what I know, the harms will be great into the next few centuries.

If you look at this from the point of view of somebody who's trying to use this information for anything other than scientific satisfaction, whether or not these very, very rapid rates of sea level rise happen in the next few decades or the next few centuries makes all the difference in the world.

If it's something that's going to happen in the next few centuries then there are a lot of other issues that we have to sort out first.

Sea level will continue to rise for centuries after global temperatures have been stabilized, and several meters of sea level rise must be expected over the next few centuries.

The new research, published in the journals Science and Geophysical Research Letters, shows that global averaged sea level could increase by 4 feet just from glacial melting in a portion of West Antarctica during the next few centuries.

New studies released on Monday show that a large portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have begun a slow but «unstoppable» collapse, with the demise of these glaciers taking place sometime during the next few centuries to as many as 1,000 years from now.

(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.

The evidence is that these folks seem to have survived climate changing over many centuries, which implies that they will very likely survive the climate changing over the next few centuries.

«Even if we agreed on a particular computer simulation of the monetary damages accruing from climate change over the next few centuries, the calculation of the «social cost of carbon» would vary widely, depending on our choice of parameters that have nothing to do with climate science,» he said.

While the extreme temperatures of the Triassic are unlikely to be repeated, parts of Earth could nevertheless become uninhabitable for humans in the next few centuries.

«Although many corals are becoming less abundant, there remain a number of species that are holding their own or increasing in abundance and these corals will populate tropical reefs over the next few centuries,» researcher Peter Edmunds, of California State University, explained.

I've just watched a vid by him on U-tube where he states in a calm, quiet voice that «Hundreds of cities will be underwater by 2100» and that; «All of Antarctica could melt within a century» but the coup de grais was his claim that «Over the next few centuries, the oceans will boil away, like they did on Venus».

Marine life has shown considerable tolerance to temperatures and CO2 values predicted for the next few centuries, and many show positive responses to lowering pH levels.

Modelling by Biastoch et al (2011) has shown that methane hydrate dissociation in the northernmost Atlantic and the Arctic Oceans will produce significant acidification of the bottom 100m of seawater over the next few centuries.