Sentences with phrase «next few decades by»

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition is the only global effort that unites governments, civil society and private sector, committed to improving air quality and protecting the climate in next few decades by reducing short - lived climate pollutants across sectors.

The world could slow and then reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades by exploiting current and emerging technologies.

• Significantly, the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, ESAS, has up to 1000 Gt of methane reserves, and it is highly believable that 1 % of this (or up to 10 Gt) is in the form of free gas trapped underneath the currently degrading subsea permafrost cap, which could be released within the next few decades by a combination of increasing Arctic Ocean water temperatures, increased storm activity, and possible increases in seismic activity.

In my view, the most important omission related directly to science and technology aspects of the greenhouse gas issue is the failure to point out the tremendous opportunity that exists to limit warming over the next few decades by imposing strong, mandatory controls of short - lived warming agents (so methane, black carbon, and tropospheric ozone).

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Inspection and holding stations were created after that, followed by the construction of miles of fences with barbed wire and steel barriers over the next few decades.

If we persist on our current trajectory, the potential for temperatures to increase in the next few decades could reduce the global area suitable for production of coffee by as much as half by 2050.

Over the next few decades, Canada's carbon emissions will be driven by the sharp growth in bitumen production from Alberta's oil sands.

The Sabans met in seventh grade, were married by 21, and spent the next few decades moving — at least fifteen times — as Saban worked his way through the ranks as an assistant.

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it could leave as many as 13 million fewer insured over the next 10 years, and increase premiums by an average 10 percent over the next decade.

In the next few decades, the ecclesiocentrism of this passage (and the whole Tambaram conference) would be challenged by a missiology / theology that came to be known as the missio dei.

In fact, according to a 2012 study carried out by accountants KPMG, no fewer than half of Australia's farmers expect to leave farming in the next decade.

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.

«That necessitates taking a flexible approach, where possible: building for the half foot to 1.3 feet of sea - level rise that are likely by 2050, while plotting out options that will depend on what we learn in the next few decades and how sea level rises beyond that.»

Intense heat waves will become more common over the next few decades, according to a 2009 report released jointly by the National Wildlife Federation and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

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.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

By improving the understanding of how much radiation CO2 absorbs, uncertainties in modelling climate change will be reduced and more accurate predictions can be made about how much Earth is likely to warm over the next few decades.

The population of Americans over 65 is also projected to more than double in the next few decades, reaching over 98 million by 2060.

Some recent papers have argued that such meltdowns could happen by the end of this century, if not in the next few decades, as a result of the greenhouse gases piling up in the atmosphere.

Earth's protective ozone layer is well on track to recovery in the next few decades thanks to concerted international action against ozone depleting substances, according to a new assessment by 300 scientists.

The world's largest river island will disappear within the next few decades from erosion by the mighty Brahmaputra River, scientists say.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Under these conditions, a disproportionately rapid retreat of summertime sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean over the course of the next few decades, followed by its complete disappearance — depending on how quickly CO2 levels rise — roughly 250 years from now, is to be expected.

There are multiple mitigation pathways to achieve the substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades necessary to limit, with a greater than 66 % chance, the warming to 2 degrees C — the goal set by governments.

The committee's bottom - line: The NEO threat is real, but the $ 5 million spent by the United States each year to find and better understand threatening NEOs isn't going to achieve any measure of safety within the next few decades.

Our findings show that drug - resistant tuberculosis cases in these countries are expected to rise over the next two decades, and that fewer cases over time will be caused by acquired drug resistance during tuberculosis treatment.

Arctic sea ice loss of the magnitude expected in the next few decades could impact California's rainfall and exacerbate future droughts, according to new research led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists.

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.

Due to an aging scientific workforce within NOAA and fewer students going into the necessary fields of study for fish stock assessment, there could be as many as 180 vacancies within NMFS over the next decade, according to a 2008 report issued by the Departments of Commerce and Education.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

10/13/2017 - Hundreds of millions of people will be affected by climate change impacts and their implications for health or migration already within the next few decades, sectors that so far often get overlooked in this context.

Finally released, he breaks his parole to start a new life, and for the next few decades he is pursued from one end of France to the other by a maniacally by - the - book policeman, Javert (Russell Crowe).

Audi plans a rapid expansion of plug - in hybrid and electric vehicles over the next few years as a key component in Volkswagen Group's strategy to dominate the alternative - powertrain market by decade's...

With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point.

In 1955, Walter Schloss started his own fund and, over the next four and a half decades, delivered his investors (which numbered 92 at their peak) annualised returns of 15.3 % versus 10 % for the S&P 500, an achievement matched by few other investors.

By controlling your cost, you can save hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next few decades.

Over the next few decades Sega changed hands a couple of times, owned first by Gulf + Western, producing Frogger and Zaxxon.

Over the next few decades, Neel moved from the West Village to a Spanish Harlem tenement; raised two sons, Richard and Hartley Neel, by two different fathers — she never married again — worked off and on for the WPA; and painted furiously.

The city he arrived into was a hub for new art, one that will take the world by storm in the next few decades and will be defined as Street Art.

And nearly all of the projected growth rates in emissions of carbon dioxide (and five other kinds of heat - trapping gases included in the determination) in the next few decades are expected to occur in fast - growing developing countries, led by China and India (which by midcentury is expected to be have more people than China and even today has the population density of Japan).

To date, I think that the sensitivity has been overestimated by the equilibrium calculations and the GCMs, and the benefits of increased CO2 over at least the next few decades have been underestimated.

My father is somewhat of a climate «sceptic» and insists that the prediction of 0.3 C cooling is based only on solar irradiance and does not take into account increased cloud cover caused by low sun activity (he beleives that we are going to be facing extreme global cooling over the next few decades).

I suppose that if all uncertainties are resolved in the direction of lower risk, we just might get away with BAU for the next few decades without a complete disaster (though continued sea level rise, ocean acidification and 2 degrees Celsius actually sound pretty risky to me, and the risk that there are other factors in play seems to be reinforced by paleo data on glacial - interglacial transitions).

[Response: You're wrong, as JA points out, since much of the warming over the next few decades is contrained by commitment and current levels and doesn't much vary by scenario.

I'm probably going to add it to another book I have been giving away for two decades, «The Next One Hundred Years,» by Jonathan Weiner, 1991 (he got a Pulitzer prize for «The Beak of the Finch,» written a few years later.)

By only speaking of climate change, this statement leaves out the biggest drivers of climate vulnerability on the continent in the next few decades, and contributes to the murkiness that will create ever more problems if and when rich countries finally divvy up money to help poor ones adapt to climate change.

According to some analysts, more square footage of structures will be built in the next few decades than has been built by human societies in all previous history.

Here's another comment by David providing a pretty sobering assessment of whether reason can ever dominate deeper human traits, including tribalism and what might be called «now - ism,» as societies weigh choices in the next few decades:

Well, one thing they don't have in common is that the vast majority of working, publishing climate scientists have concluded that global warming is real, is caused by us, and will have drastic consequences for millions of people in the next few decades.