Sentences with phrase «occur in a matter of decades»

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X-ray free - electron lasers, first realized a decade ago, produce the brightest X-rays on the planet, and scientists tap into these unique X-rays to explore matter at the atomic scale and observe processes that occur in just quadrillionths of a second.

«If the climatic changes were propagated by the atmosphere [alone], the Antarctic response would have occurred in a matter of years or decades, not centuries.

To make matters worse, we can expect this public tolerance to be even lower in emerging economies, where the vast majority of energy demand and emissions growth will occur in the coming decades.

And indeed, the chaotic element implies that small changes, say in greenhouse gases, can result in nonlinear changes in outcomes — including very cold conditions that can and have occurred in a matter of months to decades.