Sentences with phrase «occur over the next century»

Gavin Schmidt writes, «He (Crichton) also gives us his estimate, ~ 0.8 C for the global warming that will occur over the next century and claims that, since models differ by 400 % in their estimates, his guess is as good as theirs.

«That's a larger change in global temperature than what's likely to occur over the next century, but it happened over 18 million years,» Diffenbaugh said.

Not exact matches

A doubling of the concentration of carbon dioxide over its pre-industrial level may occur by the middle of the next century.

This story raises questions about the changes that have occurred in society over the past century and the direction that life will take in the next that will provide fodder for classroom discussion.

For those curious about the pronounced dips in the future scenarios here they are responses to Pinatubo - scale volcanic eruptions that are assumed to occur at a reasonable frequency over the course of the next century.

One reason for this is that many impacts of climate change are expected to be proportional to the amount of global average warming that occurs over the next several decades to centuries.

Consequently, the next time a serious drought takes hold of some part of the world and the likes of Al Gore blame it on the «carbon footprints» of you and your family, ask them why just the opposite of what their hypothesis suggests actually occurred over the course of the 20th century, i.e., why, when the earth warmed - and at a rate and to a degree that they claim was unprecedented overthousands of years - the rate - of - occurrence of severe regional droughts actually declined.»

Here, we argue that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist.

Argues that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist