Sentences with phrase «occurred over a few decades»

The abrupt transitions into and from stadial conditions could occur over a few decades and even few years.»

The most detailed information is available for the Younger Dryas - to - Holocene stepwise change around 11,500 years ago, which seems to have occurred over a few decades.

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As far as a ceiling goes, I highly recommend the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds which offers insight on a number of mania that have occurred not just in the past few decades, but over the centuries.

Over the last few decades, a surge of financial innovation has occurred that has created hundreds of new financial products that are not well understood by the common consumer.

Considering the massive changes that have occurred in our world over the last few decades, it's easy to yearn for simpler times, when phones only made phone calls and banks didn't charge account fees.

Much like we have seen a rapid increase in diabetes in humans over the past few decades, an uptick of the condition in our pets has also occurred.

Such large variations of the climate likely won't occur every year over the next few decades given the limited global warming to date, but it would seem likely such conditions will occur more and more frequently as global warming continues, disrupting both social systems and ecosystems.

But the current paper shows that the differences in midcentury warming rates occurred much more rapidly than previously thought (over a few years, not a few decades).

I agree that the multimillennial «tail» of the CO2 decay trajectory is relatively unimportant in its own right, but it is not trivial, because it affects the overall rate of decay that includes processes that occur over many decades or a few centuries involving CO2 mixing into the deep ocean and carbonate buffering, and makes them slower than they would be otherwise.

States that while no significant trends have been identified in the Atlantic since the late 19th century, significant observed trends in TC numbers and intensities have occurred in this basin over the past few decades, and trends in other basins are increasingly being identified

If anything, nature has been pushing to cool the climate over the last few decades, but warming has occurred.

In the past few centuries, smaller transitions (such as the ending of the Little Ice Age at about 1650 AD) probably occurred over only a few decades at most.

A startling new study predicts that most marine life won't be able to adapt when drastic environmental changes occur over the next few decades.

The optimistic energy scenario is a continuation of the accelerating rate of energy use that has occurred over the last few decades, and exceeds the projected energy supply of any published account, yet even this amount of energy fails to bring global growth rates to zero.

The recently quiet Sun and extrapolation of solar cycle patterns into the future suggest a planetary cooling may occur over the next few decades.

«Although the recovery of Arctic sea ice is certainly welcome news, it has to be considered against the backdrop of changes that have occurred over the last few decades,» Andy Shepherd of University College in London told BBC News.

The latest example to demonstrate such comes from a paper recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, where Lu et al. (2016) investigated the role of atmospheric CO2 in causing the satellite - observed vegetative greening of the planet that has occurred over the past few decades (1960 - 2015).

A certain amount of continued warming of the planet is projected to occur as a result of human - induced emissions to date; another 0.5 °F increase would be expected over the next few decades even if all emissions from human activities suddenly stopped, 11 although natural variability could still play an important role over this time period.12 However, choices made now and in the next few decades will determine the amount of additional future warming.

General circulation models predict that global warming over the next few decades will occur mainly in the polar regions.

Developed countries continue to produce the highest emissions on a per capita basis, but most of the growth in global emissions over the past few decades has occurred in developing countries.

The warming that is occurring now, over just a few decades, can not possibly be caused by such slow - acting processes.

Over time, especially during the past few decades, an sophisticated overhaul of baseball metrics (statistics) has occurred, resulting in new metrics and a reordering of established ones.

Depression, anxiety, and alcohol or drug - related impairment occur at much higher rates among lawyers and law students than in the general population, according to various studies over the past few decades.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are no strangers to the many transitions that occur in this space and have seen many changes to the administration of Indigenous Affairs over the past few decades.