Sentences with phrase «of next century»

Writing in the February 1999 issue of Worth magazine, Nick Ravo, a reporter for The New York Times, quotes several economic soothsayers who predict a highly depressed residential market extending throughout much of the next century.

Fortune's Robert Hackett profiles a company that hopes to leverage the technology behind Bitcoin to become the bank of the next century.

Circle has ample funds, mainstream investors, sophisticated tech, a new network of customers annexed from Poloniex — and, with some luck, a legitimate chance at building the bank of the next century around crypto - finance.

At the time, Delaney said: «Artificial Intelligence promises to be one of the paradigm - shifting developments of the next century, with the potential to reshape our economy and daily life just as fully as the internal combustion engine or the semiconductor.»

If it's a mode of variability that averages to zero in the long run, then it will alternatively increase and decrease the rate of warming and my have little impact on the temperature around the turn of the next century.

Once this happens, the CO2 effect will tend to become a significant factor and by the first decade of the next century we may experience global temperatures warmer than any in the last 1000 years.

If the thermohaline circulation has truly changed, we would expect the active phase to last through the first decade of the next century.

According to their calculations, several U.S. states are expected to see sharp temperature increases by the turn of the next century — not in most of our lifetimes, but certainly in our grandchildren's.

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill founded the LifeEdited project to reduce his footprint to the comfortable essentials, to eliminate the fat in our design and our lifestyles; in his TED talk he explains that «a keen ability to edit will be the most important skill of the next century.»

One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to global average sea - level rise over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.

However, even if it were to stop now, the IPCC's sodomising of science has so damaged the institution I believe it will take most of the next century to recover.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues serial reports, often called the «gold standard» of climate research; the most recent one projects us to hit four degrees of warming by the beginning of the next century, should we stay the present course.

Looking ahead, were solar changes limited to what has been measured in the last fifteen years, future changes in the Sun's total radiation would have only a negligible effect on the temperature increases of 1 to 3 °C that are now projected in IPCC models for the end of the next century.

We aren't going to do either of these things and 500ppm which at this rate, we will achieve in the middle of the next century is beyond our imaginations.

Using climate models, Radic found that these smaller mountain glaciers and ice caps may contribute more than 4.5 inches (12 centimeters) to world sea level rise by the beginning of the next century, even though they contain less than one percent of all water on Earth bound in glacier ice.

«Computer models by Hansen and others suggest that by the middle of the next century earth's average temperature may rise 4 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit, possibly altering storm patterns, making crops fail, and raising sea levels to flood low - lying coastal areas.»

Then, perhaps in the early years of the next century, the climate could warm up a little as a result of human activity, especially the greater amount of carbon dioxide that will be released from the burning of fossil fuels.

There is now much exuberance in the United States about «100 years of energy independence» as we become «the Saudi Arabia of the next century» — perhaps the final century of human civilization if current policies persist.

The fact that you say «Most people are inclined to plan for the trends of next century...» could indicate you are unhinged from reality.

This doesn't mean giving up the fight on behalf of the poor, but it does mean that one's position on the environment is going to be the crucial political divide of the next century.

«The climate of the next century will be well beyond the range of the climate that we have observed for the last 160 years,» LeGrande explained.

Still, it suggested that «over the next decades, renewable forms of energy can gradually become competitive,» and it projected that «CO2 emissions could peak at about 10 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC) a year before the middle of the next century and decline.»

«Our results can be used as a tool in climate modelling to show us what kind of climate we can expect at the turn of the next century.

CO2 concentrations will have doubled by the middle of the next century.

Optimal policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, economists tell us, won't cost the global economy very much in the grand scheme of things — on the order of 1 percent of total global GDP over the course of the next century.

The predicted rise is about 20 cm in global mean sea level by 2030, and 65 cm by the end of the next century.

Because of the way opportunity costs compound over time the world at the turn of the next century will be poorer by the equivalent of $ Quadrillions and I suspect, if we could send a probe to our future descendants to ask if they would prefer a little less CO2 or an extra $ 500,000 each for everyone on Earth, the answer we get back would not be congratulatory for surrendering to these brain dead mooks.

Predicting the climate of the next century with precision is impossible.

The report calls for urgent action to avoid sea level rises of a metre or more over the course of the next century.

On a lower - emissions pathway, the world would get there closer to the beginning of the next century.

Sometime in the middle of the next century, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air is expected to double from pre-industrial times.

By the middle of the next century the resulting warming could boost global mean temperatures from three to nine degrees Fahrenheit.

By Hansen's reckoning, where Washington now averages one day a year over 100 degrees, it will average 12 such scorchers annually by the middle of the next century.

My credible sources inform me that the US will be lucky to still have a functional Navy by mid-century, and any citizen of the «banana republic» that's left at the turn of the next century won't be able to go fishing off any US Naval wharf unless they have an aqualung should BAU and your kind of nefarious illogical postulates win the day.

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.

But with atmospheric carbon climbing at an annual rate of 2 ppm and expected to accelerate to 3 ppm, levels could approach 900 ppm by the end of the next century, and conditions that bring about the beginnings of ocean anoxia may be in place.

Morris, already the museum's boldest curator with the firmest grasp on what was happening and how the art of the next century (this one) would look, ended up with the job of explaining why Burden's Heath Robinson - ish production line never worked.

From there, the field of investigation moves towards modernity: in the nineteenth century the themes of spirituality, dreams, mysticism, and the «panic» force in nature saw new developments and, at the dawn of the next century, played a decisive role in the birth of abstractionism, with the work of Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Hilma af Klint.

One subject that will have trainers debating until the middle of the next century is crate training.

In Glass Houses: Avatars Dance, acclaimed Laura J. Mixon takes us to a dystopian Manhattan of the next century where Ruby and her Golem run into serious trouble.

So, no, Common Core will not likely be the comprehensive college - preparatory curricula children of the next century or even for those kids at the midpoint of this one.

Expecting the curricula standards of, say, the early 20th century, to meet the intellectual challenges of this century just doesn't make sense; neither does expecting Common Core, which is geared toward helping kids gain the skills needed for this time, to meet the economic and social challenges of the next century.

«If you work a second shift as a parent, and can never talk on the phone, it's problematic, but if you can text, that's a game changer,» says Deb Socia, executive director of Next Century Cities and former executive director of Tech Goes Home, an initiative to help improve technology access among low income parents.

A new survey by the College Board suggests that the «graying» of the American college campus evident in this decade will continue through the turn of the next century.

The film's title was chosen because it was the first year of the new Millenium and of the next century.

One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to global average sea - level rise over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.

That dryness persisted into the first decade of the next century.

And fire severity is already increasing in many forests due to climate change — what is now thought of as a drought in some locations may be considered average by the end of the next century.

Dried - up fields and empty grain stores are likely to become semipermanent features across much of the Third World by the middle of the next century, according to an analysis of the likely impact of global warming presented to the UN this week.

After the Geneva meeting, he claimed that Pearce's work shows that a doubling of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere by the middle of the next century would cause damage from climate change valued at between 1.5 and 2 per cent of «gross world product».