Sentences with phrase «of the next century if»

«Half of all species could become extinct by the turn of the next century if we don't stop tearing up the planet.

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If we stay on our current emission pathway, this will change: The metro region will likely see 2 to 7 extremely hot days on average over the next 5 to 25 years, 4 to 17 such days likely by mid-century, and 11 to 59 days — nearly two months — over 95 °F likely by the end of the century.

If what I think is going to happen economically does happen, he will forever be known as the 21st century Herbert Hoover and the GOP will be out of power for the next 40 years, as they deserve to because they created this current economic mess back with Reagan's cut taxes but not cut spending starting in 1980.

If humanity does not survive the next century it will be because of religious hubris and morons like this OP.

Once considered exotic and fanciful, liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the way ahead for theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,»...

Once considered exotic and fanciful, liberation theologies now have a good chance of becoming the way ahead for theology in the next century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 1976, century — if only they can manage to be true both to the aspirations of the oppressed and to the reality of the beyond in their midst [«Third World Theology, Fourth World Liberation,» The Christian Century, May 19, 1976, Century, May 19, 1976, P. 477]

If we follow through this shift of world history to a new center around the Pacific basin, what hopeful implications does that have for theology in the next century?

That freedom has imbued the Society of Jesus with a spirit of re-creation for five centuries, and I wouldn't be surprised if it continues to inspire Jesuits for the next 500 years.

Chelsea is infront of us, the top 3 is already out of reach and watford buzz won't last and Chelsea will finish 4th... We will finish 6 behind Liverpool... The big 4 doesn't count us anymore... Spurs are solid as Chelsea who will actually fight for 3rd place with Spurs... I hope that you are pleased and sure you won't be mad if we finish 12th... Chelsea did a century ago with mourhino help and went right back on top of table... Oh, maybe we will do great next year, or the one after as long has it makes you happy... You should go and i'm sure you will get hired as Per... Please don't ever send comment, we real fans are in pain... Maybe you one of owners hiding or in another planet than football, just like them... Don't ever post comment, i felt to get a gun and shoot myself!

«So, you can despair if you want and accept the inevitability of a Tory government for the next quarter of a century.

Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, the Lib Dem peer who has become something of a mentor to the Prime Minister, has told Mr Blair the next century could be «the radical century» if the centre left can unite.

«The 21st Century Youths of the Niger Delta & Agitators with Conscience, condemn in strong term the ultimatum issued by the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers RNDA and some so called ten militant groups that issued threats to commence the bombing of pipelines and cause hostilities in the Niger Delta in the next 30days if General Paul Boroh is not reinstated.

If you want to be a scientist of the 21st century, Next Scientist can help you.

Looking ahead, NASA has no plans for a next - generation mission to study Earth - like planets around other stars, the most exciting astronomical discovery of the past decade if not the past half - century.

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.

So I think it's very realistic, if we want to look at the adjustment to that big disequilibrium then that we have generated, to look at those sort of rates of change that we will eventually achieve; and maybe not this century, we'll be working our way up to that, but certainly in the next century, we need to think about that as the rate of sea - level rise.

The risk of a collision can not be calculated precisely, says Patrick Tejedor of Aerospatiale, but KEO won't survive the next century, let alone the next 50 millennia, if we continue to pollute space at the present rate.

«If we have five to six degrees of warming in the next centuries, evaporation on the oceans may turn the Sahara into a savanna, as it was 10,000 years ago.»

«If you go up to the size of a Tunguska impactor, the next one will likely hit us within a few centuries and impact over the ocean.»

«If you reduce emissions of methane or black carbon, it would help you trim the peak warming that will be achieved in the next century or so,» Solomon says.

This next century will be one of Asian prosperity and influence, and if I can help this happen peacefully through biomedicine, then I will have achieved an important personal goal.

If astronauts manage to touch down on Mars sometime in the next century, one of their priorities will be to determine whether life ever existed there.

In the midst of an unseasonably warm winter in the Pacific Northwest, a comparison of four publicly available climate projections has shown broad agreement that the region will become considerably warmer in the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rise to the highest levels projected in the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) «business - as - usual» scenario.

Realistic large - scale solar panel coverage could cause less than half a degree of local warming, far less than the several degrees in global temperature rise predicted over the next century if we keep burning fossil fuels.

2, and the Silver Surfer, who could only appear if between now and next summer Marvel's parent company gets regulatory approval for its proposed purchase of 20th Century Fox, which currently has the rights to the Fantastic Four and related characters.)

«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 parentIf 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 parentif 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.

Even if you were to manage the difficult importation of a non-street legal car, the 22B would not see public roads for the next seven years until it turns 25 in 2023, per U.S. laws that only allow import of foreign cars that are over a quarter - century old.

If this were his first novel, we'd anoint him the next great crime novelist of the new century.

Although, if Europe produced the noted critics of the nineteenth century (Baudelaire in France and Ruskin in England), and America produced Greenberg and Rosenberg in the twentieth century, one wonders if the next «big» art critic might not arise in China, the superpower on the horizon.

At the close of the long twentieth century, as humanity prepared to cross the artificial border set up between one millennium and the next, it seemed as if all the ossified boundaries we had so carefully constructed in the past were being violently destabilised by the looming threat of an uncertain future.

If they do it well, with the amount of capital they have the capacity to designate for art collecting, China could well change the face of collecting for the next half century, as this country did more than a half century ago.

If they do it well, with the amount of capital they have the capacity to designate for art collecting, China could well change the face of collecting for the next half century, as

If you get the opportunity in the next month, take some time to see On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century at the Museum of Modern Art.

[Response: Here's a simple back - of - envelope consideration for the future: if the Greenland ice sheet melts completely over the next ~ 1,000 years (Jim Hansen argues in the current Climatic Change that the time scale could be centuries), this would contribute an average flux of ~ 0.1 Sv of freshwater to the surrounding ocean.

If present rates of fossil - fuel consumption continue, the doubling of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels will occur sometime within the next century or two.

Finding ways to keep such cities functional — and in particular mobile — as the human growth spurt hits a crest in the next few decades is vitally important if humanity is to experience a relatively smooth journey in what some have called «the century of the city.»

If you look at this from the point of view of somebody who's trying to use this information for anything other than scientific satisfaction, whether or not these very, very rapid rates of sea level rise happen in the next few decades or the next few centuries makes all the difference in the world.

And could temporary stability switch to more radical climate change if these kinds of forcings offset greenhouse gases over the next century?

If Dr. Hansen never imagined Scenario A as being a real possibility for the next 20 years, I guess indicated by his description «Scenario A, since it is exponential, must eventually be on the high side of reality in view of finite resource constraints and environmental concerns, even though the growth of emissions in Scenario A (~ 1.5 % yr - 1) is less than the rate typical of the past century (~ 4 % yr - 1)» then his subsequent comment (PNAS, 2001) «Second, the IPCC includes CO2 growth rates that we contend are unrealistically large» seems to indicate that Dr. Hansen doesn't support some of the more extreme SRES scenarios.

The take - away is that if the Sun were now to stop all activity, as during the 16th - century Maunder Minimum, it would produce an effect on climate no greater than the next twenty years» worth of greenhouse gas emissions — some say, ten years.

If our best scientists, with the accumulated knowledge of millennia, can not agree on the seriousness of our current situation or what climate variables will come into play over the next century, then how the heck are they supposed to determine the exact size, number, and placement of massive sun shields to deflect the perfect the amount of radiation, without any unforeseen consequences?

When it comes to our economy, our security, and the very future of our planet, the choices we make in November and over the next few years will shape the next decade, if not the century.

John, Even if you want to stick with comparing currently measured global temps for the 20th century to the GISP2 data (which I still hold would be considered suspect by any decent scientist) you still need to put that on TOP of 1905, not NEXT to it.

A doubling of the concentration of long - lived greenhouse gases (which is projected to occur early in the next century) would, if nothing else changed, reduce the rate at which the planet can shed energy to space by about 2 %.

That panel has predicted that the next century will bring widespread climatic disruptions if actions are not taken to reverse the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Renewables and alternatives will all play a role, but even if those forms of energy grow by orders of magnitude over say the next fifty years, traditional hydrocarbons — oil and gas — will still make up the majority of the energy mix for at least the next century.

If fossil fuel consumption is to blame, and if it continues to track the exponential growth rate of the past century, it stands to reason that the temperature increase over the next century will be considerably more than over the previous onIf fossil fuel consumption is to blame, and if it continues to track the exponential growth rate of the past century, it stands to reason that the temperature increase over the next century will be considerably more than over the previous onif it continues to track the exponential growth rate of the past century, it stands to reason that the temperature increase over the next century will be considerably more than over the previous one.

If global temperatures rise 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next century, the rate will be about 10 times faster than what's been seen before, said Christopher Field, one of the scientists on the study.

Even if «catastrophic» AGW is correct and we do warm another 3 C over the next century, if it stabilized the Earth in warm phase and prevented or delayed the Earth's transition into cold phase it would be worth it because the cold phase transition would kill billions of people, quite rapidly, as crops failed throughout the temperate breadbasket of the world.

He explains how measurements since the early 1990s show that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice at an accelerating rate, which, if unchecked, will result in about 1 metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, and 6 - 9 metres in the next few hundred years.