Sentences with phrase «on a century timescale»

But our paper is unique, in that we use these trends to infer changes in the desert expanse on the century timescale,» said Natalie Thomas, a graduate student in atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD and lead author of the research paper.

There is enough information now, in my opinion, to make it a near certainty that IPCC BAU climate forcing scenarios would lead to a disastrous multi-meter sea level rise on the century timescale.

This is accompanied by his statement that he finds it «almost inconceivable that BAU climate change would not yield a sea level change of the order of meters on the century timescale.»