Sentences with phrase «over a few decades»

In addition to problems created by sudden climate changes over a few decades or even a few years, the committee points to abruptly developing problems created by a steadily changing climate.

Exactly the same will occur for global temperature, because trends over a few decades are meaningless?

I got my job by slowly becoming more and more qualified at many things over a few decades.

The problem is that feeding schedules have developed over the few decades when formula feeding was a more popular feeding choice.

His study was done over a few decades, with tens of thousands of people who are genetically the same.

The surfers get involved, talking about how they have personally noticed the oceans change over a few decades.

Modern SSDs like the Samsung EVO 850 (one of the more popular SSD lines), for example, can handle hundreds of TiBs of data written over a few decades of use — more use than most people will put a drive to.

Abrupt climate change is defined as a large scale change in the climate system which takes place over a few decades or less and is anticipated to persist for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruption in human and natural systems.

Higher productivity growth, sustained over a few decades, would have a profound impact on future living standards, but to expect an economic boom of anything but the short - lived variety is to rely on arithmetic that doesn't add up.

Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers will need to adapt to the inevitable.

More than a century ago, New York City's East River would freeze over every few decades, creating major issues for commuters who relied on ferries for access to Manhattan from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

A relatively small amount of melting over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire ice sheet and the rise of global sea levels by as much as 3 meters.

Brown says birds evolving shorter wings over a few decades really surprised him.

It may however be noted that investing sums as low as INR 1000 on a monthly basis via an SIP or Systematic Investment Plan in equity based mutual fund schemes over a few decades can help accumulate a corpus of INR 1 crore.

They seem to be assuming they won't have healthcare expenses in retirement that will empty their HSA over a few decades of retirement without any taxes owed.

Thomas» favorite Instagram account: @webuywhitealbums, because «It beautifully showcases how a white square of paper can evolve in so many different ways over a few decades.»

Thus a net warming effect from the sun, even if it is in the form of a steady flow of energy from the sun over a few decades will cumulatively warm the Earth until the radiation of heat from the Earth rises to match the excess heat being received.

Although no scientist thinks the switch - off could happen that quickly, they do agree that even a weakening of the current over a few decades would have profound consequences.

With income growing at around 2 per cent a year, the cost of dealing with global climate and providing a decent minimum standard of living for all would barely dent the rate of growth over a few decades.

This is still an improvement over a few decades ago: «In the late 1960 ′ s 17,000 tonnes of turtles a year were harvested and in 1960 in Mexico over 380,000 turtles were estimated to have been caught.»

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.

Therefore, regional temperature trends over a few decades can be strongly influenced by regional variability in the climate system and can depart appreciably from a global average.

In the measure in which, over a few decades of radical and ever - more frustrated feminism, many women have lost the sense of the greatness and privilege of motherhood, they have lost the natural respect of men.

«Easily the best strapless bra I've owned (and that's over a few decades).

This eats into an investor's return and over a few decades is a killer to overall return.

Over a few decades, the savings can add up to some serious wealth.

Although mortgage loans have fairly low interest rates, even low rates can add up over a few decades, especially if poor credit means a higher - than - average rate.

Over a few decades the bulldog's fearsome strength was replaced with the exaggerated appearance of strength and ferocity.

We might expect «global warming» (i.e., an increase in average surface air temperatures over a few decades) to lead to a rise in global mean sea levels.

In some instances it only took a temperature rise of about 1 - 2 degrees Celsius to trigger extensive ice melt, with a flow of cold melt water into the oceans that triggered abrupt transitions that could occur over a few decades and even few years.

Over a few decades, the world will become «fairer» and more «equal».

The result was, that over a few decades, the narrow roads that once echoed to the sound of workers walking the 8 or so miles to and from their 6 am to 6 pm shift, gradually fell silent.