Sentences with phrase «over next few decades»

Flood insurance rates may spike substantially over the next few decades, leading consumers away from flood - prone areas.

With the first wave of baby boomers just now reaching retirement age, demand for seniors housing is expected to rise sharply over the next few decades.

The healthcare industry is booming right now and it's expected to grow exponentially over the next few decades.

However, if you don't think the stock market will see modest appreciation over the next few decades, choose whole life insurance.

The company grew over the next few decades, evolving as necessary, and finding success all along the way, even through the Great Depression.

You may have the option to use the cash value to fund the policy, leaving you with no premiums to pay and a small cash value accruing dividends over the next few decades.

If you're healthier than you were when you bought you current policy, you could save yourself a lot of money over the next few decades.

It helps to lay out how our country will continue to transform over the next few decades.

But in this post, we shift the focus onto the law firms themselves and how their model will be transformed over the next few decades.

He is an acute observer of the broader societal and technological trends which will shape the practice of law over the next few decades.

We need gigawatts of solar over the next few decades, so let's set some serious long - term goals for this Authority, and give it the tools to achieve them.

Though he warned that carbon dioxide emissions must be stabilized over the next few decades, he also suggested that significant progress could be made by reducing the emissions of other greenhouse gases, particularly methane and ozone — and that we must pay our Faustian debt involving air pollution.

Greenhouse «theory» (I use the term in the same way evolutionary theory is used) is the best, most internally consistent scientific theory that explains past and present climate and gives us good grounds to expect potentially serious changes in the future (this depends very strongly on our behaviour over the next few decades).

An increase in temperature over the next few decades will only make their lives more difficult in a variety of ways.»

This is a mistake that could prove to be very expensive to electricity consumers over the next few decades as electricity from coal becomes increasingly uneconomic compared to other resources,» noted lead author of the report Pat Knight, who also developed the CAVT tool.

Over the next few decades, we may make the oceans more acidic than they have been for tens of millions of years, Caldeira said.

These countries account for 80 % of the world's population and the great majority of growth in CO2 emissions over the next few decades, and they are not even included.

With this as a starting point, the goal of most delegates remains to agree a binding commitment to drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades.

Emissions reductions decisions made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia.

Many climate realists believe that Earth appears to be entering a sharp downturn in temperatures over the next few decades because of the falling number of sunspots and lower total solar irradiance.

Further, a large ensemble of climate model realizations reveals that additional global warming over the next few decades is very likely to create ∼ 100 % probability that any annual - scale dry period is also extremely warm.

We can see if it will be tested over the next few decades.

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.

Until you do, I'm staying focused on the next century or so, when my nephews and neices and their future children will be struggling with the consequences of global warming over the next few decades.

I can understand that approaching equilibrium takes a long, long time, while TCR gives a better measure of what will happen over the next few decades (and that technology and society may be very different in 200 years time); but on the other hand, I thought nations had agreed to try to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees C overall, and not just to limit it to less than 2 degrees C by 2100.

That means the growth rate in carbon dioxide over the next few decades is likely to be the same as the rate for the last few.

These will change as the new zero carbon economy rolls out over the next few decades.

They are issues to be tested as the new zero carbon energy world rolls out over the next few decades.

But it will be helpful — indeed, perhaps essential — for gathering a kind of data that will be increasingly important over the next few decades.

As aerosol pollution is predicted to decrease over the next few decades, unmasking of the greenhouse effect may lead to accelerated global warming.storms and ocean plankton The human - generated aerosols are derived from industry, motor vehicles and vegetation burning.

Our ideas on these will change as the new zero carbon economy rolls out over the next few decades, and we may alter the mix in our portfolio in the light of this extra evidence.

Coal and natural gas prices will increase over the next few decades — even without carbon taxes — as resources are exhausted.

«Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia... Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.»

AR5 found the world has the means to limit global warming and build a more prosperous and sustainable future, but pathways to limit warming to 2ºC relative to pre-industrial levels would require substantial emissions reductions over the next few decades.

Topic 4 discusses adaptation and mitigation options over the next few decades and their interactions with sustainable development.

The migratory map of Africa is tipped to change significantly over the next few decades as birds react to the effects of climate change.

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

It is unknown whether the species that have been exhibiting a range - shift response (Chen et al., 2011; Parmesan, 2006; Parmesan and Yohe, 2003; Poloczanska et al., 2013; Root et al., 2003) will be able to accelerate their dispersal velocities to keep pace with the climate change expected over the next few decades under business - as - usual scenarios.

The net conclusion is that mass coral bleaching will increase over the next few decades until it becomes a yearly event (well, as long as coral lasts!).

Maintaining this level of productivity has been quite a challenge in recent years and is likely to become more difficult over the next few decades as weather patterns, available water and growing seasons shift further and threats of invasive weeds, pests and pathogens rise.

To move forward effectively, I think we need to have a broader discussion of the scientific issues that will have a bearing on national and international policy over the next few decades.

We don't immediately grasp the importance of limiting climate change to a couple of degrees over the next few decades.

That doesn't happen so much if people reduce fossil - fuel demand over the next few decades via efficiency and substitution of other energy sources, which doesn't happen overnight.

Over the next few decades, China will build 1.5 - 2.5 billion square meters of new buildings annually as China's urban population grows by about 350 million people.

In the U.S., a phaseout of nuclear power would greatly complicate our ability to cut carbon emissions over the next few decades.

2.5 degrees over the next few decades?

With global temperatures forecast to increase by 2C - 2.5 C over the next few decades, a report predicts that some of the major coffee producing countries will suffer serious losses, reducing supplies and driving up prices.

Over the next few decades, colder winters will be the new normal, however Winter 2015 to 2016 may be the exception.

Climate models project a further increase in temperature between 1 and 3.5 °C over the next few decades.

It is important and worrying to a degree, I think it was thought that it wasn't going to get any worse and it was just a matter of waiting for the CFCs and the resultant chlorine atoms to leave the system over the next few decades.