Sentences with phrase «over next several decades»

Over the next several decades, Fort Worth evolved into a major force in Texas.

As CCN has reported, Yusko is on record predicting that the Bitcoin price will reach $ 1 million over the next several decades.

It grew quickly over the next several decades, encompassing larger areas and increasing its in - force policies.

In parallel, the global economic balance of countries is shifting and will continue to shift, with the expectation that emerging market economies will overtake many western market economies over the next several decades.

At least 400 people have already died from asbestos exposure in the Libby area and hundreds more are expected to die over the next several decades.

The conventional wisdom is that world coal production will continue to grow over the next several decades.

By contrast, a plateau implies a gradual decline in such additions, a pattern more consistent with how the world petroleum industry will work over the next several decades.

Recent studies show that at lower elevations, glacial retreat is unlikely to cause significant changes in water availability over the next several decades, but other factors, including groundwater depletion and increasing human water use, could have a greater impact.

Burning wood and wood waste to generate electricity will result in net carbon emissions over the next several decades even under the best - case scenarios promoted by the industry, according to a recently released report.

And, if we don't get our act together, we'll very clearly go far beyond current temperatures over the next several decades:

The light - duty vehicle fleet is expected to undergo substantial technological changes over the next several decades.

And just as the atomic bomb indiscriminately killed tens of thousands of civilians, this nuclear reactor accident, albeit on a smaller scale, will be responsible for indiscriminate suffering and lives cut short; the consequences are likely to play out over the next several decades due to radiation pollution and the resulting economic costs.»

While Governator Schwarzenegger has committed the state to drastic reductions in greenhouse emissions over the next several decades, car - based planning has led to serious increases in automobile miles traveled in the state.

But the reason that EIA is projecting a long - term decline over the next decade or more is the glut of cheap natural gas, mostly from unconventional sources like shale, that has profoundly changed America's energy outlook over the next several decades.

Though few expect a complete melt — the glaciers have weathered warmth before — a 2016 study in Nature found that continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions over the next several decades could trigger cause an unstoppable collapse of Antarctica's ice.

Meeting the ambitious climate change targets agreed upon in Paris last December will require deep transformation of the global economy — especially in energy systems, transportation systems, and industry — over the next several decades.

While much of the work on whole - ecosystem regime shifts has focused on drylands, a growing body of evidence indicates abrupt state shifts will plausibly affect many other ecosystems as climate continues to change over the next several decades.

Most of the projected increase in the world's population over the next several decades is expected to occur in urban centres of low - income regions.

How Will the Critical Intersections Between Human and Natural Systems in the Arctic Change Over the Next Several Decades?

So, although I'd put money on gloomy scales getting more common in rural North Carolina over the next several decades, I wouldn't yet say how much more common.

Fast action to reduce short - lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) could slow the rate of global warming while saving millions of lives over the next several decades from air pollution — which now kills more than 6 million people a year.

And as temps cool as projected over the next several decades, the rate of change in the poll numbers will accelerate.

IPCC has made temperature projections for the end of this century based on continued human GHG emissions (principally CO2) over the next several decades.

Over the next several decades, almost all of the power plants in the U.S. will need to be replaced, and America's dependence on fossil fuels presents serious national security concerns — they sap our economy, exacerbate climate change, and constrict U.S. foreign policy.

It is not widely understood that carbon dioxide persists in the atmosphere for centuries, so our future will depend on the total amount we humans put there over the next several decades.

«Finally, the presence of vigorous climate variability presents significant challenges to near - term climate prediction (25, 26), leaving open the possibility of steady or even declining global mean surface temperatures over the next several decades that could present a significant empirical obstacle to the implemen - tation of policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions (27).

No one in his right mind (least of all the ocean dwellers) cares a whit whether or not the ocean is warming by a few thousandths of a degree over the next several decades.

It is also essential to adopt a long - term perspective for expanding the role of renewable energy in North America over the next several decades.

5) I am looking forward to cooler & wetter conditions over the next several decades

In such circumstances the only rational conclusion to draw is that we need to be prepared to react to either warming or cooling over the next several decades.

Such attacks seem somewhat pointless in that under any plausible scenario we are going to have both nuclear power plants and increasing deployment of renewables over the next several decades.

According to the Cato Institute's book summary, «Acknowledging that industrial emissions of greenhouse gasses have warmed the planet and will continue to do so over the next several decades, Michaels and Balling argue that future warming will be moderate, not catastrophic, and will have benign economic and ecological effects.»

The electric car could be «a treat that can be introduced via the bridge of the heat engine / battery hybrid vehicle over the next several decades.

If treatments at this scale are completed and repeated over the next several decades, increases in runoff could help offset the current and projected declines in snowpack and stream flow due to warming while improving the resilience of forest stands.

Once the risk to demand from such a temperature increase is identified, can we assess the probability, or less stringently, the plausibility, of such an increase occurring over the next several decades?

The exploitation of renewable energy resources or development of other alternative energy technologies could emerge over the next several decades as a possible new general - purpose technology.

Over the next several decades, the forced (warming) component is likely to dominate, and the evidence from the mid-century PDO data supports this conclusion.

The intermittency of wind and solar energy has some state regulators and energy companies a bit concerned, but they (along with that Nervous Nelly sitting across from you) should take comfort in the findings of a recent study that looked at the extent to which we can meet electricity demands in the lower 48 states over the next several decades with renewable energy.

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

One reason for this is that many impacts of climate change are expected to be proportional to the amount of global average warming that occurs over the next several decades to centuries.

The quote from the article: «Their models suggest that this would cause the glacier to uncontrollably retreat about 25 miles (40 kilometers) over the next several decades, potentially raising global sea levels by more than 0.4 inches (1 centimeter).»

With global GHG emissions and concentrations continuing to increase; with climate change intensifying changes in ecosystems, ice sheet deterioration, and sea level rise; and with fossil fuels providing more than 80 % of the world's energy, the likelihood seems low that cooperative actions will prevent increasingly disruptive climate change over the next several decades.

To start, nearly all of the CSLF meeting participants were bullish on the outlook for fossil fuel consumption, expressing the view that fossil use would increase over the next several decades due to a combination of demand factors (e.g. population and economic growth) and supply factors (e.g. lack of cost - competitive renewable energy).

Over the next several decades, the Arctic as we know it will be lost as the detrimental consequences ripple around the world as a result of sea level rise altered weather patterns, and biodiversity loss;

These compounds remain in the atmosphere only days to decades — versus centuries for the CO2 perturbation — so cutting their emissions can appreciably slow the rate of warming over the next several decades.

While it is worth continuing study of global climate engineering to control warming if the rising concentrations of GHGs can not be halted over the next several decades, the potential for climate engineering approaches to moderate impacts in the particularly exposed regions being affected merits investigation.

While glacier melt contributes water to the region's rivers and streams, retreating glaciers over the next several decades are unlikely to cause significant change in water availability at lower elevations, which depend primarily on monsoon precipitation and snowmelt, the committee said.

And nearly all growth in emissions will be in Asia over the next several decades.

Unfortunately, I believe that the rest of the world on average will have higher methane leakage rates from the hydrofracking and transmission operations than for those in the USA; which I believe, will significantly increase methane concentrations in the atmosphere over the next several decades.

Finally, the presence of vigorous climate variability presents significant challenges to near - term climate prediction (25, 26), leaving open the possibility of steady or even declining global mean surface temperatures over the next several decades that could present a significant empirical obstacle to the implementation of policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions (27).