Sentences with phrase «over the course of a century»

What do we do, then, without credible estimates of how much it might cost to tackle climate change over the course of this century?

It is an epic story: the struggle of thousands of men and women over the course of a century for very high stakes.

The use of the grid evolved over the course of the century.

The common argument against the validity of scripture is that over the course of centuries of reproduction it must have accidentally or intentionally changed.

It is also a greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the course of a century.

It is an epic story: the struggle of thousands of men and women over the course of a century for very high stakes.

A newspaper is mostly set up to talk about what happened today, maybe sometimes what may happen tomorrow, but not what is going to happen over the course of a century.

Of more immediate concern is what can be expected to occur over the course of this century.

Even when combined with ambitious mitigation, no single carbon - removal approach or category can keep warming well below 2 °C over the course of this century.

And it is expected to accelerate over the course of the century.

The decline has continued over the course of this century.

I've been reading a lot of books and articles lately about food culture and the important role it has played in the health of societies over the course of centuries past.

We go behind the story of performance art and its development over the course of a century.

On this view, «coastal communities» are incapable of responding to changing circumstances, even over the course of centuries.

Therefore, the researchers looked at the different rates of glacier melt, according to scenarios of how quickly CO2 emissions are reduced over the course of this century.

Both gases are risky, but methane especially so, as it is roughly 25 times as potent at trapping heat as carbon dioxide over the course of a century.

This includes damages to pay for harm that we've already seen and damages that are necessary to address harm we expect to happen over the course of this century.

One leads to 2 feet of global - average sea - level rise over the course of this century, and swamps land currently home to about 100 million people.

Seas are projected to rise between 3.7 and 6.1 feet over the course of this century in the area of Naval Station Mayport, which includes the coastal city of Jacksonville.

Rob and Dave's research found that these processes give rise to the potential for more than one meter of global average sea - level rise from Antarctica alone over the course of this century, and more than 15 meters over the next five centuries.

Cultivating vineyards in the Prosecco region is an art that has been perfected over the course of centuries, and uses primarily Glera grapes, which have been known at least since Roman times.

«Although a handful of recent exhibitions have explored the topic, this is the first to offer a systematic examination of the newspaper as both a material and subject in modern and contemporary art over the course of a century.»

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

California's critical energy and transportation infrastructure faces significant climate related risks over the course of the century, including more frequent and intense wildfires, prolonged drought, and accelerated sea - level rise.

In Hawthorne's tale vice and providence together render judgment, but it is a slow, steady hand that rights evils over the course of centuries.

Yet conservatives developed their political philosophy over the course of centuries with no help from Darwinists, and with no reference to shifting Darwinian stories.

Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the end for the Native Americans who defended and ultimately lost their land and dignity over the course of centuries.

U.S. risk assessments generally assume that bridges may collapse when a 100 - year flood — a streamflow with 1 percent probability of being exceeded in any given year, or 63 percent over the course of a century — occurs.

Methane, when assessed over the course of a century, warms the planet about 25 times as much as the same mass of carbon dioxide does.

That sounds like a lot, but it works out to the duration of a 24 - hour day being lengthened by about 1.78 milliseconds over the course of a century.

Handcrafted by local artisans, these sandals are made with chemical - free, natural tan leather using Old World techniques honed over the course of centuries.

The collection abounds in not only samples of what peak athleticism was thought to look like over the course of a century, but in displays of various conceptions of bodies in motion and coming into being as compelling subjects for the moving image.

Centering on resistance of blacks to Brazil's history of enslavement over the course of centuries, the four stories here all tell of individuals and groups who fought or made a break for it.

As we stated earlier, this reputation of bad behavior and dangerousness among a breed of dog has gone through many different breeds over the course of a century.

Villa fortunes rose and fell over the course of the centuries.

Grand strategy games — like Crusader Kings II, in which players manage a ruling dynasty over the course of centuries — are a particular favourite.

In Brown's painting Pandora, the artist takes on a subject that has been visited over the course of centuries by intellects and artists alike, taking ownership over the normally anti-feminist narrative — Pandora opening the box of Evils, releasing them into the world and shutting the box before Hope could escape.

L.A. has been very important over the course of this century, but it doesn't have the same numbers.

The url referenced in # 16 makes several statements that are simply not supportable over the course of a century, and gives figures for % of rural and urban stations as if their ratio was fixed, which it assuredly has not been.

The other vital component of the assessment process has been the use of scenarios to depict how certain societal behaviors, particularly energy use, might affect the pace and extent of climate shifts over the course of the century.

The climate of the western United States could become much drier over the course of this century.

The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century.

By itself, this emission would easily represent a mini-runaway pushing the business as usual burning level of 800 ppm CO2 and 1,000 ppm CO2e by end century to 1,400 ppm CO2 + over the course of centuries and likely resulting in 4 - 7 C + warming this century and 12 - 14 C + worth of warming long term.