Sentences with phrase «over the next century»

Well, the experts are very worried about one meter sea level rise over the next century or so.

Researchers used two climate models to project rising temperatures over the next century and applied those results to current safety procedures used in determining the viability of a host city.

But even this optimistic scenario predicts that global temperatures would continue to rise by between 0.4 °C and 0.6 °C over the next century.

Our best models predict that the globe will heat up by anywhere between 1.8 to 6.4 degrees Celsius over the next century.

We're worried about the 4 °C to come over the next century if we continue on our current emissions path (Figure 1).

Using these scenarios led the IPCC to report a range of global warming over the next century from 1.4 — 5.8 °C, without being able to report any likelihood considerations.

Climate change and invasive species rank among the largest predicted threats to global ecosystems over the next century, but they are typically treated independently.

Taken in total, the vast majority of evidence suggests that anthropogenic forcings are now dominant and that human impact over the next century will be significant, possibly catastrophic.

But he has no better idea than you or I what's likely to happen over the next century or so to bring CO2 concentrations to a peak at any particular level.

This effect, called the permafrost carbon feedback, is not present in the global climate change models used to estimate how warm the earth could get over the next century.

The 1990s is now regarded as the crucial decade which will determine population trends over the next century.

Here are ten powerful images that did just that - and one that's going to change our lives over the next century.

Given how much bigger and more common cities are likely to become over the next century, we'll need to change them even further.

Solar energy is expected to contribute significantly to the global energy supply over the next century, as society transitions away from the use of fossil fuels.

How we learn to deal with this will be an enormous technical and social challenge over the next century, and beyond.

So, if the data trend up to now and the models agree, then the projections — region by region — should be fairly robust, at least over the next century.

Very few of them think man has had no impact on temperature, instead they think the man made component is relatively small and of little concern over the next century or so.

If predicting changes in temperature and precipitation over the next century is difficult, it is even harder to guess the price tag.

A recent study estimated that the median onset of plant growth in spring will happen three weeks earlier over the next century, as a result of rising global temperatures.

Even a 2 - degree Celsius warming over the next century, near the bottom of the predicted range, will probably be the fastest warming in the history of civilization.

Although climate models have been predicting increasing average global temperatures over the next century or so, the past decade has not shown as much warming as most scientists had expected.

Does this mean that the projected temperature change over the next century is larger than the climate models suggest?

The impacts over the next century are likely to be some of the most significant anywhere on our planet and could have global consequences.

The rapid melt of small glaciers and mountain ice caps will be the main source of sea level rise over the next century, according to a new study.

Algal blooms, which can ultimately rob water of oxygen, are projected to increase 20 percent in lakes over the next century as warming rates increase.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, temperatures are expected to rise between 2.5 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century.

The IPCC relies on this unproven technology to remove some 160 billion metric tons of carbon over the next century in many of its scenarios for the future.

BOULDER — Drastic, economy - changing cuts to greenhouse gas emissions will spare the planet half the trauma expected over the next century as the Earth warms.

Assuming the greatest pace of economic development with little regard for the environment, the study predicted that 1,101 species would be lost over the next century due to habitat loss alone, while just 64 would be lost to climate change alone.

He also gives us his estimate, ~ 0.8 C for the global warming that will occur over the next century and claims that, since models differ by 400 % in their estimates, his guess is as good as theirs.

The existence of a strong and positive water - vapor feedback means that projected business - as - usual greenhouse - gas emissions over the next century are virtually guaranteed to produce warming of several degrees Celsius.

A report published Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) finds that sea level increases over the next century will have significant impacts on coastal communities.

Dr. Koonin suggests that «the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, how will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?»

Study: Long - term warming equivalent to 10 °C per century could be sufficient to trigger compost - bomb instability in drying organic soils Wiley: First generation climate — carbon cycle models suggest that climate change will suppress carbon accumulation in soils, and could even lead to a net loss of global soil carbon over the next century.

«I would say, and I don't think I'm going out on a very big limb, that the data as we have it does not support a warming... I personally feel that the likelihood over the next century of greenhouse warming reaching magnitudes comparable to natural variability seems small»