Sentences with phrase «over the next century as»

Then, over the next century as the Latin American Wars of Independence heated up, the amount of air pollution decreased.

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.

THE traditional owners of the region surrounding Lake Eyre are being warned by university researchers to prepare for 4C rises in average temperatures in the South Australian outback over the next century as a result of climate change.

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In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan promised to spend a whopping $ 3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's extensive capital over the next 10 years, as it works towards its lofty goal of curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century.

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

In one way, what happens next makes the whole story look like a conventional miracle of the sort that healers of many nations and peoples have done over the centuries, including prophets such as Elijah and Elisha.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half centOver the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half centover the next half century.

The department's recommendations, presented in a recent report as «a manifesto for maternity into the next century,» are to be implemented over the next five years.

As mapmakers» skills steadily improved over the next two and a half centuries, so did the accuracy of their maps.

The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

The team predicts that as global temperatures rise over the next century, Mongolia will first become drier, then wetter.

As the newcomers expanded their domain over the next three centuries, they frequently displaced indigenous peoples, whose traditional ways of life changed or disappeared entirely.

The $ 101 billion measure, formally known as Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21), reauthorizes federal funding for road and transit projects over the next 2 years.

Over the next six centuries, the menagerie grew to include owls, eagles, alligators, «tygers,» hyenas, and monkeys, as well as an elephant that came back with the Crusaders and a «pale bear» that fished for salmon in the Thames.

A prior study cited by the paper found that an increase in shrub cover of roughly 20 percent could spur as much as 1.8 degrees Celsius of additional regional warming over the next century.

Tree species that are already at the southern end of their range, such as balsam fir, quaking aspen, white spruce, and tamarack, are expected to decline over the next century while American basswood, black cherry, eastern white pine, red maple, sugar maple, and white oak may gain suitable habitat across the landscape.

With world population expected to increase as much as 50 percent over the next half century, analysts are indeed worried that increasing demand for water, coupled with industrialization and urbanization, will have serious consequences both for human health and the environment.

The scientists project that as temperatures rise over the next century, the bugs could gobble up anywhere from five to 30 times the amount of methane they eat today.

This so - called constant - composition commitment results as temperatures gradually equilibrate with the current atmospheric radiation imbalance, and has been estimated at between 0.3 °C and 0.9 °C warming over the next century.»

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Holiday momentum boosted «The Post» (20th Century Fox) as it expanded over the Golden Globes weekend ahead of its national release next week — the best platform expansion in over a year.

There other flubs in The Next Best Thing (such as a line where Robert mentions it's the 21st Century in a scene that, in the film's time frame, should be set around 1993; or the fact that Robert's sole love interest, a cardiologist, has no name and is rather comically listed in the closing credits as «Cardiologist»), but to go over them would be as pointless an exercise as the entire film is.

It's hard to pick just one image from Andrew Dominik's masterpiece as it is one of the most beautifully photographed movies of the 21st century, the train station shadow / smoke scene is one other iconic moment that comes to mind, but for my money nothing beats this gorgeous frame in which Brad Pitt's Jesse James look over the sunset as he contemplates his next move.

Because «STE (A) M job creation will grow 17 % over the next decade as opposed to just 9.8 % for non-STE (A) M positions,» a STEAM - based curriculum will help develop creative capacity among learners to advance the 21st century economy.

In an article that appeared in Ed Next in 2004, Chris Berry traced the decline and rebirth of small schools in America and looked at the impact of smaller schools on students» future earnings over the course of the 20th century, as the movement to consolidate small schools into larger schools grew.

Students at 21st Century Charter in grades 3 - 8 as well as high school sophomores will be taking the written test portion of ISTEP + over the next few weeks, before starting -LSB-...]

2017 LINCOLN MKX - Sewell Ford Lincoln has been serving West Texas for over a century and were looking forward to the next 100 years as we complete our new building at Parks Legado Town Center.

Sewell Ford Lincoln has been serving West Texas for over a century and were looking forward to the next 100 years as we complete our new building at Parks Legado Town Center.

Over the next centuries, these dogs were perfected in the Neapolitan region of Italy as home and estate guardians.

Best known as a refuge for Christianity before it was widely accepted, Cappadocia became home to early believers as they fled Roman persecution in the 4th century A.D. Over the next 600 years, these holy settlers would create the region's most notable landmarks, carving out their homes and churches into soft canyon walls to make so - called «fairy chimneys» while building unimaginably complex beehives of humanity.

Eventually, like elsewhere in Central America, the Maya population on Ambergris Caye was decimated as Europeans began to settle the area over the next three centuries.

Astoria was founded at a time when the American West didn't yet include the Louisiana Purchase and such areas as Arkansaw, which would later become Arkansas; all of California, Arizona, Utah, were claimed by Spain or Mexico; Astoria stood out as a beacon of the American westward expansion to come over the next century.

And as, presumably, digital media will continue to proliferate over the next century, Paterson's art is resolutely, provocatively analog: every part of its process is tethered to the physical world.

Moreover, not even the most extreme scenario for the next century predicts temperature changes over North America as large as the anomalies witnessed this past month.

First, the transcript uses the following comment from you as the lead - in to the comments by Peter Cox predicting major effects from the decline of global dimming over the next century: «We lived in a global warming plus a Global Dimming world, and now we are taking out Global Dimming.

I have never said that it is the «primary» way to achieve mitigation and adaptation, as I have defined them, in the shorter term, but that it should be elevated in importance, because it will aid with both over the next say three centuries.

As far as costs, the cost of switching to a renewable energy based economic system is far lower than the costs of global warming over the next centurAs far as costs, the cost of switching to a renewable energy based economic system is far lower than the costs of global warming over the next centuras costs, the cost of switching to a renewable energy based economic system is far lower than the costs of global warming over the next century.

Gavin Schmidt writes, «He (Crichton) 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.

When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west — losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries.

Right now, our global competitors are growing their clean energy sectors in order to dominate a market that some expect to expand by $ 2 trillion over the next decade.16 As we describe in our report, Creating a Clean Energy Century, 17 China is committed to investing over $ 700 billion in clean energy over the coming decade, 18 in addition to building 245 new nuclear plants19 and putting a price on carbon.

He takes it as a proven given that temperature sensitivity to CO2 will be high, over ten degrees F for the likely CO2 increases we will see in the next century, which puts his «proven» climate sensitivity number higher than the range even in the last IPCC report.

«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»

Even if «catastrophic» AGW is correct and we do warm another 3 C over the next century, if it stabilized the Earth in warm phase and prevented or delayed the Earth's transition into cold phase it would be worth it because the cold phase transition would kill billions of people, quite rapidly, as crops failed throughout the temperate breadbasket of the world.

Under the IPCC Business As Usual emissions scenario, an average rate of global mean sea level rise of about 6 cm per decade over the next century (with an uncertainty range of 3 — 10 cm per decade).

The change in P * — E * over the next century, as modeled by 23 state - of - the - art climate models forced with continued greenhouse gas emissions throughout the century, is substantial in many regions.

Over the next year or so I began to see fewer references from AGW supporters to the Industrial Revolution as a start point and more emphasis on the spread of industry in the early 20th century, until I came across anti arguments pointing out that after the rise of temps to the third and fourth decades the world began to cool again, considerably.

Assuming a good bit of this was added after the natural warming cycle was started we are probably looking at closer to 1200 ppm over the next century or two before C02 levels begin to decrease again as this natural green house locks up carbon primarily in phytoplankton blooms caused by fertilization from the new large desert regions near the equator and excessive erosion from very intense storm systems the develop in such a hot house climate.

I.e. solar activity was high in most of the 20th centiry and then peaked in about 1985, together with a 20 - 30 year heat lag (since it remained high until 1996 as well), and oceans take a few decades to equilbrate, (the same as summer takes about 6 weeks to reach maximum temperature after the summer solstice, and every day it takes a few hours after noon to reach maximum temperature), so the earth has taken a few decades to reach maximum temperature after the long high in solar activity during the 20th century, and will now go down in temperature over the next few decades, with now both a negative PDO, and reduced solar activity.

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.

The IPCC takes the sensible position that establishing a «business - as - usual» (BAU) baseline for making long - term global climate projections is a pretty tricky endeavor because it means figuring out how the population and economy of the entire world is going to develop over the next century or more.