Sentences with phrase «over the next few centuries»

Without significant mitigation, sea - level rise of several meters is to be expected over the next few centuries.

The evidence is that these folks seem to have survived climate changing over many centuries, which implies that they will very likely survive the climate changing over the next few centuries.

-- but to get a better understanding of how much and how fast the sea level will rise over the next few centuries.

Ultimately, Morlighem says, all of the data will inform model projections of how the ice sheets will behave under future climate change and how much they may raise global sea levels over the next few centuries — the real question all this research is aimed at answering.

If these studies are closer to the true picture, models might be giving us accurate answers for warming over the next few decades, but underestimating warming over the next few centuries and more.

Glaciologists have long worried that the West Antarctic ice sheet will collapse over the next few centuries, raising sea levels dramatically.

Many of the grand monuments of empire - the Colosseum, the Pantheon - were built over the next few centuries.

Over the next few centuries salt cod sustained the long journeys to explore the New World.

And it changes, sort of - people have studied very carefully Newton's reputation, his character, his significant changes almost decade by decade over the next few centuries.

The NAS report had concluded that the climatic effects of rising carbon dioxide «may be the primary limiting factor on energy production from fossil fuels over the next few centuries,» Shaw wrote, quoting the report's central conclusion almost verbatim.

«Although many corals are becoming less abundant, there remain a number of species that are holding their own or increasing in abundance and these corals will populate tropical reefs over the next few centuries,» researcher Peter Edmunds, of California State University, explained.

Modelling by Biastoch et al (2011) has shown that methane hydrate dissociation in the northernmost Atlantic and the Arctic Oceans will produce significant acidification of the bottom 100m of seawater over the next few centuries.

The best possible outcome right now, Rahmstorf said, is that we stabilize temperatures and that sea level rise happened at a steady rate over the next few centuries, and not accelerate.

Sea - level will continue to rise for centuries after global temperature have been stabilized and several meters of sea level rise must be expected over the next few centuries.

«Even if we agreed on a particular computer simulation of the monetary damages accruing from climate change over the next few centuries, the calculation of the «social cost of carbon» would vary widely, depending on our choice of parameters that have nothing to do with climate science,» he said.

According to the NYTimes blog Green Inc., the Dutch are designing floating cities to replace or augment land - based cities as the global sea level rises over the next few centuries.

Over the next few centuries, the followers of Jesus did their best.

Over the next few centuries it is quite possible that nearly every tissue in the body may be able to be replaced by such approaches.

«Over the next few centuries, the rate of sea level rise will be pretty moderate,» said lead study author Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory.

Sea level will continue to rise for centuries after global temperatures have been stabilized, and several meters of sea level rise must be expected over the next few centuries.

I've just watched a vid by him on U-tube where he states in a calm, quiet voice that «Hundreds of cities will be underwater by 2100» and that; «All of Antarctica could melt within a century» but the coup de grais was his claim that «Over the next few centuries, the oceans will boil away, like they did on Venus».

Over the next few centuries that would make gas levels rise (above all, as it turned out, through evaporation of CO2 from the vast Southern Ocean).

It was also used as a defense against the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s, and over the next few centuries, it served as a customs point.