Sentences with phrase «over the next several decades»

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

That, in turn, could make it next to impossible to achieve the needed dramatic global reductions in CO2 emissions over the next several decades.

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

The prospects are that the demand for oil will increase over the next several decades, not decrease.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is done by including information about the current state of the climate system, which can then affect the evolution of the climate over the next several decades.

The results of a design competition 73 years ago this month revealed how residential construction would transform over the next several decades.

If you want to pass down investments you know could be valuable over the next several decades, you might consider buying these bonds as gifts for children.

They developed a number of credit scoring systems and related products over the next several decades.

The costs over the next several decades center around $ 100 per average family, or about 75 cents per person per day, and a GDP reduction of less than 1 %.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The question mark is likely never going to be demand over the next several decades.

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.

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.

The U.S. Department of the Interior Wednesday listed the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 based on evidence that the animal's sea ice habitat is shrinking and is likely to continue to do so 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).

It is long past time to move to the next level of reform and accountability — the extrinsic type — and this is the trend we must and will see over the next several decades in what I believe will be the civil rights revolution of the 21st century, which I think will play out simultaneously on the two tracks I have just mentioned: the delivery system for education and the means by which we prepare and compensate educators, primarily teachers.

I intentionally mentioned the optimistic scenario B1 in # 9 because, despite the wisdom of Yogi, I believe that as the world runs out of oil and gas over the next several decades that the fuel of the future is... coal.

Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

New York passed dozens of laws over the next several decades to muzzle the worst offenders, and cities throughout the world followed suit.

The retirement of the baby boomers over the next several decades will mean astronomic increases in costs, notably for health care, with relatively fewer people of working age to pay them.

Just one sturdy kick to the heart, over and over again when the memories appear unbidden over the next several decades, will be more than enough.

Given the current non-marital birth rates and trends, millions of American children over the next several decades will live in families headed by single mothers.

Coley Vindicated Over the next several decades, researchers stuck their toes into the murky and temperamental waters of immunotherapy.

The impact of sea - level rise as a result of global warming will be seen on coastlines around the world over the next several decades and centuries, affecting at least half the world's people

Galford and her co-authors developed a computer model to create maps showing potential forest losses under three future scenarios over the next several decades.

«Sadly, the number of people living with dementia is only expected to rise over the next several decades,» says Dr. Brody.

By folding long - term monitoring data from the Christmas Bird Count and the North American Breeding Bird Survey for 588 species into computer programs along with climate change predictions, the Audubon's Birds and Climate Change Report concludes that 314 species may lose half their habitats over the next several decades.

«What we find is that sustained low or high oil prices could have a major impact on the global energy system over the next several decades; and depending on how the fuel substitution dynamics play out, the carbon dioxide consequences could be significant.»

A key insight of the study is that the future fuel mix will depend in large part on whether oil and natural gas prices decouple at globally over the next several decades.

The scientists» computer modeling suggests that if deforestation in the Amazon continues at the current pace, it could significantly cut rainfall hundreds of miles away over the next several decades.

A sticky situation developed over the next several decades: Physicists began plugging the Higgs field into their equations and made the Higgs boson the cornerstone of the standard model, yet they had no proof that either existed.

They then predicted the monarch population's risk of extinction over the next several decades.

A: Eric Holthaus Meteorologist Slate: As far as North America is concerned, soil moisture is expected to decrease virtually everywhere except the high Canadian Arctic and Alaska over the next several decades.

If the pattern holds true, highly magnetized clouds would continue to pass near the black hole over the next several decades.

Whatever they lost in paying off my old vehicle they will have made back easily over the next several decades of selling me new Mercedes Benz vehicles instead of having me walk away from Mercedes for good.

With Social Security payouts expected to decrease to about 75 % of their current limit over the next several decades, planning for a secure retirement has become more important than ever.

A few are in the agriculture, healthcare and energy sectors which is an idea I highlighted in my American Future Fund as the strongest three themes over the next several decades.

Lower Social Security benefits and the new payroll tax are not enough to offset the 5 percent diversion of payroll taxes, however, so the federal government will be forced to borrow funds from private savers over the next several decades.

Over the next several decades other terrier types were crossed with Rags and his descendents to extend the breed's hunting abilities beyond ratting.