Sentences with phrase «over the past few centuries»

They write with the benefit of social progress over the past few centuries and they have the power to set the framework.

Yet, researchers lack a clear picture of global trends in photosynthesis over the past few centuries.

Because there were so few melt events before the start of the 20th century, the temperature change over the past few centuries could be even higher, Winski said.

Great swathes of temperate forest in Europe, Asia and North America have been cleared over the past few centuries for agriculture, timber and urban development.

They're deep down, resting in the muck and mire of a human condition that hasn't evolved near as much over the past few centuries as many would like to believe.

Thankfully over the past few centuries millions worldwide having gained their freedom from religious organizations...

As competing philosophical and religious options have multiplied over the past few centuries, unbelief (and ignorance of religion altogether) has come to be a real option for many more people.

In the Western intellectual tradition, a serious hiatus has developed over the past few centuries between the study of religious and theological ideas as such, including their internal relations to each other, on the one hand, and the study of the historical and political significance of theological formulations in human societies on the other.

A breezy account of the evolution of science over the past few centuries is followed by an account of «how to be a scientist», which begins with how to go about entering the profession and winds up with making significant discoveries and winning prizes.

Variations in the Sun's brightness are known to have played a part in global warming over the past few centuries.

Every economic era has a catalyst, the use of the plow in the middle ages, the industrial development of steel over the past few centuries, and our nation has shown the ability to act together to address an issue, particularly if our strengths can utilized.

Zielinski 2000 studies past volcanoes, particularly over the past few centuries:

This sub-section assesses the variability of ENSO over the past few centuries.

Since urbanization has grown dramatically over the past few centuries, it seems reasonable to ask how much of the observed rise in global temperatures is due to urbanization.

Because there were so few melt events before the start of the 20th century, the temperature change over the past few centuries could be even higher, Winski said.

In many parts of the mid-latitudes, including the United States and Europe, forest clearing over the past few centuries has likely doubled to quadrupled the frequency of extremely hot, dry summers.

Over the past few centuries, most of the world has been on the same page about that.

Over the past few centuries, and accelerating ever more quickly in the past 50 years, a steady stream of human innovations has begun to drastically speed up processes that were, until very recently, the sole province of nature.

Then around 1988 Fogel began to notice a startling trend in the data: Over the past few centuries, but predominantly in the 20th century, Americans have been growing taller.

By analyzing the vivid colors in paintings by such artists as J.M.W. Turner, Claude Lorrain, Alexander Cozens, and Edgar Degas, some scientists hope to say something significant about volcano - related cooling — and possibly human - induced pollution — over the past few centuries.

Like these changes, the very minor warming we have had over the past few centuries is mostly from non-human causes.

This involves growing enough plant material in the next 50 years to more than completely make up for all the arbon dioxide lost through deforestation and land use change over the past few centuries, which is really remarkably ambitious, especially if people are still going to have some space to grow food.

Over the past few centuries, successive waves of industrial revolution have altered the very nature of business (see figure).