Sentences with phrase «over the past millennium in»

Greenland temperature variations Veizer's paper argues that the local preindustrial climate fluctuations over the past millennium in Greenland were not driven by CO2.

Greenland temperature variations Veizer's paper argues that the local preindustrial climate fluctuations over the past millennium in Greenland were not driven by CO2.

Global, cyclic, decadal, climate patterns can be traced over the past millennium in glacier fluctuations, oxygen isotope ratios in ice cores, sea surface temperatures, and historic observations.

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Larry Puglia, whose T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has trounced the S&P 500 with annualized returns of 18.5 % over the past five years (and 37 % in 2017 alone), says that some of the same companies he avoided around the turn of the millennium are now among the biggest holdings in his portfolio, including Amazon (amzn), Alphabet (googl), and Microsoft (msft).

The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.

A great attraction of the Catholic Church over the past two millennia, in the eyes of many non «Catholics as well as most Catholics, is her universal character.

In his September 1, 2011 column «Gay and Christian,» Russell Saltzman addressed my article in the New Oxford Review, in which I sketched a brief history of homosexual politics over the past two and a half millennia as a background for understanding the present controversIn his September 1, 2011 column «Gay and Christian,» Russell Saltzman addressed my article in the New Oxford Review, in which I sketched a brief history of homosexual politics over the past two and a half millennia as a background for understanding the present controversin the New Oxford Review, in which I sketched a brief history of homosexual politics over the past two and a half millennia as a background for understanding the present controversin which I sketched a brief history of homosexual politics over the past two and a half millennia as a background for understanding the present controversy.

Advances in optics and microscopy over the past millennium have, of course, let us peer far beyond the limits of the naked eye, to view exquisite images such as a micrograph of a virus or a stroboscopic photograph of a bullet at the millisecond it punched through a lightbulb.

The intensification of winter storm activity in Alaska and Northwestern Canada started close to 300 years ago and is unprecedented in magnitude and duration over the past millennium, according to a new study from Dartmouth College.

In contrast to these recent changes, there is one tradition that has not changed over the past millennium: the mixed use of green and blue.

In comparing their computational predictions against the actual historical record provided by the Metaphor Map of English, researchers found that their models correctly forecast about 75 percent of recorded metaphorical language mappings over the past millennium.

The study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the absence of human activity.

The wax isotopes told the researchers about rainfall in Cameroon and the central Sahel - Sahara over the past several millennia and showed a rapid aridification around 5500 years before now.

In the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletonIn the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletonin ice cores and coral skeletons.

After developing the computational algorithms that predicted the historical order in which the senses of a word have emerged, the team tested these predictions against records of English over the past millennium using the Historical Thesaurus of English, a large database in which each of a word's many senses is marked for its date of emergence into the language.

The group's findings were published in Cognitive Psychology in an article titled «Evolution of word meanings through metaphorical mapping: Systematicity over the past millennium.»

In 1988, a French atmospheric scientist named Michel Hersé produced the definitive collection of accounts of bright nights, which documented similar stories from the past millennium and all over the world.

In 2005, Rep. Joe Barton, R - Texas, called Mann before Congress to testify about his now ubiquitous «hockey - stick» graph, showing temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past millennia, with an abrupt spike upward at the end showing human influence on the climatIn 2005, Rep. Joe Barton, R - Texas, called Mann before Congress to testify about his now ubiquitous «hockey - stick» graph, showing temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past millennia, with an abrupt spike upward at the end showing human influence on the climatin the Northern Hemisphere over the past millennia, with an abrupt spike upward at the end showing human influence on the climate.

Modeling the epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: Palaeoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium.

A good discussion of this can be found in the review paper by Jones and Mann (2004 — see section 2.9 therein)[Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004].

If you think all this is obvious, please hold the thought in mind, and bring it back when, towards the end of this commentary, I tell you what Esper et al. wrote in an opinion piece regarding the implications of natural variability observed over the past millennium.

It requires that the Sun's brightness increased more in the past century than at any time in the past millennium, including over the past 30 years, contrary to the direct space - based observations.

Most famously, in 2003, Soon co-authored a paper in the journal Climate Research that questioned the standard interpretation of climate change over the past millennium and argued that recent warming is not unusual by historical standards.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

Koffman, B.G., Kreutz, K.J., Breton, D.J., Kane, E.J., Winski, D.A., Birkel, S.D., Kurbatov, A.V., and Handley, M.J., 2014, Centennial - scale variability of the Southern Hemisphere westerly wind belt in the eastern Pacific over the past two millennia.

The isotope records from WAIS Divide and US ITASE: climate in West Antarctica over the past two millennia (Invited).

The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia.

The white men who can get past the mental anguish of my black penis The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia.

While these numbers represent an improvement from twenty years ago, they have actually remained almost completely static over the past decade, suggesting that the post-Cold War march to democratization tapered off in the first years of the new millennium.

The Past volumes, noting each year over an entire millennium from 998,031 BC, were started in 1970 and took two years to complete, while the Future years, begun in 1980, were written over the span of eighteen years and finish at 1,001,997 AD.

Barcelona based conceptual artist Jaume Plensa has produced a rich body of work over the past 30 years and is best known in Chicago for the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park.

... a review of about 200 different temperature studies was published in 2003 by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas... likewise reaffirmed the longstanding consensus that there have been large temperature variations over the past millennium.

Indeed, the utility of the term in describing past climate changes at regional scales has been questioned [see e.g. Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004 and references therepast climate changes at regional scales has been questioned [see e.g. Jones, P.D., Mann, M.E., Climate Over Past Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004 and references therePast Millennia, Reviews of Geophysics, 42, RG2002, doi: 10.1029 / 2003RG000143, 2004 and references therein.]

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

Records of tree - ring characteristics such as their width (TRW) and density (usually the maximum density of the wood formed towards the end of the growing season — the «maximum latewood density» — MXD) are widely used to infer past variations in climate over recent centuries and even millennia.

In fact, there is reasonably compelling evidence that changes in drought in the western U.S. over the past millennium may, in large part, reflect the forced response of ENSO to past volcanic and solar radiative forcinIn fact, there is reasonably compelling evidence that changes in drought in the western U.S. over the past millennium may, in large part, reflect the forced response of ENSO to past volcanic and solar radiative forcinin drought in the western U.S. over the past millennium may, in large part, reflect the forced response of ENSO to past volcanic and solar radiative forcinin the western U.S. over the past millennium may, in large part, reflect the forced response of ENSO to past volcanic and solar radiative forcinin large part, reflect the forced response of ENSO to past volcanic and solar radiative forcing.

Having read the comments here and in Jones and Mann (2004) «Climate over past millennia», I have been reflecting on some of the comments about the hockey stick wrt the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA).

In the study, Brian Wansink, the director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University, and his brother Craig Wansink, a professor of religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College, charted the growth in portion size in depictions of the Last Supper over the past millenniuIn the study, Brian Wansink, the director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University, and his brother Craig Wansink, a professor of religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College, charted the growth in portion size in depictions of the Last Supper over the past millenniuin portion size in depictions of the Last Supper over the past millenniuin depictions of the Last Supper over the past millennium.

Member of the team Alena Kimbrough says, «We've shown ENSO is an important part of the climate system that has influenced global temperatures and rainfall over the past millennium... Our findings, together with climate model simulations, highlight the likelihood that century - scale variations in tropical Pacific climate modes can significantly modulate radiatively forced shifts in global temperature.»

Beever said he was most surprised to find groups of animals disappearing over decades, rather than in centuries or millenniums, as they have during climatic swings of the distant past.

Stored solar energy built up in the oceans over past millennia dictates the temperature of the oceans which then dictate the temperature of the atmosphere.

However, they do argue that the reconstruction reflects long - term changes in «orbital configurations» that have continually reduced Northern Hemisphere summer «insolation» (solar irradiance) over the past two millennia.

From the warmer climates of Roman times when vineyards flourished in England and Wales to the colder conditions that led to crop failure, famine and pandemics in early medieval times, Europe's climate has varied over the past three millennia.

In China, regional instrumental temperature series have been extended back over much of the past millennium using documentary data combined with inferences from ice cores and tree rings (Wang et al., 1998a, 1998b; Wang and Gong, 2000).

The chart shows the La Niña phase of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) dominant over most of the past millennium and an increase in El Niño frequency last century.

Similarly, the notion that proven energy strategies «trap us in the past» fails to recognize that «past» energy technologies (oil, gas, coal, nuclear and hydroelectric) actually provide 94 % of the energy that powers America today; are abundant, reliable and affordable; and represent a monumental improvement over the wind, solar, wood, dung and water wheel power that feebly energized mankind for millennia.

The change in total solar irradiance over recent 11 - year sunspot cycles amounts to < 0.1 %, but greater changes at ultraviolet wavelengths may have substantial impacts on stratospheric ozone concentrations, thereby altering both stratospheric and tropospheric circulation patterns... This model prediction is supported by paleoclimatic proxy reconstructions over the past millennium.

The are fundamental things in climate that lead to immense variability over millennia — the 20th century was relatively balmy compared to other periods in the recent past.

The hockey stick pattern also shows up in the following papers: «Pacific Ocean Heat Content During the Past 10,000 Years» «Inter-hemispheric temperature variability over the past millennium&raPast 10,000 Years» «Inter-hemispheric temperature variability over the past millennium&rapast millennium»

They then compared accumulation of ice in these cylinders to the expansion and retreat of the glacier over the past millennium.