Sentences with phrase «peak in the early centuries»

The civilization reached its peak in the early centuries of the Common Era, only to decline after 700 C.E., possibly because they had tapped out the region's ground water, Mattingly explains.

Not exact matches

A German reaching the peak of his adult powers in the mid-twentieth century - some of whose early works were confiscated by the Nazi government - he eventually found a wider readership in countries other than his native land.

Under the strictest pathway (RCP 2.6), which assumes an early peak of greenhouse gas emissions which then decline substantially, the potential net increases in mortality rates at the end of the century be minimal (between -0.4 % and +0.6 %) in all the regions included in this study, highlighting the benefits of the implementation of mitigation policies.

Peak tornado activity in the central and southern Great Plains of the United States is occurring up to two weeks earlier than it did half a century ago, according to a new Montana State University study whose findings could help states in «Tornado Alley» better prepare for these violent storms.

He punched the sky in Guy Ritchie «s take on King Arthur, fought the hurricane and ghosts alike in Guillermo del Toro «s Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak, and ventured into the jungles of the early 20th century in James Gray «s The Lost City of Z (ed).

While fossil evidence shows that the voracious Rocky Mountain locust was rampant in what is now North America as early as the 12th century, it didn't reach its peak of collective destructiveness there until the 1870s.

«Fore - edge paintings peaked in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in England,» added Gaidmore.

Through the lens of Sperr — a noted documentarian of New York City street life in the early 20th century — «the peaks» appear majestic.

The hilarious part is that even if we do, the result with the 19 remaining proxies gives peak warmth in the late 15th century comparable to about 1940, but nowhere near as warm as the late 20th / early 21st centuries.

Looking in more detail in the 20th century: They show «real measured temperatures» decliing from a peak in the 1930 - 1940 timeframe towards a low point in early 1970 - > then a steady rise from 1970 on.

Per NOAA's own empirical dataset, the earlier 20th century warming cumulative amount was actually greater than the modern era period ending in December 2015 — and remember, the December 2015 temperatures anomaly just had an incredible surge due to the current El Niño peak.

Re: The same research papers the report cites show that recent rates are statistically indistinguishable from peak rates earlier in the 20th century, -LSB-...].

«Global oil production is expected to peak early in this century.

as regards the substantial warmth noted around the turn of the 16th century, which by the middle of that century had shown a notable downturn to the early part of the 17TH century, then a rise in temperature that commenced around 1610 and lasted until around 1650 - with another notable peak around 1630.

Simpler still — the surface warming from the peak of the early 20th century warming to late in the century is less than 0.5 degrees C. Knock yourself out — assume all of that is anthropogenic.

The (unarchived) Masson et al dD series also shows peak Early Holocene warmth with a gradual decline through the Holocene, with low values in the 20th century.

All facts point to an overall improvement in the count and extent of forest fire destruction since the peak destruction experienced during the early decades of the 20th century.