Sentences with phrase «per millennium»

The sedimentation rate is 10 cm per millennium.

Sea level is now rising 3.1 mm per year or 3.1 m per millennium [72], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the past several thousand years, and Greenland and Antarctica are losing mass at accelerating rates [73,74].

Anyway we're currently hitting closer to 20 °C per millennium, and will be at double that rate by 2060 assuming business as usual.

Especially a kick of 2 W / m2 in a century which is a much higher rate of change than the orbital forcing that is measured in W / m2 per millennium.

This trend involves a cooling of -0.3 °C per millennium due to a gradual increase in the distance between Earth and the sun.

The warming rate coming out of the last ice age was about a degree per millennium and sea level rose about 2m per century.

I noted how the overall rate in some studies, even on the scale of meters per millennium, «is not one of these uber - catastropes,» but that how much variation can occur within a century remains saddled with uncertainty, producing an «ugly mix of long - term certainty and short term murkiness.»

They can live hundreds, even thousands of years, and sometimes they grow so slowly they may advance only a few millimeters a century — an inch or two per millennium.

We can expect more, they conclude, once per millennium.

Wachsmann found that sedimentation was a problem even far from shore — up to a meter per millennium in some areas.

Not exact matches

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This was the kick - off of not just the 4 per 1000 Initiative, but also a series of events where I joined the team along with Dr. Han Herren of the Millennium Institute and Precious Phiri with Regeneration International.

In today's white paper Mr Alexander revealed the government planned to reach its millennium development goal of spending 0.7 per cent of GDP on aid by 2013, two years before the UN's deadline.

Although global rates of maternal death have been dropping by about 1.5 percent each year since 1980, there is still a long way to go if countries hope to meet United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 by 2015 — a 75 percent reduction in the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births from 1990 levels.

Finally, they calculated the population's turnover rate to estimate an average density of 50 clams per square meter over the last millennium — a number that contrasts with fieldwork earlier this year that yielded just three clams per square meter, they report in the December issue of Geology.

As a result — and for reasons that remain unexplained — the waters of the Southern Ocean may have begun to release carbon dioxide, enough to raise concentrations in the atmosphere by more than 100 parts per million over millennia — roughly equivalent to the rise in the last 200 years.

«If we had 10 per cent more in the integration and test phase, we could have done so much more,» sighs David Crisp, project scientist for NASA's New Millennium space science program, reflecting on the Mars Polar Lander.

By the turn of the new millennium, half the population of Africa, about 340 million people, still lived on less than US$ 1 per day.

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Same reports notes that «no fragile states will achieve Millennium Development Goal by 2015 at the current rate of progress» yet 30 per cent of the Official Development Assistance has been directed or targeted at fragile and conflict - affected context.

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Mounting one exhibition per day, it would take nearly a millennium to exhaust the combinatorial possibilities.

Looking at evidence from past climate swings and greenhouse - gas concentrations, he concludes that a sustained concentration of carbon dioxide at double the 280 parts per million that prevailed for hundreds of millenniums before the industrial revolution would — after a host of slowly - responding feedbacks kicked in to amplify the temperature rise — result in an enormous warming of some 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius).

Over the past millennium this graph, most of which is obtained from Antarctic ice cores, shows CO2 holding steady at 280 ± 5 ppm up to 1800, when global population was about a billion people and sailing ships and the horse - and - buggy were the most advanced forms of transportation, consuming relatively little energy per capita compared with today.

The authors noted, Antarctica is projected to become almost ice - free with an average contribution to sea - level rise exceeding 3 m per century during the first millennium.

«With cumulative fossil fuel emissions of 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC), Antarctica is projected to become almost ice - free with an average contribution to sea - level rise exceeding 3 meters per century during the first millennium.»

This will also be true for CO2 — at least as long as we assume that natural emission and uptake of CO2 can into a fairly stable equilibrium (like the family's fixed $ 80,000 per year income and expenses) during the stable climate that existed for the first 8 millennia of the Holocene.

Anyway, today we try to explain the exact opposite: how northern hemisphere ice ages can quite suddenly weaken — at least in case of the last one, which had its cold peak around 18,000 years ago, after which atmospheric CO2 levels «suddenly» (over a millennium or so) rose by 30 per cent, and temperatures started to climb closer * to our current Holocene values.

Note per capita C emissions the long rise was suddenly attenuated by the new organization OPEC's cartel price rise in 1974 and maintained relatively flat by major recessions in the early 1980s, 1990s, Asian currency crisis 1997 - 98 and new millennium.

This means that ENSO had mainly a warming influence and that removing this influence should have led to a much lower warming trend: typically down to +0.06 °C / decade corresponding to the background trend once all (known) natural variability removed (if natural variability can explain a variability of + / - 0.1 °C per decade, it could also explain the background trend of +0.06 °C per decade likely to correspond to a long term cycle — typically 1 millennium long).

But can you point to a half century at any time in the past millennium where fitting a trend line gives a slope (up or down) of anywhere near a degree per century (0.01 degrees per year or 0.1 degrees per decade)?

Smil records the remarkable fact that «there is no clear upward trend in per capita food supply across the millennia of traditional farming.»

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Nor will we attempt to scare readers with sea - rise, for it amounts to only the thickness of a nickel per year, as it has for millennia.

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Increasing numbers of children in the United States (ie, ∼ 200 children per 100 000 population) require intensive care annually, because of advances in pediatric therapeutic methods and a changing spectrum of pediatric disease.1 It has been projected that there will be continued growth in the number of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) beds well into the new millennium, with a higher level of illness acuity for children occupying them.2