Sentences with phrase «period of a couple of decades»

Both communities tend to take the change for granted, and to neglect any purely statistical or chaotic effects which could lead to excursions of the Earth's surface temperature during periods of a couple of decades, without requiring a secular change either in the solar constant or in atmospheric transparency.

Not exact matches

And how do we allow you to write a new class of apps, so that over a period of probably a couple of decades, quite frankly, the software world can transform?

In the last couple decades, the growth in the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this period.

Each of the periods of economic expansion in the past couple of decades included a noticeable episode of mid-term slowing.

The way priests are constantly shuffled around, the tacit approval of the churches leadership coupled with the fact that thousands of cases have been reported across at least 2 continent's over a period of decades paints a pretty filthy picture.

You know, Lucy is believed to be ancestral to all of the later Australopithecines species and also our own genus Homo which includes everything from us to Neandertals, to the little Hobbits of Flores and, you know, we cover all of this in the book, and it's just incredible to see how much new information about all of Lucy's descendants has been uncovered in the past couple of decades, truly an astonishing period for paleoanthropology.

As someone who has been licensed to operate a motor vehicle for more than four decades and who has driven a couple of thousand cars and trucks over that same time period, I try to approach each new test with some semblance of maturity as well as a Spock - like logic.

For me, it would be the period in America during the early part of the 20th century, the first couple of decades before World War I. My grandmother was a great storyteller and that was the period of her youth.

Sometimes these periods last a couple of decades.

Relative to the post-1866 record, a strong El Nino period extends 1970 - 99 and it suggests the La Ninas domination in the last couple of decades is not unusual pre-1970.

And lots of people imagine we could be entering a cooler period in next couple decades, and most are not allowing or counting on, that we could have a large volcanic eruption as part of the mix.

Temperature data over the past couple of decades is more telling than data from other time periods within the instrumental data set,

AGW means that the heat content of the whole Earth system increases, but it does not make unique predictions on the relative rates of warming of various parts of the Earth system over periods up to a couple of decades.

This idea we suppose entering a cooling period in next couple decade is actually kind of widely accepted.

The root causes of warming for the medieval period, increased solar irradiance coupled with decreased volcanic activity (38, 39), and in recent decades, anthropogenic activities with some contribution from solar irradiance (1), are not identical.

Not because the calculation is complicated — just take how much the global average temperature has changed over some longish time period (a couple of decades or longer) and divide by much energy was used to force that change.

The uncertainty limits are justified at least over periods of many decades, probably over a couple of centuries.

So since their smoothing results in a period of less than 300 yrs not being «interpretable», why would they tack on a couple of decade averages?

Church & White 2011 would be better for a longer view (CSIRO site seems to be down at the moment so I can't find a link), or satellite altimeter data to track the past couple of decades right up to the present, which is the main period of interest after all.

Some LTD policies have benefit periods as short as a couple of years, while others will keep paying until you reach retirement age, even if that happens to be several decades from now.

Although the traditional version of universal life insurance was a popular and safe option a couple of decades ago, as the financial situation of the past two decades has seen periods of instability, the advantages of the traditional universal life policy have diminished and become more risky.