Sentences with phrase «place over a few decades»

Abrupt climate change is defined as a large scale change in the climate system which takes place over a few decades or less and is anticipated to persist for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruption in human and natural systems.

We define abrupt climate change as a large - scale change in the climate system that takes place over a few decades or less, persists (or is anticipated to persist) for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruptions in human and natural systems (see Glossary).

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Way back in the winter of 2014, when he was sketching the broad strokes of his agenda as the new leader of the then third - place Liberals, Trudeau spoke in Montréal about how pro-free market economic orthodoxy, put into policy by successive governments over the past few decades, was favouring the rich too much.

The transformation of the structure of the gold market that has taken place over the past few decades in our view mirrors a broader and highly significant characteristic of all present - day financial markets.

«It's not all sites and all places at all times, but if we have confidence in the climate model predictions, then according to these theories, we would expect the whole process to accelerate over next few decades,» Veblen said.

While the authors acknowledge the «remarkable progress in cultivating the concepts of flood risk management» that has taken place over the last few decades, they also recognize that «the challenge now is to turn the now commonly accepted concepts of managing risks and promoting opportunities into common flood - management practice».

Over the past few decades, researchers have noted declining sperm counts and quality in places such as Europe, Japan and the United States.

Good soil around the house means that when you trample dirt into the house, it'll be good bacteria coming in and my two decades of professional experience suggest that homes on plots with good soil are often places where the homeowners have fewer health concerns over the years.

Over the past few decades, Maine has become a more diverse place, but white people still make up about 85 % of Portland's population, which leaves few options for singles attracted to black and biracial dates.

As Robbins points out in the book, the number of students who want to go to prestigious colleges has soared, but the number of places in those colleges has not changed much over the past few decades.

Instead, as we have been told many times by many individuals over the course of many decades (a few fingers might have been wagged in our face in the process) the most important thing about a Beetle convertible is its ability to transport you to a place where the handbags and shoes are all snappy, every car has a steering wheel with a white rim, and a young woman feels as if she's the star of her very own fashion photo shoot in the south of France — or California, at least.

Over the next few decades, the animal protection movement was one of the only places where women could be heard and make an impact on society.

A special accent will be placed on MoMA's importance and the pivotal role this museum and its curators played over the past few decades.

«Some or all of these processes will be enough, Lovelock estimates, to tip the earth into a catastrophic hotter state, perhaps about eight degrees centigrade warmer in temperate regions like ours, over the course of a very few decades, and that heat will in turn make life as we know it nearly impossible in many places.

When pointed out that, in the Antarctic, there are many places where there is increased ice pack over the last few decades, even if some shelf here or there falls into the ocean, we are told that the mass isn't as important as the area.

Depending on how the weather plays out over the next few weeks, that minimum is likely to fall somewhere between second and fifth place, they estimate — still a remarkably low level that shows how precipitously sea ice has declined in recent decades.

If you want even more info about the study and want to know how the NOAA team came to its conclusion that there has not been a slowdown in warming over the last decade or so, you will find links to a few places where you can start your reading below the chart.

Whereas the whole PETM transition took roughly 10,000 years, today we are considering changes taking place over decades, or at most a few centuries.

Winters have also warmed over a longer period of record, but the fastest warming has taken place during the past few decades.

Based on the findings from wide - ranging studies of community variation (eg, why Aboriginal teen suicide and Aboriginal employment levels vary hugely from band to band; why seniors die during heat waves in some neighbourhoods and not others; why some watershed communities maintain sustainable agriculture over a millennium while others do not; why the United States biogenetic technology industry is now concentrated in only three places, compared with thirty areas a few decades ago) there is now a strong evidentiary base revealing common underlying characteristics of groups, at the nongovernmental level, that successfully address these challenges.

Cape Town is leading the way in the field, with several rejuvenation and redevelopment projects taking place over the past few decades, each luring the workforce out of suburbia.