Sentences with phrase «point in a couple of decades»

So the balances due once they reach the forgiveness point in a couple of decades will be massive.

Not exact matches

As a result, the economics of Energy East are likely better today than they would have been at almost any point in the last couple of decades.

One of the first points of focus here in Europe is what this means for what has genuinely become a single market for IT and certainly for software over the last couple of decades.

Mostow: Yeah, I mean, I believe that 1,000 years from now, historians will look back at the time we are living in right now, and in distance like this, this decade or maybe even these couple of years as a turning point in the history of mankind; not [unlike the way] we look back on primitive man, when they discovered fire and how that world is changing society.

«It takes decades for the cataracts to get to that point, so if you can reverse that by a few drops in the eye over a couple of weeks, that's amazing.»

We have engaged over the last four decades in a war of words and actions depicting deeply held beliefs, wide chasms in practice, and a great deal of finger - pointing coupled with blaming and shaming.

Schrag believes that these changes «point to a gradual shift away from the narrow focus on fact - based testing in math and reading, on creating many more charter schools, on «reconstituting» or closing sub-par schools, and on other business - model schemes that school reformers have pushed for during the past couple of decades....

Within a continent where automobile sales over the past couple of decades have declined in favour of pickups, crossovers, SUVs and minivans — to the point where «light...

It is supposed to be 1951 or»52 at this point in the book, and it wasn't until 1958 that this sexually - transmitted disease (which is now a silent epidemic in the USA) was discovered to be a bacteria rather than a virus; it also was not until a couple of decades after that when women's magazines began to warn about this possibly asymptomatic STD.

In the last couple of decades, asset allocation experts have strived to create more efficient portfolios designed to squeeze out every last basis point without adding additional risk.

Back a couple of weeks ago, I pointed out how I believe returns in Canada and the United States will suck over the next decade.

At some point in the past couple of decade student loans when from a leg up to financial slavery.

The trend over the past couple of decades points toward a continuing decline in extent in the near future.

Updated, 3:10 p.m. Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening drought.

Most projections suggest that that point will be reached sometime in the middle of the century, and, as another recent paper found, scientists» ability to pin down that date is limited by the natural variability of the sea ice system to within a couple of decades.

The wealth of evidence currently available points to the latter decades of the 20th Century being warmer than the medieval peak but there is only a couple of tenths of a degree in it.

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).

Even when Earth resumes its modest warming, which it likely will at some point in the next couple of decades, the pace of warming will continue to be quite modest and beneficial to human welfare and global ecosystems.»

It brings together the best of the Thinkpad laptops you've probably used at some point in the last couple of decades.