Sentences with phrase «rapidly over the past century»

The «that's what they thought then» response implies that because science advanced rapidly over the past century or so, it must continue to do so, possibly forever.

Not exact matches

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

Terrestrial ecosystems have encountered substantial warming over the past century, with temperatures increasing about twice as rapidly over land as over the oceans.

As soil has been rapidly depleted over the last century and even more intensively in the past 30 years, it's not a surprise that diseases of every kind have accelerated rapidly over the same period:

On multi-decadal timeframes, GH gas forcing and the PDO / AMO combination have been having fairly even in their relative forcing over the past century, but the GH gas forcing is growing so large that it now dominating these longer - term natural variations... so the kicker is that the rapidly increasing GH gases, now at their highest levels in millions of years, are very likely influencing the nature of ENSO, PDO, AMO, and other formerly «natural» cycles.

Sea levels which rapidly rose 400 feet following the last Ice Age have only risen at a steady rate of four to eight inches per century over the past 150 years.

China has warmed rapidly over the past half century and has experienced widespread concomitant impacts on water availability, agriculture and ecosystems.