Sentences with phrase «rise over centuries»

That melting phenomenon is expected to lead to significant, unavoidable sea rise over centuries.

Sea levels will rise over the century by around half a metre; snow will disappear from all but the highest mountains; deserts will spread; oceans become acidic, leading to the destruction of coral reefs and atolls; and deadly heatwaves will become more prevalent.

Figure 3 here http://www.springerlink.com/content/g02124153m05410k/fulltext.pdf shows that even a 1 m rise over a century would have negligible economic impact on Australia.

Scientists expect a warming world to drive further sea - level rise over this century and beyond.3, 10,11 New York City faces increases in coastal flooding, the extent and frequency of storm surge, erosion, property damage, and loss of wetlands.3, 12,13

8 - 18 inches rise over a century is not catastrophic, although awkward for low elevation cities that have been building on wetlands, etc..

For the Copenhagen Consensus, one of the lead economists of the IPCC, Professor Gary Yohe, did a survey of all the problems and all the benefits accruing from a temperature rise over this century of about approximately 4C.

Not exact matches

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

As much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter century.

How else can you explain the meteoric rise of Amazon which not only survived every market tide over the turn of the century and beyond, but emerged even stronger with a brand set for world domination?

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

Over the last quarter century, APEC has shaped and transformed the global economy and supported half a billion people in their rise out of poverty.

California's critical energy and transportation infrastructure faces significant climate related risks over the course of the century, including more frequent and intense wildfires, prolonged drought, and accelerated sea - level rise.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

One thing is certain and proven... no matter what creed we utter, create, or claim to believe... more people over the centuries (including the 200 years of NT historians and theologians studies you lean upon) will remember... seek, find, and trust in a risen Jesus (the illiterate peasant carpenter) than will ever know you and I... let alone sing our praises.

Until the rise of the creationist movement amongst southern baptists over the last couple of centuries, belief in a 6000 year old earth was never doctrine in any christian church.

Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin the numbers have been rising significantly.

A capsule of his findings would include the following facts: Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin America — the «global South» in current geopolitical coinage — the numbers have been rising significantly and in some cases dramatically.

Social historians, however, have linked the rise of the national concern over matters of etiquette in the 19th century to the rise of the great industrial city precisely because the bold new cities were places where, for the first time, it was possible to live and work entirely among strangers.

The decline of Roman Catholicism in Latin America and the subsequent rise of evangelicalism has been well - documented over the past century.

Given the challenges it faced over the centuries» most notably the rise, in the seventh century, of Islam, which deprived the empire of much of its wealthiest territory, and the brutal occupation of Constantinople by the Crusaders in the thirteenth century» its longevity as well as its brilliance is remarkable.

Apart from the guardianship of the Church over many centuries, it is hard to see whence would have derived the resources that later gave rise to modern science, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment.

Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

The US Environmental Protection Agency points out that Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.5 °F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6 °F over the next hundred years.

In 1987, for example, turnout inequality by class was almost non-existent and age - based differences were significantly lower; cleavages in both have steadily risen over the past quarter century.

But for Alain E. Kaloyeros, a physicist who rose from a basement laboratory at the State University at Albany to oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in state economic development funds over a quarter - century, a more complex purpose seemed to be at work.

«Anatomists have debated how to compare the DVR and neocortex for over a century, and our identification of IT neurons in the bird DVR helps to explain how such different brain structures can give rise to similar behaviors.»

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.

A one - degree rise in the global temperature over the past century, he says, could account for the shifts.

THE MOTIVE Some researchers have proposed that the sharp rise in asthma and allergy cases over the past century stems, unexpectedly, from living too clean.

A leakage rate of 1 percent every decade could be «very serious,» he said, and would eventually lead to temperature spikes of about 3 degrees Celsius in the next century and a rise close to 4 degrees Celsius over the following 2,000 years.

Conservative climate models predict that average temperatures in the US Midwest will rise by 4 °C over the next century.

Under conservative estimates, we expect to see 2 feet [of sea - level rise] over the next century,» said Horton.

The team predicts that as global temperatures rise over the next century, Mongolia will first become drier, then wetter.

Indeed, tree - ring chronologies provide much longer histories than observational records and corroborate that variability and synchrony have risen over the past hundred years, and to levels that are as high as any observed over the past three centuries, according to the researchers.

«New York City has experienced about a foot of sea - level rise over the last century.

While Earth's landmass has warmed by about 1 degree Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past century, on average, land temperatures in the Arctic have risen almost 2 C (3.6 F).

In an article earlier this month, Ridley compared estimates of how much the sea level would rise over the next century.

But even if future sea level rise is slow, the cumulative effect will be significant over the coming centuries.

Meanwhile, a team of climate scientists who have been calculating how the pledges to cut emissions translate into temperature rises over the coming century, and were waiting for the final text to update their models, were left baffled.

Although the earth has experienced exceptional warming over the past century, to estimate how much more will occur we need to know how temperature will respond to the ongoing human - caused rise in atmospheric greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide.

In fact, the amount of global warming already guaranteed by existing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere — 392 ppm and still rising — will also play out over centuries, if not millennia.

Rising affluence over the past several centuries has, overall, been hard on the environment.

These spikes show rainfall levels rising sharply over just a few decades, and falling off again soon afterwards, in a matter of centuries.

If you had asked an expert over the past half century, you would have heard two general possibilities: Either the winds go as deep as 10,000 kilometers from the cloud tops and are driven by heat rising from those depths or they are very shallow and confined to just the top few hundred kilometers of Jupiter's atmosphere.

Although we will not see immediate effects by tomorrow — some of the slow processes will only respond over centuries to millennia — the consequences for long - term ice melt and sea level rise could be substantial.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

Primack credits the three degree Fahrenheit temperature rise in eastern Massachusetts over the past century with jump - starting plant development in the spring.

Sea levels have been rising worldwide over the past century by between 10 and 20 centimetres, as a result of melting land - ice and the thermal expansion of the oceans due to a planetary warming of around 0.5 degreeC.

The strongest evidence for global warming comes from physics and chemistry, not from records of past temperatures, which is why scientists were predicting warming long before the rise in temperature over the 20th century was obvious.