Sentences with phrase «seen in the past century»

[Response: Despite the evidence for rapid regional climate changes during certain past transitional periods (e.g. the Younger Dryas), there is no evidence that global mean temperature changes of the amplitude seen in the past century have occured on centennial or shorter timescales in the past.

Whatever the cause — global hydrological and climate variability — extreme drought, extreme floods and extreme temperature changes such as has not been seen in the past century — will occur again.

Any reasonable scenario for global development over the next century is likely to project technological change, which as we have seen in the past century would likely include changes in energy creation and consumption technologies, as well as the propagation of the kind of normal environmental policies that we have seen in the developed world in the past century, such as control of sulfur pollution.

Reading chemical clues etched in coral up to 130,000 years old, geologists say it appears that El Niño and La Niña, the pulses of warm and cool Pacific waters that can lead to Indonesian droughts and Idaho blizzards, have almost never before reached the sustained intensity seen in the past century.

Lead scientist on the project Jessica Tierney told Reuters the sharp rise in temperature coincided with rises in human emissions of greenhouse gases seen in the past century, so the study added to evidence that emissions are warming the planet.

And one other important element to consider is that, as Lindzen said, we have no basis for assuming that all the warming seen in the past century (0.6 + / - 0.15 C) is due to HGH increases.

Not exact matches

Campbell's soups have been a staple in the family pantry for more than a century, but the company is seeing its share of the U.S. market drop — over the past decade, it has plummeted to 53 % from 67 %.

What's more, over the past century, Americans significantly shifted in the way that we see childhood.

The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.

In the past couple of centuries, the world has seen revolutionary innovations like the steam engine, the combine, the jet engine and the assembly - line robot.

But as I noted last week (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm), nominal growth and interest rate variations have historically canceled out over the past century, with little effect on the accuracy of our valuation estimates — matched reductions in the growth rate and the discount rate really don't affect fair value.

In the past several centuries they have backed off from that position, but if you carefully read the wording of the newly - released Mass, you will see that the Church has now backtracked — salvation is only available to those of the «faith».

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

Prominent Islamic thinkers who came to the west in the past century made remarkable statements about the west... They said we see here Islam without Muslims, whereas back in our home countries we have Muslims without Islam.

And if you want to see evolution happening today, just look at how, in the past century, viruses have adapted to antibiotics.

(In fact the environment has markedly improved in the past century: city air is cleaner after soft - coal and horse manure were banished, and now auto and factory emissions are under attack; more people can get to the countryside; indeed, one can see the sunset in Los Angeles nowadaysIn fact the environment has markedly improved in the past century: city air is cleaner after soft - coal and horse manure were banished, and now auto and factory emissions are under attack; more people can get to the countryside; indeed, one can see the sunset in Los Angeles nowadaysin the past century: city air is cleaner after soft - coal and horse manure were banished, and now auto and factory emissions are under attack; more people can get to the countryside; indeed, one can see the sunset in Los Angeles nowadaysin Los Angeles nowadays.)

We've come to see in the past half century that no matter how great Thomas Aquinas was, he's one theologian among others.

So far as can now be seen, had it not been for the expansion of European peoples in the past four and a half centuries Christianity would not have obtained the wide extension which it now enjoys.

This does not mean that men had to wait till the nineteenth century before seeing how events, grouped in long series, were absorbed into the past.

A less sophisticated illustration of this can be seen in the way that science fiction has envisioned various atheistic scientific futures: over the course of the past century such visions of the future have shifted from being utopias to being dystopias.

American women have come so far in obtaining equal civil rights and its a throwback to past centuries to see Islamic women towing the line for men in the U.S. Wouldn't they be happier in Islamic countries where Islam is ingrained in the culture and they can be a part of it?

If you survey mainstream Western baby - care advice from the past two centuries, you'll see a common theme: the perception that babies are wild beings who need to be tamed in order to be incorporated into family life.

We have seen hundreds of armed ultranationalist groups over the past century or more, and certainly the opponents in Ukraine fit this description.

But in the past half century, studies of sightrestoration, most notably by Oliver Sacks and Richard Gregory, haveverified that some things can't be understood without experience.Objects, faces, depth — just about everything that helps us function inthe world — are meaningless when a person who has never seen before getssight.

Several times during the past century, chemists dreamed up new reactions, only to see them fail in the lab.

In the past century or so, we have concluded that matter is built from atoms, that atoms are constructed from a small set of elementary particles, and that those particles are fluctuations in a melee of quantum fields pervading empty space (see «Why is there something rather than nothing «-RRBIn the past century or so, we have concluded that matter is built from atoms, that atoms are constructed from a small set of elementary particles, and that those particles are fluctuations in a melee of quantum fields pervading empty space (see «Why is there something rather than nothing «-RRBin a melee of quantum fields pervading empty space (see «Why is there something rather than nothing «-RRB-.

Northern Chile, near the border with Peru, was the only stretch of the country's coastline that had not broken in a large earthquake in the past century (see «Under pressure»).

Results of the team's statistical analysis suggest that the long - verified, more - than - a-century-old model doesn't fit the pattern of seismicity seen on the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the past 2 centuries, the researchers report online today in Science.

The field of genetics has seen astonishing breakthroughs and the development of world - changing technologies in the past half century.

But the rapid retreat seen in the past 40 years means that in the coming decades, sea - level rise will likely exceed this century's sea - level rise projections of 3 feet (90 centimeters) by 2100, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said Sridhar Anandakrishnan, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the study.

2) A better ability to constrain climate sensitivity from the past century's data 3) It will presumably be anticorrelated with year to year variations in global surface temperature that we see, especially from El Ninos and La Ninas, which will be nice whenever we have a cool year and the deniers cry out «global warming stopped!».

It's the ocean «These small global temperature increases of the last 25 years and over the last century are likely natural changes that the globe has seen many times in the past.

seems to be incompatible with the statement from his Annual review paper from 2000 (see abstract below) that: «The average surface temperature of the continents has increased by about 1.0 K over the past 5 centuries; half of this increase has occurred in the twentieth century alone.»

Climate is not different, as can be seen in the fact that a broad range of cloud feedbacks (compensated by other parameters...) or a range of combined aerosol / CO2 sensitivities is able to fit the temperature of the past century.

The ups and downs of the cycle are seen as smaller wiggles in the overall rise of carbon dioxide over the past half - century as

Some studies have attempted to estimate the statistical relationship between temperature and global sea level seen in the period for which tide gauge records exist (the last 2 - 3 centuries) and then, using geological reconstructions of past temperature changes, extrapolate backward («hindcast») past sea - level changes.

In fact, scientists have long recognized the importance of solar variability as one of the factors governing climate (see the very scholarly review of the subject by Bard and Frank, available here at EPSL or here as pdf) An understanding of solar variability needs to be (and is) taken into account in attribution of climate change of the past century, and in attempts to estimate climate sensitivity from recent climate variationIn fact, scientists have long recognized the importance of solar variability as one of the factors governing climate (see the very scholarly review of the subject by Bard and Frank, available here at EPSL or here as pdf) An understanding of solar variability needs to be (and is) taken into account in attribution of climate change of the past century, and in attempts to estimate climate sensitivity from recent climate variationin attribution of climate change of the past century, and in attempts to estimate climate sensitivity from recent climate variationin attempts to estimate climate sensitivity from recent climate variations.

The past century has seen a 0.8 °C increase in average global temperature, and according to the IPCC, the overwhelming source of this increase has been emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants from human activities.

We've seen more and more of these types of summers in the past couple decades, most recently during 2015, one of the bigger fire seasons in the last century across the Northwest.

One ambitious researcher, Joseph Murray, a professor of medicine at the Mayo clinic, wanted to see how gluten - containing foods have changed in the past century.

I've saged my house, slept in a silk cocoon, and seen my past lives (maybe we met when I was a cowgirl in the 15th century?).

It feels disorientating, even uncanny, to see the recent past treated as a bygone era, but it provides a different angle from which to consider a war that dominated the public discourse in the first decade of the 21st century.

It's up to their teacher Raúl Arévalo to explain to them all the changes in technology and culture, which is dumb, because what exactly have these ghosts been seeing happen all around them at school for the past quarter - century?

Over the past ten years or so, we've seen an enormous spike in demand and interest in PBL, particularly with the emergence of some of the new policies like Common Core, this shift toward 21st Century Skills.

It is long past time to move to the next level of reform and accountability — the extrinsic type — and this is the trend we must and will see over the next several decades in what I believe will be the civil rights revolution of the 21st century, which I think will play out simultaneously on the two tracks I have just mentioned: the delivery system for education and the means by which we prepare and compensate educators, primarily teachers.

Amid this dramatic shift, another sea change was afoot: As seen in the accompanying graphic, «The Gap Between Life Expectancy and Retirement Ages,» over the past half century the average life expectancy has increased significantly while the average retirement age has decreased.

I've seen charts comparing our current bull market to 3 other extended bull markets in the past century, and we aren't even close yet in terms of duration and percentage increase.

What time traveler from centuries past would recognize today's utterly non-functional English Bulldog from those he had seen chase and tame wild bulls in the days when the breed had a useful purpose?

VG247 came to this conclusion based on a few factors: the game's apparent late - 19th - century - early - 20th - century setting; Guillot's past work with Ubisoft, creating ads for games like Driver and Red Steel 2 (apparently ruling out him making an ad for Red Dead Redemption 2); a poll issued by Ubisoft in 2015 asking players what types of settings they'd like to see the Far Cry series adopt (among the top contenders were the Wild West and Dinosaur times).

Optical painting may look anything but emotional in its content, but its direct engagement with the viewer underscores a deep - seated longing to connect... The genre has matured considerably over the past half - century, veering from cheap tricks toward labor - intensive analyses of form and color, and a deeper understanding of the act of seeing.