Sentences with phrase «seen over the past century»

This means that despite the more frequent El Niño - like conditions, we should now expect an extreme La Niña once every 13 years instead every 23, as we've seen over the past century.

The temperature rise we've seen over the past century is roughly 0.6 C.

Regarding your other comment, the 11 year sunspot cycle creates a small but detectable oscillation in the Earth's temperature, but it is definitively not responsible for the long term warming seen over the past century and continuing.

Consistent with the general ocean and tropospheric temperature increases seen over the past century.

As you can see from the linked congressional statement, Mann carefully qualified how he defined denier to something that does fit what Judith Curry denies, namely» the fact that human activity is substantially or entirely responsible for the large - scale warming we have seen over the past century».

He notes «I use the term carefully — reserving it for those who deny the most basic findings of the scientific community, which includes the fact that human activity is substantially or entirely responsible for the large - scale warming we have seen over the past century».

The simplest explanation is that the warming we've seen over the past century is due largely to the usual contingencies attendant on climatic change generally.

V: The simplest explanation is that the warming we've seen over the past century is due largely to the usual contingencies attendant on climatic change generally.

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.

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.

Yet we have only to glance over the past two centuries to see that within these few generations our temporal view of the world has come to differ greatly from that of our ancestors.

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.

They have been stellar all year on both ends of the floor and this past Sunday we saw Team Zimmerman get over the century mark on them..

Noah has seen highs and lows on the charts over the past century, but has never completely lost its allure.

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

This once important lake has seen its problems grow steadily worse as population and water use have increased over the past century.

But, based on the recurring pattern seen for recessions over the past century, we already have a pretty good idea.

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.»

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

Comparable gains have yet to appear throughout American K — 12 education, but to see how it might happen, let us reflect on the slow growth of choice and competition via vouchers and charters that has taken place over the past quarter of a century.

The «conventional wisdom» on grade configuration, Cook and colleagues say, «has changed several times over the past century,» as we have seen.

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.

Looking at my Morningstar / Andex chart, I see that American large company stocks (as measured by the S&P 500) have outperformed the S&P / TSX by 1.6 % annualized over the past two - thirds of a century.

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.

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.

I can see how our actions over past centuries, and maybe millenia, might well have changed the climate.

I can see how our actions over this past century and the next may well causes a serious radical climate change.

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.»

Nor can it be credibly asserted that the Center was until recently unaware of the manner in which Dr Soon had declared his affiliation in his scientific papers over the past quarter of a century: for a member of senior management (a botanist) has seen fit to pass judgment on the quality of Dr Soon's research (in astrophysics), from which it may legitimately be inferred that he had read — or at any rate ought to have read — at least one of Dr Soon's 60 published papers in order to come to a view on the quality of his research.

On average in the United States, the amount of rain falling during the heaviest 1 percent of rainstorms has increased nearly 20 percent during the past 50 years — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation.4, 5 The Midwest saw an even larger average increase of 31 percent, surpassed only by the Northeast (at 67 percent).4 Scientists attribute the rise in heavy precipitation to climate change that has already occurred over the past half - century.6

All summer we have been seeing plunging temperatures for the date over the past century.

Fortunately, the negative and positive forcings are roughly equal and cancel each other out, and the natural forcings over the past half century have also been approximately zero (Meehl 2004), so the radiative forcing from CO2 alone gives us a good estimate as to how much we expect to see the Earth's surface temperature change.

As we will see here, natural variability can not account for the large and rapid warming we've observed over the past century, and particularly the past 40 years.

The evidence of past erosion can be seen in the sand at low tide whereby the cliffs have eroded several miles over the ladt few centuries.

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.

We've all seen the charts showing how wealth distribution, always very uneven, has become much more uneven over the past half century.

Today, the Suruí own 248,000 hectares of nearly intact rainforest — which, seen from above, stand out like a shock of cool, green moss on dusty stone against the ranchlands that have replaced surrounding forests over the past half - century.

So, what's behind the changes in emissions these three countries have seen over the past quarter century?

Over the past 1000 years we have seen a El Nino peak followed by centuries of high La Nina frequency and intensity — and higher rainfall in Australia — until the 20th century.

See for example, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221209631300003X Moreover, in spite of claims that Bangladesh is increasingly vulnerable to climate change, it's population, GDP and agricultural productivity have risen steadily over the past half century — a fact that is difficult to reconcile with the story of so many displaced Bangladeshis as heard by millions of listeners to Radio 4.

Such a dramatic loss can already be seen in the nearby Spanish Pyrenees Mountains, where close to 90 percent of the glacier cover has disappeared over the past century.

Measurements of air in ice cores show that for the past 800,000 years up until the 20th century, the atmospheric CO2 concentration stayed within the range 170 to 300 parts per million (ppm), making the recent rapid rise to nearly 400 ppm over 200 years particularly remarkable (see Figure 3).

The pattern of modeled surface temperature changes induced by solar variability is well correlated with observed global warming over the first half of the 20th century, but not with the more rapid warming seen over the past three decades.

If this rate were maintained, the ice sheets would make a measurable but minor contribution to the global sea level rise from other sources, which has been 1 - 2 mm / yr averaged over the past century and 3mm / yr for 1993 - 2003, and is projected to average 1 - 9 mm / yr for the coming century (see IPCC Third Assessment Report).

The rate of warming has accelerated over the past 30 years, the agency reports, increasing globally since the mid-1970s at a rate approximately three times faster than the trend as seen over the entire past century.

Over the past few centuries, successive waves of industrial revolution have altered the very nature of business (see figure).

Since the 19th century ruling in Salomon v Salomon [1874] AC 22 which stated companies were legal entities and a court had no business peering beneath the veil of incorporation to see what was happening there, the rule has been revisited and reinforced over the decades in cases such as Adams v Cape Industries plc [1990] 1 Ch 443, [1991] 1 All ER 929 and in the more recent past.