Sentences with phrase «several decades or more»

No one knows for sure whether the Earth is going to keep warming, or since reaching a peak 9 years ago (1998), we are at the start of a cooling cycle that will last several decades or more.

Personally, I do not know whether the earth is going to continue to warm, or that having reached a peak in 1998, we are at the start of a cooling cycle that will last several decades or more.

It is clear, that the function including Mercury creates a nonlinear frequency because of the great elliptic trace of Mercury, and it is not out of the question that a refinement of the tide functions can extend the phase coherence to several decades or more.

One thing is for sure the conclusion for me is a mass simplification process could take significant time over several decades or more.

Not exact matches

Traveling to outer space is what several big tech companies are moving to achieve in the next decade or more, and Amazon is right there in hopes to be among the few.

CIA has been in the book business for several decades: before 1967 it «sponsored, subsidized or produced over 1,000 books,» many of which were put out by CIA - backed cultural organizations whose subsidy was «more often than not» unknown to the writer.

Paternity / parental leave, often with a specific «father quota» (i.e. leave which, if not taken by the father is lost to the family) and the ability to work shorter hours and / or more flexibly when children are young have been available to fathers in Scandinavia for several decades.

After several more years or even decades, there may be enough food to support top predators such as penguins, seals and whales.

Despite efforts over the past several decades to reduce dietary intake of sodium, a main component of table salt, the average American adult still consumes 3,400 mg or more of sodium a day — equivalent to about 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt.

There are several forms: type 1 in infants is lethal; type 2 starts later and children live longer and may sit, but do not walk; type 3 starts even later — between ages 2 and 17 — but affected children can live decades or more.

Even once a drug makes it to late - phase clinical trials, patients must be followed for several years, or even a decade or more, to determine whether the new treatment is more effective than current treatments.

It's composed by Matt Dunkley, a British composer whose name is perhaps most recognisable as an orchestrator of dozens of film scores over the last decade or so, including most of Craig Armstrong's and, more recently, several from Hans Zimmer's stable, though we shouldn't hold that against him.

The foundation has over the past two decades focused its funding on several key areas, some of which have generated considerable controversy, and then either abandoned the strategies when they did not get the comprehensive results it was seeking, or moved on to other strategies that seemed to have more potential.

So, 44 indie authors in the world have managed to make $ 35,000 + (before taxes and expenses) through selling e-books on Amazon — and we're assuming each author may have written about 10 books, which would take several years, if not a decade or more.

Over the last several years, when irritated by trolls on DotEarth, Joe Romm's site, or the like, I have repeatedly offered to bet more than my current middle - class salary, indexed to the S&P 500 at time of settling up, on the course of global temperatures over decades.

The more relevant question is how large a change: a relatively small one several decades into the future or large changes occurring today?

How can anybody have much confidence in the so called «published projections» for the ice free state between 2037 and 2100, given that these projections have been wrong every single time they have been made over the last decade or more; they missed the collapse in area in 2007 and they also missed the exponentially declining behavior over the last several decades.

The decisive truth to recognise is that in the last two centuries, and more likely the last several decades, there has been a break or rupture in both Earth history and human history, one that demands a wholesale rethinking of the modernist concepts and categories that most of us take for granted.

As well as the periodic droughts lasting decades, there was evidence that the Sahel region has undergone several droughts lasting a century or more.

«What you see here is a project that is going to save the Navy $ 7.5 million a year in the tough fiscal environment that we're in and that we're going to be facing for several years, if not a decade or more,» Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy Thomas Hicks said.

«These glaciers will be more or less gone in the next several decades.»

However, within this record there have been several periods lasting a decade or more during which temperatures have risen very slowly or cooled.

Yes, CA and several other websites have certainly showed intellectual fortitude and some very high quality street smarts for a decade «digging here» — much more than I ever had the statistical knowledge or time for over the last 10 years

Developing metrics to set short - term changes observed over decades or centuries in the context of long - term (several hundreds to thousands of years or more) variation in specific ecosystems

Thus, Defendants do not remove more carbon pollution than they create; they simply claim credit for carbon removal that may or may not take place — up to several decades in the future.»

But the reason that EIA is projecting a long - term decline over the next decade or more is the glut of cheap natural gas, mostly from unconventional sources like shale, that has profoundly changed America's energy outlook over the next several decades.

If a duration of this extent can be expected from the «Climate Change» meme, it suggests that we may look forward to several more decades before it plays out, particularly if Mother Nature or NASA are able to engineer a little more warming than they have managed for the past sixteen years.

Thus, Defendants do not remove more carbon pollution than they create; they simply claim credit for carbon removal that may or may not take place - up to several decades in the future.»

For countries such as the U.S. and Germany, which today produce more than half of their electricity from coal, or China and India, where a large majority of the electricity is generated from coal, it is difficult to see how cost - effective and politically viable emission reductions can be achieved during the next several decades without at least some continued use of coal....

I'd say that, if you expect the trend to quickly revert back to something like 0.2 or more per decade, then in 30 years, looking back at the data, the last decade or so will in fact look an awful lot like «a pause» (as even Jim Hansen says, though Tamino argues back above), with the last several years dipping significantly below the general trend line.

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

Healthy, young and middle aged people are more likely to pay out insurance premiums for several years in a row or even decades in a row because they are young and have decades of time ahead of them.

If you plan to have more kids or to keep working for several decades, you might need a 30 - year policy, even though it costs a lot more than 20 - year coverage.

Compared to the situation several decades ago, when practical and economical factors seemed most important, relationship quality seems to be more important for many couples today in terms of deciding to maintain or dissolve a relationship.

When the ark had serious dimension problems as a result and the neighbours had even more reason to laugh and point, Noah checked the original source and discovered the error in calculation to be several hundred square cubits, setting construction back by a decade or so, creating huge cost overruns and perhaps explaining why the unicorn didn't make the trip.