Sentences with phrase «several more decades»

«Even if you could stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at present day levels, the system has a certain amount of thermal inertia and would take several more decades to stabilize,» Meehl said.

Meehl's study suggests that the planet will continue to see increased precipitation for several more decades, regardless of any changes humans make now.

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.

Such an approach would allow several more decades for research before any firm decision has to be made.

So many people dedicated immense efforts because of how Energy East would have trampled over Indigenous rights, accelerated climate change, threatened clean water sources, and lock us in the frenzy of tar sands expansion for several more decades.

One of these models is extrapolated from its 2000 calibration end date and shows a good match to the satellite data, with a projection of continued cooling for several more decades.»

But now cheap gas is also driving nuclear plants out of competitive energy markets, and some nuclear plants licensed to operate for several more decades could close before 2020, taking their low - carbon electricity with them.

Assuming this trend continues for several more decades, let's assume a 10 GtC feedback from the Amazon by 2100, noting also that similar processes may be playing out in other tropical forests.

CFC's take a long time to degrade, though, so they'll still be a threat for several more decades.

Not only are there more cells, but the timestep must also shrink correspondingly, a double hit beyond the capability of the most advanced supercomputers for at least several more decades, if ever.

Recent warming might have reasonably been viewed as unprecedented if it continued unabated for several more decades.

From what I've read, we've probably got several more decades to go... but what's the latest stuff?

No more global dimming — followed by the full effects of several more decades of high levels of CO2 emissions.

My point is that BAU for several more decades would equal the total CO2 released during the PETM event.

At 28 years old, I thought I had several more decades before I found myself complaining about unforgiving suspension.

Although the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was to facilitate computers in schools, it would be several more decades before students would see this happen.

If you've been told, just walk, and you want to live well for several more decades, this advice is not enough.

Meehl's study suggests that the planet will continue to see increased precipitation for several more decades, regardless of any changes humans make now.

I won a truck in high school, so that's probably going to take up my prize winning for several more decades.

Not exact matches

«More than two decades ago, I co-wrote a book with several insensitive, crudely argued statements,» he said in a statement.

Indeed, the U.S stock market has been over-valued for more than a decade going by several yardsticks — yet it's still holding up.

Few technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sector.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

But customer traffic started to slow more than a decade ago, several department stores abandoned their leases, and the mall began to fail.

His career spanned for more than six decades, preaching to more than 200 million people worldwide and ministering to several U.S. presidents including Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton.

Using the same locations as Whyte and his acolytes did several decades ago, Hampton's team came up with more than 38 hours of comparable film.

I write as a technology journalist who first interviewed Jobs more than three decades ago, and who interacted with him several dozen times since.

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.

I think that view is correct, and one implication is that geopolitics will start to have more of an impact on global markets than it has over the last several decades.

And after several decades of urging his fellow countrymen to Buy America, it's no surprise Buffett thinks it will do fine for a couple more decades after he's gone.

In the next several decades at least, many more hydrocarbons will be burned than are burned today.

Our Investment Philosophy is built on the belief that we have been in a secular bear market for the past decade and it may last several more years.

Much has been made recently about slowing productivity growth, but the longer - term view in Figure 2 shows that the U.S. has become radically more productive over the past several decades.

The really hard core «conquest» didn't occur for several decades, by that time, many more secular folks had made land fall.

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.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

My involvement with the Reformed Journal provides a continuing education on a more general level; several of my fellow editors have been promoting a combination of sane orthodoxy and enlightened social concern for decades.

The Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary have owned the property for more than four decades but have not lived in the convent for several years.

During the past several decades there has probably been more writing on the problem of evil...

I shall suggest below that a more useful strategy than either of these extremes lies in focusing on religious changes over a period of several decades and involving at least several levels of spatial organization.

Despite my sense that making friendships after school is hard, I've been blessed with several that have lasted more than a decade, something impossible in the short space of school.

As important as such indicators of internalization are, more remarkable developments can be found in other sectors — developments that run entirely against the forecasts of the best minds of several decades.

It happens, though, that these questions are of far more interest to Christians of the last several decades than they ever were before.

So again - and this, too, happened more than once in the span of several decades of wilderness residence (see Num.

It's the computer — more specifically, the personal computer, made possible by dramatic increases in microprocessing power over the past several decades.

CSWA, a 501 (c)(3) educational nonprofit organization established by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers more than a decade ago, was recognized for increased adoption of sustainable winegrowing practices in the state and for adding several educational tools and improvements.

It was not for a lack of interest at the kids and high school levels, which has seen a significant increase over the last several decades, but due to the implementation of Title IX (more specifically proportionality) and other factors that I rather not go into detail in this article.

Just one sturdy kick to the heart, over and over again when the memories appear unbidden over the next several decades, will be more than enough.

For a club of our stature, we should be used to winning games like yesterday's, but wenger has taken us so low to the point that we celebrate such victories occasionally.It's been more than a decade since we last beat utd convincingly, yet in that period, they have bested us several times including an 8 - 2 drubbing.

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.