Sentences with phrase «shortest in the past century»

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In short, the risks of owning equities have paid substantial excess returns over the past century.

The current commodity - induced profits recession may be short lived, but the real secular trend growth rate in EPS should be much slower than the past quarter - century.

In fact, painters of the past century have done virtually everything in their power to short - circuit the discursive character of previous art and aestheticIn fact, painters of the past century have done virtually everything in their power to short - circuit the discursive character of previous art and aestheticin their power to short - circuit the discursive character of previous art and aesthetics.

Together, they build in physical world that millions of children over the past century have discovered on a page — the Hundred Acre Wood, populated by Winnie (short for Winnipeg, the origin of the imaginary bear) and friends.

The key to Greer's interpretation» one that makes her short book on Shakespeare for Oxford's «Past Masters» series one of the finest essays on Shakespeare this century» is her insight that the persona of the Fool in Lear and other plays largely coincides with the self «portrait of the poet in the Sonnets: both persons, Sonneteer and Fool, are self «deprecatory, marginalized, and contemned, yet for that reason are lethally insightful about the flaws of the nobility.

Sachs offers a short overview of development economics, explaining why some countries have grown rich in the past few centuries while others have barely groxvn at all.

First Past the Post (or «FPTP» for short)-- the current system in use in the UK since mediaeval times to elect MPs and since the late nineteenth century to choose local councillors.

Gabriel Axel's Oscar - winning Babette's Feast, adapted from a short story by Isak Dinesen, tells the moving story of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late - nineteenth - century Denmark.

The Pace Gallery is pleased to present Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, a group exhibition focusing on the incandescent light bulb as both subject and material in the art of the past century.

For Kiefer, Khlebnikov's 317 - year cycle is useful in that it allows him to depict these broken 20th - century vessels in the light of naval engagements, long sea journeys, shipping losses and the battles of the past - in short, to acknowledge both the human and the historical scale of past events, and their place in our larger models of the world.

[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.

In short, an objective look at the data is equivocal at best as to the true trend in the tropical Pacific ocean - atmosphere system over the past centurIn short, an objective look at the data is equivocal at best as to the true trend in the tropical Pacific ocean - atmosphere system over the past centurin the tropical Pacific ocean - atmosphere system over the past century.

-- begin before the rise in CO2 in mid-20th century — not unusual (part of previous rise, steady, and fall)-- has been seen before (the current rate is not unusual)- can be predicted based on past plots of a 800 year long - term cycle plus a 60 year short term cycle

Considering all the short - term factors identified by the scientific community that acted to slow the rate of global warming over the past two decades (volcanoes, ocean heat uptake, solar decreases, predominance of La Niñas, etc.) it is likely the temperature increase would have accelerated in comparison to the late 20th Century increases.

Short term ups and downs in TLT (and also in surface temperatures) have been common historically during the past century's warming trend, and current temperature behavior has been similar in this regard.

One can arbitrarily select short term (e.g., decadal) intervals to show trends in various directions, but based on the history of the past century, they have little value in evaluating the longer term trends.

A cooling trend is observed in the raw and USHCN V2 records for the past 12 years... In both the short and longer term cases the USHCN V2 adjusted data yielded trends that were roughly 1ºC per century higher than those found in the raw temperature records.&raquin the raw and USHCN V2 records for the past 12 years... In both the short and longer term cases the USHCN V2 adjusted data yielded trends that were roughly 1ºC per century higher than those found in the raw temperature records.&raquIn both the short and longer term cases the USHCN V2 adjusted data yielded trends that were roughly 1ºC per century higher than those found in the raw temperature records.&raquin the raw temperature records.»

We have seen short - term pauses and even short - term reversals in global temperature rise in the past century, against the backdrop of an unambiguous long term warming trend.

El Niño events can cause short - term spikes in average global temperatures, but they are not behind the long - term warming we've experienced over the past century.

Given that the past 30 — 50 years is a relatively short period for evaluating long - term trends, the SST trends themselves could be viewed as a manifestation of large - scale modes of multidecadal Pacific variability (e.g. Zhang et al. 1997; Deser et al. 2004) or as part of the century scale positive SST trends associated with climate change (e.g. Deser et al. 2010); it is likely that both multidecadal climate variability and climate change have contributed to the SST trend pattern evident in Fig. 9 and used to force the model.

Your observation that paleo records tend to miss the shorter term variations seen in instrumental records is interesting, as this weakness would lead to doubtful conclusions that past centuries saw less climate variability than we now observe (Shaun Lovejoy article in Climate Etc. in January 2013).

Other features of the windmill homes include low doorways (reflecting the fact that people were shorter in centuries past); so - called closet beds, with doors that can be closed to keep you warm when it's cold outside; the smoke attic where fish would be smoked, turning the walls black; and the grease attic, where most of the mechanism of the windmills resides.