Sentences with phrase «since early last century»

Not exact matches

The late Pope did more than any pope of the last century to defend and reassert beyond any doubt the stable and objective character of Catholic teaching - more even than Pius X with his great encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, since modernist incursions had become very much more powerfully established during the pontificate of the unhappy Pope Paul than they had been in the early years of the century.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week show how human genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation a gene that favors cigarette smoking led to early death in some groups.

But not since Freud's pseudoscientific theories early last century has psychiatry claimed any broad theoretical basis for making sense of our normal and abnormal feelings, thinking and social behaviours — the complexities at the heart of being human.

Scientists reported on Wednesday that they think they have found the «final puzzle piece» for a dengue vaccine that might, at last, be able to stop the deadly mosquito - borne virus that has infected billions since the early 19th century.

Hailed as the «Biggest Art Colony in the World» by the Boston Globe in 1916, the relatively small Cape Cod town has hosted some of the biggest names in art since the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has played a pivotal role in the development of nearly every major American art movement in the last 100 years.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

-- Lyu et al., 2016 Within the last 1,000 years, global - scale surface temperatures underwent a warm period during Medieval times, centennial - scale cooling during the 14th to 19th centuries, and another warm period since the early 20th century.

The sheer fact that temps rose inexplicably fast in the early 20th century and over the last 300 years since the LIA is indicative that some other forcing is going on that is largely unmodeled.

So is this the basic disagreement: Gavin thinks that the climate models are good enough that they can be used for attribution, and Curry thinks that they clearly are not good enough, since the issue that we're discussing, CO2 vs. natural variation, is exactly what the models are failing to capture, both early in the last century, and during the «pause» early in this century.

The increasing power of computer reconstructions since MBH98 and 99 resulted in the more sophisticated «spaghetti graphs» using multiple proxies, which somewhat modified the findings of the earlier hockey stick, but reinforced the notion of a world rapidly warming over the last century, in a manner unprecedented for at least a thousand years.

If there was any truth to the claims that global warming stopped in the last 10 years, or since 1998, or since 1995, or whatever the latest claim is, then we can see from the earlier 20th Century example that we would already be seeing clear signs of that in declining trends over the last several 30 - year periods.

You aren't thinking about the warming period early last century, because we know it was a relatively brief period, and so lacked huge significance, and was caused by a combination of CO2 emissions, high solar activity and low volcanic activity and the later two factors haven't been apparent since the 1970's modern warming period.

The number of 35C days has already increased fourfold from 5.6 days per year early last century to 22 days per year since 2012, according to their report.

I wonder why G.V. La Forest's Water Law in Canada stopped on the East Coast and why it hasn't been updated since the early Seventies of the last century.

Although it has not been used since the early part of the last century, a chamber may on its own send its Sergeant - at - Arms to arrest the individual found in contempt.