Sentences with phrase «system over hundreds of years»

This forcing CO2 gets spread around the planetary system over hundreds of years, which mitigates the increase in the atmosphere.

Either way, the data show that the January tremor did not release all the stress that has accumulated in the fault system over hundreds of years.

Not exact matches

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

For over two hundred years» until the outbreak of World War I» the state system emerging from the Thirty Years» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decayears» until the outbreak of World War I» the state system emerging from the Thirty Years» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decaYears» War achieved its objectives (with the exception of the ideological conflict of the Napoleonic period, when the principle of nonintervention was, in effect, abandoned for two decades).

The system over the years has grown unwieldy, with hundreds of authorities, corporations and development agencies cropping up around the state, taking out billions of dollars in debt and for the most part operating with little sunlight or accountability.

«There's a reason why the teachers» union has spent $ 60 million in Albany over the past five years: to get politicians like Andrea Stewart - Cousins to put their interests over the hundreds of thousands of kids victimized by a failing system.

For over one hundred years, scientists have debated the question of the origins of the lymphatic system — a parallel system to the blood vessels that serves as a conduit for everything from immune cells to fat molecules to cancer cells.

The relatively low speed — between 6 and 7 meters per second — suggests the process must have taken place over thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years before the asteroid was formed, when a gravitationally stable cloud of debris spun in the disk of material that would go on to build the solar system.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, our bodies — and particularly our digestive and immune systems — developed in partnership with the trillions of bacteria in our microbiome.

The Chicago school board has agreed to hire hundreds of additional teachers and other employees in order to end a four - year dispute with the U.S. Education Department over the quality of the school system's services for handicapped pupils.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.

Public school loyalists have seized on this and on a recent Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) memo as proof the voucher system will suck hundreds of millions of dollars out of the public - school system — up to $ 800 million over 10 years, to be exact, according to the memo.

When Amazon Publishing, the book giant's retail arm, announced over a year ago that they would pay their traditionally published authors monthly instead of quarterly, a number of critics scoffed at the idea that this upstart company would change a four hundred - year - old system.

With over twenty years of experience in obtaining patents on hundreds of inventions from the latest drug delivery systems to life - saving cardiac equipment, -LSB-...]

In addition, Tuition Management Systems has over 30 years of experience working with $ 50 billion in tuition payments for hundreds of other schools.

We have supplied hundreds of veterinarians, humane societies and animal control facilities across the United States with the finest animal cremation systems for over 40 years

And for over 25 years, hundreds of Bay Area volunteers have tracked the numbers and movements of these magnificent birds, often considered indicators of healthy ecosystems, and set up the first and only bird of prey monitoring system in California at the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO).

Even at 2.0 °C, and certainly above it, it is thought that the Earth would cross certain tipping points, beyond which the operation of the Earth System is changed in an irreversible way, at least over timescales of hundreds of thousands of years.

You will be told that weather and climate are two different things because the climate system evolves and changes over hundreds or thousands of years and weather changes every minute / hour / day.

Imagine knowing how your city or state will cope with drier and warmer conditions over the next 30 years; imagine getting a tornado warning an hour in advance providing an opportunity to get your family properly sheltered; imagine being able to evacuate only those coastal residents that will be directly impacted by a hurricane and not unnecessarily clearing hundreds of miles of the coast; imagine being able to tell a fire incident manager where the fire front will be in 6 hrs; imagine airline routing system that knows where a squall line will be in 12 hrs and the resulting efficiency in airport acceptance rates; or imagine air quality predictions that would allow the time for special precautions to be taken for those at risk.

On blogs like Dr. Curry's I continually see learned, and heated, arguments over the meaning of fluctuations in the «annual temperature of the earth» in the hundredths of a degree range (sometimes thousandths), with data plotted over hundreds or thousands of years, while noticing that there doesn't seem to be a DEFINITION of the «Annual Temperature of the Earth» and that the climate science community, collectively, would be hard pressed to provide me with an «Annual Temperature of Bob's House» with a credible and defensible resolution and precision of + / -.01 degree, using an instrumentation system of their choice.

The basic physics knowledge of the greenhouse effect have been examined since 1824 beginning with Joseph Fourier, the hypothesis that we should warm with continued CO2 emissions has been around for more than a hundred years, the general confirmations and realization that this will develop into a global problem have been germinating for over 50 years, and in the last three decades the knowledge that the warming we will experience will affect our climate and agricultural systems is well known.

A good example of this is the role of observations of the climate system over the past one hundred years or more.

90 % of the fees I collect in a year per file are for less than $ 990, and many much less than that, all to ferry properties worth hundreds of thousands and over a million dollars through the title and loan security system, or to render estates, through well - drafted wills, easy to administer, or to incorporate or otherwise set up businesses, etc., etc..

Our American system of jurisprudence developed from Anglo - Saxon law over hundreds of years.

Over the next 100 years the electricity system grew along with the province — supporting the forestry, automotive, mining and manufacturing industries and the accompanying population growth in hundreds of villages, towns, and cities.

In California alone, the court system has experienced over $ 1 billion in cuts over the past several years, leading to the closure of more than a hundred courtrooms and reduced hours for dozens more.

And if you're the sort of person who hasn't already spent hundreds or thousands to build up a good sound system over the years, it probably isn't for you either.