Sentences with phrase «take decades to centuries»

The drought has caused the state's farmers to tap into groundwater supplies for irrigation water, leading to a massive drawdown in aquifers that take decades to centuries to be recharged by natural rainfall.

I noticed that JA Smith, in a comment on this subject on this site said that heating of the oceans by GHG was expected to take decades to centuries, yet it seems to be showing up now.

Moving them all back to purpose made passive solar houses in little idyllic clusters, with farms around, is going to take come convincing people, and would take decades to centuries.

«It takes decades to centuries to repay the carbon debt that is created from clearing land.»

Not exact matches

It took centuries for the world to stop carrying chunks of metal in favour of little pieces of paper, and it might take decades for... View Article

It is normal that any new theory goes through the usual ridicule / attack / acceptance stages, often taking years, decades or even centuries to develop through the stages.

The second occasion of rearticulation of the Christian purpose of Missionary institutions of higher learning took place in the first few decades of this century in relation to the movements of religious renaissance and the emergence of political nationalism.

It took decades (if not centuries) to put the legends to rest.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

It will take centuries, not decades, to get the Christian gospel deeply into the mind and heart of China and India and Japan, as well as Africa and other parts of the world.

Still, if we keep our focus on the typically underexplored question of why the Great War continued, it seems to me that one has to take account of the nihilism, racism, and will - to - power that warped European high culture in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, making what now appear to be acts of civilizational suicide both rational and unavoidable.

As members of the Kingdom of God, we can (and should) call our human governments to a better and different way of living in relation to others, but we should recognize that change takes decades — even centuries!

It takes more than a decade to get a high school diploma; it takes an additional four years for most people to get a college degree; it takes nearly a quarter - century to become a great physician.

It usually takes decades — centuries even — for such combinations of grape and place to establish themselves as classics.

The Cubs no longer have to deal with an ever - growing championship drought that spanned over a century: they are the 2016 World Series champions, and it'll take decades before they can be considered losers again.

I do not envisage the conversation as an anodyne exercise in collective self - congratulation, but as a UK - wide equivalent and successor to the astonishingly profound and vigorous national conversation that took place during the Scottish referendum campaign in September 2014 — and, for that matter, to the searching, decades - long nineteenth - century conversation about the «Condition of England Question'that I describe in chapter two.

«We know these problems are based in not just decades, but centuries of racism, but we have to take responsibility,» the mayor said.

Where CO2 takes centuries to millennia to warm the planet, methane is its cousin on steroids, working quickly over decades before decaying into less virulent gases.

I don't know how many decades or centuries it's going to take us.

Based on the current number of self - driving cars, that task could take decades or centuries to complete.

Shreeve admits that «it would take decades or even centuries to completely understand the language of the code — how the tens of thousands of genes and their proteins interacted to create the biological symphony of a human being.»

The fort with the settlement was erected in order to take possession of large areas to the east of the Rhine around the seventh decade of the 1st century AD, and to expand the traffic infrastructure from and to the centre Mainz - Mogontiacum.

«The climate transitions that we studied took place on millenial time scales, less than a thousand years, with some occurring over just decades to centuries,» Gibson says.

But depending on the type of tree, forests may take decades or even a century to draw the same amount of carbon back out of the air.

Dlugokencky, in an e-mail, wrote there have been «no significant increases in Arctic emissions over the past few decades» and that it would take «centuries» for warming to affect methane hydrate — bearing sediments.

It will take decades or even centuries after humans stop burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases for the ocean to reach equilibrium.

From an instantaneous doubling of atmospheric CO2 content from the pre-industrial base level, some models would project 2 °C (3.6 °F) of global warming in less than a decade while others would project that it would take more than a century to achieve that much warming.

Still, restoring woolly mammoths all the way back to life and to the wild will take many decades, probably most of this century.

The «Rare Earth» hypothesis splits astrobiologists and it will take decades — if not centuries — until we will be able to decide if Ward and Brownlee are right.

That could take decades, and schools need to embrace the 21st century now, he says.

Take a look at the Geneva International Motor Show posters showcased throughout the decades to explore just how much the show and its marketing have changed during its century - long history.

Although indie bookstores took a hit during the first decade of the 21st century, 2017 gave rise to increased bookstore sales as well as an increase in the number of indie bookstores opening up and holding their own.

It's now ten years since the Kindle was introduced but it will take more than a decade to overturn centuries of conditioning.

Conceived as an adjunct to painting in the earliest years of its development in the first decades of the 19th century, when many painters discovered how useful photographs could be in composing their canvases, photography quickly assumed an artistic presence and legitimacy of its own (albeit one that often still took its cues from traditional painterly modes of representation).

The exhibition brings together a broad spectrum of leading artists, prompting thematic conversations across generations, between those who rose to prominence during the closing decades of the last century and younger artists who have found their voice in today's world, a place of incalculably more images, where distinct movements have given way to heterogeneity and the availability of and reliance on technology is taken as given.

The Second Avenue subway line has been under discussion by city officials for almost a century, and the first phase of the project, with stations at 63rd, 72nd, 86th, and 96th Streets, has taken almost a decade to complete.

Spanning six decades, his career is marked by the independent route his art has taken, diverging from any formal school or art movement, and by his innovative contribution to 21st century painting and sculpture.

Following a period of research, while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas developed new subject matter including the famed Night Climbers of Cambridge, a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection, gained them a cult following during the early decades of the twentieth century.

Following a period of research while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas has developed new subject matter including the famed «Night Climbers of Cambridge», a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection, gained them a cult following during the early decades of the 20th Century.

After a brief return to work at the turn of the century, he took his own life in 2003, ending a decades - long battle with depression and substance abuse.

A century later, his term continues to resonate, and CAM curator Valerie Cassel Oliver has appropriated its connotations of invisibility and displacement as means to reevaluate conceptual strategies taken up by African - American artists over the past three decades.

In Los Angeles, an original exhibition takes us back to the café culture of the Central European Avant - Gardes in the first decades of the 20th century.

If you look at rates of change already and that changes are from decades to a century ahead of schedule, and think Arctic permafrost and clathrates have a realistic probability of breaking down on a massive scale within years or decades, then you take another.

It took a century to get deep into the fossil era; it will take decades to get out.

In my opinion, climate behaves in a far from linear way, with loads of factors to take into account, so in most cases it would be very difficult to find climate records react consistently (over several solar cycles / decades / centuries) in the same way to say a solar change (see the Hoyt & Schatten 1998 book).

Neither 20th century warming overall nor the warming of recent decades seem to show an effect on India's rainfall, either taken annually, seasonally, or monthly.

It takes decades for permafrost to warm up and centuries for the deep ocean.

They have taken the acceleration in melting of the ice sheets to be a constant, and extrapolated into the future century, Hansen has proposed a much more threatening scenario where the rate of icesheet disintegration increases exponentially, doubling every decade.

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.

The optimistic view: there is still time for us to take bold, decisive actions that will shape our planet for decades (and even millennia) to come... A California resilient to increasing 21st century climate whiplash won't emerge overnight, but we now know enough about our plausible climate future to make informed decisions.»