Sentences with phrase «trapped by the centuries»

Whatever our religion or ideology, we are still trapped by the centuries - old Protestant ethic, which viewed long hours as a badge of moral seriousness.

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As neil degrasse tyson pointed out, each of our great mathematicians and scientists throughout the centuries reached their limit and declared God did it... only to have the next guy push though that barrier, reach their own limit... and claim the same... This lady has the benefit of history and science at her finger tips, and judging by her credentials is no stranger to the scientific process, and still fell into the same trap...

Greenhouse gases add those watts by acting as a blanket, trapping the sun's heat; they have warmed Earth by roughly 0.75 degree Celsius over the last century.

After centuries of being filled in or diverted, what was left of Coney Island Creek overflowed with such a vengeance that it nearly killed a group of city utility workers trapped by the rising waters.

All this unfettered felling and trapping meant that by the end of the 19th century — around the time that passenger pigeon populations began to plummet — the wild turkey was in trouble.

Of course, long before climate change threatened the snowpacks, unbridled trapping and poisoning had driven most wolverines from the continental U.S. Wolverines hung on in the northern Rockies, but the thin populations in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and the Northeast were gone by the middle of the 20th century.

Figure 9.4: The maps show projected increases in the average temperature on the hottest days by late this century (2081 - 2100) relative to 1986 - 2005 under a scenario that assumes a rapid reduction in heat - trapping gases (RCP 2.6) and a scenario that assumes continued increases in these gases (RCP 8.5).

For instance, if nothing is done to reduce the amount of heat - trapping gasses, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere, Earth could be 5 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 8 degrees Celsius) warmer by the end of century, said Sivan Kartha, a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute.

While El Niño played a role in bumping up global temperatures during 2015 and 2016, the bulk of the warmth was due to the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases emitted by humans over the past century, particularly carbon dioxide.

Moderate reductions in emissions of heat - trapping gases — sufficient to stop global emissions growth by 2040 and bring emissions down to half their current levels by the 2070s — can avoid those paralyzing extremes and limit the expected late - century experience of the average American to about 18 dangerously humid days a year.

As greenhouse gases continue to accumulate in the atmosphere and trap heat, Alaska could see its average annual temperature rise another 6 °F to 12 °F (3 °C to 7 °C) by the end of the century depending on the location.

The world's oceans absorb more than 90 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases, storing it for centuries.

Mr. Nancy (Orlando Jones), visits African prisoners trapped in a 17th - century slave ship and incites a fiery revolt by revealing to them the future of the black race in America.

Is there a way out or are you trapped forever?Set in the mid-twentieth century South Africa amidst the bitter three - way struggle for dominion between the Boers, British, and black South Africans, An Examined Life is a tale of extraordinary courage shown by a remarkable white man, who dared to challenge the status quo, forsaking everything he had worked so hard to achieve, and what most people would hold dear above everything else.

Founded in the 19th century by two mountain men who trapped beavers, Jackson Hole has grown to be one of America's premier vacation destinations.

The faces of the females are wrestling masks and each figure seems to be trapped in flight and in motion, enslaved by the concrete club - like extremities that allude to the distorting and violating modes of treating the female form in twentieth century image - making.

Albert Camus» 1947 novel The Plague describes the strategies deployed by those trapped in a plague - ridden town to avoid facing up to the truth, and the courage of the few who do.The phenomenon of climate denial suggests that three centuries ago the forces of Enlightenment science had entered into a contingent alliance only with the commitment to a rational social order, and that the «subjectivity» that allowed us to extract Nature's secrets also gave us the self - certainty to ignore the knowledge if it proved too discomforting.

Figure 9.4: The maps show projected increases in the average temperature on the hottest days by late this century (2081 - 2100) relative to 1986 - 2005 under a scenario that assumes a rapid reduction in heat - trapping gases (RCP 2.6) and a scenario that assumes continued increases in these gases (RCP 8.5).

To avoid this level of warming, large emitters such as the United States need to greatly reduce heat - trapping gas emissions by mid century.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

If we do nothing to reduce our carbon emissions, scientists project that global sea level could rise as much as nearly two feet (59 centimeters) over recent average levels by the end of this century.14, 15 If, on the other hand, we make significant efforts to reduce heat - trapping emissions, sea - level rise between now and the end of the century could be limited to at most 1.25 feet (38 centimeters).14, 15

Unless we make deep and swift cuts in our heat - trapping emissions, 26 Europe could experience a heat wave similar to the one in 2003 every other year by the end of this century.23 A summer like that of 2003 would be considered ordinary4 — or even cool.25 Summers in central Europe are expected to feel like those in southern European today.27

Thousands of people across Europe died from heat - related causes in the sweltering summer of 2003 — the hottest in at least 500 years.2 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at current rates, 26 a summer like the one in 2003 could be considered ordinary by the end of the century.

Early in the 19th century, scientists began to speculate that the Earth, surrounded by the frigid vacuum of space, was habitable because its atmosphere contained special molecules like CO ₂ and water vapor, molecules that can absorb heat rays emanating from the Earth and thereby trap its heat.

Most experts in the Kilimanjaro debate accept three things: for more than a century, its ice has been in a retreat that is almost assuredly unstoppable and was not caused by humans; so far, there is scant data on conditions there; and the main scientific question now is how, and how much, climate shifts driven by heat - trapping emissions are accelerating that trend.

According to a study published this year by Climate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the current rate.

The burning of coal, oil, and gas, and clearing of forests have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by more than 40 % since the Industrial Revolution, and it has been known for almost two centuries that this carbon dioxide traps heat.

Billions of tons of carbon trapped in high - latitude permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth's climate changes, further accelerating global warming, a new computer modeling study indicates.

Both wetland drying and the increased frequency of warm dry summers and associated thunderstorms have led to more large fires in the last ten years than in any decade since record - keeping began in the 1940s.9 In Alaskan tundra, which was too cold and wet to support extensive fires for approximately the last 5,000 years, 105 a single large fire in 2007 released as much carbon to the atmosphere as had been absorbed by the entire circumpolar Arctic tundra during the previous quarter - century.106 Even if climate warming were curtailed by reducing heat - trapping gas (also known as greenhouse gas) emissions (as in the B1 scenario), the annual area burned in Alaska is projected to double by mid-century and to triple by the end of the century, 107 thus fostering increased emissions of heat - trapping gases, higher temperatures, and increased fires.

Emissions of heat - trapping carbon dioxide have us on track to raise global temperatures 10 degrees above preindustrial levels by century's end.

Global warming caused by human activities that emit heat - trapping carbon dioxide has raised the average global temperature by about 1 °F (0.6 °C) over the past century.

If heat - trapping gases aren't controlled, nearly nine out of 10 Americans will have noticeably worse weather — not better — by the end of the century, especially in the summer, the study found.

But with the unique geography and climate of the Persian Gulf and increased warming projected if heat - trapping gas emissions continue to rise at current rates, it will happen every decade or so by the end of the century, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Although natural variations in the solar output can explain most of the temperature variations over the past centuries, it appears that global warming by heat - trapping gases, emitted by human activity, is required to explain the sharp rise in global temperatures during the 1990s.

This sharp, unprecedented rise in the average global temperature during the last decade of the 20th century can not be explained as a temporary swing produced by natural causes alone, and its is very likely that heat - trapping waste gases are at least partly responsible for it.