Sentences with phrase «twentieth century increase»

«There is no solid scientific evidence to date that global warming has been a major driving force of the twentieth century increase in epidemic infectious diseases,» he said.

Protestant seminaries have given in the twentieth century increasing attention to the development of a systematic training in pastoral care — or pastoral theology or psychology as it is sometimes called.

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And if anyone is afraid that he is in for some kind of esoteric rigmarole, may I try to alleviate his fears by remarking that the lecturers are all children of the twentieth century as much as they are professing Christians, alive to the astounding advances of contemporary science and technology, alive also to the deep — seated moral and cultural skepticism which has developed side by side with an increasing moral passion and sensitivity.

The human population has quadrupled during the twentieth century and is likely to increase by up to 50 per cent by 2025.

In the twentieth century the use of energy increased sixteen fold.

The twentieth century has seen the coming together of the major Protestant churches into the United Church of Australia while the membership of the Roman Catholic church has increased steadily, partly because of the growing number of immigrants from southern Europe.

Although, at times, voices have been raised to suggest the withering away of religion as man has come of age», the closing years of the twentieth century have seen an increase of religious extremism and conflict.

«99 Mothers were to provide both love and material comfort to their infants, and the early twentieth - century era of rapid industrialization and increased availability of goods made it difficult for women to separate the nurturing and capitalism - facilitated aspects of parenting.

Early twentieth - century household advice manuals, though at times contradictory, increased their emphasis on fruits and vegetables, while still recommending the introduction of solids in the second half of the infant's first year.

Precipitation hitting the US from hurricanes increased by 7 % over the twentieth century.

Moreover, increased population density and changes in economics have meant that the progress of an epidemic will not necessarily follow the course nor move at the speed of historical «plagues» even up to the global influenza outbreaks of the twentieth century.

«Although wheat yields in the UK and World increased dramatically in the latter half of the twentieth century, increases this century have proved elusive.

However, unlike the climate model simulations, the new precipitation reconstruction does not show an increase of wet and dry anomalies in the twentieth century compared to the natural variations of the past millennium.

Decreases in nitrogen concentration have also been reported for herbaria plant specimens in response to the increases in Ca during the twentieth century [50].

Globally averaged time series showed a general increase in MHW duration from about 11 days in the early twentieth century to over 15 days in recent years (Fig. 5d, black line).

«In one of the great results of twentieth century science, NSF - funded astronomers have shown both that the universe does not contain enough matter in the universe to slow the expansion, and that the rate of expansion actually increases with distance.

u «In one of the great results of twentieth century science, NSF - funded astronomers have shown both that the universe does not contain enough matter in the universe to slow the expansion, and that the rate of expansion actually increases with distance.

seems to be incompatible with the statement from his Annual review paper from 2000 (see abstract below) that: «The average surface temperature of the continents has increased by about 1.0 K over the past 5 centuries; half of this increase has occurred in the twentieth century alone.»

Running future simulations in climate models with present - day emissions, Cai and his colleagues find 73 per cent increase in extreme La Niña events in the twenty - first century when compared to the twentieth.

This is why Stott et al conclude that «Nevertheless the results confirm previous analyses showing that greenhouse gas increases explain most of the global warming observed in the second half of the twentieth century,» DESPITE their indications that HadCM3 underestimates the observed response to solar forcing.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, cancer rates have increased exponentially — now affecting almost 50 percent of the American population.

It is a simple fact that fat consumption may have increased in the twentieth century but not nearly as much as the sugar intake.

With increased mechanization, publishing flourished, but by the end of the twentieth century, dozens of small publishing houses had been gobbled up into what became known as «the Big 6.»

In 2007, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects received the commission to design the new Barnes Foundation building, an enviable project that was surrounded both by controversy and the excitement of increasing access to one of America's premier collections of post-impressionist art, amassed by Dr. Albert C. Barnes in the early twentieth century.

Grupo Frente arrives at a time of increasing attention to Latin American artists and their often overlooked contributions to twentieth century art.

March 31 — August 26, 2018 The twentieth century was a significant time in the development of printmaking techniques and technologies, and the increase of women's participation in the artistic practice.

Over the course of the twentieth century, building maintenance put the Basler Kunstverein under increasing financial strain.

In 1967 he took up the post of art critic for the New Yorker, which gave him a vastly increased audience for his views, several of which were critical of the arts establishment, as well as certain twentieth century painters - including Frank Stella (b. 1936), inventor of Hard Edge Painting.

If the prediction comes true, the solar forcing will be less in aggregate in comparison with twentieth century cycles and presumably GCR flux will increase.

The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»

We find that the frequency of great floods increased substantially during the twentieth century.

The precise magnitude of the anthropogenic contribution remains uncertain, but in nine out of ten cases our model results indicate that twentieth - century anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions increased the risk of floods occurring in England and Wales in autumn 2000 by more than 20 %, and in two out of three cases by more than 90 %.

seems to be incompatible with the statement from his Annual review paper from 2000 (see abstract below) that: «The average surface temperature of the continents has increased by about 1.0 K over the past 5 centuries; half of this increase has occurred in the twentieth century alone.»

This is why Stott et al conclude that «Nevertheless the results confirm previous analyses showing that greenhouse gas increases explain most of the global warming observed in the second half of the twentieth century,» DESPITE their indications that HadCM3 underestimates the observed response to solar forcing.

By analyzing climate anomalies in the model that are similar to those that occurred in the early twentieth century, it was found that the simulated temperature increase in the Arctic was related to enhanced wind - driven oceanic inflow into the Barents Sea with an associated sea ice retreat.

«Mercado et al. use the HadGEM2 - A general circulation model to simulate the effect of late twentieth century «global dimming» and associated increases in the diffuse radiation fraction on global carbon storage.»

Recognizes that warming of the climate system is unequivocal and that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations, as assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in its Fourth Assessment Report;

The related «News and Views» commentary by Richard P. Allan of the University of Reading expressed the findings well, saying the authors «provide evidence that human - induced increases in greenhouse - gas concentrations led to the intensification of heavy precipitation events over large swathes of land in the Northern Hemisphere during the latter half of the twentieth century.»

One unique factor of the late twentieth century is rising carbon dioxide levels, but this should cause positive divergence (increased growth relative to warming), not negative (e.g. Idso 1989).

Early twentieth century warming was due to increased solar activity and decreased volcanic activity.

Because of global warming due to increasing greenhouse gases, the maps from the late 1800s and the early 1900s are dominated by shades of blue, indicating temperatures were up to 3 °C (5.4 °F) cooler than the twentieth - century average.

Believers of human - caused global warming insist that Earth's CO2 (carbon dioxide) has increased abnormally during the latter half of the twentieth century and that the source of abnormal CO2 increase has been the burning of fossil fuels.

The study by Macias & Johnson (2008) provides not only evidence for the link between decadal - scale changes in the teleconnection patterns (e.g. the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) index) and the increased fire frequency in the late twentieth century but also an explanation of why the pattern of fire variability and fire - climate relationships changes at different time scales from centennial / decadal to interannual.....

Some argue that the combined increase in temperature and humidity is the major reason for accelerated tropical glacier retreat in the Andes toward the latter half of the twentieth century.2

Fossett notes, «An increasing body of convincing evidence that the kayaks and their inhabitants were North American was produced during the twentieth century.»

There has been no detectable trend in hurricane frequency over the twentieth century when you account for increased observational capabilities through time (Landsea, 2007).

«Hulme et al. (2001) noted that throughout the twentieth century, Africa has warmed at a rate of 0.5 °C century − 1 and from 1987 to 1998, the six warmest years in Africa's temperature record occurred with increasing intensity making 1998 the warmest.

Twentieth century global sea level, as determined from tide gauges in coastal harbors, has been increasing by 1.7 - 1.8 mm / yr, apparently related to the recent climatic warming trend.

The increase in average temperature between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries exceeded the temperature difference between all other consecutive centuries in each region, except Antarctica and South America.»