Sentences with phrase «which last several decades»

A proper parsing of the article would indicate that what they are actually discussing is the behavior of the seasons on Pluto which last several decades.

He stated that hurricane activity in the Atlantic ebbs and surges in cycles, each of which lasts several decades.»

The infamous 1970s drought of the African Sahel region, which lasted several decades and killed more than 100,000 people, was actually a «minor» event, say researchers who have uncovered evidence that such droughts occur cyclically in the region and can be much more severe.

Not exact matches

«In the last several decades the Palestinian leadership has missed one opportunity after the other and rejected all the peace proposals it was given,» the crown prince said according to a wire sent by the Israeli consulate in New York to Israel's foreign ministry in Jerusalem which summarized the meeting, as well as information from several US and Israeli diplomats with knowledge of the meeting.

The problem is the Fed has chosen to get their water from the small 2 % inflation pond, which has been steadily shrinking over the last several decades (not global warming, but instead dropping 10 year rates).

Because of changes which have liberalized accounting standards over the last several decades, current GAAP EPS is not comparable to GAAP EPS at previous market tops.

One can say with confidence that, in the last several decades, there is nobody who has done serious work on the fascinating connections between law and religion, and the ways in which worldviews inform the res publica, who is not deeply indebted to this man.

My main dissent, which I did not express, was that the discussants were treating the battles about worship as a relatively recent phenomenon — several references were made, for example, to «the last two decades.»

We also don't know if there was a prisoner exchange, of which Iran has shown a propensity towards over the last several decades.

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

It was not for a lack of interest at the kids and high school levels, which has seen a significant increase over the last several decades, but due to the implementation of Title IX (more specifically proportionality) and other factors that I rather not go into detail in this article.

Fate intervened in several unlikely ways in the two ensuing decades and then last fall, Weber, now a fixture in the national Farm to School Network, found himself waxing enthusiastic about local produce to a woman who was part of an effort called Homegrown Minneapolis, which would like to see more of that farmstead goodness put before MPS kids and other locals.

The move comes in response to an exposé published in The New York Times last month, which documented numerous cases of animal suffering and death at a Department of Agriculture facility that has been trying to create larger and more fecund farm animals for several decades.

The confused argument hinges on one data set — the HadCRUT 3V — which is only one of several estimates, and it is the global temperature record that exhibits the least change over the last decade.

The group questioned the motive of the new research pointing to the deceptive research, and it also defended its clandestine efforts by reaffirming findings over the last several decades that concluded sugar does not contribute to heart disease — a point that's only half - true, considering sugar contributes greatly to obesity, which can put one at a higher risk of developing heart disease.

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

Even the title suggests a literary, romantic (as opposed to realistic) approach — in that the term used for the last several decades is sex addiction, which hardly conjures the same image.

I already knew how important is marketing, because I worked for several marketing agencies (among which many also get out of business in last decade), but situation in the world is even rougher.

The last two decades have witnessed a resurgent interest in Stone's art, which has been a part of several group exhibitions in New York City and was the subject of two solo shows at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (2002 and 2006).

The Hawaiian people, their culture, music and daily life had a profound effect on him, which inspired several bodies of work spanning the last decade of his life.

It's clear there has been an evolution in the artist's stacking: from earlier works such as Minster — several piles of «abandoned pieces of scrap metal» — to gleaming forms from the last decade, which Cragg more elegantly describes as «stacked horizontal ellipses».

A.I.R. has continued to reinvent itself over the last several decades which has helped it remain a staying force in the New York art scene.

Moreover, the only two nations in the world whose carbon emissions have significantly diverged from BAU levels over the last several decades are France and Sweden, which did so not through pricing carbon or energy but through direct public development and procurement of clean energy technologies (nuclear in the case of France, nuclear and hydro in the case of Sweden).

The churning of the surface will result in more carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere, the last of which we have learned has already begun — several decades ahead of schedule.

In an e-mail last week, she described her decade of work there, in which she focused on several severely endangered primates, including the silky sifaka, which is restricted to the Marojejy National Park and surrounding regions.

Some of those may have overlapped with the proxies used by Moberg (2005), but M05 is one of several dozen NH reconstructions drawn up in the last 15 years, so it's highly likely didn't limit themselves to the data from MO5, which is much older and less extensive than the evidence available from the last decade.

Which is just to say that the variation in anthropogenic forcing over the last few decades (and the next few decades) is several order of magnitude larger than the change in Milankovitch forcing over the same short period.

The sun has been acting strangely of late, prompting some solar physicists to suggest that once current sunspot activity peaked, which appeared to happen last fall, it could tank and remain that way for several decades.

Depending where you look and in which decade they advance and retreat, but now with sea level rising twice as fast as in the last century, you may be able to figure out that glaciers are melting more quickly, and that with several more degrees of warming they would be on a downward trend.

Megadroughts are rare events, episodes that last several decades and in which the evaporation of soil moisture outpaces any rainfall.

There is no doubt, that these observations are associated with the climate change which has been shown to occur since several decades, and which, over the last years, has had important consequences for fisheries: decrease of catches, northwards shift of fishing grounds, adaptation to fisheries for different species.

However, within this record there have been several periods lasting a decade or more during which temperatures have risen very slowly or cooled.

Several consecutive warm cold decades that can be noted in the instrumental records will however likely start such movements which will be accentuated if the prevailing characteristic of warmth or cold lasts for some time.

Vincentrj # 28 you are unclear re the division of your opinions / inferences between the 3 basic sub-topics (1) heat is entering the oceans due to radiative imbalance due to humans burning carbon fuels (2) the heat rate coupled with its estimated duration (based on its cause) will make it within a few decades become unprecedented during the last several thousand years and same for the surface temperature rise that will be required to stop it (3) the effects on flora & fauna will be highly negative even within this century and more so for centuries and millenia thereafter, in particular the human species which has softened much and expects much more since the days when a mammoth tusk through the groin was met with «well Og's had it, press on».

To protect their fossil fuel interests, which are at odds with the public's desire for a safe climate, clean water, and healthy air to breathe, the Kochs have spent the last several decades radically changing the face of American democracy, and investing major amounts of money in think tanks and other outlets involved in climate denial.

Fraedrich & Blender find persistence up to decades, Kiraly et al. find persistence lasting several years, so even if their analysis applied to temperature time series (which it doesn't) rather than fluctuations (which it does), those time scales aren't long enough to explain the trend on a century time scale in observed temperature time series.

IMO, the strongest argument for sea ice decline over the last decade for being unusual and at least in part attributable to global warming is this (from Polyakov et al.): The severity of present ice loss can be highlighted by the breakup of ice shelves at the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, which have been stable until recently for at least several thousand years based on geological data.

This situation has changed during the last two decades and PTSD is now one of several psychiatric diagnoses for which a veteran can receive compensation, such as a war veteran indemnity pension, in the U.S. (see below: Mezey & Robbins 2001)

She has spent the last decade weekending in the area, owning several different chalets, which gives her unique insight to the needs of recreational home owners.