Sentences with phrase «years of the industrial age»

During the 150 years of the industrial age, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by 31 percent.

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Upon initiating coverage this year, Fred Westra of Industrial Alliance Securities wrote, «alternative lenders will experience a golden age» as tighter lending standards for banks push more customers their way.

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By their estimations, coal - fired power plants coming online since the turn of the millennium will emit more CO2 than all other human coal burning has since the dawn of the industrial age: 660 billion metric tons over their 50 - year lifetime versus 524 billion metric tons between 1751 and 2000.

The mystery of the cold - adapted yeast that blended with a distant cousin to make the lager - churning hybrid endured for almost 500 years and is emblematic of the biological black boxes that drive much of industrial fermentation, even in an age when fermentation underpins the production of everything from soy sauce to biofuel.

Indeed, if one accepts a very liberal risk level of 50 % for mean global warming of 2 °C (the guiderail widely adopted) since the start of the industrial age, then under midrange IPCC climate sensitivity estimates, then we have around 30 years before the risk level is exceeded.

This shift is observable in almost every advanced industrial country; ageing populations, coupled with higher life expectancies, have lead statisticians to forecast that over the next 15 years there will be a 56 percent increase in the number of people aged over 602.

This departure from the regular superhero comic book (okay, graphic novel, if you will) adaptation takes a dark and gritty turn (think «Deadpool» without the laughs or language) almost immediately with Jackman («Eddie the Eagle») playing a bitter, down - on - his - luck limousine driver in the year 2029 who spends his time drinking, brooding, beating up Mexican car thieves and caring for the aging and seemingly addled Dr. Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart, «X-Men: Days of Future Past») in a vacated south of the border industrial plant.

Yet we've organized conventional schools in an industrial model and we batch - process students in ways that made sense to «cult of efficiency» experts circa 1920, that lent themselves to uniform teachers delivering a uniform curriculum to groups of twenty to thirty same - age pupils in more - or-less identical classrooms during a six - hour day and 180 - day year that made perfect sense for a country that lacked air conditioning and that wanted to standardize the school year.

Starting in Bronze - Age China and India, Beckert weaves thousands of years of cotton's history into an intricate panorama of globalization; interconnected economic, social and political systems; and the technological innovations that became the impetus for the Industrial Revolution.

Kounellis, who died last year at the age of 80, was a key figure in the Arte Povera movement, best known for sculptures and installations that invoke the contemporary world of politics and things, industrial and natural, while conjuring experiences that border on the mystical.

But in the early 1950s, in the years just before his tragic death at age 44 in an alcohol - fueled car crash, Pollock was experimenting with a new way of confronting his surface, spilling black enamel paint — the kind you might use on outdoor ironwork — onto raw cotton duck canvas, a clashing, angry union of synthetic industrial chemical and unprimed organic substrate.

[3] A 2008 retrospective at the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area in Homestead featured works from a 20 - year span, 1980 — 2000, highlighting the end of the industrial age in the Monongahela Valley through firsthand observation and through what Rivers of Steel Director Ronald Baraff calls «the lens of the people».

Using a variety of methods, the authors conclude that the onset of a new ice age would likely begin about 1,500 years from now, if the concentration of carbon dioxide was back below the levels produced since the Industrial Revolution.

By comparison CO2 emissions, in the past 800,000 years before the industrial revolution, had fluctuated between 180ppm (when the Earth was in an ice age) to a maximum of 280ppm (in a warmer interglacial) period.

For thousands of years, humans have been changing global climate, maybe even helping us avert the next ice age, all long before the Industrial Revolution.

Since the end 10,000 years ago of the last ice age — itself a very rapid event — was the springboard for agriculture and civilisation, and eventually an Industrial Revolution based on fossil fuels, the story of climate change plays a powerful role in human history.

The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide has increased by more than 30 % since the start of the industrial age and is higher now than at any time in at least the past 650,000 years.

From thermal equilibrium (radiative forcing relatively zero including natural variation) for the past 10,000 years (Holocene), since the beginning of the Industrial age, the earth climate system is currently estimated to be 3.6 W / m2 positively charged (GHG's, and -2.0 W / m2 negatively charged (aerosols).

By contrast current climate change is caused by the thermal effects of CO2 emissions from burning of some 300 billion tons of fossil fuel since the dawn of the industrial age, with consequent increase of CO2 to 380 parts per million, 36 percent above maximum levels (about 280 parts per million) which pertained over the last one million years (The Pleistocene).

You are right that engineers make a great contribution to society, including most of the technology of the last 200 years which moved society through the industrial revolution and into the information age, but the foundations of the society which made this possible were laid by lawyers.

Peter Baccile discusses the recent influx of bankers into REIT management teams, his first year on the job and what he calls the «golden age of industrial real estate.»