Project that rate forward, and everything will change dramatically in the next few decades.
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Natural gas, if it continues to stay cheap, will slow down clean power development in the next few decades, Google says.
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"I don't think this is anything that's going to be done in the next few decades in a practical sense, but maybe further down the line, " Gray said.
In Britain, where better records have been kept, more than half the native bumblebee species either have become extinct or are facing extinction in the next few decades.
But many astronomers are confident they'll detect an extraterrestrial intelligence in the next few decades, and when that happens, we better have an official reply ready, or risk being drowned out by the public.
The U.S. had tallied more than 750, 000 green jobs in 2006 and is set to add millions more in the next few decades, according to a new report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Global Insight, a Boston-based economic research firm.
Earth's magnetic field gives the planet and its inhabitants a good measure of protection, but with space agencies seemingly intent on sending astronauts to the Moon and even to Mars in the next few decades, there is a pressing need for a fuller understanding of the Sun's activity.
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On the other hand, a discussion with a group of tenth-graders would probably quickly generate a list of important forces such as immigration reform, changes in science and math education, and a simplified US tax code might have a bearing on how the world shapes up in the next few decades.
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The Isle of Wight, off the south coast in the Solent, aspires to become self-sufficient in energy over the next few decades through a combination of tidal power, a waste-to-electricity plant and efficiency savings.
Earlier this month, the City of Boston recently released a report showing potential flood regions in the city that have expanded as a result of sea level rise over the next few decades due to climate change.
It is now estimated that around half the world's population is living in an urban environment and the figure is expected to rise over the next few decades.
There are two main incentives for this, the first being the geological feature that natural gas is in finite supply and world production of it is thought might peak within the next few decades, and secondly that burning fossil carbon contributes to the atmospheric concentration of CO2, which scientific consensus accords will cause global warming and climate change.
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We have to navigate the next few decades without a few comfortable billions in the bank.
If I understand you correctly, your primary reason for shunning equities is that the incontestable need for baby boomers to liquidate their retirement savings over the next few decades while fewer young savers come in to take their place will necessarily put massive pressure on equity prices.
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Most claims will settle in the next few months, but many will not close for years, or even decades, says Robert Hartwig at the Insurance Information Institute.
Over the next few years, global GDP growth will be lower than in previous decades, as consumer deleveraging will be followed by government deleveraging, which will also force higher taxation.
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This is one of those technological break points, a time when an entirely new challenger has a chance to break in and determine which OS, which ecosystem users are locked into for the next few years, perhaps decades.
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While the next few decades will see many changes, the overall energy picture will, in the end, not be that much different.
Over the next few decades, according to Dr Principe's analysis of their letters and publications, chymists in England, France and elsewhere deliberately distanced themselves from the alchemists, casting themselves as intellectuals, the alchemists as charlatans, and the two activities as distinct.
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