Sentences with phrase «accelerate some trends which»

In addition, the crisis came at a time of extreme volatility in global, European and national politics and has arguably contributed to accelerate some trends which were already starting to appear at the beginning of the century.

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Sure, there are many other factors affecting this trend besides on - line merchandising — most notably real estate firms which have accelerated neighborhood declines by escalating rents — but those factors combined have decimated downtown and suburban shopping areas and have had a major impact on our way of life.
Decision - making was bogging down just as social media and other trends accelerated the pace at which customer tastes change.
More self - made women are emerging with their own resources for giving, which reflects the rising economic fortunes of women — a trend likely to accelerate in coming years.
These trends have accelerated in the current decade and are fueling burgeoning interest in new paradigms in venture capital that better align the interests of investors and fund managers and that provide the potential for outsized investment returns for which the asset class is known.
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You may be influenced by a deadline or popular trends like potty boot camps, which advocate accelerated toilet training over the course of one weekend, but following this advice isn't always a good idea.
A trend which has accelerated under David Cameron» s leadership; a split in the Tory family.
A team of researchers lead by Florida State University have found new evidence that permafrost thawing is releasing large quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere via plants, which could accelerate warming trends.
The focus of the research team, which includes UD graduate student Clark Nissley, was on the Atlantic brant goose, a bird whose population has been fluctuating and on a moderate decline for many years, to learn if limitations during the summer breeding season have accelerated that trend.
Dr. Zilliox said next generation technology will accelerate the trend toward personalized medicine, in which treatments are tailored to the individual characteristics of a patient.
The interval over which we expect cooling of the interior is when ozone depletion was accelerating (1960s through late 20th century) and this is precisely when we reproduce the cooling trend both in the reconstruction (primarily during the Austral fall season) and the model simulation experiments discussed in the paper.
Finally, natural climatic variability is just random noise compared to the loud - and - clear signal of the upward trend in the curve of global temperature, which now seems to have an accelerating characteristic.
In the Outlook's «Reference Scenario», which projects energy trends in the absence of new government policies or accelerated deployment of new technology, world primary energy demand is set to rise by 59 % from now till 2030.
Looking at records of the changes in length of day since 1860, e.g. here [http://www.john-daly.com/press/lods1860.gif] it's clear that there is no discernible trend which would suggest long - term or accelerating increase in the Earth's diameter.
I realize I was trespassing with anecdote in a discussion about science and climate, which requires more than a decade to begin to show trends, but it seems to me that as recent incidents display to some extent climate change under way, it is unwise to ignore the future, which might just accelerate rather than boinging back to neutral.
However, in absolute terms both energy demand and the share being met by fossil fuel are growing faster since 1990 than the growth in new renewable energy sources, which is accelerating, but not yet fast enough to curb the increasing global CO2 trend.
Exceeding the 400 parts per million level of worldwide atmospheric carbon dioxide later this decade continues a troubling trend which brings the world closer to the potential to reach a global warming tipping point in which global warming accelerates rapidly as the potent greenhouse gas methane is liberated from the frozen state that it has been in for millions of years.
-- The third, being the observed destabilization of the geosphere due to both the pace of terrestrial ice loss and relatively sudden and uneven climatic redistribution of the oceans» mass, with a consequent rise in seismic events and in volcanoes» cooling sulphate emissions, which have (according to Prof. McGuire, adviser to Munich Re on vulcanism risks) accelerated slowly on a 1.25 % / yr trend over the last 30 years.
However, despite this, the team reckon to have perhaps isolated a «global warming» signal in the accelerated run off of the Greenland Ice Mass — but only just, because the runoff at the edges is balanced by increasing central mass — again, they focus upon recent trends — a net loss of about 22 cubic kilometres in total ice mass per year which they regard as statistically not significant — to find the «signal», and a contradiction to their ealier context of air temperature cycles.
More encouraging still, the pace at which these welcome developments are moving from well - meaning idea to global trend or technological breakthrough appears to be accelerating, even as public support for decarbonization grows.
Furthermore, we see that any accelerating sea - ice growing trend in the Antarctic is in line with this region's prehistoric behaviour, which has been to thrive during some of Earth's hottest eras.
And you have to open up your mind to all sorts of claims, such as the one that starting in January of this year, global warming has accelerated to the point where the warming rate is now 0.4 C per year... which is roughly what I just read us the trend in the UAH data since that time.
The IPCC's climate science has long claimed that human CO2 emissions are producing an accelerated global warming, with a «runaway» warming trend, which is then being amplified in the north and south polar extremes.
By applying the same technique to a sine - wave (which the audience had agreed exhibits a zero trend), it is possible to show either a rapidly - accelerating uptrend or a rapidly - plummeting downtrend, depending on the choice of endpoints for the trend - lines on the data.
The «impartial» analysis would treat all 40 + years of data the same — which clearly indicates an accelerating trend.
It is the 30 - year significant downward trend in Arctic sea ice extent, which has accelerated in recent years, that is the important indicator of climate change.
According to AGW theory and IPCC claims, warming should be steadily accelerating... Actually this is formally falsified by observations showing quite a constant back - ground trend of +0.05 °C per decade, on top of which cooling and warming periods are alternating.
On the basis of those two numbers alone, which show a trend increase between those two half - centuries of 0.046 °C / decade, I would have said that the warming is accelerating.
Instead of the proposed positive feedback producing ever faster atmospheric temperature increases, the plot reveals a very strong warming trend that accelerated during the 2015/16 El Nino phenomenon, which then quickly decelerated to a per century trend of 4.3 degrees Celsius - and, in the recent past, similar deceleration patterns have lead to outright negative per century cooling trends.
and the accelerating negative trend continues; in 2006 Rignot et al published satellite data which showed «Accelerated ice discharge in the west and particularly in the east doubled the ice sheet mass deficit in the last decade from 90 to 220 cubic kilometers per year.»
Young lawyers do need to pay attention to these trends to position themselves ahead of these trends, which will only accelerate in the decades to come, and plan accordingly.
The FNB House Price Index revealed a 7.4 % year - on - year national growth for the month of June, which was slightly higher than the 7.2 % rate recorded for May, «extending the recent mild accelerating trend in average house price inflation to 5 months».
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