Sentences with phrase «at a significant rate since»

what if the 0.08 / decade increase is not attributable to new emissions but the effect of deforrestation, deforrestation has been occurring at a significant rate since 1850s which corresponds to the data set time period

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According to Whoriskey, ``... executive compensation at the nation's largest firms has roughly quadrupled in real terms since the 1970s, even as pay for 90 percent of America has stalled...» Setting aside imprecision of language, that suggests a significant disparity — not disparity of outcomes (which are a given, here) but disparity of rate of improvement.

We found that not only had the tax warrant increased at a slower pace in Southold and Riverhead towns since 2012, it did so at a significant rate.

Violent street felonies increased at a rate slightly greater than violence in the control area; however, this increase was not statistically significant when examined in the context of the longer trend since 2004.

Looking at annual changes in federal spending against annual changes in the Fed Funds target rate, since 1956 there is no consistently significant relationship.

This requires a significant level of trust since it places the cosigners credit rating at risk should payments be missed or the loan defaulted on.

Today's question is whether it remains an interesting and compelling option for those investors looking for alternatives to the traditional 60/40 balanced fund at a time of interest rate uncertainty and given the two significant equity drawdowns since 2000.

Remember, that any increase to the prime rate since 1992 has only been by 0.25 % at any ONE time, so likely you won't see a large significant increase all at once.

Whether cuLearn is right for you will depend on your personal financial situation, but it might make sense to at least apply to see if you qualify to borrow from a credit union since you could potentially save a significant amount of money in interest if you can get an offer with a low interest rate.

The fact remains that the rate of warming in the early 20th century is comparable to that in the late 20th century whether you look at the Arctic in isolation or the globe as a whole and since CO2 levels were markedly different in the 2 periods there must be another significant factor.

This was significant, said Carrington, «because the rate of global warming from 2000 - 2009 is lower than the 0.16 C per decade trend seen since the late 1970s -LSB-...] the warming rate for the past 10 years is estimated at 0.08 - 0.16 C».

«Sure, they'll probably try to confuse us with trick questions: Like why, apart from natural 1998 and 2015 El Nino spikes, satellites haven't recorded any statistically significant global warming for nearly two decades; why sea levels have been rising at a constant rate of 7 inches per century without acceleration; and why no category 3 - 5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005 — a record lull since 1900.

«Based on a new analysis of passive microwave satellite data, we demonstrate that the annual mean extent of Antarctic sea ice has increased at a statistically significant rate of 0.97 % dec - 1 since the late 1970s.»

Some here have suggested that this could essentially never happen — that methane will only trickle out at such a low rate that it will now be a significant game changes, since it decays into CO2 and water in a few years.

Could this rate - as low as it's been since these groups started monitoring in 2004 - signal a new page turned over for the Amazon?Compared to the rate of August 2007 to July 2008, the period of August 2008 to July 2009 showed a significant drop, and that's in no small part due to increased policing, at least according to the Brazilian Minister of the Environment, Carlos Minc.

And since by 2007 legal process work had become a significant part of many junior associates» workloads, the rapid reduction of the amount of that work available to associates billing at full freight has been a major factor in BigLaw's unprecedented reductions in force and falling hiring rates from late 2008 through 2010.

Adware and PUPs [potentially unwanted programs] are a much more significant problem that only began to be a real issue in 2013 and have been multiplying at an increasing rate since.»

While in a perfect world for job seekers, the unemployment rate would be hovering just above 0 %, it is safe to say that we have made significant progress since the economic recession of 2008 — 2010, when unemployment peaked at 10 %.

Small wonder: Housing affordability is at its highest level since we started keeping records in 1970, and interest rates are at significant lows.

And because new household formation is the critical first step toward home ownership, the population gains point to robust demand in the years ahead, especially since a significant portion of the increase is fueled by immigrants, who arrive at the rate of one every 30 seconds, the Census Bureau says.