Sentences with phrase «at an unprecedented rate as»

Glaciers in South America's Andes mountain range are receding at unprecedented rates as a result of climate change, according to a recent study published in the science journal Cryosphere.

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Second, rates aren't just low; we have been enjoying unprecedented clarity from the Bank of Canada, and now from the Federal Reserve as well, that there is only a negligible chance that administered interest rates will rise at least before the year is out, and possibly into 2014.

As crowdfunding accelerates at an unprecedented rate, it's impacting government policy, informing enterprise innovation and changing the role of financial institutions around the world.

No other generation has seen — or felt — the firsthand impact of divorce as much as millennials: Boomers divorced at unprecedented rates starting in the 1980s and «90s.

But without these Bible Belt trappings, Christianity is exploding at unprecedented rates — as in, 300 percent growth in 20 years.

«As Asia's population continues to grow and to urbanize at unprecedented rates, food insecurity in the region could worsen unless action is taken now.

I thought Alice's trip to wonderland was pretty weird but your football rabbit hole clearly ends in an utterly bizarro junkified world like the rest of em on this site and as we are finding out from our cousins across the atlantic where ageing white men are od» ing on opioids at unprecedented rates when you were born doesn't get you off the hook (literally)... Man city could have complained about injuries to mendy or delph being suspended or Jesus not hundred percent but instead they just got on with the game... There's more to grammar than punctuation just as there is more to being a fan of a club than slavishly supporting it's deluded manager..

Genomics is advancing at an unprecedented rate, and it's having an impact on many other fields as well.»

As the accelerator collided lead ions at unprecedented collision rates, obtaining evidence for light - by - light scattering became a real possibility.

Coral reefs, which support diverse communities of fish and other marine life, are declining globally at unprecedented rates due to human - caused impacts, such as warming waters and ocean acidification.

Davis is an elite super soldier as well in addition to being the caretaker of George, an albino ape who begins growing at an alarming and unprecedented rate after being exposed to a mutagen created by Energyne, a sinister corporation messing around with DNA to create a race of deadly super-animals.

As a result, the number of platforms and devices that companies have to support is growing at an unprecedented rate.

Two clear examples of standardized tests supporting institutional racism are Chicago and Philadelphia, where the tests are being used to label schools in communities of color as «failures» and then shut them down at unprecedented rates.

Since its establishment 22 years ago, Deer Jet has been firmly committed to improving services, allowing the company to grow at an unprecedented rate and taking the business from being China's first private jet company up to its current position as the largest business aviation group in Asia and a world's leading lifestyle brand.

«as a result of our sheer numbers (5.8 billion and counting at the rate of 10,000 new human lives each hour), our unprecedented technological power, and our lack of an ethic that embraces the environment, we are no longer thinking or acting like a part of nature.

I've found myself at the center of such episodes more than once, as a result of what's become known as the iconic «hockey stick» diagram that my co-authors and I had published in the late 1990s — a graphic display of the data that made plain the unprecedented rate of global warming.

Uniquely and fearlessly AMEG has studied key non-linear trends in the Earth - human System and reached the stunning conclusion that the planet stands at the edge of abrupt and catastrophic climate change as a result of an unprecedented rate of change in the Arctic.

Bullet point # 1 reads: «Global mean temperatures are increasing at rates unprecedented in human history, with human activity a major contributory factor through release of «greenhouse gases» such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

More relevantly though man is increasing CO2 at a rate unprecedented in earth's history — as far as we know and CO2 has significant impact on radiative transfer in the atmosphere and pH in the surface ocean.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

As the amount of Arctic sea ice declines at an unprecedented rate.

Since the Industrial Revolution humans have been releasing an increased amount of greenhouse gasses such as CO2 and methane at an unprecedented rate.

Chinese furniture manufacturers» imports of several species of rosewood, collectively known as hongmu, have soared at an unprecedented rate since 2010 and hit an all - time high in 2014, according to China's customs data and reported in a new study by Forest Trends, an international non-profit organization.

Thus, sea ice has melted at an unprecedented rate and is now caught in a vicious cycle known as the ice - albedo feedback: as sea ice retreats, sunshine that would have been reflected into space by the bright white ice is instead absorbed by the ocean, causing waters to warm and melt even more ice.

We are up against the world's largest corporations, who are attempting to extract, transport and burn fossil fuels at an unprecedented rate, all as the climate crisis spins out of control.

Former council corporate deputy and appointee, David Lockwood said: «This deputyship provision is very much needed, and as latest figure show demand is increasing at an unprecedented rate.

As law firms shed attorneys at an unprecedented rate — 4376 layoffs since January 1, 2008, 2614 in calendar year 2009, and 700 on a single Black Thursday, one would think that the bar association websites would be on high alert, offering discounted CLEs and networking events and otherwise mobilizing to help unemployed lawyers find work.

Probably around 1.7 billion, as Android is growing at an unprecedented rate.

We saw this as an unprecedented time to refinance our existing portfolio, by locking in attractive long - term financing at historically low interest rates.