Sentences with phrase «causes gradual increases»

The hormonal changes during late pregnancy help the uterus become progressively more sensitive to oxytocin, which causes the gradual increase in Braxton - Hicks contractions.

The deflection rises slower due to the deformation of the soft sample, which causes the gradual increase in the slope of the curve.

If you're on hormone replacement therapy, certain steroids or oral contraceptives these can cause a gradual increase in weight.

Using test score data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, we also find that reforms cause gradual increases in the relative achievement of students in low - income school districts, consistent with the goal of improving educational opportunity for these students.

The fact is, we are the ones on this planet with the highest energy consumption and the end result of all this energy consumption is a steady increase of heat, carbon dioxide and other by - products into the atmosphere produced by us that is causing gradual increases in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere from year to year.

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Before that, the sun's gradual increase in temperature will cause Earth to become inhabitable.

The risk is that a gradual increase from the Fed's 2 % target towards 2.5 % or 3 % will cause people to re-evaluate their expectations of future inflation.

This increase in food should be gradual, as sudden larger meals can cause discomfort for the dog, especially for Yorkshire Terriers, which are a small breed.

«Because cat owners are around their cats daily, subtle changes or gradual changes can be missed,» says Dr. Joanne Gaines, owner of Ridgeview Animal Hospital in Omaha, Neb. «Increases in drinking and urination and weight loss are the most common gradual changes we see, and those changes can be caused by thyroid disease, kidney or liver disease or diabetes, most commonly.»

Increasing CO2 causes a gradual long - term warming trend which is smaller than the short - term variations.

Given that it is all eventually going to come back to the issue of the gradual gain we've been seeing in ocean heat content over many decades, the most accurate thing we can say is that 2014's warmth is very consistent with the general accumulation of energy in Earth's climate system caused by increasing GH gases and is well accounted for dynamically in global climate models.

6 Ice age — time in the past when continental glaciers covered large parts of Earth's surface Global warming — a gradual increase in the temperature of Earth's atmosphere Greenhouse gas — Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that trap solar energy Ozone hole — a large area of reduced ozone concentration in the stratosphere, found over Antarctica Chlorofluorocarbon — chlorine compounds that are the main cause of ozone depletion KEY TERMS

For example, extreme transient sea - level rise due to tropical or extratropical storm surge can cause abrupt increases of flood risk (Nicholls et al., 2007), putting many coastal regions at risk for loss of human life before gradual sea - level rise inundates the region.

What happened in the Arctic, was a slow, very slow and gradual decrease in cooling, caused by progressively longer warmer seasons, with a feedback loop of warm air reducing albedo, with reduced albedo increasing warm air.

«What we're seeing is stark evidence that the gradual temperature increase is not the important story related to climate change; it's the rapid regional changes and increased frequency of extreme weather that global warming is causing.

Either way it's still climate change.The new research, published in the journal Nature, shows that steady meltwater caused by gradual warming actually may slow down glaciers» flow towards the ocean, but sudden increases in water caused by weather extremes are driving the observed increase in melting.