Sentences with phrase «causing dramatic increase»

Something is causing the dramatic increase in cases, and it almost has to be something environmental.

So if human activity were causing a dramatic increase in glacier retreat, that change should have happened in the last seventy years or so.

A 2007 article in The Washington Post explored the factors causing dramatic increase in C - sections from 1997 to 2007.

To appreciate this one only has to look at figure 4, where the slowly shifting mean (global warming) causes a dramatic increase in extreme warm events (heatwaves).

Crack is known to cause a dramatic increase in the kind of risky sexual behavior that leads to the spread of things like HIV and syphilis.

Under sweeping new rules passed last week, the 18 - month - old federal agency moved to help protect consumers from the worst sorts of predatory lending practices and shoddy underwriting standards that helped cause a dramatic increase in mortgage delinquencies and consequently the country's recent foreclosure crisis.

We analyzed how much carbon tar sands oil produces and assessed the climate impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding that building it would unleash a massive expansion of tar sands development and cause a dramatic increase in carbon pollution.

Now, as the global trend swings from warming to cooling these winds switched from zonal to meridional flow causing dramatic increases in variability of temperature and precipitation.

I am trying to figure out why a doubling of atmospheric N2 would necessarily cause a dramatic increase in temperatures at the surface, as I have seen some propose.

In contrast, the risk of extinction without climate change was calculated to be less than 1 %, suggesting that climate change will cause a dramatic increase in extinction risk for these taxonomic groups over the next century.

Not exact matches

Speaking about the research, Dr Hawkins said: «We were really surprised that loss of PTEN caused such a dramatic increase in PI (3,4) P2 in our mouse model of prostate cancer.

Ben Collyer describes evidence that the switch from hunter - gatherer to agriculturalist caused a dramatic worsening of diet and an increase of disease and hard labour (24 March, p 44).

Ben Collyer describes evidence that the switch from hunter - gatherer to agriculturalist caused a dramatic worsening of diet and an increase...

Melting glaciers, early snowmelt, and severe droughts will cause more dramatic water shortages and increase the risk of wildfires in the American West.

In a study, published in Science, they investigated a gene region that contains a particular single nucleotide variant associated with increased risk for developing colorectal and prostate cancers — and found that removing this region caused dramatic resistance to tumor formation.

The scientists revealed that these very commonly used antibiotics caused profound damage to the mitochondria, and this led to a dramatic increase in the production of damaging chemicals called free radicals.

Foods with more fiber have a lesser effect on blood sugar, and thus have fewer net carbs, whereas foods with little or no fiber but many carbs will cause more of a dramatic increase of your blood glucose.

Citing numerous examples of studies that were excluded from consideration, and studies the DGAC cited that actually contradict the Committee's conclusions, the authors of the paper pinpoint the high - carbohydrate guidelines as the most likely cause for the dramatic increase of overweight, obesity and type 2 diabetes in the US over the past three decades.

yes, as your butt gets stronger your butt will get bigger but please don't expect a little 5 pound increase to cause a dramatic difference

Also, the amount of SHBG increases with aging causing the much more dramatic drop in free testosterone.

I think the dramatic increase in hormonal activity — especially with girls — can cause teens to become nutrient deficient unless their diets are stellar from birth and include plenty of veg along with the broths, clo and liver.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

And this has mainly been caused by a dramatic increase in the number of teachers hired per student — a policy that benefits only the unions.»

A Dorset town faces a shortage of primary school places caused by a «dramatic increase» in births since 2005.

Dramatic price increases cause bull markets, which cause bear markets, which cause economic crises, which hurt all investors.

ZooMiami noted there is an «exploding population of feral / free - roaming cats» which begs the question what has caused this dramatic population increase.

The correlation between the two seemed so clear, so dramatic and so dangerous that scientists became convinced not only that fossil fuels were causing the rapid increase in atmospheric warmth, but that the increase was so dangerous as to destabilize the planetary weather system generally.

Over the last 18 months the dramatic increase in gasoline prices and then the serious recession should have caused a measurable drop in CO2 levels.

The resulting change in availability of prey has in turn caused dramatic declines in the numbers of predatory seabirds in west coast colonies and corresponding increases in the size of those colonies on the south and east coast over the same period [58].

The recent dramatic losses of thousands of honey bee colonies due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) and other causes [6], [7] has not only created great concerns in the scientific and agricultural community but has also highlighted the ever increasing risk of future crises in the global food supply due to our sole dependence on single pollinator species [8].

And such slight warming over next few decades, will cause animal extinction, and will melt Greenland in some dramatic fashion, and will continue cause increase in crop production and a general increase in global vegetation.

The current climate models predict that if we continue increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere it will cause dramatic man - made global warming.

That said, however, it shows how even if there is no trend in hurricane activity, we are still likely to see dramatic increases in the damage and destruction that hurricanes cause to us in the future.

[The Global Conveyer Belt has suddenly stopped for several speculated reason in the past and caused dramatic and rapid climate changes always to the cold side; therefore, warm is preferable to cold any day] http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/oceanography/ocean-earth-system/ocean-water-cycle/ «As water temperature increases, the increased mobility of gas molecules make them escape from the water, thereby reducing the amount of gas dissolved.

Thus, a 2 degree C rise in global mean temperature will cause a dramatic and relatively sudden global mean temperature increase.

But what could cause such a dramatic decline in rural driving and the even bigger increase in urban?

Melting glaciers, early snowmelt, and severe droughts will cause more dramatic water shortages and increase the risk of wildfires in the American West.

Having downplayed some of the more troubling elements of the scientific consensus — and simply dismissed the possibility of more dramatic changes that are currently being debated — Lomborg then seizes on one item in the WMO statement in particular — «The recent increase in societal impact from tropical cyclones has been largely caused by rising concentrations of population and infrastructure in coastal regions» — and runs with it.

This year has seen an increasing number of severe floods and droughts and dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice — all cause for alarm.

Over the next several years, this arguably had a large negative impact on ICBC's financial position and has been pointed to as the underlying cause of ICBC's forecast for dramatic rate increases totalling over 40 %.