Sentences with phrase «changed during the past decade»

Most of the biggest clubs in European football who have experienced incredibly successful domestic and European campaigns did so despite undergoing several managerial changes during the past decade.

Large - scale TOA radiation changes during the past decade are observed to be within 0.5 Wm ^ 2 per decade based upon comparisons between Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments aboard Terra and Aqua and other instruments...

The whole process of resume writing and screening has been changed during the past decade.

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A change in emphasis has occurred in Mormonism during the past few decades.

An obvious change in the study of religious ethics during the past couple of decades is its drift from its traditional moorings in the study of theology.

China does not have same democratic freedoms as understood in the Western tradition, but the one fifth of the human race in China have realized a considerable improvement of their overall human condition during the past few decades, with changes within their «socialism with Chinese characteristics».

This book centers around the structural and economic changes in rice farming that have occurred in the Philippines during the past five decades.

Theory No. 2: The change in defensive strategy in the NHL during the past decade has stifled the development of backliners.

During the past 3 decades, changes in water supply, sanitation, and personal hygiene are believed to have contributed to a decline in the mortality rate in developing countries.

During the past few months since he took on the mantle of CHANGE, President Muhammadu Buhari has been restructuring the foundations of the Nigerian government, which have disintegrated and putrefied over decades of mismanagement.

Trends in extreme events during the past decade constitute a facet of climate change that requires rigorous detection and attribution.

Temperature during the winter as a whole have generally decreased over the past two decades, likely as a result of climate change, but the sensitivity of ozone loss to the exact timing of March warming events makes ozone depletion a much more variable quantity.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

To resolve this, a senior dater should consider his or her life over the past ten years and focus on the most profound changes during this decade.

Studi brings gravitas and sensitivity to the project, and Pike gives her best performance ever playing a character who changes from an extremely frightened victim to one of the strongest women I've seen on screen during the past decade.

A new study analyzing changes at North Carolina's 44 teacher - education colleges during the enrollment decline of the past decade has found that those colleges committed to maintaining high standards are losing the most students because they have no flexibility in the present market.

Voucher advocates benefited greatly from the influx of Republican voters into Colorado during the past decade - roughly two or three Republicans have migrated to the state for every Democratic voter - a demographic trend that has changed Colorado from having a slight Democratic plurality in 1993 to having a Republican majority in 2003, according to an analysis by the Denver Post.

The reason has to do with dramatic changes in the racial / ethnic composition of the U.S. student population during the past few decades.

And North Carolina is dead last in the change in teachers» salaries over the past decade — teacher's salaries dropped 16 percent during that period, compared with the national average of a three percent decline.

Schrag believes that these changes «point to a gradual shift away from the narrow focus on fact - based testing in math and reading, on creating many more charter schools, on «reconstituting» or closing sub-par schools, and on other business - model schemes that school reformers have pushed for during the past couple of decades....

The United Democratic Party has been the dominant political presence in these Municipalities for over the past decade and that did not show much sign of changing during yesterday's...

Thus it appears that, provided further satellite cloud data confirms the cosmic ray flux low cloud seeding hypothesis, and no other factors were involved over the past 150 years (e.g., variability of other cloud layers) then there is a potential for solar activity induced changes in cloudiness and irradiance to account for a significant part of the global warming experienced during the 20th century, with the possible exception of the last two decades.

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.

Extrapolating from their forest study, the researchers estimate that over this century the warming induced from global soil loss, at the rate they monitored, will be «equivalent to the past two decades of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and is comparable in magnitude to the cumulative carbon losses to the atmosphere due to human - driven land use change during the past two centuries.»

[Response: And note that the abstract linked says «Although the rarity of the current episode of high average sunspot numbers may indicate that the Sun has contributed to the unusual climate change during the twentieth century, we point out that solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades.»

«Climate change projections suggest that European summer heatwaves will become more frequent and severe during this century, consistent with the observed trends of past decades.»

It is important to note that although the sea ice has changed greatly in the past few decades, it has changed much less during the polar breeding season.

During the past decade, they changed the energy regime, and they are expected to determine the future.

Volcanic activity proceeds over the decades at a level of only about 1 percent of industrial CO2 emissions, and even major eruptions observed during the past century have changed atmospheric CO2 trends only minimally and transiently.

Based on data from past climate changes, when sea level rose to +5 — 9 m, including the occurrence of extreme storms — during a time when temperatures were less than 1 ◦ C warmer than today, experts warn of similar consequences in coming decades.

Thanks to your activist colleagues, even a smart man like Paul Krugman believes that the threat from climate change HAS INCREASED during the past decade of negligible temperature rise.

Additionally, the observed surface temperature changes over the past decade are within the range of model predictions (Figure 6) and decadal periods of flat temperatures during an overall long - term warming trend are predicted by climate models (Easterling & Wehner 2009).

Health eff ects from changes to the environment including climatic change, ocean acidification, land degradation, water scarcity, overexploitation of fisheries, and biodiversity loss pose serious challenges to the global health gains of the past several decades and are likely to become increasingly dominant during the second half of this century and beyond.

[51] The climate of Pune has changed during the past 3 decades, especially since the rapid expansion of the industrial belts [citation needed].

That situation changed during recent weeks when two scientific papers broke the news that some of West Antarctica's glaciers had lost upwards of a half a kilometer of ice thickness due to contact with warm ocean waters over the past decade.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

The widespread change detected in temperature observations of the surface, free atmosphere and ocean, together with consistent evidence of change in other parts of the climate system, strengthens the conclusion that greenhouse gas forcing is the dominant cause of warming during the past several decades.

Trends in extreme events during the past decade constitute a facet of climate change that requires rigorous detection and attribution.

However, Solanki et al made the same point as we do: «This comparison shows without requiring any recourse to modeling that since roughly 1970 the solar influence on climate (through the channels considered here) can not have been dominant» (Solanki et al., 2003), and: «Although the rarity of the current episode of high average sunspot numbers may indicate that the Sun has contributed to the unusual climate change during the twentieth century, we point out that solar variability is unlikely to have been the dominant cause of the strong warming during the past three decades.»

Along with an annual - mean trend during the past 50 years of about 0.1 °C / decade averaged over Antarctica, there is a distinct seasonality to the trends, with insignificant change (and even some cooling) in austral summer and autumn in East Antarctica, contrasting with warming in austral winter and spring.

There is a solid body of research now showing that any apparent slow - down of warming during the past decade was likely due to natural short - term factors (like small changes in solar output and volcanic activity) and internal fluctuations related to e.g. the El Niño phenomenon.

However, the Prudent Path authors fail to reference a recent paper (Kaufmann et al. 2009) which analyzed Arctic temperature changes over a 2000 year period (0 to 1999 AD) and concluded that «the most recent 10 - year interval (1999 - 2008) was the warmest of the past 200 decades» and that «4/5 of the warmest decades occurred during the last century».

Monaghan et al. further note «recent literature suggests there has been little overall change in Antarctic near - surface temperature during the past 5 decades» and «the absence of widespread Antarctic temperature increases is consistent with studies showing little overall change in other Antarctic climate indicators during the past 50 years such as sea ice area and snowfall.»

There is virtually no controversy among climate scientists and meteorologists that massive changes have occurred in the Arctic environment during the past three decades, and that those changes are largely due to manmade greenhouse gas emissions.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter9.pdf The widespread change detected in temperature observations of the surface (Sections 9.4.1, 9.4.2, 9.4.3), free atmosphere (Section 9.4.4) and ocean (Section 9.5.1), together with consistent evidence of change in other parts of the climate system (Section 9.5), strengthens the conclusion that greenhouse gas forcing is the dominant cause of warming during the past several decades.

During the past two decades — and especially since the financial collapse of 2008 — that has changed.

One of the more interesting developments in the legal landscape during the past decade has been the marked change in the way law firms look to achieve growth.