Sentences with phrase «changed over recent decades»

A briefing paper about the research of how the lives of young people have changed over recent decades and how this could shed light on increases in adolescent mental health problems.

The context for energy has changed over recent decades, with growing concern over global warming.

This albedo has been changing over recent decades and is responsible for most ocean warming with the increased maintained higher solar levels.

His examination of these extreme events — snow, storms, rainfall — shows an absence of evidence to indicate marked change over recent decades.»

My interpretation from the news article is that he concludes that low clouds can exhibit a lower albedo than sometimes modeled, but then an important question is how low cloud cover is changing over recent decades of warming.

Based on the IPCC, 2001 findings, this is a reasonable estimate of the change over the recent decades in the atmospheric radiative forcing).

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But looking over recent decades, that change has been fairly smooth, and on a relative basis, the effect on valuations is far more modest than investors seem to assume.

In the remainder of my lecture I would like to cover both these topics, plus two other issues: what does the Reserve Bank need to do to fulfil its financial stability responsibilities; and whether the changes we have seen in the structure of financial systems over recent decades have made the system more or less stable.

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

And while the ethnic background of those committing crimes involving gambling, loan sharking, drug dealing and prostitution has changed over the decades, a recent bust by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Westchester District Attorney Anthony Scarpino was old school, with the arrest of 10 people who all had ties to the Lucchese crime family.

Cuomo went on to argue that upstate had gotten rooked in recent decades — including, by implication, the decade - plus in which his father was governor — but all that had changed «over the past few years... dramatically.

But from McCright's perspective it was important to find out to what extent the sharp debate over climate change at the elite level had trickled down into the general public in recent decades.

A new study by University of Southern California and Yale University researchers suggests that at least part of the gains in life expectancy over recent decades may be due to a change in the rate of biological aging, rather than simply keeping ailing people alive.

«Based on this recent study we will now go on to propose physiological mechanisms for the origins of the new metabolic signals, so that eventually we can decipher how increasing CO2 in combination with changing climate affect tree growth — over decades»

Over recent decades the remaining Amazon forest has acted as a vast «carbon sink» — absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases — helping to put a brake on the rate of climate change.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s recent report said the rate of warming over the past 15 years has been 0.05 degrees Celsius per decade — quite a bit smaller than the 0.12 degrees per decade calculated since 1951.

How does this relate generally to stratospheric cooling over recent decades and the apparent positive feedback whereby ozone loss causes further cooling which leads to further ozone loss... Here's a good overview news feature Ozone And Climate Change from the Earth Observatory at NASA.

The researchers found that, «despite large environmental change and management efforts over recent decades, water quality of lakes in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. has not overwhelmingly degraded or improved.»

A: Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.

As has long been noted, our feathered friends often provide «canary in a coal mine» early warnings as to the impacts and perils of environmental changes — and the dramatic shifts in their populations and behaviors over recent decades is ominous indeed.

This reflects the increasing understanding that in rapidly changing knowledge economies, critical thinking and problem solving are important parts of the new global skill set, whereas the labor market demand for routine cognitive competencies — the kinds of skills that are easy to teach and test — has declined rapidly over recent decades.

Over the last few years, and particularly in recent months, the home studio where the 83 - year - old painter Rose Wylie has lived and worked for decades in Kent, England has undergone what amounts to a décor change.

How does this relate generally to stratospheric cooling over recent decades and the apparent positive feedback whereby ozone loss causes further cooling which leads to further ozone loss... Here's a good overview news feature Ozone And Climate Change from the Earth Observatory at NASA.

However, in their recent publication in Climatic Change Letters, Howarth et al. (2011) report that their life - cycle evaluation of shale gas drilling suggests that shale gas has a larger GHG footprint than coal and that this larger footprint «undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over the coming decades».

A comprehensive new analysis of temperature changes over the continents through 2,000 years has found that a long slide in temperatures in most regions preceded the unusual global warming of recent decades, but with a lot of regional variability and other fascinating details.

As to underlying causes, neither the frequency of tropical or extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic are projected to appreciably change due to climate change, nor have there been indications of a change in their statistical behavior over this region in recent decades (see IPCC 2012 SREX report).

In March 2009, Michaels, under the auspices of the Cato Institute, circulated a draft advertisement that stated: «Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now... The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior.»

Sir David King has written: «Human activity is to blame for the rise in temperature over recent decades, and will be responsible for more changes in the future... If anybody tells you differently, they either have a vested interest in ignoring the scientific arguments or they are fools.»

In recent decades, a number of groups have tried combining sets of these proxy records together to construct long - term estimates of global temperature change over the last millennium or so.

The change in climate norms over recent decades makes this a non-trivial problem, and it may be that different methods are required for recent and long term records.

But, as we've already seen, the impact of coverage has changed significantly over recent decades.

Changes to the NAO may be delaying the arrival of these storms over recent decades, meaning the heaviest rain arrives in December rather than October, the study says.

A second study of heatwaves over recent decades in India has established a link between extremes of heat, climate change and mass death.

It would have to be shown that the recent temperature record can be statistically significantly distinguished from the statistically significant warming signal, which can be detected when performing an analysis that uses data over multiple decades, from the mid-1970ies to present, or from the mid-1970ies up to the time, when the alleged change in the behavior of the global atmospheric temperature is supposed to have occurred.

With the recent decline in solar flux and the shift to cool phases of ocean oscillations, natural climate change suggests that although glacier retreat and sea level rise will likely continue over the next few decades, the rates of sea level rise and glacier retreats will slow down.The next decade will provide the natural experiment to test the validity of competing hypotheses.

That's why the Indian Government's national think - tank NITI - Ayog noted in a recent report that «around three - quarters of our power comes from coal powered plants and this scenario will not change significantly over coming decades.»

Recent work (e.g., Hurrell 1995, 1996; Thompson and Wallace 1998; Corti et al., 1999) has suggested that the observed warming over the last few decades may be manifest as a change in frequency of these naturally preferred patterns (Chapters 2 and 7) and there is now considerable interest in testing the ability of climate models to simulate such weather regimes (Chapter 8) and to see whether the greenhouse gas forced runs suggest shifts in the residence time or transitions between such regimes on long time - scales.

A: Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.

Over recent decades, there have been many false claims, misrepresentations and untruths regarding climate change and global warming.

Changes in CO2 emissions attributed to Kaya Identity factors from 2015 to 2016 compared with the trend from the prior decade: This figure gives context to the most recent year ‐ to ‐ year change by comparing it to the average change for key parameters over the previous decade.

Oil used for transportation and coal used for electricity generation are the largest contributors to the rise in carbon dioxide that is the primary driver of observed changes in climate over recent decades.

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.

Spencer / Braswell and Lindzen / Choi look at the relationship between changes in ocean heat, cloud cover (directly affecting the amount of heat lost to space), and global surface temperature over recent decades.

«Thus, the «human» fingerprint is detectable in the changes we've seen in climate over recent decades.

My impression is that Dr. Longhurst favors natural climate variation explanations over the dominant CO2 «control knob» explanation for observed changes in recent decades.

These trends in extreme weather events are accompanied by longer - term changes as well, including surface and ocean temperature increase over recent decades, snow and ice cover decrease and sea level rise.

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».

The change in greenhouse gas forcing over a year in recent decades is some 0.032 W / m2.

The observed increase of atmospheric CO2 over recent decades could be an effect of such a change to the equilibrium state.

In recent years, many have expressed concerns that global terrestrial NPP should be falling due to the many real (and imagined) assaults on Earth's vegetation that have occurred over the past several decades — including wildfires, disease, pest outbreaks, and deforestation, as well as overly - hyped changes in temperature and precipitation.