Sentences with phrase «changes accelerated the trend»

Just as the charter school plan continued the pre-Katrina trend of decreasing board control of New Orleans public schools, the post-hurricane changes accelerated the trend of increasing state involvement and paved the way for many more charter schools.

Not exact matches

«With the changing demographics and mobile habits of millennials coming to the forefront, these trends will continue to accelerate and gain importance.»

Decision - making was bogging down just as social media and other trends accelerated the pace at which customer tastes change.

Several factors, including policy changes and peak - globalization trends, could potentially cause inflation to accelerate faster than many investors» subdued expectations based on recent decades of disinflation.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

«The overall impact of changes to the SALT deduction will accelerate the trend of hardworking individuals and businesses already leaving our state — further eroding New York's tax base.»

Particularly worrisome is the accelerated downward trend in the last few years, signaling that some populations just may not be able to cope with fast - changing climatic conditions heaped on top of other existing pressures.

Much of this change has occurred over the last several decades indicating that the warming trend accelerated over the 1925 — 2016 period.

Change following disaster generally follows the pre-disaster trajectory, with the disaster even accelerating previous trends.

Looking at records of the changes in length of day since 1860, e.g. here [http://www.john-daly.com/press/lods1860.gif] it's clear that there is no discernible trend which would suggest long - term or accelerating increase in the Earth's diameter.

I realize I was trespassing with anecdote in a discussion about science and climate, which requires more than a decade to begin to show trends, but it seems to me that as recent incidents display to some extent climate change under way, it is unwise to ignore the future, which might just accelerate rather than boinging back to neutral.

This coincides with the change from accelerating melting to decelerating melting shown in the decal trends.

The NAO's prominent upward trend from the 1950s to the 1990s caused large regional changes in air temperature, precipitation, wind and storminess, with accompanying impacts on marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and contributed to the accelerated rise in global mean surface temperature (e.g., Hurrell 1996; Ottersen et al. 2001; Thompson et al. 2000; Visbeck et al. 2003; Stenseth et al. 2003).

Concentration in 2008 from Pieter Tans, «Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide — Mauna Loa,» NOAA / ESRL, at www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends, viewed 7 April 2009; R. A. Houghton, «Carbon Flux to the Atmosphere from Land - Use Changes: 1850 — 2005,» in Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, TRENDS: A Compendium of Data on Global Change (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2008); Josep G. Canadell et al., «Contributions to Accelerating Atmospheric CO2 Growth from Economic Activity, Carbon Intensity, and Efficiency of Natural Sinks,» Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.

You have to take the long - term trends and accelerate them in the future, and then you have a chance of doing something that lasts, rather than something that is immediately negated by climate change.

Indeed, the AR5 report will help to accelerate the trend of insurance companies looking to encourage risk reduction to climate change through the hardening of key infrastructure and other vulnerable capital assets.

It is the 30 - year significant downward trend in Arctic sea ice extent, which has accelerated in recent years, that is the important indicator of climate change.

The loss of sea ice also has the potential to accelerate global warming trends and to change climate patterns.

These changes can locally accelerate, reduce, or even reverse the global - mean trend, especially if the trend is not too much larger than that observed recently.

Your use of current trends ignores that these changes are likely to be accelerating.

It is known to all, including the scientists who wrote the IPCC report, that the change in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is driven by 2 things: 1) An accelerating upward trend in CO2 due to human caused emissions.

The trend is enough to support brick - and - mortar expansion, say industry experts, a welcome change in an industry that is experiencing an accelerated pace of store closings.