Sentences with phrase «doubled over the past century»

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A recent study of bank credit in 17 countries over the last 120 years by Oscar Jorda, Mauritz Schularick and Alan Taylor found that the share of mortgage loans in banks» total lending portfolios has roughly doubled over the course of the past century — from about 30 per cent in 1900 to about 60 per cent today.

Looking at data from 1855 through 2005, Webster and Holland found that the total number of tropical cyclones per year doubled in that time, from an average of six at the beginning of last century to 14 over the past decade.

The trend is 3.3 mm / year, about double the 20th century trend and clearly an acceleration over the past 50 years.

This article illustrates some cases of a true temperature history more like a double peak than a hockey stick over the past century.

In many parts of the mid-latitudes, including the United States and Europe, forest clearing over the past few centuries has likely doubled to quadrupled the frequency of extremely hot, dry summers.

As the Climate Council has reported, hot days have doubled in Australia over the past half - century.

In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.

The quality of feed has also improved with pasture improvements so there is no doubt at all that Australian livestock have made zero contribution to the doubling of global atmospheric methane over the past century.

Dr Richard S. Lindzen states: «If one assumes all warming over the past century is due to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing, then the derived sensitivity of the climate to a doubling of CO2 is less than 1C.»

Climate models and efforts to explain global temperature changes over the past century suggest that the average global temperature will rise by between 1.5 º and 4.5 ºC if the atmospheric COconcentration doubles.

Overseas born Aussies are now at their highest number in over a century, making up twenty eight percent of the overall population - and those born in China have doubled in the past decade.

Added to the merger with Century 21 RCP Realty in 1998, Century 21 Request Realty has now more than doubled its sales force over the past two years.»