Sentences with phrase «fairly constant increase»

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There is a fairly constant onslaught on the fundamental right to life — from Ireland with its proposed referendum on permitting abortion, to campaigns for increased access to abortion and euthanasia in many parts of the world.

Kerpelman's research shows that over the past three decades the number of disastrous floods has increased while the number of earthquakes has stayed fairly constant.

The number of senior faculty positions in the Arts and Sciences college at Yale has remained fairly constant since 1992, the number of junior faculty members has decreased by over 20 %, and the number of postdocs has increased by over 200 %.

In a computer simulation that includes detailed interactions between wind and sea, thick ice — more than 6 feet deep — increased by about 1 percent per year from 1979 to 2010, while the amount of thin ice stayed fairly constant.

Total column water vapour has increased over the global oceans by 1.2 ± 0.3 % per decade from 1988 to 2004, consistent in pattern and amount with changes in SST and a fairly constant relative humidity.

Although the number of male primary school teachers in Australia is not declining — the number of full time male primary teachers in Australia has remained fairly constant over the last 25 years — the number of female primary teachers has increased dramatically, causing a proportional decline of men.

Hansen's B scenario assumed a constant increase of CO2 in the atmosphere per annum (based on the values at the time the paper was written) which is fairly close to what occurred.

The unrealized warming has been fairly constant over the past ~ 50 years whereas the radiative forcing increases the further back in time you choose your initial point.

One of the key comments for me in M&W is — «On the other hand, limiting the validation exercise to these two blocks is problematic because both blocks have very dramatic and obvious features: the temperatures in the initial block are fairly constant and are the coldest in the instrumental record whereas the temperatures in the final block are rapidly increasing and are the warmest in the instrumental record.

Residence time in LPJmL remains fairly constant until about 2050 and then declines rapidly, whereas in VISIT it stabilizes in 2050 and in HYBRID4 it then increases more rapidly.

Let's assume it is fairly constant — so it doesn't increase the heat in the atmosphere merely maintains it at a steady state.

If you blank out the spike, there is no longer much evidence of a plateau, just a steady increase at a fairly constant rate, with a bit of variability superimposed on top.

This curve is statistically speaking a «random walk», with no robust statistical correlation with atmospheric CO2, which has seen no cycles but has increased at a fairly constant CAGR of around 0.4 % per year since measurements started at Mauna Loa in 1958 and at an estimated somewhat slower rate before this, based on ice core data.

You posted a curve of the atmospheric CO2 concentration, which has been increasing at a fairly constant exponential rate of around 0.5 % per year over the past decades.

The fact that it is seems to be a fairly constant 3.2 mm / year despite rapidly increasing ice melt indicates that a lot more of the heat must be going into the lower ocean

Whilst the rate of homicide has remained fairly constant since 1990, violent crime has increased due in some measure to the increase in knife and gun crime and to the change in statistical recording.

For boys physical bullying remains fairly consistent throughout the school years with a constant increase of relational bullying behaviour.

Cases increased slightly between 1999 and 2001, then leveled off until 2006, although the rate stayed fairly constant throughout that time period.