Sentences with phrase «faster than in the recent past»

«Although projected growth is faster than in the recent past,» says Gigi Cuckler, the lead author for the study, «it is still slower than the growth experienced over the longer term.»

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Featuring individual characters in alien circumstances, the ten new canvases in her second solo show at JTT are faster reads than those from the recent past, but no less haunting for that.

Our high assessed confidence that the recent warming is mostly human - driven, and that the costs will become large if the warming becomes large, do not primarily rest on how much warmer or colder today is than some particular time in the past, or even on how fast the recent changes are relative to those in the past.

For instance, I linked to several studies confirming that recent sea level rises are occuring at a faster rate than that in the past, including studies of the Mediterranean.

Arctic ice melt is accelerating even faster than the most recent projections — temperatures over the past six years are the highest since measurements began in 1880.

Aerial CO2 fertilization is the reason for the increase in plant growth, crop yield, and presumably tree growth for the recent past, where some trees grow at faster rates than others by increasing airborne carbon dioxide concentrations.

The fact that poor Asian countries with most of the world's population have enjoyed faster economic growth rates than the rich countries over the past 30 years is probably the most important socio - economic fact of our time, but it wasn't foreseen by the modellers and, incredibly, many in the IPCC milieu still deny that it's happened: three IPCC chapters (Chapters 1 and 9 of the WG II report and Chapter 1 of WG III report) go out of their way to assert that global inequality has been increasing in recent decades.