Sentences with phrase «general global increase»

Conversely, Dai (2011a, b) found a general global increase in drought, although with substantial regional variation and individual events dominating trend signatures in some regions (e.g., the 1970s prolonged Sahel drought and the 1930s drought in the USA and Canadian Prairies).

Not exact matches

Perhaps it makes sense to conclude with the more general observation that changes in the size of global capital flows and the accompanying imbalances increase the importance of sustaining the credibility of monetary policy, because they increase the costs of a loss of credibility or a negative shock to credibility.

Lululemon increased selling, general and administrative expenses by $ 42.2 million last year, primarily driven by the digital marketing push, according to financial documents, and debuted its first global campaign in 2017 with «This is Yoga.»

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Global warming is causing not only a general increase in temperatures, but also an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as flooding, heat waves and droughts.

The models showed a general increase in extreme rainfall but the global warming signal was not strong enough yet to rise above the expected natural variation.

A rise in the global lending rate increases the cost of servicing debt and magnifies the risk of sovereign defaults in general.»

But the global - mean rainfall is thermodynamically constrained to increase more slowly, so we expect a general tendency to increased drought as well.

NLD aims to reverse this downward trend and inspire students in order to increase general science - based literacy, as well as to stay competitive in the global market.

General Motors in the past expressed its desire to be a global leader in electric vehicle sales by 2018, by increasing vehicle range and keeping costs low enough to undercut competitors like Tesla.

General Motors will increase production of the Chevrolet Bolt later this year to meet rising global demand for the battery - electric vehicle.

Global warming has become a huge environmental issue; therefore it has become indispensable to increase awareness and knowledge about it among general public all over the world.

This generally offers potential for significant long term valuation gains from lower costs & rising occupancy, increased sales on a «retail» basis (to satisfy a rising home ownership rate), the general relative convergence of property values within Germany, and likely appreciation from a particularly low valuation base in absolute (and European / global) terms.

Larry Swedroe has an article looking at momentum in general that's worth reading, in particular the line about how the strategy becomes less valuable as correlations between global markets increase.

Talking about the increase in frequency, James Ginns, Cathay Pacific regional general manager, Europe, said: «Boosting our Manchester flights into a daily service highlights the popularity of the route and the global importance of the Northern Powerhouse.

There are situations, for instance of general global warming where this temperature could increase, and yet not imply any change in the THC.

Soundbite version: «Global warming is expected to increase sea surface temperatures, create a thicker and warmer ocean surface layer, and increase the moisture in the atmosphere over the oceans — all conditions that should lead to a general increase in hurricane intensity and maybe frequency.»

«Mercado et al. use the HadGEM2 - A general circulation model to simulate the effect of late twentieth century «global dimming» and associated increases in the diffuse radiation fraction on global carbon storage.»

But with the shift in the Southern Oscillation from El Nino to La Nina and the long - term effects of global warming starting to become apparent, we can expect more severe cyclones for at least the next few years, and a general increase in the severity of storms and similar events.

WMO director - general Michel Jarraud said it was still possible for a global climate summit starting in Paris on Monday to agree steps to could keep the rise within 2C (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times, a target set down in 2010 to try to prevent a dramatic increase in extreme weather.

Given that it is all eventually going to come back to the issue of the gradual gain we've been seeing in ocean heat content over many decades, the most accurate thing we can say is that 2014's warmth is very consistent with the general accumulation of energy in Earth's climate system caused by increasing GH gases and is well accounted for dynamically in global climate models.

And such slight warming over next few decades, will cause animal extinction, and will melt Greenland in some dramatic fashion, and will continue cause increase in crop production and a general increase in global vegetation.

This shift is caused by global climatic warming that leads to higher energy in the general circulation: The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)-- known more commonly as monsoon — increases in strength due to increased convection and convergence.

While this project will threaten our groundwater, waterways, and general health, increase gas prices and world dependency on oil, and further forestall a necessary shift to a green economy (Read more: TransCanada: «Keystone XL National Security Risk»), President Obama is expediting pipeline construction and has remained mute on global warming.

Continuing with enthusiasm throughout his career, Bob moved into a new forum in retirement in which his goal was to restore integrity to science in general, where imposters had torn down its very fabric through promotion of the popular fallacy regarding the influence of carbon dioxide in causing increased Global Warming.

«It is not surprising then that global warming can be linked directly to the observed increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and to human industrial activity in general.»

Like many other conference speakers and attendees, Secretary - General Ban cited the recent droughts, floods, and Tropical Storm Sandy as proof of the dire consequences of man - made global warming, even though many studies and scientists (including scientists who usually fall into the climate alarmist category) have stated that there is no evidence to support claims that «extreme weather» has been increasing in frequency and / or magnitude in recent years, or that extreme events (hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, etc.) have anything to do with increased CO2 levels.

''... the three researchers — all from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute of Moss Landing, California — write that «general conclusions from the satellite and in situ time - series presented here are that PP [primary production] is increasing globally,» and they note that global marine PP appears to have risen over the past several decades in association with multi-decadal variations in climate.

Despite these reclassifications, the general conclusions are similar from previous work: (1) global temperature anomalies for each phase (El Niño, La Niña, and neutral) have been increasing over time and (2) on average, global temperatures during El Niño years are higher than neutral years, which in turn, are higher than La Niña years.

«BIG increase in snowfall in Antarctica with «The effect of the extra snow locked up in Antarctica is to slightly slow a general trend in global sea - level rise.»

For instance, the global average temperature (as reported by NOAA, Hadley / CRU and NASA / GISS ground - based measurements, as well as RSS and UA - H satellite based measurements) has failed to increase in the 21st century the way the General Circulation Models have said they should despite the fact that CO2 has been rising unabated.

In fact, given the strong correlation between increasing prosperity and increasing consciousness of environmental issues, I think a strong case can be made that using our finite financial resources for private investments to provide the people of the developing world with expanded energy supplies and the expertise to efficiently utilize them to build their prosperity will not only lead to profound improvements in their personal existence, but will lead to a general improvement in the state of the global environment.

Mr. Thomson said that he had recently met with Petteri Taalas, the Secretary - General of the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), who confirmed that the world is currently on track towards a 3 to 4 °C increase in global temperatures.

While there is much to contest in the published temperature records, there is general acceptance that there has been a net increase in global mean temperature similar to that shown in Professor Nordhaus's first graph.

In general, the pattern of change in return values for 20 - year extreme temperature events from an equilibrium simulation for doubled CO2 with a global atmospheric model coupled to a non-dynamic slab ocean shows moderate increases over oceans and larger increases over land masses (Zwiers and Kharin, 1998; Figure 9.29).

Other studies have shown a similar effect: Republicans who think they understand the global warming issue best are least concerned about it; and among Republicans and those with higher levels of distrust of science in general, learning more about the issue doesn't increase one's concern about it.

Through the many ways he sought to increase understanding of the implications of climate research among the general public, policy makers and global leaders, Stephen Schneider worked to make the world a better place for us all.»

Global Warming: Overview and Causes Global Warming, the general increase in the earth's near - surface air and ocean temperatures, remains a pressing issue in a society that has expanded its industrial use since the mid-twentieth century.

Modern day climate change, sometimes called global warming, corresponds to the general increase in the earth's temperature.

While there is general agreement about the modern global warming trend (since 1850), scientific controversies increase as climate research moves further back in time, and predictions move further into the future.

However, changes to climate that come with AGW or would tend to come with GW in general are more than a global average surface temperature increase, and ACC could be seen as a more all - encompassing term.

... And with a general increase in SSTs, I expect certain kinds of low - frequency variability, in particular those in which SST anomalies produce a perturbation wave train in the westerlies allowing for global teleconnections, to be more sensitive to the same SST anomalies, because of the exponential temperature dependence of water vapor concentration (involved in latent heating, enhances deep convection, etc.).

Furthermore, we global models also consistently show an increase in el - nino frequency, which is known to cause a major decline at least in major hurricanes making landfall in the U.S., and probably in major Atlantic hurricanes in general.

There is very high confidence that models reproduce the general features of the global - scale annual mean surface temperature increase over the historical period, including the more rapid warming in the second half of the 20th century, and the cooling immediately following large volcanic eruptions...

We are seeing climate disruption leading to rising food prices, loss of biodiversity, deteriorating ecosystem services, increased chances of vast epidemics and nuclear resource wars and a general reduction in the odds of avoiding the first catastrophic collapse of a global civilization.

There is medium confidence for a detectable human contribution to past observed increases in heavy precipitation in general over global land regions with adequate coverage for analysis (e.g., IPCC AR5) and over the United States (Easterling et al. 2017), although an anthropogenic influence has not been formally detected for hurricane precipitation alone.

I see a general and continual increase in temperature in the global and Australian data — and I have also noted that James Hansen's predictions are more - or-less on track.»

In general, global warming can trigger asthma, and other illnesses, through increased baseline pollen and ground - level pollutants such as ozone.

The global warming folks would argue that the effect should be doubly pronounced, since they claim that we are seeing not just a general heating, but an increase in volatility (ie more extreme variation around the mean).

Having said that, we think that there is a growing attention to various kinds of data, particularly the more reliable it becomes, particularly with a new breed of general counsels who are more metric driven, more focused on public sources of data, and who are under increasing pressure to drive efficiency in what I like to call the global age of more for less.