Sentences with phrase «global average rates»

Britain is already below the global average rate of corporation tax of 23.63 % and, for comparison, the US charges a 40 % rate of corporation tax and Germany levies 29.72 %.
That means the Alaskan rate was very close to the global average rate.
Average arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years.
The Arctic Ocean is mostly just that: ocean, which is getting warmer, and the northernmost parts of the globe have been warming at twice the global average rate.
The global average rate of sea level rise measured by TOPEX / Poseidon satellite altimetry during 1993 to 2003 is 3.1 ± 0.7 mm yr — 1.
However, temperatures in Namibia have been rising at three times the global average rate for the twentieth century.9 A warmer, drier climate could threaten the country's valuable tourism sector.10
Cook Inlet remains in the final plan, with a lease sale scheduled in 2021, even though Alaska is on the front lines of climate change and warming at twice the global average rate.
Tamino doesn't want to admit that there's been no detectable acceleration in the global average rate of sea - level rise in response to ~ 2/3 century of steadily increasing CO2 emissions and levels, but that's what the data unambiguously shows.
this brings my estimate of the total global average rate of increase maxima: means: minima 9:3:1 http://www.letterdash.com/HenryP/henrys-pool-table-on-global-warming
But since then sea - level has risen there at 1 1/2 mm / year (approximately equal to the global average rate):
Average Arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years.
For sixty years, tide gauges have shown that sea level in the Chesapeake is rising at twice the global average rate and faster than elsewhere on the East Coast.
India's emissions are growing at twice the global average rate, increasing 125 percent between 1990 and 2008.
Sea levels in New York City are rising at almost twice the global average rate, and the NPCC projects that sea levels will continue to rise in the coming decades, which will put more residents, buildings and infrastructure at risk.

Not exact matches

Represents percentage change compared to prior year period in average global rental rate per day on power units using constant currency.
Ecommerce companies show robust double digit growth with an average global growth rate pegged at about 20 percent year on year.
This makes the U.S. more competitive with the rest of the world, which has a global corporate average rate of 24 %.
The average success rate of these signals, which are generated from global markets, is roughly 75 %, meaning that 75 % of signalled trades finish in the money.
Analysis of the S&P Global Inc. (NYSE: SPGI) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of October 5 and a Sell Date of December 29 has resulted in a geometric average return of 2.39 % above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years.
The average efficiency score in the Equity: Global Ex-U.S. - Total Market segment is 81 out of 100, with the iShares Core MSCI Total International Stock ETF (IXUS) obtaining the highest rating of 99 out of 100.
This will result in a conversion rate that more closely tracks the global average across institutional bitcoin exchanges.
Rising interest rates in the midst of weak U.S. and global economies will put additional pressure on the average American.
The new CoinDesk index represents an average of leading global bitcoin exchanges but the formula is flexible enough to maintain only those exchange rates that conform to certain minimum criteria for price discovery and validity.
That doesn't mean the average voter has the same view,» said Andres Jaime, global FX and rates strategist at Barclays.
Rich global valuations, predominantly thin risk premiums, and uniformly rising global interest rates haven't rewarded investors historically, on average.
Global bioplastics for the packaging industry is forecast to grow from 2017 — 2022 at an annual average rate of 17 % to a market value of almost $ 7.2 billion, according to a Smithers Pira report.
Luxury for Less combines flights and hotels powered by global travel search engine Skyscanner, together with Travelex exchange rate figures and the average spend of past holiday goers to create a luxury holiday.
«I am happy to inform you that despite the general shrinking of the global economy by two per cent in year 2010 and a not too favourable outlook for 2012, Nigeria remains a growing economy, achieving an average growth rate of about six per cent in the last three years.
With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better...
With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better communication techniques.
Experts at the Global Carbon Project and the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom found emissions globally could drop as much as 0.6 percent this year — after growing at that rate in 2014 — a sharp difference from the 2.4 percent annual growth rate the world has averaged in the past decade.
To be more specific, the models project that over the next 20 years, for a range of plausible emissions, the global temperature will increase at an average rate of about 0.2 degree C per decade, close to the observed rate over the past 30 years.
The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.
My own recent global compilation of data from soil production studies, published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, revealed an average rate of 0.00067 to 0.00142 inch a year — equivalent to 700 to 1,500 years to form an inch of soil.
The campaign was founded in 2003 by 30 people with AU$ 54,000 in donations and has grown more steadily over the last 10 years to about 5 million global members, raising AU$ 136 million in 2014 with an average annual growth rate of over 100 % (ref.
A striking characteristic of the most recent 21st Century negative phase of the IPO is that on this occasion global average surface temperatures continued to rise, just at a slower rate.
«The findings for Niassa National Reserve are particularly encouraging in the African context because deforestation rates on the continent are five times higher than the global average, and many protected areas in Africa are losing a lot more forest.»
In their latest paper, published in the February issue of Nature Geoscience, Dr Philip Goodwin from the University of Southampton and Professor Ric Williams from the University of Liverpool have projected that if immediate action isn't taken, Earth's global average temperature is likely to rise to 1.5 °C above the period before the industrial revolution within the next 17 - 18 years, and to 2.0 °C in 35 - 41 years respectively if the carbon emission rate remains at its present - day value.
«Warming in the Andes is occurring at a rate nearly twice the global average and it's already impacting water resources as shown in this research.
The report finds that the U.S. is particularly vulnerable to projected sea level rise; areas such as the Northeast and western Gulf of Mexico could face rates that exceed global average sea level rise.
Average global land and ocean temperatures have climbed at a rate of 0.2 °C per decade since 1976, according to data compiled by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Surface water in the region is warming at twice the rate of the global average.
The atmosphere in the polar regions has warmed at about twice the average rate of global warming with Arctic coasts experiencing a rise in the occurrence of storm surges.
Global mean temperatures averaged over land and ocean surfaces, from three different estimates, each of which has been independently adjusted for various homogeneity issues, are consistent within uncertainty estimates over the period 1901 to 2005 and show similar rates of increase in recent decades.
Dan Kellog, an engineer (not climate scientist) on another blog, has raised the issue of once a glacier has melted away, the local temps could rise dramatically (and perhaps, averaged altogether around the world as glaciers melt away, increase the rate of global warming).
a, Global annual average (July to June) net TOA flux from CERES observations and 0 — 700 and 0 — 1,800 m ocean heating rates from PMEL / JPL / JIMAR.
Reductions in emissions from deforestation, in particular in the Amazon, have made a major contribution to global efforts to control global warming; since 2005 the Amazon has seen its deforestation rate drop 77 % below the historic average.
Overall, the global annual temperature has increased at an average rate of 0.07 °C (0.13 °F) per decade since 1880 and at an average rate of 0.17 °C (0.31 °F) per decade since 1970.»
The global land and ocean temperature during January has increased at an average rate of +0.07 °C (+0.13 °F) per decade since 1880; however, the average rate of increase is twice as great since 1975.
So, had Bárðarbunga / Holuhraun continued for a full year at it's average rate it would have been close to 20 Mt SO2 which is about one fifth of the global anthropogenic emissions.
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