Sentences with phrase «global increase»

Researchers have found that glacial erosion and melting ice caps both played a key role in driving the observed global increase in volcanic activity at the end of the last ice age.

The red line at the end (not included in the paper) illustrates the further global increase since 2000 by 5 - 6 cm from satellite data.

The red line at the end (not included in the paper) illustrates the further global increase since 2000 by 5 - 6 cm from satellite data.

However this scenario only sees an 18 % global increase in coal demand, and leaves nearly three - quarters of the energy poor still without access to energy.

An average global increase of 4 °C translates to a rise of up to 15 °C at the North Pole.

However, the available data now show evidence for global increases in upper - tropospheric specific humidity over the past two decades (Figure TS.8).

[8] Weather systems passing through California originate globally, and the average global increase in temperature has been 1 °C, indicating significant risk that storms arriving in California may be warming and converting additional snow pack to mountain run - off.

«Our analysis shows that Americans will pay significantly more for electricity, see slower economic growth and fewer jobs, and have less disposable income, while a slight reduction in carbon emissions will be overwhelmed by global increases,» Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy, said in a statement.

Coupled simulations, using six different models to determine the ocean biological response to climate warming between the beginning of the industrial revolution and 2050 (Sarmiento et al., 2004), showed global increases in primary production of 0.7 to 8.1 %, but with large regional differences, which are described in Chapter 4.

• «Based on updated studies, AR4 [the 2007 IPCC report] conclusions regarding global increasing trends in drought since the 1970s were probably overstated.»

Because ocean warming is expected to continue throughout the rest of the century, «we expect a continued global increase in marine heatwave frequency and duration in the future with implications for marine biodiversity and the goods and services ocean ecosystems provide,» the researchers note in the study.

«We found global increases in many dozens of genes,» says Tavazoie, «so we analyzed their sequences and found that the majority of them had significantly increased numbers of these two specific codons.»

Unless mankind takes strong steps to halt and reverse the rapid global increase of fossil fuel use and the other activities that cause climate change, and does so in a very few years, severe climate change is inevitable.

Stern's comments came as Jim Yong Kim, the new president of the World Bank, also at Davos, gave a grave warning about the risk of conflicts over natural resources should the forecast of a four - degree global increase above the historical average prove accurate.

(This story has been corrected to reflect that the value of purchases placed on Tmall Global increased 179 percent in the December quarter.)

Australia ranks second only to China in equity capital markets issuance in the Asia - Pacific region (excluding Japan) this year, as the region's rise in issuance mirrors a broader global increase.

IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.

«In the last century, there has been an unprecedented global increase in infectious diseases and a concomitant decline in and homogenization of biodiversity,» said Rohr.

With global increase in obesity and diet - related metabolic diseases, interest has intensified in ancestral or «Palaeolithic» diets, not least because — to a first order of approximation — human physiology should be optimized for the nutritional profiles we have experienced during our evolution.

This increase in light exposure has paralleled global increases in obesity.»

Then U.S. shale gas production could account for about 12 percent of the global methane increase over that time (it scales at approximately 4 percent of global increase per 1 percent leak rate).

That is why HadCRUT4 is more sensitive to ENSO than other surface temperature indices, and a significant factor in why making the index truly global increases the trend significantly.

The mighty global increase of methane concentration in the air that haunted humanity in the 20th century has been reduced to almost nothing since 2000.

«Global Increasing Trends in Annual Maximum Daily Precipitation.»

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).

Global increases remarkably linearly throughout the century in five vegetation models (i.e., ORCHIDEE, JeDi, JULES, SDGVM, and VISIT).

Global increases more - or-less linearly in all models up to about +4 °C, but with different slopes.

Ocean surface temperatures increase 0,44 deg C, total global increase 0,55 deg C, land air increase 0,9 deg C, low troposphere (RSS and UAH) 0,44 deg C. I think you would get much of the same impression of the differences with a different timespan.

As such, global increases during this time period are typically attributed to the rapid industrialization of countries such as China and India.

Bearing out this point was the Green Revolution — the phenomenal global increase in farm yields in the mid-20th century.

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«Our analysis shows that Americans will pay significantly more for electricity, see slower economic growth and fewer jobs, and have less disposable income, while a slight reduction in carbon emissions will be overwhelmed by global increases.»

The 2013 data update included new Landsat 8 data (launched in February 2013) as well as re-processed 2010 - 2012 data from Landsat TM and ETM +, which increased the amount of change that could be detected, resulting in some changes in calculated tree cover loss for 2011 (global increase of 6 %) and 2012 (increase of 22 %).

Climate scientists have already shown that increasing greenhouse gas concentrations as a consequence of human activity are partially responsible for the average global increase in heavy precipitation.

The WTM global report unveiled on Monday reported a rapid global increase in tourism with world - wide arrivals rising 12 per cent to around 526million in the first eight months of 2004, compared with the same period last year.

A 65 % global increase above the 2004 primary energy demand (464 EJ, 11,204 Mtoe) is anticipated by 2030 under business as usual (IEA, 2006b).

MO: I think the global increase in demand for LNG will support Canadian entry into that market, and North American entry into that market.

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