Sentences with phrase «global increases during»

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

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For the sake of comparison, consider this: During the first quarter of Obama's second term in 2013, foreign travel to the U.S. increased 6.4 % and in the first three months of 2009, at the beginning of his first term and the global recession, it was down 14.3 %.

Mexico, which advertises its products during the primetime Super Bowl game, is the world's largest exporter and has been increasing production to keep up with growing global demand.

Like other corporations that sponsor the Olympics, export - oriented chaebols participating as sponsors during the games stand to gain by increasing their visibility on a global platform.

During the quarter, Equities operated in an environment characterized by a significant decline in global equity markets and a sharp increase in volatility levels.

Plans for retaliatory measures were expected to impact US soybean exports the most, since it was a US$ 12.4 billion market in 2017.6 Elsewhere, corn (+10.5 %, to US$ 3.88 per bushel) and wheat (+5.6 %, to US$ 4.51 a bushel) prices also rose during the period, with wheat finding primary support from dry weather - related stress in select US states.5 Global demand for grains is increasing.

Pension assets increased for a fourth successive quarter as global markets maintained their winning streak during the three months ending June 30...

At Societe Generale, named this year's global Best in Interest - Rate Derivatives, sales of these products grew substantially in 2016, making them the biggest contributor to a 42 % increase in revenues from fixed income, currencies and commodities trading during the third quarter of last year.

Market volatility increased dramatically during the third quarter, driven by global economic softness, interest rate uncertainty and commodity weakness.

First, product complexity increased significantly from 2002 to 2010, with no discernible drop during the global financial crisis.

But no sooner had China's industrial base started to show some positive effects from the pickup in global commodity prices — which has allowed its factories to push through some price increases after many years of producer price deflation — than several of the industrial materials most reliant on Chinese demand started to come under pressure during April.

Increases in global commodity prices, combined with strong demand conditions domestically and capacity constraints in some parts of the economy, have contributed to significant upstream price pressures in Australia during the past year.

The IIF said the investment value is impressive, considering it occurred «during one of the most volatile months in global financial markets since China's mini-devaluation,» and noted that growth in emerging markets is increasing at its fastest pace since 2011 — an encouraging sign of resilience despite the threat of a trade war.

Despite the increased global coverage during the State of Emergency and the heightened curiosity provoked by tighter press controls, most people outside of South Africa have not paid much heed to either of them, but probably are aware of Sun City, the African Las Vegas in Bophuthatswana.

The National Catholic Reporter: Bishops told religious liberty is in growing «global crisis» There is an increasing «global crisis» of «government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward religion,» an expert on religious liberty told the U.S. bishops Wednesday during their spring national meeting in Atlanta.

The global juice concentrate market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 6.69 % during the 2017 to 2021 period driven by new product launches, particular aseptic juice products, and increased marketing efforts, according to Research and Markets report.

The second Global Flexible Packaging Executive Forum, held during interpack 2017 in Dusseldorf, attracted significantly increased numbers compared with the first event.

Officials say Blue Diamond's global ingredient business — producing almond products for a variety of other foods — also increased sales by 35 percent during 2012.

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.

There are three main time scales to consider when it comes to warming: annual temperature variation from factors like warming in the Pacific Ocean during El Niño years, decadal temperature swings and long - term temperature increases from global warming.

The clock now reads six minutes from that end - of - days witching hour after it was changed during a press conference Thursday in New York City, citing an increased awareness and interest in stopping key threats to humanity (in particular nuclear conflict and global warming) since U.S. President Barack Obama took office about a year ago.

That's what researchers found when they looked back 56 million years, during a time when global temperatures increased about 6 ° for a period of 20,000 years.

A recent report by two leading nonprofits, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the 11 U.S. western states together have experienced an increase in average temperature during the last five years some 70 percent greater than the global average rise.

«While it is encouraging that most ecosystems were able to adapt during the PETM, today's global temperature could be increasing at a rate that is too fast for plants and animals to adjust.»

During the PETM, atmospheric carbon dioxide more than doubled and global temperatures rose by 5 degrees Celsius, an increase that is comparable with the change that may occur by later next century on modern Earth.

Projected global warming will likely decrease the extent of temperate drylands by a third over the remainder of the 21st century coupled with an increase in dry deep soil conditions during agricultural growing season.

During the early 2000s, environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed something unexpected: the global concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4)-- which had increased for decades, driven by methane emissions from fossil fuels and agriculture — inexplicably leveled off.

«Detailed chemical measurements in Antarctic ice cores show that massive, halogen - rich eruptions from the West Antarctic Mt. Takahe volcano coincided exactly with the onset of the most rapid, widespread climate change in the Southern Hemisphere during the end of the last ice age and the start of increasing global greenhouse gas concentrations,» according to McConnell, who leads DRI's ultra-trace chemical ice core analytical laboratory.

The increase in carbon dioxide levels recorded so far has played the most important role in pushing average global temperatures up by 1 °C (1.8 °F) during the last 200 years.

Global warming is desiccating the region in two ways: higher temperatures that increase evaporation in already parched soils, and weaker winds that bring less rain from the Mediterranean Sea during the wet season (November to April).

Their research shows that during the past 32 years there have been widespread increases in both plant growth and evaporation due to recent global climate trends.

During the opening keynote address, former NBA basketball star and U.S. global cultural ambassador Kareem Abdul - Jabbar set the tone for the summit: In order for the United States to stay economically competitive with emerging markets in China, India, and elsewhere, it will have to overhaul its education system to increase its focus on critical thinking and on applied science, math, and tech skills.

The agency last week warned in a report that more people will die during heat waves, freshwater supplies will shrink, and diseases will spread in coming years, among other impacts of increasing global temperatures.

Abstract — James L. Crowley — 12 November 2010 Effects of Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene - Eocene Boundary on Neotropical Vegetation Temperatures in tropical regions are estimated to have increased by 3 ° to 5 °C, compared with Late Paleocene values, during the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, 56.3 million years ago)......... eastern Colombia and western Venezuela.

That increase is comparable to the increase in global temperature during the 20th century of about 0.6 °C.

According to these data, the AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE for the first 9 months of 2008 is LOWER than the average from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th century.

As a consequence, their results are strongly influenced by the low increase in observed warming during the past decade (about 0.05 °C / decade in the 1998 — 2012 period compared to about 0.12 °C / decade from 1951 to 2012, see IPCC 2013), and therewith possibly also by the incomplete coverage of global temperature observations (Cowtan and Way 2013).

The researchers analysed resting and active jumping oxygen consumption rates in snails exposed to seawater at the normal temperature of 29 °C and at the increased temperature of 34 °C, projected to be reached during the next 100 years due to global warming.

In the central United States, for example, observational data indicate that rainfall increased, surface air temperature decreased, and surface humidity increased during the summer over the course of the 20th century concurrently with increases in both agricultural production and global GHG emissions.

While natural global warming during the ice ages was initiated by increased solar radiation caused by cyclic changes to Earth's orbital parameters, there is no evident mechanism for correcting Anthropogenic Global Warming over the next several centglobal warming during the ice ages was initiated by increased solar radiation caused by cyclic changes to Earth's orbital parameters, there is no evident mechanism for correcting Anthropogenic Global Warming over the next several centGlobal Warming over the next several centuries.

Scientists studying leaf fossils found greatly increased signs of insect damage during the last great global warming event around 56 million years ago.

For example, if global warming were due to increased solar output, we would expect to see all layers of the atmosphere warm, and more warming during the day when the surface is bombarded with solar radiation than at night.

We also show a doubling (108.1 % increase) of global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons (> 1.0 σ above the historical mean) and an increased global frequency of long fire weather seasons across 62.4 million km2 (53.4 %) during the second half of the study period.

The global increase in ocean heat content during the period 1993 to 2003 in two ocean models constrained by assimilating altimetric sea level and other observations (Carton et al., 2005; Köhl et al., 2006) is considerably larger than these observational estimates.

Based on the linear trend, for the 0 to 3,000 m layer for the period 1961 to 2003 there has been an increase of ocean heat content of approximately 14.2 ± 2.4 × 1022 J, corresponding to a global ocean volume mean temperature increase of 0.037 °C during this period.

A major feature of Figure 5.1 is the relatively large increase in global ocean heat content during 1969 to 1980 and a sharp decrease during 1980 to 1983.

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.

We first demonstrate less variability of global Pearson correlations with respect to the two chosen networks using a sliding - window approach during WM task compared to rest; then we show that the macroscopic decrease in variations in correlations during a WM task is also well characterized by the combined effect of a reduced number of dominant CAPs, increased spatial consistency across CAPs, and increased fractional contributions of a few dominant CAPs.

During El Niño events, excess heat from the tropical Pacific flows into the atmosphere increasing the global temperature.

Sugar (and other refined carbohydrate) consumption is a key reason for the global overfat pandemic, quickly changing the metabolism to not only increase body fat, but reduce the ability to burn it even during exercise.