Sentences with phrase «increased at the unprecedented rate»

(NaturalHealth365) Diabetes, which currently affects more than 8 percent of the American population, is increasing at an unprecedented rate.

And although the problem has been around since the 1930s, rising sea levels mean these leaks are increasing at unprecedented rates.

In the last 20 years, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 has increased at the unprecedented rate of 1.5 ppm a year.

Former council corporate deputy and appointee, David Lockwood said: «This deputyship provision is very much needed, and as latest figure show demand is increasing at an unprecedented rate.

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«Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up,» Mills said last month while introducing the borrowers rights bill in Washington.

Karen Mills, former head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the keynote speaker at the event said, «Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up.

Their study concluded that heat has increased in the deep oceans at an unprecedented rate in recent years, with approximately 30 percent being sequestered below 700 meters since the year 2000.

Bullet point # 1 reads: «Global mean temperatures are increasing at rates unprecedented in human history, with human activity a major contributory factor through release of «greenhouse gases» such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

Indeed, an Australian reporter even suggested that «years of global warming and increased CO2 emissions have caused these trees to grow at an unprecedented rate, providing more fuel for these fires.»

More relevantly though man is increasing CO2 at a rate unprecedented in earth's history — as far as we know and CO2 has significant impact on radiative transfer in the atmosphere and pH in the surface ocean.

And that global temperatures are now increasing at a lightning rate that appears to be unprecedented in at least the past 60 million years.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

«Because greenhouse gas concentrations are increasing at rates unprecedented for the past 800,000 years, human - caused warming will be superimposed on the «natural» trend,» he said.

Since the Industrial Revolution humans have been releasing an increased amount of greenhouse gasses such as CO2 and methane at an unprecedented rate.

The report says sales of high - end homes are growing at an unprecedented rate, with Toronto, Calgary and Winnipeg reporting sales increases of over 40 per cent, year - over-year, in the first two quarters of 2005.