Sentences with phrase «large relative increases»

In the past few years, this country is recording the largest relative increase in annual carbon emissions.

Although Turkey is the world's fourth largest investor in coal, recording the largest relative increase in annual GHG emissions between 1990 — 2010 with Ankara declaring 2012 the year of coal, Turkey is asking for more funds in the climate negotiations.

Not exact matches

Let's just say that the signal - to - noise ratio for investors has degraded substantially over the yearsIn spite of the large increase in investment information relative to the past, there is little evidence that active managers in aggregate have improved their performance relative to passive strategies.

The Consumer Discretionary sector has witnessed the largest increase (+6) in the number of companies issuing negative EPS guidance and the largest decrease -LRB--6) in the number of companies issuing positive EPS guidance in Q3 2012 relative to Q2 2012.

At the sector level, the Information Technology (+6) and Consumer Discretionary (+5) sectors have witnessed the largest increases in the number of companies issuing negative EPS guidance relative to their five - year averages.

Second, the debate over immigrant impacts on American wages is confined to the lower single digits — immigrants may increase the relative wages for some Americans by a tiny amount and decrease them by a larger amount for the few Americans who directly compete against them.

As a result, the relative wage in mining — that is, resource extraction — has risen by about 10 per cent (by far the largest increase of any single industry), after having trended lower over the decade leading up to the boom (Figure 12).

The increases relative to March readings were Inventories and Export Orders, while Backlog Orders and Supplier Deliveries saw the largest declines.

The Commons may be about to be cut by about 10 % but the Lords has never been larger as the Coalition seeks to increase its representation relative to the swollen Labour benches.

The same group has been the major benefi ciary of the very large increase in the relative price of houses.

Concerns have been raised that cyberbullying has the potential to cause more harm than traditional bullying due to the relative anonymity of perpetrators in many cases, larger audiences, increasing prevalence, and permanence of posted messages.

Results from a large survey of 75,000 children suggest an increased risk of ADHD among children with vision problems that are not correctable with glasses or contacts, such as color blindness or lazy eye, relative to other children.

Smaller ancestors like dog relatives increased in size more than larger ancestors like hippos to reach that optimal weight, suggesting that bigger is better for aquatic life, but only up to a point.

In addition, although the adaptation of a larger brain may separate humans from their primate relatives, it also came at a cost of increased fuel requirements.

The scientists also point out that this pattern of delayed development appears to have increased over evolutionary time, with our hominid ancestors presumably slowly gaining larger, more plastic brains relative to modern chimpanzees.

The increase in rate relative to the 1901 — 90 trend is accordingly larger than previously thought; this revision may affect some projections11 of future sea - level rise.

Presenting results as hazard ratios or relative risks always makes effects look large — «a 30 per cent heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes» sounds like a big effect but based on figure 2 it looks like statins may be associated with an increase in the annual rate of new diabetes from about 6 per 100 people to approximately 8 per 100 people over a 10 year period.

Relative to active adults who do not participate in large amounts of sedentary behavior, these «active couch potatoes» exhibit impaired glucose metabolism and increased blood pressure despite their regular exercise habits [6, 7].

Moreover, this complexity has led to great variance in the amount of funding that is provided to local communities across the country relative to their population of disadvantaged students, and the system's increasing bureaucratic complexity has clouded transparency and public understanding, thereby undermining accountability for the largest federal K - 12 program.

When jumping to a larger balance (and larger responsibility), it's important to increase your spending relative to your new limits — it's not a free pass to max out.

Had the market moved the other way, losses relative to our investment would have been larger too — both risk and reward are increased.

Ipsos Reid conducted the poll about a week after the Parliamentary Budget Office issued a report on Jan. 19 that said Canada has seen the largest increase in household debt relative to income of any G7 country since 2000.

The budget office also noted that indebtedness has continued to edge higher in Canada, which has seen the largest increase in household debt relative to income of any G7 country since 2000.

Adjustments for these differences would increase the capitalization - weighted index's concentration in China and ROAM's relative underweight to China would be larger.

So relatively larger cap stocks may be over-represented and relatively smaller cap stocks under - represented in these indexes, thus creating imbalances when one stock increases or decreases substantially relative to the overall market (index).

During the three most volatile days of February 2018, the 18 largest ETFs focused on the U.S. equity market saw intraday bid - ask spreads increase by no more than about 0.06 % relative to their base line on February 1 (Exhibit 5).

For example, consider our own country's air quality standards that are based on a very small percent increase in relative risk, but with exposures occurring across millions of people, this quickly adds up to a large attributable fraction of the population.

As more optical thickness is added to a «new» band, it will gain greater control over the temperature profile, but eventually, the equilibrium for that band will shift towards a cold enough upper atmosphere and warm enough lower atmosphere and surface, such that farther increases will cool the upper atmosphere or just that portion near TOA while warming the lower atmosphere and surface — until the optical thickness is so large (relative to other bands) that the band loses influence (except at TOA) and has little farther effect (except at TOA).

The way we've been tracking carbon - dioxide emissions reinforces this remoteness: the annual emissions we monitor are small relative to the cumulative emissions that will cause large temperature increases.

On multi-decadal timeframes, GH gas forcing and the PDO / AMO combination have been having fairly even in their relative forcing over the past century, but the GH gas forcing is growing so large that it now dominating these longer - term natural variations... so the kicker is that the rapidly increasing GH gases, now at their highest levels in millions of years, are very likely influencing the nature of ENSO, PDO, AMO, and other formerly «natural» cycles.

2: Our Changing Climate, Key Message 5).2 Regional climate models (RCMs) using the same emissions scenario also project increased spring precipitation (9 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) and decreased summer precipitation (by an average of about 8 % in 2041 - 2062 relative to 1979 - 2000) particularly in the southern portions of the Midwest.12 Increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation are projected across the entire region in both GCM and RCM simulations (Figure 18.6), and these increases are generally larger than the projected changes in average precipitatIncreases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation are projected across the entire region in both GCM and RCM simulations (Figure 18.6), and these increases are generally larger than the projected changes in average precipitatincreases are generally larger than the projected changes in average precipitation.12, 2

Unfortunately, those relative increases are currently large mostly because their baseline is still small.

Model projections for precipitation changes are less certain than those for temperature.12, 2 Under a higher emissions scenario (A2), global climate models (GCMs) project average winter and spring precipitation by late this century (2071 - 2099) to increase 10 % to 20 % relative to 1971 - 2000, while changes in summer and fall are not expected to be larger than natural variations.

In 2050, the largest difference is the relative share of the REF region in the A2 marker, attributable primarily to an increased coal and gas production in this region.

Hence, decreases in relative humidity occur at stations experiencing the largest temperature increases in winter and spring as shown in Fig. 7.

Relative to natural internal variability, near - term increases in seasonal mean and annual mean temperatures are expected to be larger in the tropics and subtropics than in mid-latitudes (high confidence).

Federal law directing increases in fuel economy became necessary because oil consumption had been steadily escalating, in large part due to the relative stagnation in CAFE standards, the doubling of annual vehicle miles traveled in the previous 25 years, and a sizable increase in the market share of less efficient SUVs and light trucks.

Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that (1) climate warming occurs with great uncertainty in the magnitude of the temperature increase; (2) both human activities and natural forces contribute to climate change, but their relative contributions are difficult to quantify; and (3) the dominant role of the increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (including CO2) in the global warming claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is questioned by the scientific communities because of large uncertainties in the mechanisms of natural factors and anthropogenic activities and in the sources of the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration.

These increases are large relative to previous growth rates.

Mann et al produced an updated paper in 2008 using a more diverse and larger dataset, showing that recent increases in northern hemisphere surface temperature are anomalous relative to at least the past 1300 years [pnas.org].

If we ramp up new industries without reducing other things, we could see a short term increase in fossil fuel consumption and consequent CO2 emissions (relative to BAU), but if that is the start of a larger and permanent reduction of CO2eq emissions, then it's worth it (or in other words, much better to get 100 kWh per kg coal than 3 (or whatever much smaller number it actually is) kWh per kg coal).

How large is this change relative to what has occurred during the last 50 years due to either natural or SST increases?

Teller has argued that the cost of UV scatterers would be low relative to CO2 reduction measures, that the benefit from reduced UV would be substantial, and that a combination of present temperatures, reduced UV and CO2 fertilisation would yield large increases in plant productivity.

My disagreement is with the earlier assessments which claim that this increase will be large and due in most part to the changes in the relative areas covered by sea - ice and open water.

Increased temperature will increase the absolute humidity according to the Clausius - Claperyon equation; a larger amount of water vapor will decrease the density of air, all else being equal, which will increase convection and the relative amount of adiabatic versus radiative cooling.

No problems here Andrew, I don't think that you were believing that the oceans have a large effect (at maximum within one year), and I completely agree that the oceans are not a constant sink, as that is modulated by temperature... As the emissions are relative monotonely increasing in increase speed, one can expect a good match between a more variable independent cause and effect...

Ether enjoyed even stronger gains relative to larger cryptocurrency bitcoin, as ETH / BTC reached 0.0135 BTC, a 19.5 % increase for the day.

However, with large portions of the public looking to invest in cryptocurrencies and the relative ease of creating a project with an ICO, it is an unfortunate reality that ICO scams are increasing in frequency.

The largest driver of Australia's tightening labour market is the increasing gap between wages in high - skill occupations compared to lower skill ones, relative to the past.

The increase is driven in large part by a high new immigration rate relative to the country's population.