Sentences with phrase «lasting change in trend»

Whether this portends a lasting change in trend is unclear.

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Cards were mostly responsible for the change as they grabbed a 39.4 percent market share last year compared to 33.4 percent in 2014, mirroring a global trend that has long taken hold in many other countries including Sweden and Britain.

While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change scientists who have — for the last two decades — puzzled over warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.

Last week's rally generated modest improvement in the sorry trend uniformity we've had lately, but not enough to generate any change in the overall Climate.

Two years ago I posted my first guest blog focused on income inequality, specifically how changes in Canada's redistribution over the last three decades have increased after - tax income inequality, and how these changes compared to OECD trends.

A notable trend change occurred in corporate bond ETFs (the leading fixed income category last year), which saw an $ 8 billion net outflow during the first 3 months of 2018.

The ordering process utilises several elements: the current sales over the last four to six weeks, the sales trend over the last few months, the comparable sales trends from the previous year and any customer forecasts or anticipated changes in demand noted by a change in season.

Unless regulations and wider automotive trends drastically change, the RB9 will go down in history as the last ever naturally aspirated V8 to win the title in F1, and Vettel's «Hungry Heidi» was particularly dominant in 2013.

However, solar variability alone can not explain the post-1970 global temperature trends, especially the global temperature rise in the last three decades of the 20th Century, which has been attributed by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»

Another trend that seems equally destined to last is profound interest in arctic manifestations of global climate change.

Although there was a general trend toward earlier flowering dates and a longer growing season, individual species» responses were distinct, and changes within a species in first, peak, and last flowering dates shifted independently of one other.

«We see a similar trend in computer models of the global atmosphere when they simulate the last century using the historical changes of greenhouse gases.

Particularly worrisome is the accelerated downward trend in the last few years, signaling that some populations just may not be able to cope with fast - changing climatic conditions heaped on top of other existing pressures.

At the top the trend in annual measured precipitation between 1951 and 2010 is shown from the last scientific report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Jantz agrees but still thinks the trend has «an evolutionary component because the forces of natural selection have changed so radically in the last 200 years.»

Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years — a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming decades, according to new research.

In the following sections we highlight trends in fungicide development and use over the last century in light of the ever - changing spectra and intensities of fungal pathogens, which have often occurred as a consequence of changing cropping systemIn the following sections we highlight trends in fungicide development and use over the last century in light of the ever - changing spectra and intensities of fungal pathogens, which have often occurred as a consequence of changing cropping systemin fungicide development and use over the last century in light of the ever - changing spectra and intensities of fungal pathogens, which have often occurred as a consequence of changing cropping systemin light of the ever - changing spectra and intensities of fungal pathogens, which have often occurred as a consequence of changing cropping systems.

The trend in these responses changed course last year, with slightly fewer Americans saying global warming would have a significant effect in their lifetimes.

Thus it is very important to know what the real impact of historical solar changes is, as 0.1 K in the past, results in climate sensitivity for anthropogenic at the high end, while 0.9 K results in a very low effect of anthropogenic, if the instrumental temperature trend of the last 1.5 century is used as reference.

-- Along with analyzing historical trends in temperature and precipitation, we performed an analysis of changes in extreme climate events since the middle of last century.

Neff also noted that most of the ice cores were collected in the last 20 years, meaning trends can not be analyzed up to present day, when we'd expect the imprint of climate change to become most obvious.

But last week Science magazine published a major article analyzing whether the recent trend was due to a change in forest management practices or to climate change.

Post Marie Kondo's decluttering bible, The Life - Changing Magic of Tidying Up (which we talked about last year as a wellness trend to watch) and helped introduce the philosophy to the mainstream in 2014, nowadays, minimalism is part of the cultural zeitgeist.

If a pair of shoe was very much in demand last year then it is not likely to have the same enthusiasm for the same pair after the whole year since the shoe trends keep changing with seasons.

I also don't know how long this trend will last, I had a pair of lace - up espadrilles in middle school and they were in and out just as quick as the seasons changed.

The dating industry has changed over the years and we have experienced various trends in the last three decades we have been matching singles.

The Center last conducted a detailed survey of the internet's impact on dating and relationships in 2005, and a primary goal of this study is to update key trends on the internet and dating — such as the overall prevalence of online dating, how attitudes towards online dating have changed over time, and whether or not more people are meeting online than in the past.

This trend coincided roughly with a teacher hiring boom here in the United States, meaning these changes happened despite districts» employing more teachers, and it's likely to continue as states and districts continue to feel the pressure from unfunded pension and health care promises, which totaled $ 1.38 trillion at last count.

In fact, the high school completion rates of black students did not stall until the mid-1980s, diverging slightly from the overall trend, though the substantial graduation gap between whites and minorities has changed very little in the last 35 years (Heckman and LaFontaine 2010In fact, the high school completion rates of black students did not stall until the mid-1980s, diverging slightly from the overall trend, though the substantial graduation gap between whites and minorities has changed very little in the last 35 years (Heckman and LaFontaine 2010in the last 35 years (Heckman and LaFontaine 2010).

It's possible that Shreve's novels kicked off this back - of - the - head trend; her last book, A Change in Altitude, featured this motif as well.

In fact, in the last 18 months, we've seen that independently published authors have more promotional options available to them than many who go the traditional route because they can react more quickly to changing market trends and make decisions to jump on timely promotionIn fact, in the last 18 months, we've seen that independently published authors have more promotional options available to them than many who go the traditional route because they can react more quickly to changing market trends and make decisions to jump on timely promotionin the last 18 months, we've seen that independently published authors have more promotional options available to them than many who go the traditional route because they can react more quickly to changing market trends and make decisions to jump on timely promotions.

A notable trend change occurred in corporate bond ETFs (the leading fixed income category last year), which saw an $ 8 billion net outflow during the first 3 months of 2018.

May 8, 2018 - Housing Market is Changing Because of Smaller Middle Class Over the last 30 years, the gap between the wealthy and the poor in the US has been steadily widening, and this is starting to affect homeownership trends.

The above chart shows how an exact test of high or low may mean a change in trend as it failed to make a higher high on test of last swing high or a lower low on test of last swing low.

Gary's Comments Last night most of the international equity indices changed from short term down trends to short term up trends, in the table below.

Selections from the Ella Fontanals - Cisneros Collection, curated by Osbel Suárez, showcases a cross section of the collection and presents to the public a compilation of works by over 60 artists from North America, Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia, who have witnessed and played key roles in changes that have occurred in the most significant trends in art over the last fifty years.

Using either record in the same analysis as shown in the last figure would give the same result — that there is no practical or statistical evidence that there has been a change in the underlying long - term trend (see Tamino's post on this as well).

Basically, all of the warming trend in the last ~ 60 yrs is anthropogenic (a combination of greenhouse gases, aerosols, land use change, ozone etc.).

There is every reason to believe the record warm year of 1998 will soon be broken, given the trend of changes we have been seeing occurring throughout the planet in the last several years.

That the last two climate minima (Dalton and Maunder) were also associated with solar minima is well known, as is the fact that the aa index has increased significantly during the 20th century, and «coincidentally» with changes in the long - term upward trend.

Secondly, I expect that the changes in instrumentation, inaccuracy of a single Secchi - depth - to - chlorophyll conversion, and variation in sampling effort prevent identification of trends over the last century.

And the small correction proposed recently by Cowtan & Way to compensate for the data gap in the Arctic almost does not change the HadCRUT4 long - term trend, but it changes that over the last 15 years by a factor of 2.5.

Consistent with changes in climate trends, summers are getting hotter and extended periods of excessive heat last longer than in living human memory.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

This is because, from the discussion above, we would expect to see sea level changes, since global temperatures do seem to have changed over the last century (whether the temperature trends are man - made or natural in origin).

In our «Global temperature changes of the last millennium» paper, we reviewed these estimates, discussed the assumptions and approximations they made, and attempted to assess what they tell us about the global temperature trends of the last millennium.

«On forced temperature changes, internal variability, and the AMO» «Tracking the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation through the last 8,000 years» «The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation as a dominant factor of oceanic influence on climate» «The role of Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation in the global mean temperature variability» «The North Atlantic Oscillation as a driver of rapid climate change in the Northern Hemisphere» «The Atlanto - Pacific multidecade oscillation and its imprint on the global temperature record» «Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» «North Atlantic Multidecadal SST Oscillation: External forcing versus internal variability» «Forced and internal twentieth - century SST trends in the North Atlantic» «Interactive comment on «Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data» by J. Mikšovský et al.» «Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal oscillations and Northern Hemisphere temperatures»

And many regions have shown no significant net changes or trends in either direction relative to the last few hundred to thousands of years.

Certainly there is no evidence of change in the longer term warming trend in any of these series, as we discussed at length the last time around.

«Our study clearly showed that European migratory bird species with declining breeding populations in Europe in the last decades (1990 — 2000) responded the least to recent climate change as reflected by the temporal trend in spring migration phenology, or even delayed their timing of spring migration, whereas species with stable or increasing populations advanced migration.»