Sentences with phrase «most during recent decades»

Not exact matches

Most years Liberals and Liberal Democrats can be heard predicting that a political realignment is imminent, but this narrative has been disrupted in recent times, as decades of Liberal Democrat progress were reversed by catastrophic losses during the party's five years in government.

Given the uncertainties, the SH and global reconstructions are compatible with the possibility of warmth similar to the most recent decade during brief intervals of the past 1,500 years...»

No trend in 30 years is the summary statement — that 2001 paper shows no trend over 1980 - 2000; other work cited in the intermediate article shows no trend during the most recent decade.

Ali Ağaoğlu, a billionaire developer in Turkey, caused a stir last year when he admitted that his family's company — and most other developers — routinely used inappropriate materials during a building boom in Istanbul in recent decades, creating enormous vulnerability because of the long history of powerful earthquakes in the sprawling city.

The most recent 13 complete calendar years, from 2002 through 2014, have averaged 0.18 °C (about 0.33 °F) warmer than the 30 - year baseline average, while the global temperature trend during that span was a warming trend at the rate of +0.05 °C per decade — which is also statistically insignificant.

So I don't understand the point of your observation that BEST has been flat during the most recent decade when exactly the same can be said of all three preceding decades.

To buttress this point, recent work by Mike Mann and colleagues has shown that warming during the most recent decade is well within the spread of a model ensemble.

In contrast during the most recent decade with more open water, the number of ringed seal pups in the western Hudson Bay tripled relative to the 1990s.4 With more seal pups the polar bears» body condition also improved.

Still the Antarctic winter sea ice has expanded to its greatest limits during the most recent decades.)

Increases in GrIS melt and runoff during this past century warm period must have been significant and were probably even larger than that of the most recent last decade (1995 - 2006).»

During the most recent 10 - year period (2005 — 2014, rightmost points in the chart), the observed trend is 0.01 °C per decade while the model trend is 0.21 °C per decade.

The tremendous improvement in global crop production and worldwide growing conditions during recent decades is one of the most important yet least reported news events of our time.

However, the Prudent Path authors fail to reference a recent paper (Kaufmann et al. 2009) which analyzed Arctic temperature changes over a 2000 year period (0 to 1999 AD) and concluded that «the most recent 10 - year interval (1999 - 2008) was the warmest of the past 200 decades» and that «4/5 of the warmest decades occurred during the last century».

In particular, during the medieval period, ∼ AD 900 — 1300, the Northern Hemisphere experienced temperatures warmer than all but the most recent decades.

The most recent global estimate shows an increase in precipitable water during the period 1973 - 1990, with the largest trends in the tropics, where increases as large as 13 % per decade were found.

The largest contribution is from the AP where the annual average SMB during the most recent decade (2001 — 2010) is 123 ± 44 Gt yr − 1 higher than the an - nual average at the start of the 19th century.

Hence, atmospheric GEM concentrations inferred from Greenland firn air and global anthropogenic Hg emissions have exhibited consistently similar trends during the most recent decades (Fig. 2), suggesting that the atmospheric reservoir of mercury at mid - and high - northern latitudes has been driven mainly by anthropogenic emissions during the last decades.

There, John Hart, a conservationist who has worked in Congo for two decades described how during the country's recent civil war (1998 — 2003)-- said to be the most deadly conflict since World War II — illegal bushmeat and ivory were among commodities exchanged for arms and ammunition.

The good news is that the deforestation rate of 1.9 million hectares per year in the 1990s fell to 500,000 hectares per year during the most recent decade.

Annually, about 1 million abused children — 15 of every 1000 children — are identified in the United States.1 Home visitation has been widely promoted in recent years as a promising approach to preventing health and developmental problems among children, and thousands of home visitation programs have been started during the past decade.2 The role of visitation in preventing child abuse and neglect perhaps has received the most attention.