Sentences with phrase «near record high levels»

By picking one specific area of only one of the spheres (surface temperatures), while it might be one piece of interesting information and it certainly it is quite true that surface temperatures have been flat at or near record high levels, focusing on this fact alone and the fact that climate models failed to have forecast it, does very little overall good if the goal is to educate the public about the bigger picture, i.e. anthropogenic climate change as an energy imbalance affecting the whole Earth energy system, including all the spheres discussed above.

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Consumer confidence, although still volatile, has returned to pre-recession levels and business confidence has rebounded to near - record highs.

Honey bee death rates went up in places where higher levels of naled were recorded near hives, according to a National Center for Biotechnology Information study.

Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive renewable energy technologies, there remains a high possibility the energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near future.

Hedge fund managers have amassed a near - record position of 1.405 billion barrels in petroleum and show no signs of rushing to take profits despite the rise in prices to their highest level since 2014.

Weibo shares had been consolidating for the past few weeks near record highs, while Sina was holding close to its best levels since 2011.

It also contains the extremes near 20 in 1929, 1972, 1987 and the then - record high level of 21 in 1996.

The very high levels of production in the world's top crude exporter for March were not a one - off as the Kingdom continues to produce near record levels.

This begs the question: with the stock market at near - record levels and Treasury bond prices at all - time highs, how is it at all possible that these pension funds are still underfunded to this extent?

The levels of dioxin measured in the air near the smoldering pile «were the highest ambient measurements of dioxin ever recorded anywhere in the world,» levels at least 100 times higher than those found downwind of a garbage incinerator, according to an analysis published by EPA scientists [pdf] in 2007.

For example, a carbohydrate - rich meal in the evening was found to delay the circadian rhythm of core body temperature and reduce nocturnal melatonin secretion.30 This is relevant, since sleep propensity and quality are highest near the declining limb of the core body temperature curve when melatonin levels are increased.31, 32 Although body temperature and melatonin were not recorded in the current study, these effects would be consistent with an increase in SOL on night 5 and the association with nocturnal arousals observed here.

In 2014, Louisiana achieved record - high levels of high - school graduation — 75 percent — and was still near the bottom of states.

Industry sales are expected to remain at or near record levels, with higher GM retail sales and market share on a year - over-year basis.

The possibility of an increase in the prime rate offered by lenders comes as household debt levels sit near record highs.

Since the company was trading near record highs, when it levelled off a bit I promptly lost money, which was a bad first venture into the stock market.

-- Interest rates remain near record levels, but the Federal Reserve can't buy high volumes mortgage bonds forever.

It also contains the extremes near 20 in 1929, 1972, 1987 and the then - record high level of 21 in 1996.

Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive renewable energy technologies, there remains a high possibility the energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near future.

As of end - September 2017, margin debt on the NYSE was a record $ 559.6 billion, which is to be expected as U.S. equity indices were also near all - time highs, and stock market peaks and record levels of margin debt often coincide.

And it's not just U.S. indexes like the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 that are at elevated levels, other measures of stock valuations are at or near record highs.

As the U.S. economy enters the second quarter of 2018, the positive economic momentum continues, U.S. business confidence remains high, along with consumer confidence, jobless claims are near a generational low and the ISM Manufacturing Index is at record levels as well.

Weekly Rate Report, August 24, 2011: Credit card rates jump to near - record levels — Interest rates on new credit card offers jumped to a near - record high this week, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report... (See Rate report)

Barclays, State Farm push credit card interest rates higher — Credit card interest rates again crept nearer to record levels, spurred by rate increases by Barclays and State Farm Bank, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Rate Report.

Weekly Rate Report, August 24, 2011: Credit card rates jump to near - record levels — Interest rates on new credit card offers jumped to a near - record high this week, according to the CreditCards.com Weekly Credit Card Rate Report... (See Rate report)

Credit card APRs surge on First Premier card change — Credit card interest rates neared record levels, after First Premier began charging the higher of two APRs to all of its new Centennial Classic cardholders.

Rising production, record end - of - winter storage inventories, and mild weather contributed to spot natural gas prices nearing their lowest levels in a decade until prices rebounded at most trading points to the high $ 2 / MMBtu range by the end of June.

Global mean temperatures in 2011 did not reach the record - setting levels of 2010, but were still the highest observed in a La Niña year, and Arctic sea - ice extent fell to near - record - low levels.

In a near mirror image of 2010, steam exports are now driving U.S. coal export growth, accounting for 95 % of the annualized 2012 export increase — pushing coal exports to likely reach their highest level on record this year.

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party who are responsible for a massively distorted economy due to the twin tweaks of record levels of immigration, (100,000 + Sydney alone) annually, forcing house prices up so that they are now the worlds highest... $ 750,000 Sydney's median price, in my suburb of Avalon near the Nth beaches we can not get anything under a mill.

The weather balloon released on Friday morning from the New Orleans office of the NWS measured near all - time record levels of atmospheric moisture, higher than some measurements taken during past hurricanes.

Via:: Environment News Service: High Toxic Levels Persist in Fish Caught Near Los Angeles (news website),:: Los Angeles Times: State beaches continue on bum record (newspaper)

We continue (AFAIK) to have some high sea surface temps; the troposphere continues at record - or near - record levels; and we may or may not have reached the seasonal maximum yet.

While rates have leveled off after reaching a two - year high in August, a jump from near - record lows in May has contributed to cooling demand.