Sentences with phrase «not accelerate the decline»

Lukovich and Barber; 4.6 million square kilometers; Heuristic The absence of a distinctive transition in spring of 2009, between cyclonic and anti-cyclonic circulation in the stratosphere (characteristic of years with record lows in sea ice extent), suggests that dynamical contributions will contribute to but not accelerate the decline in sea ice extent in September 2009.

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But the sales declines are only accelerating: in the first three months of 2014, North American revenue fell 21 % and Wall Street analysts are not expecting any better when Avon reports second - quarter results in late July.

Women who used sprays or other cleaning products at least once per week had a more accelerated decline than women who didn't, the study authors wrote.

In my view, the most likely accompaniment to economic weakness would not be a decline in nominal rates, but somewhat accelerated inflation (meaning that real interest rates might very well fall to negative levels), and possibly substantial weakness in the U.S. dollar.

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CCA is understood to have done internal modelling on the impact of the price rises, which could accelerate a multi-year decline in volumes for carbonated soft drinks, but has not released its forecasts.

However, this study indicates that not all at risk patients show accelerated lung function decline, which may explain why, so far, the effect of various treatments of lung function decline has been difficult to establish.

«The economic downturn doesn't affect me." OkCupid.com says growth picked up in Sep, as the economic decline accelerated.

Using extent data up to 2010, they do not directly address the claim that the decline of extent in Arctic Sea Ice is linear vs the claim that it is accelerating.

The decline across coal, Chinese emissions and global emissions appears to have not only repeated, but also accelerated, in 2015.

Antarctic ice extent setting new records last year, and close to breaking them this year again Extreme weather as measured by ACE on a decline for decades Drought as measured by Palmer Drought Index flat for decades Sea level increases not accelerating and possibly starting to decelerate Signature tropospheric hot spot completely missing Scientists by the bushel coming up with some of the most absurd excuses as to why....

The absence of anomalous features evident in 2007 in SLP and stratospheric and surface winds in spring in 2011 indicates that accelerated decline associated with the former will not be an artifact of dynamical phenomena, although a thinner and more mobile ice cover may lower the wind forcing threshold required for increased ice export.

As for your nonsensical idea that «If each decade warmed at exactly 0.2 C that would still make each new decade «the warmest on record»; not in any meaningful way because as I say it is not the absolute anomalous amount which is important in a generally [and naturally] warming system; solar heating is sustained so there will be a build - up but whether that build - up is accelerating or declining is the issue;

Nick, it's not just that the warming trend has declined, it is also that it has not accelerated.

How much it has grown is not stated in the paper: «Observational determination of albedo decrease caused by vanishing Arctic sea ice» http://eisenman.ucsd.edu/publications/Pistone-Eisenman-Ramanathan-2014.pdf but it seems very clear that Arctic sea - ice loss is in accelerating decline towards zero in the coming decades, meaning that this forcing will rise very substantially along with those from land - ice and snow cover decline.

In reality the trends are still increasing, not declining — i.e. warming is accelerating.

So, scientists do not think that icebreakers play a significant role in accelerating the decline in Arctic sea ice.

So unless there is expectation of massively accelerated decline in the next decade, that 50 % figure won't hold up.

Noting that the trend of capital to hunger after ICOs is accelerating, not declining.

These declines accelerated during the Great Recession, but teen employment has not bounced back, even though job availability has.