This behavior, called supersedure, is part of a healthy colony's life cycle, but beekeepers say they're seeing
it occur at an accelerated rate, which stresses hives.
Low estrogen and hormonal imbalances also affect the skin, causing wrinkles and sagging to
occur at an accelerated rate.
Inside they discover all manner of biological mutations
occurring at an accelerated rate — creatures both monstrous and beautiful emerging from the lush, wet forest.
The light's effect, put simply, stimulates the body's normal pain relieving and healing processes to
occur at an accelerated rate.
Ice mass loss is
occuring at an accelerated rate in Greenland, Antarctica and globally from inland glaciers.
Not exact matches
About 1.2 million years ago, the sedimentation
rate accelerated — the same time that Earth's ice ages began to
occur more intensely
at 100,000 - year intervals rather than in 40,000 - year cycles.
«in the United States, extremes of high temperatures have been
occurring at a
rate of twice those of cold extremes (Meehl et al. 2009), and this has
accelerated considerably since June 2010 to a factor of 2.7, and in the summer of 2011 to a factor of over 8 ″
Is it too much of a stretch to assume that sea levels will rise faster than currently predicted, largely because many of the factors that contribute to sea levels rising are
occurring at faster - than - predicted, and possibly
accelerating,
rate?
Even so, the window of opportunity in which meaningful action can
occur appears to be closing......
at an
accelerating rate.
Given the available scientific knowledge of the climate system, it is prudent for security analysts to expect climate surprises in the coming decade, including unexpected and potentially disruptive single events as well as conjunctions of events
occurring simultaneously or in sequence, and for them to become progressively more serious and more frequent thereafter, most likely
at an
accelerating rate.
Pressure on resources was
occurring simply by natural
rates of population increase, and developed nations were using the resources
at an
accelerated rate.
For example in the United States, extremes of high temperatures have been
occurring at a
rate of twice those of cold extremes (Meehl et al. 2009), and this has
accelerated considerably since June 2010 to a factor of 2.7, and in the summer of 2011 to a factor of over 8 (Skolnik 2011).
Real world observations tell us that the IPCC's speculative computer models do not work, ice is not melting
at an enhanced
rate, sea - level rise is not
accelerating, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is not increasing, and dangerous global warming is not
occurring.»
Exactly what Arctic ecosystems are going to survive the
accelerated warming humans are imposing, warming that will
occur at twice the
rate of the planet as a whole?