Sentences with phrase «occurring at an accelerated rate»

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.

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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?