Sentences with phrase «over recent decades»

Scientists have high confidence about global temperature trends over recent decades because those observations are based on a massive amount of data.

A: Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.

Even though the total amount of snow has declined in parts of the world over recent decades, there have been an increasing number of very heavy storms.

But, as we've already seen, the impact of coverage has changed significantly over recent decades.

Daily flow data for Lock 1 is available back to 1967, and it shows that while rainfall might be cyclical, flow volume has been in general decline over recent decades.

In other words, the world's glaciers have not yet caught up with the rate of warming over recent decades.

The repeated cycle of bubbles and predictable crashes over the recent decade makes that clear.

Instead they point out that there have been regular periods of sea warming and cooling over recent decades without our involvement.

But looking over recent decades, that change has been fairly smooth, and on a relative basis, the effect on valuations is far more modest than investors seem to assume.

A motivation for this new business model is the general decline in the sale of life insurance policies over recent decades.

As seas warm and offer more heat energy, there has also been a global increase in the observed intensity of the strongest storms over recent decades.

In our paper, we found that school attendance among Indigenous children and young people has been improving over recent decades and years.

We need a certain confidence, and this is a message that emerges from this booklet: official schemes of sex education over recent decades have failed.

One approach that has emerged over recent decades is to create proteins in the lab that mimic those found in pathogens.

As our profession evolved and spread throughout the globe over recent decades, it took on a span of tasks that requires distinctive skill sets.

Even though saturated fat has gotten a lot of bad rap over the recent decades, current research actually says it's not that scary.

However, despite the considerable effort and resources allocated to this priority over recent decades, there is little evidence that gaps have been reduced.

Private schools have recently faced criticism from academics and politicians for raising fees above the rate of inflation over recent decades.

In the town's early history it was a small fishing town that has since experienced significant growth and expansion over recent decades to make it a popular destination in itself.

The representation of women in popular culture has been rapidly evolving over recent decades.

The increasing impact of natural disasters over recent decades has been well documented, especially the direct economic losses and losses that were insured.

The climate scientist's rationale was that tree - rings had a change in response to the environment over recent decades.

Nevertheless, improvements in ice - sheet models over recent decades have led to closer agreement with satellite observations, keeping track with their increasing contribution to global sea - level rise.

Previous studies have demonstrated large - scale declines in coral reefs over recent decades.

This experiment showed that the projections of climate models are consistent with recorded temperature trends over recent decades only if human impacts are included.

A: Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.

The context for energy has changed over recent decades, with growing concern over global warming.

These trends in extreme weather events are accompanied by longer - term changes as well, including surface and ocean temperature increase over recent decades, snow and ice cover decrease and sea level rise.

The changes in rain dynamics could also depend on the seasons, as climate records over recent decades suggest that the difference in heating between the two hemispheres is most pronounced during the Northern Hemisphere, or boreal, winter.

The nearly quantum leap in campaign spending over recent decades, propelled especially by the use of television, has provoked a growing sense that something should be done, even if there is little agreement on what this something might be.

Too Much, Too Soon looks at what has actually occurred in Britain over recent decades with regard to teenage sexual activity - the steadily rising figures for teenage pregnancies and abortions, and for sexually - transmitted diseases, linked to the commercial and ideologically - based campaigns for more and more propaganda aimed at the young, encouraging belief in the idea that sexual activity is just a matter of mutual pleasure supported by contraceptive equipment.

Though conventional cigarette smoking has declined dramatically over recent decades in the US, the report stresses that e-cigarette use is associated with the use of other tobacco products and that perceptions of e-cigarettes as less harmful than traditional cigarettes can lead to increased rates of vaping.

The ongoing reappraisal of the diagnostic criteria for the autistic spectrum of disorders over recent decades has led to substantial uncertainty over whether a true increase in incidence exists or whether such diagnostic shifts represent an artifactual increase.

Speaking at an event at the Glastonbury festival over the weekend McDonnell said the people who died in the tower block inferno «were murdered by political decisions that were taken over recent decades.»

Misty Heggeness of the U.S. Census Bureau described to the next generation committee the «extreme shift in the biomedical workforce» that has occurred over recent decades.

Shared decision making (SDM) has been studied over recent decades as a method for improving provider - patient communication and partnership, with improvements seen in satisfaction, adherence and health outcomes.

The researchers found that, «despite large environmental change and management efforts over recent decades, water quality of lakes in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. has not overwhelmingly degraded or improved.»

Although a handful of postwar Brazilian visual artists have received recognition in North America, the astonishingly high level of artistic production throughout Brazil over recent decades remains significantly overlooked beyond its borders.

Although a handful of postwar Brazilian artists have received recognition in North America (including Hélio Oiticica and Ernesto Neto, whose work has been exhibited at the Wex), the astonishingly high level of artistic production throughout Brazil over recent decades remains significantly overlooked beyond its borders.