Sentences with phrase «per century over»

In fact, in the most recent few decades, the rural sites have become slightly warmer than the full data set, and show a trend of -0.19 + / - 0.19 °C per century over the 1950 - 2010 time period, roughly consistent with the trends reported in the first method.

Indeed, I was consulting [unintelligible] the other day, who is the world's greatest expert on sea level, and has written several papers on it, and he said he is not expecting it to rise very much more than the eight inches we saw in the last century, and that in itself is only about a fifth of the 4 feet per century which has been the average sea level rise per century over the last 10,000 years, with sea level rising over 400 feet in that time.

Sea levels which rapidly rose 400 feet following the last Ice Age have only risen at a steady rate of four to eight inches per century over the past 150 years.

Objectively, the small trend increase of +0.40 degrees per century over the last 25 years is well within known natural variation.

Tidal gauges show a rise of about 7 inches per century over the last 150 years.

Accordingly, global warming has occurred at a pace of approximately 1 degree Celsius per century over the duration of the satellite record.

For policy - makers, the speed of climate change over the coming decades matters as much as the total long - term change, since this rate of change will determine whether human societies and natural ecosystems will be able to adapt fast enough to survive.New results indicate a warming rate of about 2.5 C per century over the coming decades (assuming no attempt is made to reduce GHG emissions).

Empirical scientists should be alarmed that while the most commonly quoted climate models predict a global temperature increase of 3C per century over this time, it is not happening.

Not exact matches

Over 1,000,000 of the 4,500,000 Jews of the first century lived in Alexandria alone and 95 per cent of present American Jews live in American cities of more than 10,000, while 84 per cent live in cities of more than 100,000.

No, we generally have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century.

As Maimonides pointed out in the twelfth century, Jews and Christians do not differ over what constitutes scriptural revelation per se but rather in our often differing interpretations of that same revelation.

Yet, despite over a century of mediocre - at - best results, ISU ranked 34th in average attendance per game (56,519) in 2015.

Carlisle has never been in the top 1000 baby names and has somehow reached popularity over a century ago — in 1893 — when it was used to name just 98 per a million babies.

A recent study of bank credit in 17 countries over the last 120 years by Oscar Jorda, Mauritz Schularick and Alan Taylor found that the share of mortgage loans in banks» total lending portfolios has roughly doubled over the course of the past century — from about 30 per cent in 1900 to about 60 per cent today.

After being a secondary force for half a century prior to 1886, the Tory Party was then in office, alone or in coalition, for over 70 per cent of the time in the next 80 years.

Looking at data from 1855 through 2005, Webster and Holland found that the total number of tropical cyclones per year doubled in that time, from an average of six at the beginning of last century to 14 over the past decade.

Over the centuries sages have attributed its seizures to everything from the presence of excess phlegm in the brain (per the ancient Greeks) to possession by evil spirits (during the Middle Ages).

But over the past century, the rate of land loss in coastal Louisiana has averaged 15 to 20 square miles per year.

Such extreme particles are among the rarest things known to physics; they come down over any given square mile only two or three times per century.

Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0 children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning of the 19th century, when decreased mortality in newborns resulted in fertility rates exceeding replacement levels.

A-C ranges from a luxury to a necessity to a literal lifesaver: a recent study (Alan Barreca et al., Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature - Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century) by American economists showed heat - related deaths in the U.S. dropped from roughly 3,600 per year to just 600 around 1960.

In business - as - usual scenarios, consumption — a proxy for economic growth — grows by 1.6 to 3 percent per year over the 21st century.

Its abundance has dropped by almost 90 per cent over the past century — despite it once being widespread across Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe.

The scientists predict that about 15 per cent of the initially applied fertilizer N will be exported from the soils towards the groundwater over a time span of almost one century after the 1982 fertilizer application.

The findings, published in the International Journal of Climatology, show a significant rise in temperature over the century, at around 0.11 °C per decade.

Over the past quarter century, G20 carbon dioxide emissions had risen by almost 50 percent while per capita emissions had gained by about 18 percent, reflecting population growth, it said.

MORE than 90 per cent of Scotland's raised bogs have been destroyed or badly damaged over the past century.

Thanks in large part to satellite measurements, scientists» skill in measuring how much sea levels are rising on a global scale - currently 0.13 inch (3.4 millimeters) per year - has improved dramatically over the past quarter century.

But by the end of this century, the average American will likely see 45 to 96 days per year over 95 °F.

Several previous analyses of tide gauge records1, 2,3,4,5,6 — employing different methods to accommodate the spatial sparsity and temporal incompleteness of the data and to constrain the geometry of long - term sea - level change — have concluded that GMSL rose over the twentieth century at a mean rate of 1.6 to 1.9 millimetres per year.

«Global sea levels rose about 2 mm per year over the last century, but this rate increased to 3.4 mm / yr over the last decade.

With warming rates of 0.5 to over 1.3 degrees C per century this has caused considerable alarm for many.

In fact, the typical American diet is extremely meat - heavy, having risen dramatically over the past century.9 Previous research has suggested the average American consumes about 1.5 grams of protein per kilo of total body mass (lean mass plus fat).

For over a century, the value of food has been measured in cost per calorie.

Inflation - adjusted per - pupil school spending has increased over the last century by, on average, 2.3 percent per year.

Even if you were to manage the difficult importation of a non-street legal car, the 22B would not see public roads for the next seven years until it turns 25 in 2023, per U.S. laws that only allow import of foreign cars that are over a quarter - century old.

78 per century, or 312 over 400 years.

There is evidence of a rise in valuations, but it is small: an upward adjustment of 0.7 % per year (annualized) to the total return over the course of the twentieth century.

Now I'm told I can make payments on paid in full (has increased over a thousand dollars since I stopped payments per Century) and pay them another thousand dollar fee.

Yet, the Company continues to pay out over $ 60,000 per month to its board members, and close to $ 200,000 per year to its president and principal executive officer, as the Company purports to seek strategic transactions in the worst economic environment of the past half century.

Here visitors can walk over old corrals that once housed prehistoric lake creatures and stand among giant cacti that grow one meter per century.

In terms of discoveries, per se, I suppose what was most surprising to me was how little is actually said about Satan in the Bible and how loomingly important he became over the centuries.

Adding big names from the last century, like de Kooning and de Chirico to Mark Bradford and Tauba Auerbach, helped Phillips realise $ US523 million in auction sales last year, a 34 per cent increase over 2014.

Researchers for over a century have therefore taken any climate records they can find and searched for correlations to the sunspots, the solar - cycle length, geomagnetic indices, cosmogenic isotopes or smoothed versions thereof (and there are many ways to do the smoothing, and you don't even need to confine yourself to one single method per record).

The current rate (over the last 2 years) is about 1 m per century and we still have a lot more warming to cause in a BAU scenario.

Over all, the pace of sea - level rise from the resulting ice loss doesn't go beyond about 1.5 feet per century, Dr. Pollard said in an interview, a far cry from what was thought possible a couple of decades ago.

To the first point, since human ability to predict and / or respond to disasters of all types has improved massively over the last century, considering mortality per se doesn't say anything at all about the trends of occurrence of those disasters.

From Donald Blanchard's the ABC's of Plate Tectonics I see that Scandinavia is currently rising at 90 cm per century and the average it has risen over the last 8000 years is 68 mm per year.

Over the last 15,000 years, sea level has risen more than 300 feet, for an average rise of greater than two feet per century.

It has slowed down to around 1 % today and is expected by the UN to slow dramatically over the rest of this century, leveling off at around 9 billion, with a CAGR over the century of 0.3 % per year.