Sentences with phrase «per decade or more»

In tundra regions, rates of warming over the past three decades have been 0.5 degrees Celsius per decade or more.

Summer sea ice in the Arctic is declining at an estimated rate of 10 percent per decade or more, and Arctic Ocean sea lanes could be open as early as the summer of 2030.

Not exact matches

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

Real interest differentials of, say, 3 per cent might persist for a decade or more.

During; the current cholera epidemic in Latin America, remarkably, less than 1 per cent of those affected have died, thanks to a decade or more of control of diarrhoeal disease (CDD) training and preparation.

About 5 per cent of them will be hit a decade or more earlier, while about 11 per cent will suffer annual bleaching a decade or more later than this date.

At the far end of the curve are «elite controllers,» people whose immune system suppresses HIV below 50 copies per milliliter; their CD4 cells have not declined, even a decade or more after initial infection.

As a result, CO2 emissions from those countries fell by 4 to 5 percent per year for a decade or more.

And then you look at a place like China, which is just now — despite it's phenomenal growth in recent decades at 9 or 10 percent per year — is just now reaching about the per capita world average on all those factors, energy consumption, wealth and CO2 emissions, and they clearly want to do more.

Though most would not classify director Ridley Scott's 1979 collaboration with screenwriter Dan O'Bannon and Swiss freakazoid H.R. Giger as a «horror movie,» per se, we dare you to find many movies from this decade — or ANY decade, really — that are filled with more iconic scary moments than Alien (with one possible exception, which we'll discuss below).

According to the NORC survey data from the current decade, about 37 percent of teachers say they attend church one or more times per week, while 26 percent of other Americans say they do so.

The implementation timeline spanned more than a decade and was rolled out in only one or two grades per year, always preceded by a year of planning, training, and professional development:

In the past decade, both funds score top rankings, with Growth gaining 10.9 % annualized, or an average 3.3 percentage points more per year than the S&P 500, and Income earning 11.2 % annualized, or an average 3.6 points a year better than the index.

By taking the estimate of 0.1 degrees C per decade and multiplying by 5 to get 0.5 degrees C, or 44 %, Geoffry Smith gets a rather larger figure for his urban heat island effect estimate than he would from the more direct subtraction of 0.81 from 1.13 (0.32 degrees C, or 38 %).

NGOs that ideologically support equity defend the right of developing countries to increase their emissions for two to three more decades at least, while advocating limits to an increase in temperature (1.5 °C) and carbon concentrations (to levels of 350 parts per million or less).

Karl's paper says that from 2000 - 2014, the 15 - year period that includes the 11 years for which we have ARGO data, the surface warming rate was equivalent to 0.116 degrees per decade — more or less exactly five times the measured ocean warming rate....

Between 1895 and 2011, temperatures in the Northeast increased by almost 2 ˚F (0.16 ˚F per decade), and precipitation increased by approximately five inches, or more than 10 % (0.4 inches per decade).4 Coastal flooding has increased due to a rise in sea level of approximately 1 foot since 1900.

We have a 161 year record (HadCRUT3), warts and all, that tells us the warming was around 0.7 °C over the entire period, or a linear warming rate of between 0.04 and 0.05 °C per decade, so this is probably more meaningful than the 65 - year «blip» (or the even less meaningful most recent 30 - year «blip», 1976 - 2005, used by IPCC to demonstrate AGW).

About 5 per cent of them will be hit a decade or more earlier, while about 11 per cent will suffer annual bleaching a decade or more later than this date.

The cost: $ 20 billion per year, more or less in - line with Gingrich's estimate from a decade ago.

The Central England Temperature record (CET) indicates there were periods of regional warming in central England which approached +0.3 C per decade and which lasted for three or more decades.

I'd say that, if you expect the trend to quickly revert back to something like 0.2 or more per decade, then in 30 years, looking back at the data, the last decade or so will in fact look an awful lot like «a pause» (as even Jim Hansen says, though Tamino argues back above), with the last several years dipping significantly below the general trend line.

The premiums are guaranteed to stay level for as long as you maintain your payments, but the cost per thousand will be much higher than a traditional term policy in the first decade or more.

Our goal is to purchase one property per year for the next decade or so (more or less).