Sentences with phrase «populations at the current rate»

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This lack of change in smoking cessation under such a dramatic tax increase accentuates the difficulty in improving quit rates at the population level.23 It does provide a reference point to evaluate the magnitude of change reported for the 2014 - 15 US Current Population Survey - Tobacco Use Supplement (CPS - TUS).

Just as Thomas Malthus had shown how population had the capacity to increase faster than the food supply, so this computer - based report concluded that world order would collapse if population growth, industrial expansion, increased pollution and the depletion of natural resources were to continue at current rates.

Gerald Feinberg, a physicist, has calculated that at the current rate at which the population doubles — about every forty years — every atom in the estimated universe would be converted into human protoplasm in 5,600 years!

We estimated the variability of differences in the population prevalence of maternal cancers, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, MI, and premature mortality when women breastfed at current compared with optimal rates and the proportion of current disease burden that this change would reflect.

The National Population Commission (NPC) has put Nigeria's current population at 198 million people with urban population growing at an average annual growth rate...

Encroaching agriculture — from beef to soya production — to feed a growing and more affluent human population means that, at the current rates, the number of 10,000 km2 landscapes in the Amazon that fall below the species loss threshold of 43 % forest cover will almost double by just 2030.

But there's no guarantee that the world's population is going to continue to rise at its current rate, points out economist and population researcher David Lam of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Unless what they mean is that 62 % of the population will get to age 80 (as opposed to 50 %) and then die shortly after according to current mortality rates at 80 +.

If the population continues to grow at its current rate, the world is going to have nearly 400 million new mouths to feed by the end of the decade.

TELEGRAPH.CO.UK - Mar 20 - Japan's birth rate is at its lowest since records began in 1899 and if current trends continue it will lose a third of its population in the next 50 years.

Over half (52 per cent) of secondary school leaders told us they received more applications than they could accommodate for last year's admissions round, and the rate of growth is set to increase at secondary level as the current primary school population moves through the system.

It's obvious that economic and population growth can't continue at current rates without crashing into finite resource limits with painful results, and possibly abrupt reductions in growth.

If the two countries» current fertility rates stayed constant at today's figures through 2050, he writes, «By mid-century India's population soars to 2 billion and China's population is declining by 6 million annually, having peaked at 1.45 billion in 2030.

At its current scale and rate of growth, the continuous economic expansion we see today may be approaching a point in human history when unbridled increases of production, unchecked per human consumption and skyrocketing human population numbers could overrun the limited natural resources and frangible ecosystem services upon which life as we know it utterly itself depends for its very existence.

At the current global economic, population & energy - cost growth rates I estimate the consciousness SNAP will occur within 2 decades UNLESS:

As an academic and historian reminded me recently, the core cause of a host of current concerns, from global warming to epidemic disease to hunger and tribal warfare, is that the population of the world continues to grow at a rapid rate.

We will get to about 580ppm by 2100 simply by continuing to emit CO2 at our current rate (about 2ppm p.a.) with our current population and level of GDP.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

For example, as sites are place near population centers at a greater rate, the deviation from true temperature is not Gaussian — it becomes skewed in favor of hotter readings as you get closer to the current date, or alternatively cooler as you go further back in time.