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The WTM global report unveiled on Monday reported a rapid global increase in tourism with world - wide arrivals rising 12 per cent to around 526million in the first eight months of 2004, compared with the same period last year.
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Fitch's warning comes after S&P Global Ratings downgraded China's long - term sovereign credit rating by one notch last week to A + from AA -, citing increasing risks from the country's rapid build - up of credit.
Demand is growing at a rapid clip — increasing at a 1.6 million - barrel - per - day rate this year — global supply fell in August, and inventories have drained at a much swifter pace in recent months.
The increase in global demand owed to a large increase in demand for steel and energy, driven by rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in China and some other emerging economies.
The strength in global growth has been associated with a rapid expansion of trade and sharp increases in commodity prices and freight charges (for further details see «Box A: Developments in World Trade»).
Improving financial and business performance is particularly important given the continued climate of declining terms of trade, increasing land prices, tightening credit and rapid national and global economic and policy influences affecting beef enterprises.
«These are impressive results, particularly in light of the challenges posed by global mega trends impacting our industry, from macroeconomic and political volatility, the continued rebalancing of the economic world, to shifting consumer preferences and increasing demand for healthier products, to the disruption of retail caused by the rapid growth of e-commerce and the blurring of channel lines,» Ms. Nooyi said.
«Detailed chemical measurements in Antarctic ice cores show that massive, halogen - rich eruptions from the West Antarctic Mt. Takahe volcano coincided exactly with the onset of the most rapid, widespread climate change in the Southern Hemisphere during the end of the last ice age and the start of increasing global greenhouse gas concentrations,» according to McConnell, who leads DRI's ultra-trace chemical ice core analytical laboratory.
Global progress in reducing the prevalence of smokers appeared to fall into 3 phases for both men and women: modest progress from 1980 to 1996, followed by a decade of more rapid global progress, then a slowdown in reductions from 2006 to 2012, with an apparent increase since 2010 foGlobal progress in reducing the prevalence of smokers appeared to fall into 3 phases for both men and women: modest progress from 1980 to 1996, followed by a decade of more rapid global progress, then a slowdown in reductions from 2006 to 2012, with an apparent increase since 2010 foglobal progress, then a slowdown in reductions from 2006 to 2012, with an apparent increase since 2010 for men.
But he cautions that the rapid increase in the extent of worms» burrowing modeled in the new study may have been limited to some areas of the ancient ocean and has yet to be shown to be a global phenomenon.
If this rapid warming continues, it could mean the end of the so - called slowdown — the period over the past decade or so when global surface temperatures increased less rapidly than before.
An increase (0.35 °C) occurred in the global average temperature from the 1910s to the 1940s, followed by a slight cooling (0.1 °C), and then a rapid warming (0.55 °C) up to the end of 2006 (Figure 1).
The planet experienced a positive IPO, or El Tio, in the periods 1925 - 1946 and 1977 - 1998, both of which were periods that saw «rapid» increases in global average temperatures, according to the study.
included in the model projections and is there a potential for a more rapid global temperature increase after hypothetical stopping of air pollution and subsequent cleaning of air?
While the outlook for reefs in the fact of today's rapid global warming is exceptionally serious, the authors provide remedial options for management interventions that will increase reef resilience, including: a) reduce the harvest of herbivorous fish to sustainable levels, b) protect sharks and other top predators, c) manage all aspects of water quality, and d) diminish direct anthropogenic impacts and stressors.
SkS has looked at another study (Kaufmann [2011]-RRB- which suggested an increase in aerosol forcing (greater cooling) due to the rapid industrialization in China in the last decade, however we don't have any direct and accurate global observations yet to support this.
However, at the increased levels seen since the Industrial Revolution (roughly 275 ppm then, 400 ppm now; Figure 2 - 1), greenhouse gases are contributing to the rapid rise of our global average temperatures by trapping more heat, often referred to as human - caused climate change.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognized antibiotic resistance as one of the three major threats to global health, and is predicting a forthcoming disaster due to the rapid, unchecked increase in antimicrobial resistance largely as a consequence of the paucity of new classes of antibacterials in development.
Despite increasing awareness of rapid global change in the Arctic, much remains to be done with respect to predicting changes in marine surface water chemistry.
This warming has been linked to a similarly rapid increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere, which acted to trap heat and drive up global temperatures by more than 5 °C in just a few thousand years.
Increasing pressure to prove the relevance and real business value of Learning and Development (L&D) teams has come about for various reasons, such as the growing need for excellent and rapid performance to stay competitive in a global digital environment.
Publishers Weekly and the Bologna Children's Book Fair kicked off their Global Kids Connect Breakfast series on January 25 with an event that focused on the rapid growth in the audiobook industry as a result of evolving technologies and increasing demand for new ways of consuming children's book content.
Global and international equity market indices (in local currency) moved higher in the 4th quarter despite increasing equity market volatility caused in part by the continued rapid decline in oil prices.
The addition says many climate models typically look at short term, rapid factors when calculating the Earth's climate sensitivity, which is defined as the average global temperature increase brought about by a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere.
It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»
Terrell Johnson, reporting on a recent NASA publication concluding that deep ocean temperatures have not increased since 2005 (http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/deep-ocean-hasnt-warmed-nasa-20141007): «While the report's authors say the findings do not question the overall science of climate change, it is the latest in a series of findings that show global warming to have slowed considerably during the 21st century, despite continued rapid growth in human - produced greenhouse gas emissions during the same time.»
Each base's exposure is calculated based on the National Climate Assessment's midrange or «intermediate - high» sea level rise scenario (referred to in this analysis as «intermediate»), which projects a global average increase of 3.7 feet above 2012 levels, by 2100; and a «highest» scenario based on a more rapid rate of increase, which projects a global average increase of 6.3 feet.
Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human - induced global warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the emissions of heat - trapping gases that are causing the climate change.
A major difference between the PETM (Natural) and present (Anthropogenic) global warming is that the former was likely initiated by increased exposure to solar radiation causing carbon feedbacks and rapid global warming.
Harvard economics professor N. Gregory Mankiw wrote in Fortune magazine: «Cutting income taxes while increasing gasoline taxes would lead to more rapid economic growth, less traffic congestion, safer roads, and reduced risk of global warming — all without jeopardizing long - term fiscal solvency.
This means that the global temperature today is about 0.3 deg less than it would have been had the rapid increase continued.
Global SLR may be entirely irrelevant in areas of rapid or major subsidence or regions experiencing sea surface height increases out of proportion to Global SLR.
After a rapid increase in global emissions of around 3 % per year between 2000 and 2013, emissions only grew by 0.4 % per year between 2013 and 2016.
The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.
The increase is due to a considerable and rapid warming near the polar region that has averaged 2 times the larger global warming rate (about 0.15 to 0.2 C per decade for the world and 0.3 to 0.4 C per decade for the Arctic).
And his predictions are even worse:» The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.»
Furthermore, the Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification, and stimulated by the combined increasing Arctic temperatures and rapid loss of sea ice in all seasons along with declining snow cover in the spring and early summer.
«claims that «Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century» are erroneous and indicative of either ignorance or duplicity on the part of NASA's Earth Observatory, NASA's Climate Consensus page, The Daily Mail, the EPA and many others.»
«It's [the increase in carbon dioxide through increased emissions from human activities] the only variable that can best explain the rapid increase in global temperatures.»
«The climate alarmists maintain that man's emissions of CO2 caused such a rapid increase world - wide, and further increases in CO2 will create additional catastrophic global warming.
Regardless, claims that «Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century» are erroneous and indicative of either ignorance or duplicity on the part of NASA's Earth Observatory, NASA's Climate Consensus page, The Daily Mail, the EPA and many others.
Harvard economics professor and former chairman of George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisors N. Gregory Mankiw wrote in Fortune magazine: «Cutting income taxes while increasing gasoline taxes would lead to more rapid economic growth, less traffic congestion, safer roads, and reduced risk of global warming — all without jeopardizing long - term fiscal solvency.
b. All nations agreed to limit the increase in global average temperatures to «well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels» — the level beyond which scientists believe the Earth will likely begin to experience rapid global warming and to «pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels», a warming amount which may also cause serious global harms particularly to many poor, vulnerable nations.
The IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment of climate change science concluded that large reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases, principally CO2, are needed soon to slow the increase of atmospheric concentrations, and avoid reaching unacceptable levels.However, climate change is happening even faster than previously estimated; global CO2 emissions since 2000 have been higher than even the highest predictions, Arctic sea ice has been melting at rates much faster than predicted, and the rise in the sea level has become more rapid.
-LSB-...] With the increase in irradiance and a decline in explosive volcanism in the early 20th century, global temperatures might then have returned to an unperturbed level similar to that of the MQP [Medieval Quiet Period], but the rapid rise in anthropogenic greenhouse gases propelled temperatures well beyond that level, as positive anthropogenic radiative forcing overwhelmed natural variability (Myhre et al., 2013).»
A 2015 study by Francis and Stephen Vavrus, «Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming» concluded that global warming was driving an increase in the most extreme events because of «more frequent high - amplitude (wavy) jet - stream configurations that favor persistent weather patterns.»
Unfortunately, there is risk that this trend will include the sudden acceleration of various glaciers into the ocean, which will coincide with rapid increases in global rates of sea level rise.
Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released as people burn fossil fuels.
Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining, the projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.