Sentences with phrase «rapidly accelerate the rate»

This is the first evidence of the long - feared positive feedbacks that could rapidly accelerate the rate of climate change, pushing impacts to the extreme end of the scale.

«But with the rapidly accelerating rates at which the ice is melting, and in the light of all the other, well - publicized lines of evidence, most scientists would be hard pressed to find mechanisms that do not include human - made climate change,» he added.

Not exact matches

Despite rapidly accelerating revenue, the rate that Twitter added monthly active users slowed — less than 4 %, to 241 million, in its first quarter as a public company, and as low as 1.4 % in a recent quarter — worrying investors that Twitter might not be the mainstream product that its soaring valuation promised.

I grant that it is difficult to have any semblance of «affordable» housing policy when The Federal Reserve slammed their target rate to near zero for 10 years while housing prices rapidly accelerated.

In the Mayan area of Mexico and Central America, the rate of archaeological site destruction is accelerating rapidly, both as a result of modern development and through the looting of sites for treasures.

Big animals have longer legs or flippers to get from point A to point B. And bigger bodies have higher metabolic rates and more fast - twitch muscle cells, needed to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy and rapidly accelerate.

Here, they found hundreds of genomic changes, indicating that the rate of genetic divergence accelerated rapidly after the initial changes took hold.

Figure 2 shows that teacher numbers have kept pace with pupil numbers as they have grown rapidly over the last five years and primary pupil numbers are not expected to accelerate at the same rate over the next decade.

By monitoring the rate of change of accelerator pedal position the TCM can determine whether the driver rapidly accelerates and decelerates and therefore is driving in a sporty fashion.

If you hold down the page turn forward button you rapidly turn the pages at an accelerated rate and if you double tap you can skip to the next chapter.

As inflation accelerated and interest rates began to rise rapidly in the late 1970s, many S&Ls began to suffer extensive losses.

Meanwhile, scientists are concerned that the rate of sea level rise could further accelerate in a world forced to rapidly warm by human fossil fuel burning.

It should be noted that the rate of emissions absorption by the environment has increased rapidly and is accelerating (accelerating is a popular word for some reason).

At issue was the fact that bottom waters were warming and that because many glaciers rested on sea beds that sloped inland, melt rates had the potential to very rapidly accelerate.)

Rather, it rapidly accelerates the problem, since global emissions are increasing at a substantial rate such that generation D would be kept below some crucial climate threshold, but delay would mean that they would pass that threshold.

This change is likely to be most dramatic in Arctic coastal waters, which are rapidly freshening due to the melting of ice on glaciers and permafrost (McPhee et al. 2009), accelerating OA and Ωaragonite decline relative to the rates expected from anthropogenic CO2 alone (Tank et al. 2012).

Ice mass loss of the marine - terminating glaciers has rapidly accelerated from close to balance in the 2000s to a sustained rate of — 56 ± 8 gigatons per year, constituting a major fraction of Antarctica's contribution to rising sea level.

That would make the «stabilization wedge» date 49 years in the future — though that number is still less realistic, as solar prices and growth rates have been accelerating still more rapidly than has been the case for wind.

For example, if you buy a UL policy in times of high interest rates, your cash values may accelerate rapidly, outperforming your original expectations, and allowing you to pay less in premiums in future years.

Obesity and type 2 diabetes rates among Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders are accelerating rapidly, especially among those based in cities, where they are more exposed to western culture and fast foods.