Sentences with phrase «recent decades and»

Terry Duggan, a former mayor of Dubuque, said his city has rebounded significantly in recent decades and that the James family is an example that Dubuque is on the upswing.
A briefing paper about the research of how the lives of young people have changed over recent decades and how this could shed light on increases in adolescent mental health problems.
For those who did not see it, I thought it would be helpful to put into this blog Justice Brown's observation, reported in the Globe in early July 2013, that «the root of the problem is a belief that «trials are bad» and «mediation will solve all problems,» which took hold in recent decades and sapped the will to move cases swiftly to trial».
The number and severity of heat waves have increased in recent decades and is projected to continue increasing into the 21st century.
Increased dry - season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection.
So why are the recent decades and the past thousand years so singularly controversial?
This mirrors the significant rise in global temperatures detected over the past 30 years, supporting the conclusion that there is a global trend toward enhanced glacier frontal recession in recent decades and providing support for the assertion that glacier recession can be attributed to recent warming.»
-LSB-...] Steve Goddard, he has shown the NASA figures and the graph was originally showing the 1930s were warmer than recent decades and that is correct.»
We have seen spectacular rates of growth in recent decades and with it, many hundreds of millions of people being brought out of poverty.
* In the Midwest, crop insurance losses have grown 10-fold in recent decades and many states are currently facing a prolonged drought that has many counties being declared agricultural disaster areas.
They are perhaps the largest uncertainty in our understanding of climate change, owing to disagreement among climate models and observational datasets over what cloud changes have occurred during recent decades and will occur in response to global warming2, 3.
The New York Times reported on what it called the report's «near certainty» that humans are responsible for the rising temperatures of recent decades and its warning that sea levels could rise by more than three feet by the end of the century.
Horrendous hurricanes have hit the US in recent decades and we have not had thousands die.
If it was true that Jones and Hansen had adjusted recent data upwards and past data downwards then BEST would have found less warming in recent decades and more warming in previous decades.
It is likely that there has been about a 40 percent decline in Arctic sea - ice thickness during late summer to early autumn in recent decades and a considerably slower decline in winter sea - ice thickness.
«Refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near - surface air and oceans in recent decades and it is expected to continue.»
As for the MWP, we don't know that global temps were «as high or higher» than today, but even if they were the fact that it would have been due to some «natural» factor (s) rather than CO2 doesn't alter our expectation that increased CO2 levels should have caused warming in recent decades and should do in the future.
A related criticism is that the number of stations being used in the analysis has dropped off in recent decades and that this might be distorting the result.
He pointed out that polar bears had quadrupled their number in recent decades and this was not a sign that their species is threatened.
In recent decades and years, the prices of solar photovoltaics (PV) and batteries have decreased sharply, which has in turn increased the incentive for self - consumption (e.g., traditional electricity consumers producing parts of their electricity consumption themselves and thus becoming «prosumers»).
The water is even breaching underground defense barriers that were installed in recent decades and reaching freshwater wells.
The most objective way to get a decadal trend is to take the two most recent decades and their difference.
And the $ 64,000 question then is basically how much did internal decadal variability contribute... during the recent decades and I think the jury is still out about the relative contribution of this internal variability.
Recent economic news suggests that the manufacturing sector, which has struggled in recent decades and lost 30 % of its workforce between 2000 and 2010, is leading the U.S. out of recession.
This albedo has been changing over recent decades and is responsible for most ocean warming with the increased maintained higher solar levels.
Atlantic hurricane intensity has increased in recent decades and additional future increases are projected.
The Wilkins Ice Shelf appears to be following a pattern seen in other parts of the peninsula, which has warmed markedly in recent decades and shed other fringing ice shelves.
How does this relate generally to stratospheric cooling over recent decades and the apparent positive feedback whereby ozone loss causes further cooling which leads to further ozone loss... Here's a good overview news feature Ozone And Climate Change from the Earth Observatory at NASA.
My opinion is that the Gulf War was the only major heroic effort in recent decades and except for the DU shells was fairly fought.
Clearly atmospheric warming has multiple causes, including CO2 and solar changes, geothermal energy and forest fires etc and all can be at the same time, but research shows solar changes have limited effect, and CO2 is dominating in recent decades and will continue to dominate.
They might look like rare unexpected events when you just focus on one location, but looking at the whole globe, as Hansen et al. did, reveals an altogether different truth: such events show a large systematic increase over recent decades and are by no means rare any more.
The Renoir, Lot 43, shown above, is atypical of this artist's large body of small paintings and sketches, which have flooded the auction markets in recent decades and given a poor impression of his talents since most of them have been poorly executed and unattractive.
In this respect, the West Coast venue of Los Angeles is appropriate not only as the home of Manny Silverman Gallery, but as a complement to New York — a similarly diverse city affected by the social, political, and economic upheavals of recent decades and that has risen to prominence as a revitalized international art center.
«Carrying Off the Palaces» is one of the most important works on John Ruskin in recent decades and a major contribution to the history of photography
Cork port has made impressive strides in recent decades and since the dawn of the millennium has invested $ 72 million in improving infrastructure and facilities.
«The dog and cat industry has long served as a model of how to provide support for animals throughout all stages and challenges of life,» says Lucas Stock, communications manager at Oxbow Animal Health based in Omaha, Neb. «Knowledge and education regarding the longevity and specific health needs of small animals has evolved considerably in recent decades and across all sectors.»
Personal income volatility has increased significantly at all income levels in recent decades and people must exercise increased discipline to restrain spending in a fluctuating income environment.
It's by taking in the disheartening news that people's hearts will be opened to hearing about all of the exciting discoveries about how stock investing works that we have learned about in recent decades and have been keeping secret out of a concern than telling the true story will make the Buy - and - Hold advocates look bad.
It could be that the U.S. economic system has become more productive than it has ever been before in recent decades and that on a going forward basis the long - term return will be 7.0 percent real.
I know, I started off by excluding my kind, but I look back over recent decades and think that we agents, the people who were supposed to be protecting authors» interests, have done a pretty shabby job.
That accessible PE lessons have improved significantly over recent decades and with support and the correct training both before and after qualifying, all teachers and school support staff can be enabled to provide inclusive PE lessons to all pupils for decades to come.
In our paper, we found that school attendance among Indigenous children and young people has been improving over recent decades and years.
Nor are they going to take the easy path (as England and Hong Kong have done in recent decades and as the U.S. started to do long ago) and put fancier labels onto existing institutions.
Abstract: The article intitled the solidarity and participative reinvention of the university: another world is possible discusses the economic, social and cultural transformations that have occurred worldwide in recent decades and how it has made possible the construction of a participatory, solidarity and collaborative ethics in project management within the university and community.
But if they've imbibed the anti-fat propaganda of recent decades and are afraid to eat fat, binge eaters must follow their taste buds to sugars — which unfortunately fail to satisfy any of the micronutrient deficiencies the sweet craving is designed to redress.
Also make sure to read this article, which explains how our food supply has been modified in recent decades and now lacks the vitamin D that it used to contain decades ago.
«Cancers of the colon and rectum have been declining in older adults in recent decades and have always been considered rare in young people.
This information is used throughout the assessment to explain the key impacts of climate change observed in recent decades and projected in the future.
The data for climate change is a jigsaw puzzle, with clearer pictures in more recent decades and less certainty earlier on.
How does this relate generally to stratospheric cooling over recent decades and the apparent positive feedback whereby ozone loss causes further cooling which leads to further ozone loss... Here's a good overview news feature Ozone And Climate Change from the Earth Observatory at NASA.
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