Sentences with phrase «rise at a constant rate»

«Sure, they'll probably try to confuse us with trick questions: Like why, apart from natural 1998 and 2015 El Nino spikes, satellites haven't recorded any statistically significant global warming for nearly two decades; why sea levels have been rising at a constant rate of 7 inches per century without acceleration; and why no category 3 - 5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005 — a record lull since 1900.

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This unjustifiably rewards high - tax states, and because deductions rise with income (they are worth 39.6 cents per $ 1 at the top, but only 10 cents or less at the bottom), it also rewards areas with more wealthy taxpayers, even holding state and local tax rates constant.

As anticipated, the ECB held its policy rates constant with the deposit rate remaining at -0.4 % and monthly government bond purchases of $ 60bn euro, despite a slightly brighter outlook on GDP growth, which is expected to rise to 2.2 % in 2017, Mario Draghi announced during yesterday's ECB monetary policy meeting.

Noakes12 recently argued from the data of Baldwin et al13 that when exercise was performed at a constant work rate (thus negating any effect of pacing strategy) to volitional fatigue in either a glycogen - loaded or glycogen - depleted state, performance time was determined by the rate at which the RPE rose from its starting value to a maximal tolerable value.

Charles Courtemanch, assistant professor in the School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, says that the steady rise in obesity rates is due, in large part, to the constant incentives to eat.

The rise in emitted energy seems a much simpler ratio, emitted energy in the case we are discussing does not change at a constant rate, it changes in relation to the intensity of the emitter, this change over time is a linear function due to the systemic processes which we are still working to describe, sorry.

Again, the contention is that rising CO2 causes water vapor to rain out at such a rate as to make optical thickness of the atmosphere in the IR constant.

That's why, in the past, Northern Hemisphere temperatures naturally rose at rates of 2 degrees C per decade and sea levels rose 5 meters per century while CO2 stayed constant.

If sea level continues to change at this rate and acceleration, sea - level rise by 2100 (∼ 65 cm) will be more than double the amount if the rate was constant at 3 mm / y.

The second, following a slight cool - down, began in 1975 and rose at quite a constant rate until 1998, a strong Pacific Ocean El Niño year... although this later warming is reported only by surface thermometers, not satellites, and is legitimately disputed by some.

If radiative forcing were calculated at the altitude of the top end of the constant lapse rate (g / Cp), we can expect the no - feedbacks temperature rise to be transmitted to the surface by that «constant» lapse rate.