Sentences with phrase «rise during the past decade»

You can look at these numbers in two ways: You can say that the cash value of real estate has risen during the past decade and you can also say that today's existing home prices are actually cheaper than 10 years ago in terms of buying power.

Not exact matches

As a result of what happened during just one of the past twenty decades (the 1970s), most people now believe that a large rise in «price inflation» or inflation expectations is needed to bring about a major rally in the gold price.

And the country's publications in astronomy have risen more than fourfold during the past decade.

Nitrogen deposition has risen more than tenfold across most of Europe during the past two decades, says Pitcairn.

Almost no real increase in scientists» salaries is in sharp contrast to the rapid rise in China's housing prices and cost of living during the past decade.

Nieves said an example is the U.S. West Coast, where the phase of a multi-decadal ocean climate pattern called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has helped keep sea level rise lower during the past two decades.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

Efforts to improve the quality of the teacher workforce have risen to the top of the education policy agenda during the past decade.

E fforts to improve the quality of the teacher workforce have risen to the top of the education policy agenda during the past decade.

But it has deepened as the movement toward choice - or privatization - has accelerated during the past decade, giving rise to charter schools and voucher programs nationwide.

-- Sea level continued to rise: Global mean sea level continued to rise during 2013, on pace with a trend of 3.2 ± 0.4 mm per year over the past two decades.

I'd be particularly interested in your view on the question whether, if sulphate concentrations have been as low as A1T projects for 2030 during the past decade, you would have expected global mean temperatures to have risen more than they have.

Based on data from past climate changes, when sea level rose to +5 — 9 m, including the occurrence of extreme storms — during a time when temperatures were less than 1 ◦ C warmer than today, experts warn of similar consequences in coming decades.

Thanks to your activist colleagues, even a smart man like Paul Krugman believes that the threat from climate change HAS INCREASED during the past decade of negligible temperature rise.

However, these other graphs confirm precisely what the commission has shown — that the number of hot days in western Sydney has risen during the past four decades and has risen at rate greater than that for the eastern suburbs.

If it were possible to keep it rising during the 1970s and 1980s, by five percent a year as it has in the past, we could use up all the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade.»

''... when correcting for interannual variability, the past decade's slowdown of the global mean sea level disappears, leading to a similar rate of sea - level rise (of 3.3 ± 0.4 mm yr − 1) during the first and second decade of the altimetry era.

«It is exceptionally unlikely that we would be seeing a record year, during a record warm decade, during a multi-decadal period of warmth that appears to be unrivaled over at least the past millennium — if it were not for the rising levels of planet - warming gases produced by fossil fuel burning.»

During this period, the rate of this rise has varied on multidecadal time scales making identifying exact reasons behind upswings, such has been observed over the past few decades, difficult.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

Second, there is a lot of bad news: Several effects of climate disruption have accelerated during the past decade, such as the loss of Arctic sea ice, the melting of big glaciers and the rise of sea levels.

Over the past decade, Greenland has contributed to sea level rise at an average rate of ~ 270 Gt / year, with a peak up to ~ 640 Gt during the extreme year of 2012.

It is exceptionally unlikely that we would be seeing a record year, during a record warming decade, during a multi-decadal period of warmth that appears to be unrivaled over at least the past millennium if it were not for the rising of planet - warming gases produced by fossil fuel burning.»

While average global temperatures rose about 0.74 degrees Celsius during the past century, the U.S. Midwest has experienced a noticeable slump in summer temperatures in recent decades, reported David Changnon, a climatologist at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, on January 19 at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society.

In contrast, global temperature in at least the past two decades is probably outside the Holocene range (7), as evidenced by the fact that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are both losing mass rapidly (8, 9) and sea level has been rising at a rate [3 m / millennium, (10); updates available at http://sealevel.colorado.edu/] well above the average rate during the past several thousand years.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

Roughly half of the sea - level rise that has occurred during the past several decades has been caused by thermal expansion.

«Over the past decade, finding «comps» that accurately reflect values has been a challenge as values rose quickly during the boom and fell just as fast during the bust,» according to a recent article by RISMedia, 5 Ways to Fight a Low Appraisal.