Sentences with phrase «rising at a steady rate»

If emissions did plateau, the atmospheric concentrations would continue to rise at a steady rate but with just 2 % (compound) difference from the rises of recent decades.

Now I am the first to admit that 1e22 joules are a heap of joules and when someone is faced with the fact that the ocean heat content has been rising at a steady rate of around 1e22 joules / year since 1970, the first reaction is to say «O. M. G.!!

And over the past 200 years have been rising at a steady rate of 1.7 - 1.8 mm / year according to NOAA.

And yet, despite some encouraging developments in renewable energy and some breakthroughs in international leadership, carbon emissions continue to rise at a steady rate, and for their pains the scientists themselves — the cruelest blow of all — have been the targets of an unrelenting and well - organized attack that includes death threats, summonses from a hostile Congress, attempts to get them fired, legal harassment, and intrusive discovery demands so severe they had to start their own legal - defense fund, all amplified by a relentless propaganda campaign nakedly financed by the fossil - fuel companies.

Sea levels which rapidly rose 400 feet following the last Ice Age have only risen at a steady rate of four to eight inches per century over the past 150 years.

A team of scientists has studied 25 years» worth of satellite data, and calculated that the sea level isn't rising at a steady rate, it's accelerating.

Solid waste generation in the United States continues to rise at a steady rate.

Homeowners insurance rates continue to rise at a steady rate throughout the United States, up over 50 % in the last 10 years alone.

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Back in December, the Fed said it would hold the target short - term rate steady at least until unemployment had dropped to 6.5 %, assuming inflation didn't rise past 2.5 %.

When Bernanke's taper talk caused long - term interest rates to rise much faster than the Fed intended, one of the ways in which the central banks sought to allay market fears was to stress that it would keep short - term rates steady until the jobless rate had reached at least 6.5 %.

Payrolls rose 200,000 last month, the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 % and wage growth popped up to 2.9 %, it's the fastest year - over-year growth rate since mid-2009.

Payrolls rose by 148,000 last month and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 percent.

* GOLD: Gold prices rose for a second session on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady as expected at the end of a two - day policy meeting, while investors awaited U.S. - China trade talks.

The occupancy rate for apartments in metro Denver held steady at 94.3 percent, RealPage found, and rents rose 3.2 percent in 2017.

The company's economists cited policy changes at the Federal Reserve and rising inflation as contributing factors in the steady upward climb of lending rates.

Despite rising real wages, and the weakness in activity, the unemployment rate remains steady at 8.8 per cent, well below its earlier peak of 11 per cent.

Though rates of premature birth remain steady in the U.S., at one in 8 live births, the demand for donor human milk is rising because of its effectiveness.

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.

So far, the climate system has responded to rising carbon dioxide levels at a fairly steady rate, but many scientists worry about possible nonlinear effects.

Interestingly, for the first decade and a half of the 21st Century, the rate of rise stopped accelerating and steadied at around 2.1 ppm per year.

As Arctic temperatures rise at about double the rate of the planet as a whole, Greenland's surface has been melting at a steady clip, contributing about 30 percent of the foot of global sea level rise since 1900.

That «my yield» on our BMY investment is 7.5 % vs. the current dividend yield of 2.5 % reflects 1) steady increases in the company's dividend payout since 2004, and 2) the stock price is much higher today than when we bought it (a stock price rising at a faster rate than the dividend payment will reduce dividend yield).

Aside from a brief decline in 2002 when Madden 03 was released, Madden sales continued to rise at a fairly steady rate.

SLR study... The study, by US scientists, has calculated the rate of global mean sea level rise is not just going up at a steady rate of 3 mm a year, but has been increasing by an additional 0.08 mm a year, every year since 1993.

«The global temperature has been rising at a steady trend rate of 0.5 °C per century since the end of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter; the last time it froze over was 1804)...

However, our Figure 1 and Table 1 illustrate that the long - term global heat content trend has risen at a steady, increasing rate over the past 4 decades.

Given these spacings of successive 10 % rises, namely 17 years, previously 24 years, previously 60 years, previously thousands of years, it seems safe to say that successive 10 % rises in CO2 are not occurring at anything like the steady rate you might have been assuming.

«Satellite observations, which began in 1993, indicate that the rate of sea level rise has held fairly steady at about 3 millimeters per year.

This has not happend yet, and what, to me, the pause indicates, is that the more rapid rise at the end of the 20th century was wrongly ascribed to CAGW, since we now have the pause which is, once again, returning the rate of rise to the steady 0.06 C per decade.

That shows an 18 year record of consistent and steady rise at a rate of about 3 mm a year.

CO2 levels rose, temperatures rose at the same rate that they rose when CO2 levels were steady.

a) Average Temperature rise has been steadily climbingb) It has been climbing at a «steady» rate even though our CO2 output has increased by a hundred foldUnlike all those books, charts and pretty drawings, The numbers don't lie.CO2 is not the cause of Global Warming, the figures prove it... and they are all numbers, no charts, not hockey or cricket sticks, no drawings, animation or silly looking cartoons... all just plain numbers.http: / / wisdomblogsdotcom1.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/coal-consumption.

The best possible outcome right now, Rahmstorf said, is that we stabilize temperatures and that sea level rise happened at a steady rate over the next few centuries, and not accelerate.

The concentration held steady in 2008, meaning at least that interannual variability is important in the methane cycle, and making it hard to say if the long - term average emission rate is rising in a way that would be consistent with a new carbon feedback.

Last week, a new study confirmed that sea - level rise is accelerating, rather than increasing at a steady rate.

Doubtless melting at current rates would continue (though depending on ice dynamics a new steady state could emerge) but that does not seem very serious; it is only a fraction of current sea level rise.

Eyewitness accounts about the time any water entered the house, the level it rose, where it came from, how it first entered the house (for example, through toilets and showers or over land), the colour of the water and whether the water increased in stages or at a steady and uniform rate.

The industry is rising rapidly, and with legalization continuing at a steady — if at times slow — rate, there's a lot of interest in weed stocks.

«Steady employment gains, slowly rising incomes and lower mortgage rates generated sustained buyer interest all summer long, but unfortunately, not more home sales,» says Lawrence Yun, chief economist at NAR.

Portland's rents increased on par with inflation during the late 1990s, but last year rents gained less than 2 % and are expected to remain flat this year, according to Marcus & Millichap, which tallied the area's average rate at a little more than $ 18 per sq. ft.. In the Puget Sound, after rising from roughly $ 16 to nearly $ 20 per sq. ft. between 1997 and 2000, average rents have steadied or even decreased a bit, according to First Western Properties.

«Although we don't expect home prices to rise in every market at the same rate, the worst is definitely behind us, and a slow, steady recovery is taking hold.»

«Despite the steady rise in home prices in recent years, Canadians» mortgage servicing costs have remained close to record low levels — thanks to low interest rates and healthy income gains,» says Charles Lambert, managing director, mortgages at Scotiabank.

«Values are continuing to rise at a steady, consistent pace and new inventory is slowly coming to market as more and more long - time owners are coming off the fence to sell in an environment where interest rates are at all - time lows, demand is unrelenting and looming tax increases are on the horizon,» said Ken Uranowitz, managing director.