Sentences with phrase «rising over the past century»

It seems that we have accommodated similar rises over the past centuries... and didn't really notice that we were doing so.

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But even though 84 percent of the poll's respondents said they believed the world's temperature has been rising over the past century, only four in ten said they are «extremely» or «very» sure it is happening.

Despite these trivial sea level rise over the past century and a bit, moonbat councils on the east coast of Australia are still tying up waterfront properties in miles of green tape, justified by predictions of massive sea level rises by climate alarmists, and property values have plummeted as a result:

They talk about temperatures rising over the past century and a half.

After about 2,000 years of little change, global sea level rose over the past century at an average rate of 1.7 millimeters per year.

(1) Alarmists: Like «Chicken Little» who cried «the sky is falling» when he was hit by an acorn falling off a tree, the Alarmists think they are warning and saving the world from a «tipping point» that will cause «runaway warming» within a decade or so because of the coincidence of a warming trend and CO2 rise over the past century.

Not exact matches

The drug at the heart of four lawsuits in New Jersey is insulin — «a century - old medicine that for most of its history cost $ 15 or less,» write Barrett and Langreth, but «whose list price has risen more than 270 percent over the past decade.»

As much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter century.

Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin the numbers have been rising significantly.

A capsule of his findings would include the following facts: Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin America — the «global South» in current geopolitical coinage — the numbers have been rising significantly and in some cases dramatically.

The decline of Roman Catholicism in Latin America and the subsequent rise of evangelicalism has been well - documented over the past century.

The US Environmental Protection Agency points out that Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.5 °F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6 °F over the next hundred years.

In 1987, for example, turnout inequality by class was almost non-existent and age - based differences were significantly lower; cleavages in both have steadily risen over the past quarter century.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

A one - degree rise in the global temperature over the past century, he says, could account for the shifts.

THE MOTIVE Some researchers have proposed that the sharp rise in asthma and allergy cases over the past century stems, unexpectedly, from living too clean.

Indeed, tree - ring chronologies provide much longer histories than observational records and corroborate that variability and synchrony have risen over the past hundred years, and to levels that are as high as any observed over the past three centuries, according to the researchers.

While Earth's landmass has warmed by about 1 degree Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past century, on average, land temperatures in the Arctic have risen almost 2 C (3.6 F).

Although the earth has experienced exceptional warming over the past century, to estimate how much more will occur we need to know how temperature will respond to the ongoing human - caused rise in atmospheric greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide.

Rising affluence over the past several centuries has, overall, been hard on the environment.

If you had asked an expert over the past half century, you would have heard two general possibilities: Either the winds go as deep as 10,000 kilometers from the cloud tops and are driven by heat rising from those depths or they are very shallow and confined to just the top few hundred kilometers of Jupiter's atmosphere.

Primack credits the three degree Fahrenheit temperature rise in eastern Massachusetts over the past century with jump - starting plant development in the spring.

Sea levels have been rising worldwide over the past century by between 10 and 20 centimetres, as a result of melting land - ice and the thermal expansion of the oceans due to a planetary warming of around 0.5 degreeC.

The strongest evidence for global warming comes from physics and chemistry, not from records of past temperatures, which is why scientists were predicting warming long before the rise in temperature over the 20th century was obvious.

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.

Over the past quarter century, G20 carbon dioxide emissions had risen by almost 50 percent while per capita emissions had gained by about 18 percent, reflecting population growth, it said.

Climate change models have typically underestimated the amount of sea level rise observed over the past century.

A 100 ppm, or 0.01 percent, rise in CO2 levels may not seem like much but it has already been enough to warm the globe by roughly a degree Celsius over the past century.

The ups and downs of the cycle are seen as smaller wiggles in the overall rise of carbon dioxide over the past half - century as

The global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.

Thanks in large part to satellite measurements, scientists» skill in measuring how much sea levels are rising on a global scale - currently 0.13 inch (3.4 millimeters) per year - has improved dramatically over the past quarter century.

Picture this, Garner says: the prospects that the 500 - year - floods from past centuries could, with the boost from sea - level rise, become the projected five - year floods over just the next three decades.

Despite the magnitude of this rise, no islands have been lost, the majority have enlarged, and there has been a 7.3 % increase in net island area over the past century (A.D. 1897 — 2013).»

This is because a rise in emissions from deforestation for cropland largely counteracted the decline in wildfire emissions over the past century.

While the planet's surface temperatures over the past century have risen to unprecedented levels, records have shown a slowdown in the pace of warming over the past 15 years.

In fact, the typical American diet is extremely meat - heavy, having risen dramatically over the past century.9 Previous research has suggested the average American consumes about 1.5 grams of protein per kilo of total body mass (lean mass plus fat).

Over the past half century, this essential nutrient has been systematically weaned from the vast majority of leafy greens and vegetables, due to poor soil conditions and the rapid rise in the consumption of processed foods where any required nutrients have been removed in favor of added sugars, fats, artificial flavors and coloring, which is why supplemental magnesium may be beneficial.

Over the past century, especially after World War II, Western diets have shifted to include more animal foods, including poultry, which has risen to the top in U.S. meat consumption.

Meat consumption has risen dramatically in the US over the past century.

Folk, naïve, vernacular, visionary, outsider, self - taught — over the past century, a range of terms has emerged to describe artists who rose to prominence despite a lack of formal training.

Over the past century, soil temperatures at both 30 cm and 100 cm depths, have risen twice as fast as air temperature.»

While the observed Antarctic temperatures rose by about 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.2 degrees Celsius) over the past century, the climate models simulated increases in Antarctic temperatures during the same period of 1.4 degrees F (0.75 degrees C).

««Of the rise in global atmospheric temperature over the past century, nearly 30 % occurred between 1910 and 1940 when anthropogenic forcings were relatively weak.»

These changes bode well for the future of American health and are indicative of a wider trend toward acknowledging home - cooked food's protective and healing power — something that was once a given, when it was all people had to work with, but then lost its status with the rise of cheap, effective pharmaceuticals (not to mention accessibility to processed food) over the past half - century.

The temperature rise we've seen over the past century is roughly 0.6 C.

Yet for at least the past century, rising per - capita incomes have outstripped the rising head count several times over.

I blame the Greens and environmentalists for causing tens of millions of deaths through banning DDT, causing food price rises and increasing food poverty though their advocacy of biofuels and, importantly, causing the world's CO2 emissions to be about 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would have been if not for their anti-nuclear activism over the past half century.

Core samples, tide gauge readings, and, most recently, satellite measurements tell us that over the past century, the Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) has risen by 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters).

On average in the United States, the amount of rain falling during the heaviest 1 percent of rainstorms has increased nearly 20 percent during the past 50 years — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation.4, 5 The Midwest saw an even larger average increase of 31 percent, surpassed only by the Northeast (at 67 percent).4 Scientists attribute the rise in heavy precipitation to climate change that has already occurred over the past half - century.6