Sentences with phrase «setting global records»

We are not setting global records everywhere every year because of this, even though 2014 is one of the warmest on average.

In addition to setting global records while scooping up high - profile Asian and Western pieces, they're pursuing memberships in powerful art organizations, sponsoring new platforms for exchange, setting up foundations, and building new museums to house their collections.

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Up 5.6 % over the same period, the S&P 500 also set a new record high on Friday, but only for the seventh time since the election, according to S&P Global — half as many times as the Dow.

2016's movie industry highlights include a monster year for Walt Disney, as the Mouse House set a new yearly global box office record, becoming the first studio to ever top $ 7 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

Global stocks have pushed to new highs, outdoing previous records set in 2015, driven by strong economic data in the U.S. and comments by the Federal Reserve on the future path of interest rates.

Impressive Record - Setting Two Weeks for Bitcoin and Global Stock Markets For two weeks in a row, both the US stock market and Bitcoin's price, almost in sync, displayed spectacularly

Speaking by phone from Montreal on Wednesday, economist Paul - Andre Pinsonnault predicted Governor Stephen Poloz will cut the policy rate by a quarter point to 0.25 percent next month, matching a record low set in 2009 during the global financial crisis.

Walt Disney's «Avengers: Infinity War» set new records for the biggest domestic and global opening of all time this weekend, collecting an estimated $ 250 million in the U.S. and Canada and $ 630 million around the world.

The price of soya beans is heading towards the record high set during the 2007 - 08 food crisis, which is set to reignite fears of runaway global food inflation.

The global reflation trade is in full swing, the return of cash flow to shareholders is at a record pace and that is why, in my opinion, the U.S. equity markets are set to extend the current rally well into 2019.

Global equities set record highs again during the week, against a backdrop of solid economic and earnings growth.

By year - end 2015, Dealogic predicts that global M&A could hit $ 4.58 trillion, beating the $ 4.29 trillion full - year record set in 2007.

According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), a global airlines trade group, the industry is set to post a collective $ 33 billion in net profits this year — a record — on fuel cost savings and stronger passenger flight demand.

We'll start out supporting startups at 1 Million Cups then set the coworking global record.

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The declines followed another streak of record - setting gains for global cryptos that was largely driven by bitcoin.

Strong earnings growth and low volatility helped markets set record highs amid a synchronized global economic expansion.

Bordeaux, February 20th, 2018 — The upturn in the value of world wine consumption is set for a record global market value of $ 224.5 billion by 2021, forecasts Vinexpo / IWSR in its annual forecasts for the wine and spirits sectors.

Sagarin hopes that the results, appearing in the 26 October issue of Science, will encourage others to look for environmental responses to global warming in data sets collected informally by individuals or communities, like a bird - watcher's records.

Hof established several world records for prolonged resistance to cold exposure, an ability he attributes to a self - developed set of techniques of breathing and meditation — known as the Wim Hof Method — that have been covered by the BBC, CNN, National Geographic and other global media outlets.

Largely because of global warming, this year is expected to be the hottest year on record, beating a heat record set last year, which beat the record set the year prior.

For the year to date, the average global temperature was 1.78 degrees F above average, surpassing the heat record set in 2015 by 0.23 degrees.

And though temperatures across the U.S. as a whole haven't set any records this year, the global average has been a different story.

In 2015, the planet saw a number of such records set, from the hottest global temperature measured to the largest annual increase in carbon dioxide.

Shakun and his colleagues started by creating the first global set of temperature proxies — a set of 80 different records from around the world that recorded temperatures from roughly 20,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago.

In the early 1990s, Waters helped develop the battery pack system for General Motors» electric car, the EV1; helped set an EV world speed record at 183 mph; later founded Bright Automotive, a company that invented a 100 - mpg plug - in hybrid electric commercial vehicle; and now heads Waters and Associates, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in global sustainable mobility and housing.

«It's quite possible that 2016 will set a new global temperature record,» Jessica Blunden, a NOAA climatologist and lead author of the report, said.

Given the nature of the challenges the country faces in global economic competitiveness, energy, and health, the President will call for the U.S. to surpass its record investment in research and development, set in 1964 at the height of the space race, exceeding three percent of GDP.

The previous unmanned endurance record was set in 2001 by a jet - powered U.S. Air Force Global Hawk surveillance aircraft, which flew for more than 30 hours.

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes — according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200 nations for limiting global warming, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.

Events like record - setting heat, extreme rainfall and drought will happen more frequently around the world even if global climate targets are met, new research suggests.

«The long - term baseline temperature is about three tens of a degree (C) warmer than it was when the big El Niño of 1997 - 1998 began, and that event set the one - month record with an average global temperature that was 0.66 C (almost 1.2 degrees F) warmer than normal in April 1998.»

Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of earth system science at Stanford University, was the lead author of a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released last week detailing a four - step framework for testing whether global warming contributes to record - setting weather events.

The time evolution of the Northern Hemisphere mean for the two data sets is shown in the lower panel, showing a good agreement over most of the record, but with slightly higher GISTEMP estimates over the last 10 years (the global mean was not shown because my computer didn't have sufficient memory for the complete analysis, but the two data sets also show similar evolution in e.g. the IPCC AR4).

June — August 2014, at 0.71 °C (1.28 °F) higher than the 20th century average, was the warmest such period across global land and ocean surfaces since record keeping began in 1880, edging out the previous record set in 1998.

The average August temperature for the global oceans was record high for the month, at 0.65 °C (1.17 °F) above the 20th century average, beating the previous record set in 2005 by 0.08 °C (0.14 °F).

The confused argument hinges on one data set — the HadCRUT 3V — which is only one of several estimates, and it is the global temperature record that exhibits the least change over the last decade.

During the last major El Niño event, there were nine months in a row that set global temperature records.

According to NOAA data, the global average temperature for 2016 was 1.69 °F (0.94 °C) above the 20th century average and 0.07 °F (0.04 °C) above the previous record set last year.

This all - time monthly record was broken in August 2015 (+0.78 °C / +1.40 °F), then broken again in September (+0.83 °C / +1.49 °F), and then broken once more in October (0.86 °C / 1.55 °F)-- making three all - time new monthly high global ocean temperature records set in a single calendar year.

It comes amid speculation that February may have also set a global heat record.

In what has become a monthly refrain this year, yet another month has set a global temperature record, with June 2015 coming in as the warmest June on record going back to 1880.

U.S. and global crop yields are setting new records almost every year as our climate modestly warms.

If 2016 sets another global temperature record, that would make it back - to - back - to - back years of record setting hot temperatures.

January and February obliterated global temperature records, setting up conditions for the further retreat of the Arctic summer ice cover, scientists have warned.

For the oceans, the November global sea surface temperature was 0.84 °C (1.51 °F) above the 20th century average of 15.8 °C (60.4 °F), the highest for November on record, surpassing the previous record set last year by 0.20 °C (0.36 °F).

Separately, the global land surface temperature was 1.89 °C (3.40 °F) above average, the highest on record for December, surpassing the previous record set in 2006 by 0.48 °C (0.86 °F).

The June globally averaged sea surface temperature was 1.39 °F above the 20th century monthly average of 61.5 °F — the highest global ocean temperature for June in the 1880 — 2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.05 °F.

This value was the highest August land global temperature in the 1880 — 2016 record, exceeding the previous record set in 2015 by 0.34 °F.