Sentences with phrase «steady increase in»

Prescription drugs and other medical advances have resulted in a steady increase in life expectancy over the years.

The New Year could bring a steady increase in hiring for Canada's legal landscape, according to a new survey.

Miller commented: «We have seen a steady increase in personal downloads over the course of the summer as news of the new IP Bill's passage into UK law became more widely known.

The steady increase in lawyer numbers nationwide has not solved the access to justice problem, mainly because the underlying economics of law school and law practice have not changed.

But according to Law Society statistics, there has also been a steady increase in the number of law graduates, as law schools have increased their enrolments.

About a decade ago prison overcrowding was a major news headline in jurisdictions across the country as an under - funded system struggled to deal with a growing population and a steady increase in the number of incarcerated persons.

-LSB-...] Over the past ten years, there has been a steady increase in Islamist lawfare tactics directly targeting the human rights of North American and European civilians in order to constrain the free flow of public information about radical Islam.

To the contrary, we have seen a steady increase in such incursions over the years.

Do you think it is reasonable to expect this steady increase in the trend to suddenly stop in 2010?

It predicts a regular, slow, steady increase in temperature.

The AGW presentation obscures the 3 - 5 ENSO cycle and emphasizes what appears to be a fairly steady increase in temperatures from the 1970s on that makes the presumed influence of rising CO2 more plausible.

The first half of the year was marked by a steady increase in the weighted average

While there's no way of knowing how many new WNBR cyclists continue to ride (with clothes), Sinnott said the steady increase in participants each year is «pretty awesome».

We should have seen a slow and steady increase in fuel efficiency in the last hundred years, but that just hasn't happened, and I don't understand it.

Our older projections, which were developed to be consistent with some key findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Fifth Assessment Report, assumed a steady increase in the rate of ice - sheet shrinkage.

We find that in those cases where the synchronous state was followed by a steady increase in the coupling strength between the indices, the synchronous state was destroyed, after which a new climate state emerged.

When researchers looked into how the scientific consensus on global warming evolved from 1996 to 2009 they found a steady increase in the agreement among scientists (Bray 2010).

This is despite a steady increase in radiative forcing as a result of human activities and has led some to question climate predictions of substantial twenty - first century warming (Lawson 2008; Carter 2008).

Conclusion There no pause in the steady increase in scientific confidence — based observationally upon global - scale thermometry, gravimetry, and altimetry — that James Hansen's climate - change worldview is essentially right.

An analysis of the historical data suggests a strong correlation between the solar activity and the natural climate variations on centennial time - scales, such as the colder climate during the Maunder (about 1650 − 1700 AD) and Dalton (about 1800 − 1820 AD) minima as well as climate warming during the steady increase in solar activity in the first half of the twentieth - century (Siscoe 1978; Hoyt & Schatten 1997; Solomon et al. 2007; Gray et al. 2010).

U.S. public agreement with the view that human activities have caused global warming, now 57 %, has waxed and waned over the past decade, despite a steady increase in the percentage of Americans claiming they understand the issue well.

Kiran Ooman, a youth plaintiff with Our Children's Trust said, «Growing up in the Pacific Northwest of the United States I have witnessed the effects of climate change, from the steady increase in forest fire severity to unnaturally high pollen counts.

At the heart of both studies is a deeper concern about the response of the natural world to human - induced change, in the destruction of habitat, the loss of the plants, birds, insects, mammals, amphibians and reptiles that depend on habitat, and in the steady increase in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases, as a consequence of profligate combustion of fossil fuels.

UPDATE: Hat - tip: Kenneth Graph showing increasing Adélie penguin numbers during 1982 - 2015 Che - Castaldo et al., 2017 «We found a marked and steady increase in [Adélie penguin] abundance around the rest of the Antarctic continent, including both Eastern Antarctica and the Ross Sea [during 1982 - 2015].»

Water now returning to the surface having entered deep ocean during the MWP may be inducing release of oceanic CO2 in response to altered pH, and this release could be expected to provide the steady increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration (of at least 1.5 ppm / year) that is observed to be independent of temperature variations.

«I personally wouldn't invest in beachfront property anymore,» he says, noting the steady increase in sea level we're expecting to see worldwide in the coming century, on top of more extreme storms.

The data is called the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, and there are several teams analyzing this and they are all agreeing that they are picking up a steady increase in the greenness of the planet.

Over the past few hundred years, there has been a steady increase in the numbers of sunspots, a trend that has accelerated in the past century, just at the time when the Earth has been getting warmer.

taking into account that they match the amount of steady increase in the atmosphere and oceans.

The steady increase in global temperatures, including average temperatures in Australia, means that even when rainfall is at or near the historical average, conditions are drier than before because evaporation rates are higher.

And they point to new data from the UK Benchwork Network of gauging stations, showing that in western parts of the UK there has been a steady increase in high winter river flows from the 1950s to 2013.

The paper published today in the journal Nature Climate Change reports on the steady increase in international and domestic tourism - related emission between 2009 and 2013.

They found that where a «synchronous state was followed by a steady increase in the coupling strength between the indices, the synchronous state was destroyed, after which a new climate state emerged.

Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is nearly inert in the troposphere and stratosphere and has documented, steady increase in the troposphere due to industrial sources, making it a useful tracer of atmospheric circulation.

We find that in those cases where the synchronous state was followed by a steady increase in the coupling strength between the indices, the synchronous state was destroyed, after which a new climate state emerged... This is the first time that this mechanism, which appears consistent with the theory of synchronized chaos, is discovered in a physical system of the size and complexity of the climate system.»

While the Earth seems to be managing the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide relatively well so far (although the effects of this increase may not be felt for many decades to come), there are concerns that passing the 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon dioxide threshold will bring the Earth's atmosphere closer to a tipping point at which global warming accelerates rapidly with dire consequences for mankind and other creatures on Earth.

Every year thousands of people die of easily preventable water - related diseases, and as a result of climate change and unplanned shrimp farming the area experiences frequent natural disasters, erratic rainfall and a steady increase in the salinity of the water table.

It is not the case that all GCM computer models projected a steady increase in temperature for the period 1990 - 2008.

His message to congress in 1965 («in the days when politicians actually listened to scientists» says Oreskes) that «This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through... a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels» demonstrates the gathering political momentum, she says.

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.

Whether we look at the steady increase in global temperature; the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to the highest level in a half - million years; the march of warmest - ever years (9 of the10 hottest on record have occurred since 2000); the dramatic shrinking of mountain glaciers and Arctic sea ice; the accelerating rise in sea level; or the acidification of our oceans; the tale told by the evidence is consistent and it is compelling.

The initiative has sparked a steady increase in the number of supporters.

An example of this phenomenon is Boston, where the local trend is flat but at the state level, Massachusetts has seen a relatively steady increase in heavy downpours since 1950.

This study shows a steady increase in biomass in all scenarios, to slowly decrease in the second half of the 21st century.

How can one claim that CO2 is causing a steady increase in temps when it has huge year to year variations?

Otherwise, the steady increase in carbon dioxide would produce a steady increase in the planet's temperature.

Scientists» measurements, over the last 30 years or so, seem to reflect a steady increase in CO2 emissions, which seem to be causing both a rise in temperature and change in ocean ph toward acidity.

However, at the same time, there's been the steady increase in subtropical ocean surface temperatures in the Atlantic Warm Pool, leading to record water temperatures off the US east coast in winter, which tends to fuel more extreme storms (via the increase in water vapor pressure over the warmer ocean).

Why should it be expected that things like tropical storms and ice sheets would respond to the slow, steady increase in temperatures in a similarly slow, steady manner?

The journalists I met with say there has been a steady increase in conflicts between people and wildlife.