Sentences with phrase «temporarily slowed the rate»

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

This temporarily slowed the rate of sea level rise.

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Because their systems are immature, babies sometimes temporarily stop breathing and / or have slowed heart rates.

Meanwhile, cooler - than - normal water has risen up to replace it in the eastern Pacific, a mechanism that has temporarily helped slow the rate of warming on land, despite continued global warming.

For awhile fluoride was being touted as an osteoporosis drug, but like fosamax, it only slows bone loss temporarily, and the long term consequence is an increased rate of hip fracture due to structurally unsound bone.

It is also true that after static passive stretching your coordination is temporarily reduced, your heart rate and respiratory system slows down (The complete opposite of what you want your warm up to achieve) and instead of increasing your readiness for physical exertion this type of flexibility training is more likely to make you feel sleepy which is why it should be used as part of a cool down.

To me, it would mean that the spin rate of the earth is actually increasing and temporarily reversing its long term trend of slowing, while we are in the polar ice build - up phase of this climate cycle.

As such, it may be correct to say that CO2 may temporarily affect the rate of cooling, but without a change in the rate of energy input, eventually the rate of cooling will return to its original value, at which point the «cooling» has not been «slowed down».

Even though the rate of emissions of greenhouse gasses slowed down temporarily for some regions of the world, those gasses stay in the air after they are released, so this year greenhouse gas levels reached new record high levels