Sentences with phrase «than current levels -lsb-»

Similar to the lack of supply for starter homes, detached single family homes available for sale have only been lower than current levels for 5 months in the last 5 years, and these 5 months occurred in the slow winter season of 2016.

In March 2000, shadow inventory loans totaled an estimated 800,000, significantly lower than current levels.

Backers of the proposed protocol believe bitcoin transaction blocks should be two times larger than current levels.

In other words, 13 W / m2 less than current levels.

Under those conditions, Earth had little ice, and sea level was at least 60 metres higher than current levels.

There is the «business as usual» case that assumes 4 degrees of global warming is inevitable, so we should use the cheapest and most plentiful energy sources available regardless of the fact that burning these fuels will raise atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations 40 percent higher than current levels.

This adjacent sea level infographic from a 2015 study published in the Science journal confirms that sea levels were significantly higher in the pre-history than our current levels.

Pre-industrial CO2 level was not lower than current levels and both are low in the entire geologic record.

Given that a case can be made that current levels atmospheric ghg concentrations are already harming or putting people and ecosystems at risk, it is difficult to make an ethically acceptable case that atmospheric ghg concentration targets higher than current levels are justified unless consent is given by those who are already being harmed by warming or full compensation is made to those who through no fault of their own are harmed by climate change.

For example, if the CO2 - ice threshold for present - day Earth is 500 ppm, the equivalent threshold during the Late Ordovician (450 million years ago)-- when the solar constant was about 4 % less than current levels — would be 3000 ppm.

As a result of these contrasting trends, global coal demand reaches 5 530 Mtce in 2022, which is only marginally higher than current levels, meaning that coal use all but stagnates for around a decade.

Such tactics are far more dangerous to our way of life than the current levels of CO2.

exactly... i recall seeing a graph produced from ice core samples in which the CO2 content of thousands of years past was measured against tree ring data... what it showed was CO2 levels rising 300 years after rapid vegetative growth (natural warming) and incidently the PPM of CO2 measured higher than current levels.

As noted in a report I discussed last week, PJM's own research shows that it can maintain long - term resilience and reliability through a variety of resource portfolios, including those with «very high renewable penetration — dozens of times higher than current levels -LSB-.]»

However, when we look back over the Earth's history, we see many periods where CO2 is higher than current levels of 384 ppm.

During the Ordovician, solar output was much lower than current levels.

He said that to fill that gap, the world's major economies need to be spending somewhere between 3 and 10 times more than current levels on direct financing of research, development and the large - scale demonstration of technologies that could be game changers.

For the full data set, about 28 percent of months have had lower valuations than current levels based on the price to smoothed earnings ratio.

In the 1980's -1990's, the spread between the best and worst performing countries was at times 50 percent higher than current levels.

However, over the next 10 to 15 years, markets are very likely to revert to average valuations, which are much lower than current levels.

The gradual decline in long - term interest rates over the last few years propelled many of the recent gains in real estate trusts and it's difficult to see how rates can go much lower than current levels.

A 12 percent increase in the rate of aquifer recharge from added precipitation, combined with a projected 3 - foot rise in sea level by the end of the century, would raise groundwater levels in some parts of the city by an additional foot — up to 4 feet higher than current levels.

From 1 November 2017, members renewing their membership and those joining the MDU, will see subscription quotes around 50 % lower than current levels.

That lends support to the stock's average 12 - month price target of $ 47, some 17 % higher than its current levels around $ 40.

Second, the tax cut bill didn't just happen earlier than we thought, but the cuts are bigger too which can get us higher than current levels, particularly if the euphoria stage persists,» Wilson said.

Second, not only did the tax bill happen earlier than we thought, the cuts are bigger as well, which could take us higher than current levels, particularly if the euphoria stage persists.»

Ultimately, he sees the S&P 500 in 2018 ending 9 percent higher than current levels as long as the 10 - year Treasury yield stays below 3 percent.

This supports our view that by year end credit spreads will be wider than current levels which was predicated by our belief in higher inflation, yields and volatility in 2018.»

Again, the threshold will be set so that salaries of over around # 20,000 will end up requiring payments greater than the current level.

Last summer, as NASA went back and forth with OMB officials in a preliminary draft of a 2013 budget, Weiler says it became evident that the budget for the Science Mission Directorate would be smaller than its current level of $ 5 billion.

However, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere — roughly 290 ppm (parts per million)-- was ca. 110 ppm lower than the current level, as ice core data from the Antarctic shows.

NASA would receive $ 18.5 billion rather than its current level of $ 18.7 billion.

He realized that he had plateaued and probably wasn't going to get better than his current level.

The Governor recommended a reduction of $ 168 million, representing 2.8 percent less than the current level of funding.

The grades are therefore an indication of the pupils» relative position in the cohort rather than their current level of achievement.

For example, I'm trying to SELL, however I want to SELL higher than current level, so I place it above, yet I get filled below.....

About 28 percent of price - to - sales ratios have been lower than the current level when looking at the full data set.

During the previous interglacial, the Eemian, temperatures were about 2 K warmer than now and the sea highstand was 4 — 6 meters higher than the current level, depending upon location measured.

This new study has demonstrated that cold polar surface waters will start to become corrosive to these calcifying organisms once the atmospheric CO2 level reaches about 600 parts per million, which is 60 % more than the current level but which could be attained by the middle of this century.

I doubt you'll be able to show it was any more than the current level) then current forcings should be higher than RC's straight line (which is skewed downwards by the ~ 2015 volcanic eruption) for Scenario B implies.

If they did not soak up any CO2, atmospheric CO2 levels would be much higher than the current level of 355 parts per million by volume (ppmv)- probably around 500 - 600 ppmv.Plankton influence the exchange of gases between the atmosphere and the sea.

The climate was hot and dry, with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels sitting at about 2,000 parts per million (ppm)-- far higher than our current level of about 405 ppm.

Not exact matches

It's also just 0.5 % higher than the equity benchmark's current level.

The world's «easy oil» has been depleted, Grantham argues, and current high inventory levels will be used up sooner than the market expects — assuming reasonable global GDP growth.

Gordon is curious about an untested policy called «price - level targeting,» which would refocus monetary policy on achieving an absolute increase in prices over time, rather than the current emphasis on the rate of change.

And if he wants to keep all of his pay, Valeant stock will have to rise 460 % from its current level in just a little more than three years.

On the data front, fourth - quarter current account figures showed the deficit fell, hitting its lowest level in more than a year, as an increase in the primary income surplus offset a soybean - driven drop in exports.

At the stock's current levels, it would need to crash more than 50 % in order for the hedge fund investor to make any money on the bet.

The notes from the meeting show that a number of Fed officials feel that interest rates could begin to be raised from their current artificially low levels sooner than the current target of sometime in 2015 should certain economic factors continue to improve at a rapid pace.

The demand may prove a bigger problem than potentially increasing the overall North American automotive value content from the current level of 62.5 % for tariff - free shipments of vehicles within the region, which officials say Trump's administration also wants to raise.