Sentences with phrase «than in previous decades»

But the difference between individual years has been slight, meaning the earth's surface has risen a fair bit slower than in previous decades.

Do you think filing for bankruptcy is more convenient now than in the previous decades?

Those ten years also continued an extended period of accelerating global warming, with more national temperature records reported broken than in any previous decade.

This said, the good news in that (if it can be called that), is that deforestation is occurring at a slower rate than in previous decades.

Many young artists I know are working in the same vein, with or without the grid, so your work is seen in a different light now than in previous decades.

Scientists are currently interested in why temperatures at the surface of the ocean have been rising slower than in previous decades, even though we're emitting greenhouse gases faster than ever.

Study: 1 in 10 teens received a threatening cell phone message from their romantic partner; Digital dating abuse can include sexting and Teenagers are having sex, dating and drinking less today than in previous decades, according to a new study.

«Indicators of individualism,» she writes, «are all higher now in the U.S. than in previous decades.

• Plants in Europe and North America now unfold their leaves and flower up to three days earlier than in previous decades.

Upper - ocean salinity also increased globally by a small 0.1 percent — yet below a few hundred meters, ocean waters appear to be considerably fresher than in previous decades.»

The hiatus, which began in about 1998, has been typified by a slower rate of increase in average air temperatures than in previous decades.

Bottom line: Oceans are rising about 50 percent faster than in previous decades.

We know that the population of butterflies in Europe has halved in the last twenty years, «and all this considering that, at that time, the population must have already been lower than in previous decades.

Here, Barcelona could be replaced with almost any other 1990s western or southern European metropolis, now less accommodating than in previous decades as a result of an alienating postmodernity.

It seems Kirby as a franchise is getting more popular than in previous decades.

In the years ahead, we are likely to see reduced water supplies, more forest fires than in previous decades, changes in crop production, more heat waves afflicting our cities and a greater intensity in storms.

Many hurricane experts say the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico have begun to spin off more frequent and destructive hurricanes than in previous decades.

«But worldwide we've built more coal - burning power plants in the past decade than in any previous decade, and closures of old plants aren't keeping pace with this expansion.

Did the north pacific have more cloud cover and less hurricanes and tropical storms than in previous decades?

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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found to their surprise that despite the increased human emissions of greenhouse gases, between 2002 and 2014, plants were somehow able to absorb more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than in previous decades.

Despite the self - congratulatory chorus on the right, the paper published last month actually found that global warming has continued over the last 15 years — just more slowly than in previous decades.

Teenagers are having sex, dating and drinking less today than in previous decades, according to a new study.

There are fewer stray dog populations now than in previous decades, and the need for the iconic town dog catcher has been reduced to almost nil.

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

So let's talk about it: dating Teenagers are having sex, dating and drinking less today than in previous decades, according to a new study.

The Order's mystery casts a lengthy shadow indeed, perhaps more now than in previous decades.

Why glaciers in Franz Josef Land have been shrinking more rapidly between 2011 and 2015 than in previous decades is possibly related to ocean temperature changes.»

LONDON, 12 February, 2016 — The North Atlantic Ocean is responding rapidly to climate change: it has absorbed 50 % more carbon from human activities in the last 10 years, than in the previous decade, a new study shows.

This is slower than in previous decades, but when what's happening to the oceans is also considered, scientists are clear that the planet as a whole is warming.