Sentences with phrase «than the global average»

In the far north, climate is warming two to three times faster than the global average.

For example, the sea in these regions would rise 1 to 1.6 feet higher than the global average rise of 3.3 feet under the intermediate scenario by 2100.

The temperatures are likely to increase more than global average in high latitudes, and less in low.

The temperature increase is two to three times higher than the global average of the last century.

This is why we have encouraged the adoption of a vulnerability framework as more inclusive and useful to policymakers than the global average temperature predictions.

On one hand, areas of high climatic stability are predicted to warm less than the global average.

People live in regional climates where variations are much larger than the global average.

Despite some successes, tropical countries grew by 0.9 percentage points a year more slowly than the global average in 1965 - 90.

North American property firms did better than the global average, cutting down their energy consumption by 2.5 %.

Consequently, investors purchase cryptocurrencies with rates higher than global average rates, because of the lack of supply of cryptocurrencies.

The study noted, for instance, that most coastal locations were prone to experience a worse sea - level rise outcome than the global average.

Although these people are richer than the global average, they include the poorest people in the developed countries.

It should be using a better estimate of temperature for the missing cells than the global average.

The other reason is that temperature changes are more dramatic in high latitudes than the global average, especially high northern latitudes.

Consequently, 97 % of British CEO's are currently addressing possible cyber breaches in their organisation; far higher than the global average figure of 90 %.

However, at the higher latitudes, many locations are likely to warm by more than the global average (see figure).

In some locations and amongst some groups of people with high exposure, high sensitivity and / or low adaptive capacity, net costs will be significantly larger than the global average.

The adoption level for online automatic subscriptions is also very high in the region (22 %), which is 8 % more than the global average of 14 %.

Additionally, Chinese buyers are paying a premium that's 10 to 20 percent higher than the global average.

A recent report by two leading nonprofits, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the 11 U.S. western states together have experienced an increase in average temperature during the last five years some 70 percent greater than the global average rise.

That is, more than $ 600 lower than the global average price of $ 14,600.

Along much of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska coasts, sea - level rise is projected to be less than the global average under the low - to - intermediate scenarios.

However, changes to climate that come with AGW or would tend to come with GW in general are more than a global average surface temperature increase, and ACC could be seen as a more all - encompassing term.

China is emitting almost as much as the European Union on a per capita basis, about 36 percent higher than the global average per capita emissions.

That gullibility probably has a lot to do with regional short - term temperature fluctuations, which are an order of magnitude larger than global average annual anomalies.

Laaksonen and his colleagues did not try to predict how Finland's temperatures will change in the coming decades, but according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report, Arctic temperatures are likely to continue rising faster than the global average through the end of the 21st century.

Since the 1970s the northern polar region has warmed faster than global averages by a factor or two or more, in a process of «Arctic amplification» which is linked to a drastic reduction in sea ice.

Assuming this holds up, does Antarctica warming faster than the global average constitue more evidence for polar amplification in general?

This escalation of warming should be sending alarm bells to all Australians, as Australia is over 10oC hotter than the global average, and there is an upper limit to human tolerance to heat.

As a region, Europe had a 2.6 higher prevalence of the syndrome than the global average.

To make the comparison a fair one, we used the same criteria to describe a «typical date night» (the meal, the wine, the movie, the taxi) and, converting global prices into NZD, we discovered that the average cost of a date worldwide is $ 118 (making a NZ night out pricer than the global average!).

A Kiwi date night is therefore pricier than the global average.

The good news is that data from the recently released 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) show that U.S. 4th and 8th graders scored higher in math and science than the global average.

According to the Centre for Asia - Pacific Aviation, south - east Asia's aviation market is expanding faster than the global average across nearly every country in the region, thanks to the region's economic and middle class growth.

That is one reason why sea level rise in the western Pacific basin is much higher than the global average throughout the period of satellite - based observation (1993 - to present)-- the wind - driven circulation moved to a more intense phase throughout the duration of satellite altimetry.

While Americans have long consumed about three times more meat (of all kinds) per person than the global average, we hit «peak beef more than a decade ago.

Corals, however, live in shallow waters, which we may expect to have warmed a little more than the global average SST.