Sentences with phrase «unprecedented global increase»

«In the last century, there has been an unprecedented global increase in infectious diseases and a concomitant decline in and homogenization of biodiversity,» said Rohr.

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«In an era of unprecedented change in how we live, learn and work, Meister and Mulcahy have documented the growing importance of investing in learning to increase productivity and competitiveness in the global marketplace.

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

The unprecedented increase in global trade — the buying and selling of goods and services among countries — has created a planetary supermarket.

«After a budget process that included unprecedented anti-employer actions — including a drastic increase to the minimum wage and the most expansive paid family leave mandate in the nation — the employers and the communities we represent are deeply concerned about their ability to operate in a state that is consistently viewed among the worst in the nation to start or grow a business by every objective ranking while effectively competing in a global marketplace,» the groups wrote in the letter.

Increased city living rather than the virus evolving seems to be behind the unprecedented epidemic, which means it is unlikely to go global

The book presents a range of highly individual artistic responses to the unprecedented changes now taking place in the economic, social, and cultural spheres of African nations and provides new insight into the increasing role of the visual arts within the global cultural community.

In the light of a devastating global warming we must therefore change forest management practices because new practices would increase the chances to reduce the unprecedented speed of global warming.

I am concerned about the «vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn».

While warning that modern agricultural methods are placing unprecedented demands on our natural resources, Dr. Foley's work offers hope, promise and a way forward, offering strategic solutions for increasing global food production while reducing agriculture's often devastating environmental footprint.

After a 1 % decline in 2009, global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increased by more than 5 % in 2010, which is unprecedented in the last two decades.

Stabilizing the global climate at or below a 2 °C increase would require unprecedented cuts in emissions — on the order of 80 percent — by 2050.

Environment ministers and their representatives from 29 countries representing the entire spectrum of interests in climate negotiations will meet in Berlin for two days starting July 14 even as increasing instances of unprecedented heat waves and cold winters illuminate the urgent need for a global plan to counter climate change.

Bullet point # 1 reads: «Global mean temperatures are increasing at rates unprecedented in human history, with human activity a major contributory factor through release of «greenhouse gases» such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

Indeed, an Australian reporter even suggested that «years of global warming and increased CO2 emissions have caused these trees to grow at an unprecedented rate, providing more fuel for these fires.»

The prominent upward trend in the GM precipitation occurring in the last century and the notable strengthening of the global monsoon in the last 30 yr (1961 — 90) appear unprecedented and are due possibly in part to the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, though the authors» simulations of the effects from recent warming may be overestimated without considering the negative feedbacks from aerosols.

And that global temperatures are now increasing at a lightning rate that appears to be unprecedented in at least the past 60 million years.

From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

In 1975, Yale economist William Nordhaus speculated that a global mean temperature increase of two or three degrees would be unprecedented in the «last several hundred thousand years.»

The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis (108) posits that mid-Holocene increases in CO2 and CH4 resulted from early land clearing and other agricultural practices and that these unprecedented interglacial trends in atmospheric composition set global climate on a trajectory toward warmer conditions long before human use of fossil fuels (108, 109).

With global temperatures and populations increasing across the world, demand for this equipment is unprecedented.

This could tell us if the recent large rate of increase in power dissipation is unprecedented and thus likely linked to global warming.

Global average air temperatures have already increased by over 1 ° F and are projected to rise between 2.5 and 10.5 ° F or more by the end of this century, an unprecedented magnitude and speed of change.

Using computer climate models, climatologists have established that the recent trend of an increasing global average air temperature, especially since the mid-20 th century, is unprecedented and unnatural.

With the global population and rates of per capita consumption increasing since the 1950s (indeed, since the 1750s), environmental impacts have mounted to ever greater and unprecedented extremes (McNeill 2001).

So it seems quite clear that there is a potential connection, in a statistical sense, between human - caused global warming, declining Arctic sea ice, and the anomalous blocking pattern this winter that has added to other factors we know are tied to human - caused climate change (warmer temperatures and increased soil evaporation, and decreased winter snowpack and freshwater runoff) to produce the unprecedented drought this year in California.

The scientists show that the observed increase in unprecedented heavy rainfall generally fits with this thermodynamically expected increase under global warming.

Under the combined assault of increasing global temperatures and unprecedented drought, some forests could inexorably slide into savannah or scrubland.

They depict what is actually a generally northward migration of gradually increasing global precipitation which, with ongoing warming, is increasingly delivering unprecedented rains on high latitudes.

We facing one of the most unprecedented global economic situations in decades, and as a result, the labour market has seen significant increases in redundancies and retrenchments.