Sentences with phrase «worldwide average rose»

Since October 20, the Zimbabwean Bitcoin price rose $ 2400, whereas the worldwide average rose $ 1000.

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Life expectancy has risen an average of 12 years for women and 11 years for men worldwide in the past 40 years.

In 2014, the World Meteorological Organization reported that sea - level rise accelerated 0.12 inches (3 millimeters) per year on average worldwide.

The average price of unleaded is up 3p / litre in the last month alone, and the RAC predicts that because oil prices worldwide are rising, it could hit 126.5 p / litre next week - the highest average price since Oct 2014.

If only the Greenland Ice Sheet melted, sea levels would fall along the shores of Scotland, and the Netherlands would see only one - fifth the average sea - level rise worldwide.

Average temperatures worldwide rose by about 7 degrees Celsius — about 13 degrees Fahrenheit — in the relatively short geological span of about 10,000 years.

«As a coastal city located on the tip of a peninsula, San Francisco is vulnerable to sea level rise, and human activities releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere cause increases in worldwide average temperature, which contribute to melting of glaciers and thermal expansion of ocean water — resulting in rising sea levels,» the ordinance reads.

Governments worldwide have in principle accepted that greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced and average global warming limited to a rise of 2 °C.

Still, nations worldwide are not doing near - enough to keep their pledge of not allowing global temperatures to rise 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th Century average warns the IEA.

By the early 1980s, a fairly broad consensus had emerged in the climate change research community that greenhouse gas emissions could, by 2050, result in a rise in global average temperature by 1.5 ° to 4.5 °C (about 2.7 ° to 8.0 °F) and a complex pattern of worldwide climate changes.

Data from satellite measurements show that sea levels have increased by about three inches on average worldwide since 1992 suggesting that sea levels are rising more quickly than anticipated and faster than they did 50 years ago.

On the spindly peninsula that stretches out toward South America, temperatures have risen rapidly, nearly 5 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years, about 10 times as much as the average temperature rise worldwide.

The IPCC assessment states that up to two billion people worldwide will face water shortages and up to 30 per cent of plant and animal species would be put at risk of extinction if the average rise in temperature stabilises at 1.5 C to 2.5 C.

The 10 hottest years on record started in 1991 and, worldwide, average temperatures had risen by 0.6 C in the past century.

In 2014, the World Meteorological Organization reported that sea - level rise accelerated 0.12 inches (3 millimeters) per year on average worldwide.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

Our new peer - reviewed study, published by the National Academy of Sciences, makes clear that while average global temperature has been steadily rising due to a warming climate (up about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the past century), the extremes are actually becoming much more frequent and more intense worldwide.

The average bank spends over # 40m a year on Know Your Customer (KYC) processes yet, in 2016 alone, bank fines worldwide rose by 68 %, to a staggering $ 42bn.