This is causing climate change, which is accelerating and poses serious risks to the planet.

The development of the Semantic Web and the Internet of Things is likely to accelerate this present trend.

If the official inflation target loses credibility, price growth will accelerate further.

When these three forces align, economic change accelerates and so does economic growth and wealth creation.

By the second half of the year, the investment bust in real estate, infrastructure, and industrial capacity will accelerate.

A key conclusion of the new IPCC report is that sea level rise has accelerated.

With uncertainty, volatility, and tail risks on the rise again, the correction could accelerate quickly.

As incomes rise, categories reach a takeoff point where demand accelerates by 3 5 times.

It's either going to breathe or it's going to cool off, but it ain't doing both we can.

that is happening around the world is accelerating, and I expect more such changes to occur in the map as the states fragment.

However, what occurred to me was human caused destruction, which was not only causing a significant portion of the destruction, but actually it was accelerating.

Space may be finite or infinite, but because the universe is accelerating, there are parts of it we cannot see and never will see.

But, as the US economy recovers, technological change is accelerating, fueling demand for more skills at a time when the workforce s educational attainment levels have plateaued.

The global slowdown already evident in second quarter data for 2010 will accelerate in the second half of the year. Fiscal stimulus will disappear as austerity programs take hold in most countries.

With the recovery of North African economies and sustained improvement in other regions, growth across the continent is expected to accelerate to 4.5 in 2012 and 4.8 in 2013.

Many of you will realize that I'm ripping a bit off of the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge's notion of a technological singularity, where a number of trends accelerate and converge and come together to create, really, a shockingly new reality.

In both 2010 and 2011, leading economic indicators showed that the first half slowdown had bottomed out, and that growth was already accelerating before the announcement of monetary easing.

Meanwhile, growth in Germany and the eurozone core may further accelerate given the strength of emerging markets, which may show even greater resilience, underpinning more rapid global expansion.

The assumption that the German economy will accelerate out of its current crawl is essential to confidence in Europe s financial safety net, and to a banking union that credibly shares risks across the eurozone.

The trend is often accelerated by the loss of jobs, which often leads people to abandon their professional and functional identities in favor of identities based on ethnicity, kinship, or religion.

Although the rate of increase has been lower over the past 15 years than it was before, nearly all climate scientists believe that the slowdown is temporary, and that warming will accelerate again in the near future.

Will economic growth accelerate sufficiently to boost job and income growth? Can the barriers that exclude many Americans from recovery and future prosperity be removed?

Whereas growth was a miserable 1.5 in 2005 in the 15 old members of the European Union, Ifo expects EU 15 growth to accelerate to 2.1 in 2006.

Proclaiming six meters of sea level rise over this century contradicts thousands of UN scientists, and requires the sea level rise to accelerate roughly 40 fold from today.

If the ice cover simultaneously shrinks and gets thinner, then the shrinkage in area is first steady but then accelerates towards the end, when the remaining ice becomes ever thinner and more vulnerable to melting. This is what I fear is happening now.

That report also recognizes that, for growth to accelerate, formulaic approaches to policy making need to give way to more targeted country level diagnostics of the constraints on growth, paying careful attention to capital accumulation, structural and technological change, and inequality.

As for the refugee return movements reported in paragraph 28, they had been increasing apace since the time of the report and included Burundians returning from Europe and even North America who wished to participate in the reconstruction and development effort under the new Government.

But if growth is likely to accelerate next year in oil consuming economies such as China, what explains plunging oil prices? The answer lies not in China s economy and oil demand, but in Middle East geopolitics and oil supply.

In short, this is a crisis not of immigrants, but of refugees and it is showing no sign of slowing. Indeed, with instability and violence plaguing much of North Africa and the Middle East, the decline in armed conflict since World War II seems to have slowed and could even reverse.

But, as the US economy recovers, technological change is accelerating, fueling demand for more skills at a time when the workforce s educational attainment levels have plateaued. This is the real skills gap that existed before the Great Recession, and it is getting worse over time.

The second risk is that, even based on current growth expectations, investors may have gotten ahead of themselves in anticipating monetary policy tightening. The Fed will raise interest rates when it senses that the economy is nearing full capacity and that inflation wage inflation, in particular is accelerating.