But Canada argues that the impact on polar bears of shrinking ice, which reached record low levels in 2012, is "uncertain".
Mounting opposition to the death penalty in America is starting to take effect, with the number of executions as well as newly imposed death sentences falling to record low levels in 2011.
He writes: It fails completely to say anything about the observed soil moisture conditions, snow cover, and snow pack during the winter prior to the event in spite of the fact that snow pack was at record low levels in the winter and spring.
Crime has fallen to new record low levels in England and Wales, despite some increases as a result of changes in how police record incidents.
If the recovery is hugely - perhaps excessively - dependent on interest rates remaining at record low levels, in that consumption, house building and housing-market activity, so rely on cheap money, then treasury hair-shirtism would be benign.
The availability of free checking accounts dropped to record low levels in the first half of the year, according to a report released this week by MoneyRates.com.
In response to my post Tuesday on the record low level of migration in the United States last year, an astute reader referred me to a recent paper in The Journal of Economic Perspectives on this subject.
CPI inflation had been steadily rising from a record low level of -0.1% in September.
The General Social Survey has been asking Americans about whether they have a gun in their home for decades, and last year essential tied the record low level of gun ownership reached in 2010.
The last time UK gilt bond yields were close to these record low levels was in early 2015 and during the eurozone crisis in 2012.
