Sentences with phrase «despite decades of data»

Despite decades of data to the contrary, the theory is linked to the mistaken belief that the sun is driving climate change, not human activity.

Not exact matches

They refuse to be persuaded of facts despite decades of meticulous data / observation and scientific consensus.

Data from national and international surveys suggest that despite improvements over the last decade, significant proportions of patients have poor control of their elevated blood pressure.

Despite large temperature increases in Alaska in recent decades, a new analysis of NASA airborne data finds that methane is not being released from Alaskan soils into the atmosphere at unusually high rates, as recent modeling and experimental studies have suggested.

For decades neuroscientists have been building theories of brain function despite a near total lack of data on the most numerous neurons of all: cerebellar granule cells.

Aside from changes in how belugas dove for food, the nearly two decades of data show that the whales were able to thrive in their summer and fall ocean habitats, despite less ice cover.

Despite advances in computing infrastructure and data transmission, neuroscientists continue to grapple with their version of the «big data» revolution that swept the genomics field decades ago.

Despite another two decades of data, there was no relationship between dietary fat and heart disease to be found.

«The data suggests that — despite what is arguably the most remarkable decade of academic progress of any school system in history — we haven't really seen much change in demand from middle class community to enroll their children in public schools,» Kleban said.

Despite apparent artificial issues in long - term measurements of cloud from ISCCP, and the lack of reliability in low - cloud data from irradiance - based satellite cloud estimates, we find the ISCCP and MODIS datasets to be in close agreement over the past decade globally.

What is obvious is that including the data of the past few years pushes the estimates of climate sensitivity downward, because there was little warming over the past decade despite a larger greenhouse gas forcing.

These facts were enough for an NAS panel, including Christy, to publish a report Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change which concluded that «Despite differences in temperature data, strong evidence exists to show that the warming of the Earth's surface is undoubtedly real, and surface temperatures in the past two decades have risen at a rate substantially greater than average for the past 100 years»

This is despite the fact that there is no obvious and / or published reason for changing a datum of MGT for years that were decades ago: the temperature measurements were obtained in those years so the change can only be an effect of alterating the method (s) of calculating MGT from the measurments.

Despite uncertainty and confusion about the numbers, the 2016 data is one more piece of evidence that China will not return to the days of skyrocketing coal consumption for good, and that the world's largest CO2 emitter is on the right path to start reducing its emissions permanently at some point in the coming decade.

It will also include scientifically refuting the apparent falsification of the above «dangerous AGW» hypothesis, which has resulted from the observed «lack of warming» of our planet over the past decade (atmosphere, at both the surface and troposphere since 2001, sea surface temperature since ARGO measurements were installed in 2003), despite record increase in atmospheric CO2, as measured at Mauna Loa, by demonstrating with empirical data where the «missing energy» is hiding.

Thus, despite several decades of research, there is little consensus on whether childhood television viewing has beneficial, harmful, or negligible effects on educational achievement.10 This uncertainty is at least partly due to a lack of long - term follow - up data, particularly for school - age children.

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.

Yet despite all of this, what data exists suggests that we have seen only slow improvements in some areas of health status and no progress on others over the past decade.

In fact, despite some successes the overall data remains bleak and shows only slow improvements in some areas of health status, with no progress on others over the past decade.

«The housing data we have so far this year should already ensure that 2016 ends as the best year of home sales in a decade, despite 46 straight months of tight housing supply,» says realtor.com Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke.

According to a new Pew Research Center report of census data, a record 64 million Americans, accounting for some 20 percent of the total U.S. population, lived in multi-generational family households in 2016, representing a three - decade continuous progression in this type of household formation — despite government propaganda that indicates economic improvements since the Great Recession.»