Sentences with phrase «about average climate»

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For the average healthy adult who lives in a temperate climate, the Institute of Medicine recommends around 3 liters (about 13 cups) of total water intake a day for men and 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total water intake a day for women,» she says.

Again, shifts in the Market Climate are not forecasts about future returns, except in the broadest terms of average return to market risk.

In the most unfavorable Market Climate we identify, the average weekly loss has been about -0.20 %.

Since we generally observe about two shifts in the Market Climate per year, on average, there tends to be some persistence in our investment positions, but it's incorrect to think of these as «forecasts.»

Understanding the climate is a fantastically complicated problem, about which I know only as much as the average scientist, which is to say: not....

He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).

Some perennial varieties have grown as tall as eight feet in tropical climates, but the average height in the U.S. garden is about two feet.

Rental rates have increased by an average of 18.9 percent since early 2012 to about $ 301 a month for a climate - controlled 10 - by - 10 unit, according to commercial data company Reis Inc..

One aerosol, black carbon, is of increasing concern for Arctic nations worried about the pace of climate change in the far north, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

Better engines for the climate On average, about 85 percent of the particle matter emitted from diesel trucks is black carbon, said Christopher Frey <, a professor of environmental engineering at North Carolina State University.

Climate velocity was first established in 2009 in a study estimating that species would have to move about a quarter - mile a year on average over the next 85 years.

The Warming Meadow's radiators raise average soil temperatures by about three degrees Fahrenheit, decrease growing season soil moisture by up to twenty percent and advance the spring snowmelt date by up to a month in order to simulate predicted effects of climate change.

But the team's measurements of the oxygen isotope ratios in the creatures» teeth, a sensitive paleo - thermometer, suggest that the climate where these dinosaurs lived probably averaged about 10 ° Celsius over the course of a year — substantially colder than most of the dinosaur era, and in fact close to that seen in northeastern China today, Xu notes.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

«Average temperatures don't tell us everything we need to know about climate change,» he said.

Yet the global average temperature differences corresponding to these radically different climates were only about 5 degrees C in the tropics and 8 degrees C in polar regions.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aClimate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as aclimate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

The implication: because average temperatures may warm by at least one degree C by 2030, «climate change could increase the incidences of African civil war by 55 percent by 2030, and this could result in about 390,000 additional battle deaths if future wars are as deadly as recent wars.»

He calls on Congress to take 5 % to 10 % of the funds that the United States gives to IPCC (which have averaged about $ 3 million annually over the last decade) and dedicate it to «a group of well - credentialed scientists to produce an assessment that expresses legitimate, alternative hypotheses that have been (in their view) marginalized, misrepresented or ignored in previous IPCC reports (and thus EPA and National Climate Assessments).

If that climate scenario is combined with habitat restoration efforts, particularly those aimed at connecting habitats that have been fragmented by human activity, the average population has a much higher probability of survival — about 50 %.

«Many studies have looked at average snowfall over a season in climate models, but there's less known about these very heavy snowfalls,» says study author Paul O'Gorman, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

«Drought years» happen on average every five years in the Amazon and are typically a result of changes to wind and weather patterns brought about by warming in the Atlantic Ocean during events of the climate phenomenon El Niño.

The area of summertime sea - ice during 2007 - 2009 was about 40 % less than the average prediction from IPCC AR4 climate models.

On average, climate change is causing sea levels to rise about 3 mm / year, but zoom in any one location, and the rate might look very different.

According to a recent Climate Central analysis, Colorado was the 20th - fastest warming state between 1970 and 2011, with average temperatures increasing by about 0.5 °F per decade.

In recent times, climate skeptics have been peddling a lot of nonsense about average temperatures actually cooling over the last decade.

School Climate: Reports from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey about levels of student engagement and parent involvement in schools all place Tennessee right around or below the national average.

The impact of political homogeneity on civic climate is about the same as that of the average parents» education, which is noteworthy given that education and the status it confers has long been recognized as a major facilitator of social norms generally and of civic engagement specifically.

We concern ourselves with the average return / risk profile that has historically been associated with a given Market Climate, not with a specific «call» on about market direction in this particular instance.

Climate: One of the nicest things about visiting Belize it is sub-tropical with an average yearly temperature of 84 ° F (29 °C), it's always warm, yet comfortable.

How about xkcd's «A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature since the Last Ice Age Glaciation: When people say «The climate has changed before» these are the kinds of changes they are talking about» https://xkcd.com/1732/

Now, clouds do not make heat exchange imponderable, especially in long term trends of climate analysis, the averages due to what we already know about dynamic equilibrium outcomes and what we observe in the feedbacks going back even greater then 30 years.

But because of the necessary caveats that must be applied due to the state of the science I am starting to feel unable to say much about climate change apart from: «The increase in CO2 will very probably cause an overall increase in Global Average Temperature.

Although globally averaged annual temperatures warmed about 1 deg F since the early 1900s (viewed as rapid by paleoclimatologists and geologists), regional climate station annual temperatures in northern Minnesota show warming by several degrees F since the early 1900s.

«Climate change is not about on average being 2C warmer.

The addition says many climate models typically look at short term, rapid factors when calculating the Earth's climate sensitivity, which is defined as the average global temperature increase brought about by a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere.

How about this as a way to encourage scientists and the media to get to the point: Ask a list of top climate researchers to predict the average global temperature and the consequent effects on current species» ability to survive in the year 2100.

At the height of the last ice age, sea levels were about 120 metres below present day levels, and the average rise of sea level during the return to our present climate was about 1 metre per one hundred years.

Note that these IPCC graphs take 0 °C reference as the 1980 - 2000 average, while the hopfully secure 2 °C aim is referenced against «the natural, preanthropogenic climate», making a difference of about 0.7 °C,

Correcting this failure is, to my mind, about quantifying the climate impacts» damages in a scale which plainly does not relate geometrically to average global surface air temperature.

This resurgence was also unremarked upon by Lamb, who wrote in that same year that the English climate (the average of 1921 - 1950 to be precise) remained about a degree too cold for wine production.

I regularly speak to public audiences about climate change (see http://www.andrewgunther.com/climate-change/#talks for details), and use the NASA / GISS dataset to discuss global average temperature of the atmosphere.

But it's a frame that, left unchecked, could be a source of deepening anger at the West and a sense of victimhood: Why should Indians do anything about climate change when the average American pollutes nearly 20 times as much as the average Indian?

All in all the science of hurricanes does appear to be much more fun and interesting than the average climate change issue, as there is a debate, a «fight» between different hypothesis, predictions compared to near - future observations, and all that does not always get pre-eminence in the exchanges about models.

Countering critics» charges, the NRDC analysis shows that the carbon pollution driving climate change can be reined in while creating a net increase of at least 210,000 jobs and modestly reducing electricity bills, by an average of about $.90 per month.

spalding craft (2)-- Actually, there is an overwhelming abundance of evidence that the climate warmed to a maximum, so - called optimum, temperature at different times in different regions, but about 8 — 6 thousand years ago; it had been cooling, on average since until humans started added considerable quantities of global warming (so - called greenhouse) gases started in, say, 1850 CE.

Why is it that climate sceptics have been going on about the Urban Heat Island * being the cause of the observed temperaure increase found in the global averages, if, as you say, there is no increase in the global averages?

The area of sea ice melt during 2007 - 9 was about 40 percent greater than the average prediction from I.P.C.C. AR4 climate models.

Today scientists have very high confidence about human - caused global average surface temperature increase — a key climate indicator.