Sentences with phrase «average over the past century»

on average over the past century.

If this rate were maintained, the ice sheets would make a measurable but minor contribution to the global sea level rise from other sources, which has been 1 - 2 mm / yr averaged over the past century and 3mm / yr for 1993 - 2003, and is projected to average 1 - 9 mm / yr for the coming century (see IPCC Third Assessment Report).

Not exact matches

The P / E of the S&P 500 stands at 24; that's well above the average of 16 over the past century, and 19 since around 1990.

The chief reason the OMP has no foreign diversification is that long - run returns on Canadian stocks are better than the global average, and nearly as good as returns on U.S. stocks (best performing country over the past two centuries).

Over the past quarter century the VIX has averaged over 22, the highest of any month, in SeptemOver the past quarter century the VIX has averaged over 22, the highest of any month, in Septemover 22, the highest of any month, in September.

Western financial systems have been incredibly successful on average and over the long haul these past several centuries, but have had quite a few peaks and valleys, booms and busts and the occasional full blown credit panic.

The US Environmental Protection Agency points out that Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.5 °F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 0.5 to 8.6 °F over the next hundred years.

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

Over the past nearly two centuries, Finland's average temperatures have increased by more than 2 degrees Celsius

Looking at data from 1855 through 2005, Webster and Holland found that the total number of tropical cyclones per year doubled in that time, from an average of six at the beginning of last century to 14 over the past decade.

While Earth's landmass has warmed by about 1 degree Celsius (about 2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past century, on average, land temperatures in the Arctic have risen almost 2 C (3.6 F).

But over the past century, the rate of land loss in coastal Louisiana has averaged 15 to 20 square miles per year.

Dubbed the «Age of Obesity and Inactivity» by the Journal of the American Medical Association, this runaway weight gain threatens to decrease average U.S. life span, reversing gains made over the past century by lowering risk factors from smoking, hypertension, and cholesterol.

They have concluded that the global average temperature over the past 1,000 years has been relatively stable until the 20th century.

seems to be incompatible with the statement from his Annual review paper from 2000 (see abstract below) that: «The average surface temperature of the continents has increased by about 1.0 K over the past 5 centuries; half of this increase has occurred in the twentieth century alone.»

After analyzing more than 150 dietary studies conducted in Blue Zones over the past century, we came up with a global average of what centenarians really eat.

In fact, the typical American diet is extremely meat - heavy, having risen dramatically over the past century.9 Previous research has suggested the average American consumes about 1.5 grams of protein per kilo of total body mass (lean mass plus fat).

The markets, even though they have bad days or even bad years, tend to go up over time - during the past century, U.S. equities markets appreciated each year by a near 11 % average.

Amid this dramatic shift, another sea change was afoot: As seen in the accompanying graphic, «The Gap Between Life Expectancy and Retirement Ages,» over the past half century the average life expectancy has increased significantly while the average retirement age has decreased.

What are the average returns for a global stock market index (by definition the most «neutral» stock index) over the past century?

Over the past century or so, the stock market has, on average, been about 16 times cyclically - adjusted earnings.

The actual prevailing view of the paleoclimate research community that emerged during the early 1990s, when long - term proxy data became more widely available and it was possible to synthesize them into estimates of large - scale temperature changes in past centuries, was that the average temperature over the Northern Hemisphere varied by significantly less than 1 degree C in previous centuries (i.e., the variations in past centuries were small compared to the observed 20th century warming).

seems to be incompatible with the statement from his Annual review paper from 2000 (see abstract below) that: «The average surface temperature of the continents has increased by about 1.0 K over the past 5 centuries; half of this increase has occurred in the twentieth century alone.»

The current average surface temperature is ~ 16C, an increase of ~ 1C over the past century.

For the station nearest my home, the range (max less min) in annual average temperature for the past century is just 3.3 C. Can't say whether 1C warming matters in any tangible way, at this particular spot, but it's certainly large compared to the variation observed over the last century.

As a result, the Earth has warmed at an alarming rate over the past century, with average temperatures increasing by more than 0.8 °C (1.5 °F).

This is indeed the average rate as observed over the past 27 centuries.»

On average in the United States, the amount of rain falling during the heaviest 1 percent of rainstorms has increased nearly 20 percent during the past 50 years — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation.4, 5 The Midwest saw an even larger average increase of 31 percent, surpassed only by the Northeast (at 67 percent).4 Scientists attribute the rise in heavy precipitation to climate change that has already occurred over the past half - century.6

While there was no apparent change in drought duration in the Midwest region as a whole over the past century, 90 the average number of days without precipitation is projected to increase in the future.

The internal fluctuations have more or less averaged out over the course of the past century.

New paper predicts solar activity will decline over 21st century to average Holocene levels — Published in Climate of the Past

In their paper, Swanson et al. use climate models to hash out the role internal variability has played in average global temperature changes over the past century (Figure 1).

Internal variability can only account for ~ 0.3 °C change in average global surface air temperature at most over periods of several decades, and scientific studies have consistently shown that it can not account for more than a small fraction of the global warming over the past century.

«claims that «Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century» are erroneous and indicative of either ignorance or duplicity on the part of NASA's Earth Observatory, NASA's Climate Consensus page, The Daily Mail, the EPA and many others.»

Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.4 °F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 2 to 11.5 °F over the next hundred years.»

Sea level is scarcely rising: The average rise in sea level over the past 10,000 years was 4 feet / century.

Regardless, claims that «Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century» are erroneous and indicative of either ignorance or duplicity on the part of NASA's Earth Observatory, NASA's Climate Consensus page, The Daily Mail, the EPA and many others.

Although climate models have been predicting increasing average global temperatures over the next century or so, the past decade has not shown as much warming as most scientists had expected.

While the specifics of the calculations of heat uptake over the past half century continue to be refined, the sign of the heat uptake, averaged over this period, seems secure — I am not aware of any published estimates that show the oceanic heat content decreasing, on average, over these 50 years.

As he pointed out, a dominant unforced contribution to surface warming relative to forced trends would be expected to be accompanied by a trend of declining OHC, which is inconsistent with the observed trends averaged over the past half century as evidenced by mixed layer temperature measurements and sea level rise.

This is almost exactly the average increase recorded all over the world during the past century!

Over the past century and a half, global average surface temperature has increased by about 1.5 °F.

Over the past century, that makes the sea 1.6 degrees hotter — a greater heating than the accepted global average of about 1.1 degrees C (although that number doesn't account for the masking effect of pollution).

Over the past century, the global average sea level has risen four to eight inches.

Over the past century, global average sea level has risen by about 8 inches.

It gained 200 zettawatts over the past 54 years or about 0.35 W / m2 on average and the sun has been about 0.6 W / m2 stronger (or more) in the 20th century.

Global warming is the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average surface temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gases released as people burn fossil fuels.

The atlases together show persistently drier - than - average conditions across north - central Europe over the past 1,000 years, and a history of megadroughts in the Northern Hemisphere that lasted longer during the Medieval Climate Anomaly than they did during the 20th century.

The earth is facing a very alarming problem, one of this was the «global warming» or the unusually rapid increase in Earth's average temperature over the past century primarily due to the greenhouse gasses released as people burn fossil fuels.

Scientific Background Global warming refers to the phenomenon of increasing average surface temperatures of the Earth over the past one to two centuries.