Sentences with phrase «comparing against global»

Even bitcoin's huge gain this year doesn't look that impressive when comparing against global equities.

Then he compared it against the Global Couch Potato's allocation of 20 % Canadian stocks, 40 % U.S. and international stocks (also using the MSCI World Index), and 40 % Canadian bonds (all maturities).

Not exact matches

Compared against its record 50 million global unique visitors last August, the site now clocks around 17 million, according to the most recent data from Quantcast.

In Canada, the ten largest holdings within the S&P / TSX Composite Index account for 37 % of the total index, a standout figure when compared against major global markets.

Russell Schnell, deputy director of the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, said in an email the agency compares its work against international research.

Working with Tom Chase, a colleague at the institute, the researchers were comparing climate simulations from the Community Land Model — part of a select group of global models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 climate change report — against observations.

Against a global average of 112 days of exercise a year, the Americans were burning up the circuit with a whopping 135 days compared to the slovenly Dutch at 93 days / year.

«By exhibiting in the natural section, we're actively inviting Global attendees to compare our Spring Naturals food and treat line against the leading natural brands,» says Cadenhead.

If you are comparing it against other esport league successes as he does, League of Legend — F2P, Dota 2 - F2P and Counter Strike: Global Offensive — over half the price of Overwatch then I can kind of see his point but I still think he is overstating the impact of that.

With error bars provided, we can use the PIOMAS ice volume time series as a proxy record for reality and compare it against sea - ice simulations in global climate models.

Those who rail against the media for including too many voices of doubt in some stories on global warming science and policy might want to step back a minute and review the chart below, from last December, showing just how invisible coverage of climate is compared to the stories that make the cut each day.

However, when comparing model outputs against Hurst climate persistence, I find that the catastrophic majority anthropogenic global warming hypothesis to be formally «Not Proven» per Bray (2005), and Johnson (2013).

I took the HADCRU4 global monthly data and compared the last 45 * 12 months against the past, moving one month at a time.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

Gore got himself into trouble with black activists last month when he compared the fight against global warming to the emancipation of black slaves.

Start dissecting their narratives, comparing them side - by - side while looking for physical evidence corroborating Ross Gelbspan's «industry corruption» accusation against skeptic climate scientists, and a very different picture becomes clear: these people's narratives don't line up right, they collectively have no evidence backing up their accusation, and this prompts serious questions of whether core leaders of the global warming movement are totally oblivious to this situation, or if they knew their narratives had no merit from the start.

First, Salby compares global temperature against Mauna Loa CO2, although interannual global CO2 fluctations (collected by NOAA since about 1980) do not correlate well with Mauna Loa CO2 on very short timescales but require a few years to average out.

We compare the performance of a recently proposed empirical climate model based on astronomical harmonics against all CMIP3 available general circulation climate models (GCM) used by the IPCC (2007) to interpret the 20th century global surface temperature.

The most alarming projections for global warming this century also seem to be the most reliable, according to a December study in Nature that compared climate models against what's already happening in the atmosphere (see «Global Warming's Worst - Case Projections Look Increasingly Likely&raglobal warming this century also seem to be the most reliable, according to a December study in Nature that compared climate models against what's already happening in the atmosphere (see «Global Warming's Worst - Case Projections Look Increasingly Likely&raGlobal Warming's Worst - Case Projections Look Increasingly Likely»).

McKinsey adds, «To put this figure in perspective, if one were to view this spending as a form of insurance against potential damage due to climate change, it might be relevant to compare it to global spending on insurance, which was 3.3 percent of GDP in 2005.»

Which in fact Monckton's argument — if you read his response to John Abraham, specifically regarding the graph comparing global temperatures in the last decade against IPCC projections, he admits that the «IPCC» trend shown in his graph is greater than that for the IPCC's A2 scenario which it apparently represents, but explains that away by saying that essentially the IPCC got its sums wrong.

In this year's opening keynote, Harlan Loeb, Global Chair of Edelman's Crisis and Risk group, and Lisa Kimmel, President and CEO of Edelman Canada, will compare Canadian companies against global data security and privacy best practices, providing thought provoking suggestions for ensuring your organization is effectively navigating this constantly evolving landGlobal Chair of Edelman's Crisis and Risk group, and Lisa Kimmel, President and CEO of Edelman Canada, will compare Canadian companies against global data security and privacy best practices, providing thought provoking suggestions for ensuring your organization is effectively navigating this constantly evolving landglobal data security and privacy best practices, providing thought provoking suggestions for ensuring your organization is effectively navigating this constantly evolving landscape.

Using the Diagnostic Interview Assessment Scale [2] and global assessments of general functioning, these authors showed a 10 % difference against refugee adolescents in rates of psychopathology compared to normative data obtained from a province wide survey of Quebec adolescents.