Sentences with phrase «crude estimate»

We don't have even crude estimates of populations.

It's not surprising, because all greenhouse gas numbers are very crude estimates for each source.

The new studies showed that, contrary to earlier crude estimates, carbon dioxide could indeed build up in the atmosphere and should bring warming.

«Very crude estimates indicate that potentially we can double the efficiency of current white - light LEDs,» says Klimov.

And government - conducted surveys on poverty in developing countries are often considered crude estimates because the poor's mistrust of authorities skews honest answers, English adds.

We arrive at such crude estimates by asking where all the C (in the form of CO2) was before trees evolved to sequester their entitlement.

However you are discounting this because the forcing that the models use do not match your own fairly crude estimates of forcings which you prefer to estimates based on published papers?

Most inaccuracies come from claims based on historical data either non-existent, extremely crude estimates, or incorrect.

Lacking the data to assign estimates to each component task of a legal matter, or perhaps wishing to create a quicker, simpler estimate, some lawyers rely on a variation on Parkinson's Law to create crude estimates.

The effect of the increased volume of atmospheric water vapor is not knowable because until recently there were only very crude estimates of atmospheric water vapor levels.

These are likely only very crude estimates of the actual number of teachers who will be hired and the number of new teachers who will be required, but it is illustrative to consider trends.

One early crude estimate indicating considerable ocean heat transport was Oort and Vonder Haar (1976).

The fully adjusted estimates from individual studies were used in the meta - analysis where available; otherwise, the crude estimates were used.

Mean (and 95 % CI) differences in blood cholesterol between breastfed and bottle - fed participants in 17 studies (16 crude estimates, 1 adjusted for age).

A crude estimate of the total cost is a whopping $ 400m.

«Up until now, we've only had a very crude estimate of what is lost.

Dr. Rasmus Benestad notes that they «used some crude estimates of «climate sensitivity» and estimates of -LSB-...]

By combining these color data, it is possible to make a crude estimate of the distances to the faint background galaxies (called photometric redshift).

@munilass This is just a crude estimate, but the IRR on the Poway deal is around 7.7 %, and is nonrefinancable.

As a crude estimate, I calculated that the R1000 index returned an average of ~ +0.22 % per 4.8 days in 2014.

My crude estimated EPS of 1.77 p was however in the correct currency, so this problem hasn't affected my expected return calculations.

These crude estimates tell our hypothetical 45 - year - old what she is worth today: an additional $ 1.4 million on top of whatever her home and financial accounts are worth, minus any debts.

That seems a way more satisfactory approach than the crude estimate in Hansen et al (2013) that I've been using, which relies on an interpretive leap from a deep water temperature proxy (oxygen isotope ratios from the microscopic shells of bottom - dwelling marine critters).

Instead, the claims had come from the Caitlin mission to the Arctic — a PR and media stunt designed to highlight the shrinking of the Arctic — and from the Global Humanitarian Forum's crude estimate of the effects of climate on poorer parts of the world that had emphasised climate, rather than lack of wealth, as the fundamental in the condition of the world's poor.

The instrumental record is so replete with limitations, errors, and manipulations that it is not even a crude estimate of the pattern of weather and its changes over time.

As precipitation maps tend to be spotty, overall trends in precipitation are indicated by the Palmer Drought Severity Index (see Figure 1), which is a measure of soil moisture using precipitation and crude estimates of changes in evaporation.

It confirms most statistics are crude estimates, especially those of the UN who rely on individual member countries, yet no accurate census exists for any of them

The answer is nobody knows or even has a crude estimate, as the failure of the computer models to simulate clouds and their effect proves.

Nowhere is there any mention that this is a crude estimate of Indigenous expenditure not actual expenditure on Indigenous people; nor that any comparison with the figure for 2008 — 09 is meaningless owing to different methodology.

We only have a rule of thumb of how much coverage you should have on your dwelling, but even that is a crude estimate as it would depend on the state and their building material costs and labor.

There are at least 111 buildings with that cladding, so a crude estimate of money saved is 3.3 million pounds or 4.2 million US.