Not exact matches
The
data displayed in Tables 1 and 2
implies few if any improvements have been made in the democratic quality
of any
of these six polities over the past
decade, with longstanding personalist leaders, imperious ruling parties, and oligarchic political opportunists alike demonstrating their ability to continuously manipulate existing political institutions to impose their mandates over substantive domestic opposition.
We therefore repeated the calculation excluding this
data point, using the 1910 — 2009
data instead, to see whether the temperature
data prior to 2010 provide a reason to anticipate a new heat record.With a thus revised nonlinear trend, the expected number
of heat records in the last
decade reduces to 0.47, which
implies a 78 % probability -LSB-(0.47 − 0.105) ∕ 0.47] that a new Moscow record is due to the warming trend.
If accuracy
of the measurements needs to be significantly increased to establish a signal «over
decades of time,» doesn't that
imply they're admitting the entire current
data set is garbage?
Using
data from 2,254 locations that they obtained from the Chinese National Meteorological Information Center, the eight researchers examined trends in both the occurrence
of hail days (frequency) and the mean size
of hail (intensity) over the period 1980 - 2015»... «Ni et al. conclude that these observational changes «
imply a weakened [frequency and] intensity
of hailstorms in China in recent
decades.»