Sentences with phrase «done over the period of a decade»

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Climate change requires cooperation between countries over a period of decades but we don't have much time to waste.»

And how do we allow you to write a new class of apps, so that over a period of probably a couple of decades, quite frankly, the software world can transform?

And this didn't occur overnight, this occurred over a period of decades.

However, the average surface temperature of the planet seems to have increased far more slowly over this period than it did over the previous decades.

In one recent study, the risk of dying over a two - decade period was 50 percent higher for lonely men and 49 percent higher for lonely women than it was for those who did not experience feelings of isolation.

In fact, while we are in the early innings, more has been done to advance the interests of Newark's children over this period than in the three decades that preceded it.

It's possible to develop a pretty good picture of how schools and districts are doing using samples of students and samples of test items — that's what the National Assessment of Educational Progress has been relying on for decades — and there's nothing magical about a school year that makes it the inevitable time period over which to assess changes in school and district performance.

If you took a hundred people and randomly had them fully buy into the market over a decade period, some of those people will do very well (relative to the rest) while others will do very poorly (relatively).

However, over a decade of experience in publishing the SPIVA Scorecard has painfully taught us that active funds don't always perform better than their passive counterparts during those precise periods in which active management skills seem to be called for.

But over periods of a decade or more, a balanced portfolio composed of roughly half stocks and half bonds has always done well.

A point I brought up over at the Diehards is I didn't find a significant period of time (like a few years to a decade) where the Permanent Portfolio ever had a negative after - inflation return.

In contrast, if you look at a list of top performers over a period of a decade or two, the top spots usually belong to people who invest much as we do — who look at all the excruciating detail and temper it with a consistent blend of diversification and common sense.

While this production capacity can and does grow, this is not going to increase over a period of several decades to be able to provide for the expensive lifestyles of 8 billion millionaires.

Finally, his analysis implies that high equity exposures — even over a period of decades — do not materially enhance returns.

A globally warm medieval period could be a simple forced response to increased solar, in which case it doesn't imply any larger intrinsic variability than already assumed, and since solar has been pretty much constant over the last 50 years, improvements to our understanding of solar forced climate changes are irrelevant for the last few decades.

The use of the term «record - high» in the paper by Hatun et al. may be misleading, as this only refers to a limited region since the 1960s (southwest off Iceland) or a very short interval (one decade) and doesn't reflect the general degree of salinity in the entire basin over a longer period.

Over short periods they certainly do that but over periods of few decades it's likely that the warming effect of CO2 is stronOver short periods they certainly do that but over periods of few decades it's likely that the warming effect of CO2 is stronover periods of few decades it's likely that the warming effect of CO2 is stronger.

For the problem where there is strong integral forcing over the period of say a half century (such as greenhouse gas forcing), this is more predictable, but trying to tie down a prediction on the timescale of a decade just doesn't work owing to the temporal - spatio chaos that is present.

AGW means that the heat content of the whole Earth system increases, but it does not make unique predictions on the relative rates of warming of various parts of the Earth system over periods up to a couple of decades.

As you can see, over periods of a few decades, modeled internal variability does not cause surface temperatures to change by more than 0.3 °C, and over longer periods, such as the entire 20th Century, its transient warming and cooling influences tend to average out, and internal variability does not cause long - term temperature trends.

We don't compare the temperature change that occurred over the course of 1 year to the change that occurred over a 35 - year period and claim that because the 1 - year period changed by, say, 0.5 °C (like 2015 to 2016 did), that therefore we are warming at a rate o 5.0 °C per decade and this is 30 times faster than the 1979 - 2014 rate (0.12 °C per decade).

Doe this mean that the National Research Council should / will revisit their conclusion: «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium»???

How do we extract value and justice from a financial system which has been rigged over a period of decades in favour of the bad guys?

The rate of increase of the increase (that is not the same as the rate of increase itself, which is about constant over the past decade) did stall in the past decade, as good as in a few other periods, but in adjacent periods, the rate of increase of the increase doubled.

Land temperatures themselves are of interest, but as far as I know the only widespread measurements of them have started over the last decade, a period too short to do much trend analysis.

The question was raised «what does the warming trend need to be for the IPCC projection of 0.2 °C per decade to be reached over the first two decades of the new century, i.e. the period 2001 through 2020?»

In his last email exchange, Wallace offers to close out the FOIA because the email string «clarified that your subject paper (and especially the «History» segment of the associated time series pH curve) did not rely upon either data or other contemporary representations for global ocean pH over the period of time between the first decade of 1900 (when the pH metric was first devised, and ocean pH values likely were first instrumentally measured and recorded) through and up to just before 1988.»

The problem with that argument is that over long periods of time (like the six decades since 1950), positive and negative phases of ocean cycles tend to cancel each other out, and thus internal variability doesn't have a large influence on long - term temperatures.

Several analyses of ring width and ring density chronologies, with otherwise well - established sensitivity to temperature, have shown that they do not emulate the general warming trend evident in instrumental temperature records over recent decades, although they do track the warming that occurred during the early part of the 20th century and they continue to maintain a good correlation with observed temperatures over the full instrumental period at the interannual time scale (Briffa et al., 2004; D'Arrigo, 2006).

... then why do the vertical mean temperature anomalies (NODC 0 - 2000 meter data) of the Pacific Ocean as a whole and of the North Atlantic fail to show any warming over the past decade, a period when ARGO floats have measured subsurface temperatures, providing reasonably complete coverage of the global oceans?

Parenting interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.