Fortunately, fatalities brought on by traffic accidents have stayed basically
flat during this interval.
Not exact matches
By contrast, the actual SLR estimate
during that same
interval is relatively
flat, suggesting that temperatures were not as warm as indicated by the temperature reconstruction.
B. Over the same time
interval there have been periods
during which the reported «Annual Temperature of the Earth (TOE)» has increased, others
during which it decreased, and yet others, like the most recent 15 - 20 years over which it has remained statistically
flat.
The latter, of course, is characterized by many short term peaks, dips, and
flat intervals, with recent years unexceptional in this regard, but the critical issue is the extent to which multidecadal influences are competing to explain the rise
during this time period.
It is possible for the «true trend», as estimated statistically, to be
flat because of the composite phenomena operating over the specified
interval, even though the longer trend is positive (for the last century) or negative (
during certain paleoclimatologic
intervals).