Sentences with phrase «global average number»

By 2100, the decreasing number of suitable growing days in the tropics will offset optimistic projections at mid - and high latitudes, resulting in minimal changes in the global average number of suitable days under RCP 2.6 and RCP 4.5 but a ~ 26 % reduction in the number of suitable growing days under RCP 8.5 (solid blue lines in Fig 3).

These plots illustrate the global average number of suitable plant growing days relative to contemporary values.

Self - appointed Climate Auditors may already have noted with confected concern that the global average number in the top right - hand corner of this map, 0.95 °C is higher than the the 0.93 °C anomaly reported in the downloadable data tables.

Not exact matches

Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.

These numbers are not only comparable to coal and natural gas (which average $ 100 per megawhatt hour, but in fact more attractive, on a global average basis.

Two severe bear markets and a near - collapse of the global financial system pushed the average annual returns down to negative numbers.

We study a prototypical model of a Parliament with two Parties or two Political Coalitions and we show how the introduction of a variable percentage of randomly selected independent legislators can increase the global efficiency of a Legislature, in terms of both number of laws passed and average social welfare obtained.

This needs an edit - «You can see that Iran expends 2.5 % of its GDP with military expenditure (less than the global average of 2.3 %)» 2.5 % is more than 2.3 %, so either the numbers were incorrectly typed, or «less» needs to be changed to «more.»

Changes in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere due to changes in solar activity can not explain global warming, as average cosmic ray intensities have been increasing since 1985 even as the world has warmed — the opposite of what should happen if cosmic rays produce climate - cooling clouds.

But the 2 C number is a global average, and many regions will warm more, and warm more rapidly, than Earth as a whole.

We came up with numbers that business as usual would give you: losses, averaged over space, over time and uncertain outcomes, of around 5 percent of global gross domestic product and upwards, probably substantially more than 5 percent of GDP.

Professor Lester says climate change could considerably increase wasp numbers: «The average global temperature is rising each year.

The report lists 30 cities that face increased health risks from heat waves worsened by global warming, based on a combination of four factors: average number of summer days with «oppressive» summer heat, the percentage of households without central air conditioning, ground - level ozone levels, and the percentage of households below the poverty line.

In addition, the characteristic path length L of a network gives the average number of connections that have to be crossed to travel from each node to every other node in the network and provides information about the level of global communication efficiency of a network.

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

To show how close the world already is to surpassing those limits, Climate Central has been reanalyzing the global temperature data by averaging the NASA and NOAA numbers and comparing them to a baseline closer to preindustrial times.

Annual average GCR counts per minute (blue - note that numbers decrease going up the left vertical axis, because lower GCRs should mean higher temperatures) from the Neutron Monitor Database vs. annual average global surface temperature (red, right vertical axis) from NOAA NCDC, both with second order polynomial fits.

To show how close the world already is to reaching that limit, Climate Central has been reanalyzing the global temperature data each month, averaging together the NASA and NOAA numbers and comparing them to the average from 1881 - 1910, a time period closer to preindustrial times.

The Schneider et al. ensemble constrained by their selection of LGM data gives a global - mean cooling range during the LGM of 5.8 + / - 1.4 ºC (Schnieder Von Deimling et al, 2006), while the best fit from the UVic model used in the new paper has 3.5 ºC cooling, well outside this range (weighted average calculated from the online data, a slightly different number is stated in Nathan Urban's interview — not sure why).

Climate Central has combined the NOAA and NASA temperature data and recalculated the numbers relative to an earlier baseline, 1881 - 1910, for the global average temperature.

Editorially, Kiplinger's magazine has championed over the decades a number of personal finance strategies and investment products that later became popular «conventional wisdom»: the superiority of systematic investing (dollar cost averaging) over market timing; growth stocks that paid little or no dividends but invested in new technologies; mutual funds, especially no - load funds; stock index funds; term life insurance, rather than whole - life; and global investing.

The International Air Transport Association — a trade group for the world's airlines — said that global demand for air travel in 2015 jumped 6.5 percent over the previous year, a result that it said was the strongest since the world started pulling out of the Global Financial Crisis in 2010; that number was also well above the industry's 10 - year average growth rate of 5.5 peglobal demand for air travel in 2015 jumped 6.5 percent over the previous year, a result that it said was the strongest since the world started pulling out of the Global Financial Crisis in 2010; that number was also well above the industry's 10 - year average growth rate of 5.5 peGlobal Financial Crisis in 2010; that number was also well above the industry's 10 - year average growth rate of 5.5 percent.

There is a quantitative effect of this error, both on global average calculations up to the 1970's and on the uncertainty of that number.

A Fourier analysis would show that global temperature averages over the past 200 years would EXACTLY MATCH the sum of a finite number of sign waves far more accurately than your «sinusoidal curve superimposed on a linear trend.»

For instance, using the UAH troposphere numbers, the drop from January 2007 (recent peak) to January 2008 (recent dip) is 0.64 degrees C in the global average (it's 0.75 degrees in the GISS numbers).

You have to remind them that it is global not local, a small number of degrees, and an average not an absolute.

In my experimentation with techniques to «showcase» the robustness of the global - average temperature results, I found that it is also important to show the actual number of stations reporting data for each year.

Just like the stock market, monthly global average temperature numbers go up and down with a certain random variance.

There are some caveats with their study: The global climate models (GCMs) do not reproduce the 1930 - 1940 Arctic warm event very well, and the geographical differences in a limited number of grid - boxes in the observations and the GCMs may have been erased through taking the average value over the 90 - degree sectors.

In global average, the number of unprecedented heat records over the past ten years is five times higher than in a stationary climate, based on 150,000 temperature time series starting in the year 1880.

Global averaging of stations has also not been compensated for dropouts which have reduced the total number of reporting stations dranatically since 1989.

Let me restate his point: there is no evidence yet of an impact of global warming on the intensity of the average hurricane, on the regions where the tropical storms form and on the number of tropical storms.

As I summarize in the book: «global warming, which ought to intensify the average hurricane, could also change the regions of storm formation or the numbers of storms that form in the first place.

[Response: Note that the numbers we are talking about are the global average temperature anomaly (not absolute temperature).

Yes, there was work for geoscientists in diversified areas before «global warming» became known to average people and they would have gone into any number of subjects as a graduate student if human induced changes in greenhouse turned out (after calculation and experiment) to be unimportant at a global scale.

Annan suggests it can, in a way that is somewhat analogous to the number of surface stations increasing the accuracy of our estimation of the global average temperature and its trendline.

4) Even admitting that the impact of IR active gases could be summed up in some average number of x W / m ² with x being in the range of extremely small to very small, it is not possible to provide the derivation from this number to the average global temperature.

Only 908 stations used for the October 2008 GISS analysis whereas some 40 yerars ago there were double the number of stations used to derive an average global temperature.

Is making the average global temperature THE limiting factor simply the most stupid of a number of erroneous «category mistakes»?

The 47,000 wildfires last year may seem like a very large number — and it certainly gives global warming alarmists like Brown plenty of fodder for misleading global warming claims — but the 47,000 wildfires was less than half the average number of wildfires that occurred each year in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Fifth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the world's leading climate science body — projected a number of scenarios, each plotting amounts of carbon emissions and the resulting future global average temperatures.

«A global average temperature is a meaningful as an average of all the telephone numbers in NYC.»

Would it not then be a mistake to assume a global average incoming watt per sq - m solar radiation and global average outgoing L - W radiation and global average Greenhouse effect for Co-2 and apply those global numbers to the tropics, when a higher percentage of both LW and SW radiation is in tropical latitudes where that increase in CO-2 has less effect?

Taking these improved estimates and comparing them to the numbers from Renssen et al 2012 on the Holocene Thermal Maximum, it appears humanity will fall well short of establishing a new date for a global average HTM in the 21st century.

Proof that CO2 has no effect on climate and identification of the two factors that do cause reported climate change (sunspot number is the only independent variable) are at http://agwunveiled.blogspot.com (now with 5 - year running - average smoothing of measured average global temperature (AGT), the near - perfect explanation of AGT since before 1900; R ^ 2 = 0.97 +).

The numbers are striking: in the 1990s, as the market integration project ramped up, global emissions were going up an average of 1 percent a year; by the 2000s, with «emerging markets» like China now fully integrated into the world economy, emissions growth had sped up disastrously, with the annual rate of increase reaching 3.4 percent a year for much of the decade.

When he presented his misleading graph, when he said 97 % of climate scientists agree, (knowing full well the actual situation that the number is bogus and misleading,) when he mentions adjustments to satellite data but not to surface temperatures with major past cooling and absurd derived precision to.005 * C, when he defends precision in surface global averages but ignores major estimates of temps and krigging in Arctic, Africa, Asia and oceans or Antarctica, he forfeits credibility.

So what happens if we calculate dT, dN, and dF at every gridpoint of the model, use that to solve for climate sensitivity and then take the average to have a global climate sensitivity number?

Climate sensitivity is defined in terms of global averages (there is only one number) but a GCM is fully time - dependent, three - dimensional simulation that typically includes atmospheric and ocean processes.

It is therefore erroneous to suggest that the estimate of the global average ocean temperature is given by the instrument accuracy divided by the square root of the number of observations (as you would if the observations were of the same quantity):