Sentences with phrase «hundredths of a degree»

If the field is spatially uniform, it must be extremely strong — stronger than the fields that drive lightening through air — and the mixture must be within a few hundredths of a degree of the critical temperature.

A couple of hundredths of degrees in the US rankings and no change in anything that could be considered climatically important (specifically long term trends).

Claims that 2014 was «the hottest year on record» are based on airport and urban measurements that are higher than rural locations and are always «adjusted» upward, with year - to - year differences measured in hundredths of a degree.

I suppose on a «scale» measuring hundredths of a degree of change, an increase in a couple tenths over the last 40 - 50 years could be called «large scale.»

With the blogosphere all a-flutter with discussions of hundredths of degrees adjustments to the surface temperature record, you probably missed a couple of actually interesting stories last week.

While there are differences between the two data sets at the local scale, the differences between the two datasets for large area - averages are typically small (in the order of a few hundredths of a degree for annual means) over the last 50 to 60 years.»

Will a new record by a few hundredths of a degree really mean much?

As we are talking about tiny hundredths of a degree measurements I am finding it very difficult to place any significance on pre 2003 data.

I talked about this yesterday on Brian Lehrer's radio show, making the point that it's a distraction to focus on records — as the media and elected officials tend to do — given how year - to - year differences in global temperature are measured in a few hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit, and given the implicit uncertainty in such measurements.

These steps wouldn't be so problematic if we weren't worrying about detecting hundredths of a degree of temperature change per year.

Hansen explained that 2010 differed from 2005 by less than 2 hundredths of a degree F (that's 0.018 F).

Compared to a 12 - month climate change extreme trend of +25.0 °C reached in 1878, the 30 - year trend extreme only reached a maximum of +0.72 °C (during 2003) and has now been reduced to a August 2014 30 - year trend of 0.61 °C - and relative to the 1940's, that's a trend only eight - hundredths of a degree greater.

Yet, Democrats and Hollywood celebrities are fixated on tiny predicted temperature warming, which recent empirical evidence, over the last 15 + years, suggests will be from hundredths of a degree increase to multiple tenths of a degree increase by 2100AD.

Hundredths of degrees do nt boost viewership or sell newspapers.

The three major groups calculating the average surface temperature of the earth (land and ocean combined) all are currently indicating that 2014 will likely nudge out 2010 (by a couple hundredths of a degree Celsius) to become the warmest year in each dataset (which begin in mid-to-late 1800s).

With the blogosphere all a-flutter with discussions of hundredths of degrees adjustments to the surface temperature record, you probably missed a couple of actually interesting stories last week.

While a 1 - degree rise may not seem like much, it represents a major shift in a world where average temperatures over broad regions rarely vary more than a couple hundredths of a degree.

Because long - term changes of hundredths of a degree is an absurd and statistically bogus change - assessment technique for 12 months, let alone 360 months.]

However, changes to the Sun's brightness are believed to have altered temperatures on Earth by no more than a few hundredths of a degree in the last 150 years.

These thermometers are usually digital and will read your temperature up to one tenth or one hundredth of a degree.

The new detector works at a hundredth of a degree above absolute zero temperature.

The experiment is aligned with the sun with a precision of about one hundredth of a degree.

«He will perceive differences of one - hundredth of a degree.»

GISS and NCDC particularly know, to the 2 hundredth or 4 hundredth of a degree, and well within error bars.

I am firmly in the camp that NASA GISS and NOAA NCDC had no business characterising 2014's 2 hundredths of a degree / 4 hundredths of a degree differences that fell well within error ranges, as evidence of anything other than a statistical tie with 2005 and 2010, i.e no warmer than 10 years ago.

Working through the numbers, we're only talking a few hundredths of a degree a year of temperature change.

If one further adds the effect of the above forcings (without the solar activity already accounted for) this would add a few hundredths of a degree.

As the summaries indicate, the differences in ranking are on the order of a few hundredths of a degree (smaller than the accuracy of the analysis) and so a definitive ranking is not possible.

Climate scientists Pat Michaels and Chip Knappenberger of the Cato Institute used a climate model emulator that was developed with the support of EPA to determine that complete adoption of the CPP would have resulted in a temperature reduction of less than two one - hundredths of a degree Celsius by the year 2100.