Sentences with phrase «if higher estimates»

He also fails to mention that Esper et al do not actually conclude that a downward revision in the importance of CO2 actually is necessary; they only attempt to say (albeit based on faulty logic) what would happen if higher estimates of climate variation proved right.

Technologies that offer only modest reductions in emissions, such as natural gas and — if the highest estimates from the life - cycle analyses... are correct — carbon capture storage, can not yield substantial temperature reductions this century.

Not exact matches

Timmer: Yeah, so it's interesting because generally the earnings estimates, if you look at the aggregated consensus numbers, they tend to start high and drift lower.

If the answer is the founder, their friends and family, then chances are the business will be among the glut of failed startups, which the 2015 Startup Genome Report co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members estimates is as high as 90 %.

Worryingly, if unsurprisingly, the agency found that the majority of those with the condition aren't receiving adequate care: in high income countries, it estimates 50 % of those with the disorder don't get treatment, while in low - income countries that number rises to 80 % to 90 %.

The latest Powerball prize may be estimated at $ 900 million, but you have to wonder: If a private company ran it, would a national lottery routinely give weekly payoffs of much higher amounts than the Powerball average of just $ 80.7 million?

Estimates of what companies would be hypothetically worth if they were broken up often yield higher figures than what a company currently trades for in the real market.

As such, if bitcoin's price were to recover to previous highs, the bank estimates the coin's ecosystem would consume as much energy as 18 million US homes.

Expenses for other direct program expenses (excluding other transfer payments) could be $ 2 billion higher than estimated in Budget 2012, especially if the Government decides to book the shortfall in the environmental liability as identified by the Commissioner for the Environment and Sustainable Development.

Considering Macmillan estimates that more than 2 million copies have already been sold across all formats, Comey could be looking at additional millions in the coming months if sales continue at such a high pace.

If this information had been available at the time of the January 2009 Budget, the original status quo deficit estimate for 2009 - 10 would have been close to $ 8 billion higher than announced, at the time of the budget.

Even then — and especially if they rely on higher estimates — a revenue «trigger» could help ensure revenue losses don't persist of expected growth fails to materialize.

If you have high student loan debt, consider an FHA loan, which has recently loosened its guidelines around estimated loan payments.

Organizers at Pembroke Pines Charter High School said they would have probably attracted more than an estimated 70 to 100 out of the 1,600 - student school if there hadn't been testing that day.

If you purchase this equipment, the amount of Additional Funds for the 3 months operating expenses would also be adjusted to reflect that you will not make 3 monthly equipment lease payments, but your total initial investment will be substantially higher than we have estimated.

If the U.S. tax reform is enacted in calendar 2019, BofA Merrill Lynch expects ADP to earn $ 5.67 per share that year — 19 percent higher than its current estimate.

The highest estimates fault him with 20 million deaths, IF you include the overwhelming majority of deaths attributed to famine.

But if one includes all sects and movements, this accolade may belong to none other than the Old Order Amish, whose numbers have reached at least 100,000» some estimates run much higher» and are doubling every twenty years.

If the estimates are confirmed, it would be among the highest civilian death tolls since the war started in 2003, and one of the highest civilian body counts caused by the U.S. military since the Vietnam War.

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

If the scar includes the upper segment of the uterus, the repeat rupture rate is reported to be as high as 32 % (131, 132) with the most recent report estimating the rate of recurrence to be 15 % (133).

If the estimate you've given is too low or too high from the average costs, try to find out why.

Alistair Darling and Mr Brown defended the Bank of England's intervention in Northern Rock - with state aid now estimated to be as high as # 57 billion - insisting there was a systemic risk to the banking system if the lender was allowed to collapse.

But it's unclear if this is a high enough estimate, particularly taking into account the cost per trip.

Business groups estimate the Health Care Reform Act (HCRA) assessments, if they were counted as normal state taxes, are the third highest tax the state levies after personal income and sales and use taxes, and the single biggest business tax.

Researchers at the IFS estimate that the cuts will hit higher education, as funding to universities has been cut by 40 %, but some of that shortfall will be recouped with increased tuition fees.

Also, Lord Browne's report «Sustaining a Future for Higher Education», which recommended graduates should only begin to repay tuition fees when or if they earned # 21,000 or above, estimated that only the top 40 % of earners on average would pay back all the charges paid on their behalf and that 20 % of the lowest earners would pay less than today.

Gelinas says if the state wants to pay for the project, estimated at $ 4 billion dollars, it will have to raise tolls by three times as high as the current rate of $ 5.00.

The lower estimate came from the Parks department, who assessed the land as if it were undeveloped real estate, whereas the higher estimate, which was done by the city's Finance department, was the projected value of the land once the new Yankee Stadium is completed.

The agency typically looks for adaptive reuse projects to yield returns in the 10 percent to 12 percent range after incentives are factored in, so the estimated returns on the Christian Science Reading Room renovation would be two to nearly three times higher than that target level if the tax breaks were approved.

If the hospitals in Maryland and Washington with the highest rates of intensive care use had behaved more like those with lower use, it would save around $ 137 million, the study estimated.

The researchers estimated that more than 106,000 high - risk early preterm births could be avoided in the U.S. and about 1,100 could be prevented in Australia each year if pregnant women took daily supplements of the omega fatty acid.

And even the new estimates may be too high, says Struewing, because people may have been more likely to volunteer for the trial if they or a family member had breast cancer.

For example, the simulated social information revealed that peer advice more strongly influenced an individual if the knowledge suggested the actual number of items was higher than the guesser's initial estimate.

[4] Mass estimates for planets observed using the radial velocity method are lower estimates: if the planet's orbit is highly inclined it could have a higher mass and create the same observed effects.

If we consider these additional routes of exposure, the estimated risks will likely be much higher, but without further research, there is no way of knowing how much higher these risks might be.»

«The AQLI uses the critical data and information gathered from our China research and applies it to every country, allowing the billions of people around the world who are exposed to high air pollution levels to estimate how much longer they would live if they breathed cleaner air,» says Greenstone.

Parker's estimate, if correct, means those Chinle layers lacking prosauropods are young enough to align with strata from high - latitude areas of Pangaea where the fossil record shows prosauropods had become plentiful.

If these overall estimates are reliable they indicate that the total annual health costs in this country are more than $ 2 trillion, $ 1 trillion higher than the cost for a comparable number of people in other advanced countries.

Although Olshansky stresses that the estimate is «a first - pass approximation,» he believes the effect is large enough to demonstrate «that trends in obesity in younger ages will lead to significantly higher rates of mortality in the future — we will lose 2 to 5 or more years [of life expectancy] in the coming decades» if the obesity epidemic continues unchecked.

Harvard student Henry Lin and professor Avi Loeb estimate that the JWST should be able to detect tetrafluoromethane (CF4 and trichlorofluoromethane (Ccl3F), two types of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), if they are present in concentrations approximately ten times higher than on Earth.

If deforestation is higher than the estimate used in this paper, then the relative effect of drought - induced fire would not be as large as stated here, and the decoupling of fire incidence from deforestation rates would not be as significant.»

But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

If the natural geologic methane emissions are lower than previously thought, the anthropogenic fossil methane emissions must be higher than previously thought — Petrenko estimates by 25 percent or more.

If emissions continue down a mid-range path — one consistent with the direction current policies and market trends seem to be taking us — the new results indicate a higher likely rise of 0.7 to 1.3 meters (2.2 to 4.1 feet), compared to 0.4 to 0.8 meters (1.4 to 2.5 feet) in the IPCC - consistent estimate.

They also found that if they had calculated household and open - air exposure deaths separately, their total estimate would have been about 18 % higher — a major difference.

A good example is if you try and fit a normal distribution to 10 data values using a flat prior for the variance... the final variance estimate you get is higher than anything that any of the standard methods will give you, and is really just nonsense: it's extremely biased, and the resulting predictions of the normal are much too wide.

We note that loci characterized by high levels of differentiation, which are likely to be resisting introgression, were included in our estimates from previous studies; therefore, if anything, the estimates of gene flow used in the simulations are likely to be underestimates, and our results should therefore be conservative.

Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by 2050.

Forest et al. (2006) demonstrate that the inclusion of natural forcing affects the estimated PDF of climate sensitivity since net negative natural forcing in the second half of the 20th century favours higher sensitivities than earlier results that disregarded natural forcing (Forest et al., 2002; see Figure 9.20), particularly if the same ocean warming estimates were used.