Sentences with phrase «inches per century»

That is 5.7 cm per century or 2.5 inches per century.

It should be closer to about 2.5 inches per century or ~ 6 cm.

None of these could have been caused by an increase in atmospheric CO2, Model projections of warming during recent decades have greatly exceeded what has been observed, The modelling community has openly acknowledged that the ability of existing models to simulate past climates is due to numerous arbitrary tuning adjustments, Observations show no statistically valid trends in flooding or drought, and no meaningful acceleration whatsoever of pre-existing long term sea level rise (about 6 inches per century) worldwide, Current carbon dioxide levels, around 400 parts per million are still very small compared to the averages over geological history, when thousands of parts per million prevailed, and when life flourished on land and in the oceans.

If you do the linear regression starting in 1930 you get a slightly higher rate: 1.16 ±.17 mm / yr (i.e., at most ~ 5 inches per century)

A translation of these rates into inches per century: 1.9 mm yr - 1 equals 7.5 inches; 1.5 mm yr - 1 equals 6 inches; 1.1 mm yr - 1 equals 4 inches.

The greatest sea rise trend took place at the 30 - year period ending December 1952 - a trend rise of 10.6 inches per century.

(Stockholm's gauge has recorded a declining sea level trend... at -14.3 inches per century, as of the end of 2014.)

Overall, the last 30 years exhibited a trend of only 9 - 10 inches per century - certainly not a biggie even worthy of a climate - doomsday claim.

Between 1904 and 1953 global sea levels rose by 2.03 mm per year, whereas from 1954 to 2003 they rose by only 1.45 mm per year, giving an annual mean rate of 1.74 mm per year over the 100 years to 2003, or seven inches per century.

Sea levels over the past few hundred years have been rising by around 8 inches per century, so the Sea level around New York City will rise by about a foot over the next hundred years, and this has nothing to do with global warming.

What was learned Quoting the five researchers, «the new reconstruction suggests a linear trend of 1.9 ± 0.3 mm / yr [7.5 inches per century] during the 20th century» and «1.8 ± 0.5 mm / yr [7 inches per century] for the period 1970 - 2008.»

According to the latest IPCC report (2013), sea levels rose at a rate 1.7 mm per year, or at a rate of 6.7 inches per century, between the years 1901 and 2010.

«Quoting the five researchers, «the new reconstruction suggests a linear trend of 1.9 ± 0.3 mm / yr [7.5 inches per century] during the 20th century» and «1.8 ± 0.5 mm / yr [7 inches per century] for the period 1970 - 2008.»

By the way, this forecast translates to 2 - 6 inches per century.

«Sure, they'll probably try to confuse us with trick questions: Like why, apart from natural 1998 and 2015 El Nino spikes, satellites haven't recorded any statistically significant global warming for nearly two decades; why sea levels have been rising at a constant rate of 7 inches per century without acceleration; and why no category 3 - 5 hurricanes have struck the U.S. coast since October 2005 — a record lull since 1900.

And sea levels continue to rise at a meager 4 - 8 inches per century.

New paper finds sea level rise has decelerated 44 % since 2004 to only 7 inches per century — Published in Global and Planetary Change

Sea levels which rapidly rose 400 feet following the last Ice Age have only risen at a steady rate of four to eight inches per century over the past 150 years.

Is it unusual that sea levels are still rising, although only six inches per century?

Tidal gauges show a rise of about 7 inches per century over the last 150 years.

At 3 inches per century with no evidence of acceleration at that location, his predecessors 100 years ago faced the same problems.

For the past 200 years it has been rising at about 8 inches per century, and that rate may well continue.

The rise is 3 inches per century.

Sea level is rising at only1.5 mm per year now (six inches per century), they note, and there is zero evidence that the rate is escalating or that coastal communities are at risk.

I keep on wondering how on earth we will be able to accommodate a sealevel rise of 8 inches per century in London when our only daily experience is of a rise 250,000 times faster (14 feet in 6 hours of incoming tide) in the centre of the city.

Also, sea level has been predicted to rise rapidly, but the European Envisat satellite showed sea level to have risen at a rate of just 1.3 inches per century from 2004 — 2012.

Mediterranean sea levels are rising about 1.2 millimeters per year, or less than 5 inches per century.

Not exact matches

They can live hundreds, even thousands of years, and sometimes they grow so slowly they may advance only a few millimeters a century — an inch or two per millennium.

By the 20th century, sea levels were climbing, on average, some 1.4 millimeters (0.06 inch) per year.

The water levels rose by about 0.1 millimeters (or 4 thousandths of an inch) per year from the first century through the eighth century.

Thanks in large part to satellite measurements, scientists» skill in measuring how much sea levels are rising on a global scale - currently 0.13 inch (3.4 millimeters) per year - has improved dramatically over the past quarter century.

Coast Range site that — per the Forest Service hydrologist — lost a foot of topsoil in the past century and how has about 2/3 of an inch remaining.

The rise rate in the 20th century was significantly less than an inch per decade, and since 1990, it has been significantly more than one inch per decade.

The slope of this linear segment was just under ten inches, not twenty feet, per century.

Sea levels in parts of this region could rise as high as 7 inches (18 cm) per century.

Sea levels are rising, on average, 5 inches (13 centimeters) per century along the north Indian Ocean.

Indeed, I was consulting [unintelligible] the other day, who is the world's greatest expert on sea level, and has written several papers on it, and he said he is not expecting it to rise very much more than the eight inches we saw in the last century, and that in itself is only about a fifth of the 4 feet per century which has been the average sea level rise per century over the last 10,000 years, with sea level rising over 400 feet in that time.

«Global sea level is projected to rise during the 21st century at a greater rate than during 1961 to 2003,» the IPCC report suggests, saying that the rate will be at 4 millimeters (0.15 inches) per year.

And while that may seem like a long time, think of it this way: A meter per century is a centimeter every year, an inch every 2 1/2 years.

(see dark green curve) is an underwhelming +1.8 mm / year - that translates to per century trend of 7.2 inches / century (the bright red trend line).

Notes: Excel was used to calculate and plot the moving sea level per century curves and fitted trends (Excel slope function produced trends based on moving 360 - month periods for each month in the dataset; then converted to per century trends (inches) for each month).

The ice stream's speed - up and near - doubling of ice flow from land into the ocean has increased the rate of sea level rise by about.06 millimeters (about.002 inches) per year, or roughly 4 percent of the 20th century rate of sea level increase.

Based on this historical record and the fact that the Laurentide melted away under summertime temperatures similar to those expected in Greenland by the end of this century, Carlson and his colleagues forecast glacial melting that contributes somewhere between 2.8 inches (seven centimeters) and 5.1 inches (13 centimeters) of sea level rise per year, or as much as a 4.3 - foot (1.3 - meter) increase by 2100.