Sentences with phrase «less global area»

Another element left out of the comparison of temperature change by latitude is that there is much less global area in the higher latitudes than in the lower latitudes.

Not exact matches

Small lakes with a surface area of less than 100 m2 represent the majority of global freshwater ecosystems.

«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.

On one hand, areas of high climatic stability are predicted to warm less than the global average.

In other words, says Ian Nathan, a senior research analyst with New York City — based Energy Intelligence Group (a publisher of data and information on the global energy industry), it is possible that areas currently off - limits to drilling might actually contain a lot more — or less, for that matter — petroleum than previously believed.

«Cold, deep water from this little area of the Nordic seas, less than 1 % of the global ocean, travels the entire planet and returns as warm surface water.

Despite global commitments to increase the number of protected areas, less than 3 % of the world's oceans are now protected within an MPA.

Although the Global Opportunities strategy currently has less than 2 % of firm AUM, it is a potential growth area and we are confident the strategy is in good hands.

One of the things that I talk less about in my investing, is my willingness to allow some professionals closer to the situation manage a small amount of the assets, if they have a good track record, and the area of the global markets is deeply out of favor.

Human induced trend has two components, namely (a) greenhouse effect [this includes global and local / regional component] and (b) non-greenhouse effect [local / regional component]-- according to IPCC (a) is more than half of global average temperature anomaly wherein it also includes component of volcanic activities, etc that comes under greenhouse effect; and (b) contribution is less than half — ecological changes component but this is biased positive side by urban - heat - island effect component as the met network are concentrated in urban areas and rural - cold - island effect is biased negative side as the met stations are sparsely distributed though rural area is more than double to urban area.

These wildfires release soot into the atmosphere, which accelerates the rate of melting of glaciers, snow and ice it lands upon, which can lead to less reflectivity, meaning more of the sun's heat is absorbed, leading to more global warming, which leads to even more wildfires, not to mention greater sea level rise, which is already threatening coastal areas around the world.

However, when it comes to the area burned, historical records indicate that even at a global scale, the reach of fire is less today.

The area of tropical forest was almost certainly less as so much of the tropics had dried out; but yes, the global distribution of the forest had increased poleward.

Listing «7 areas» is irrelevant given that you haven't shown that your «areas» will reduce global emissions faster and at less cost than with mostly nuclear.

Since 1970 we have seen exactly what global warming models predict — more rainfall in the North - West and some desert areas and less in the major agricultural regions.

A sprawling area spanning the Arctic Circle with a population of less than 50,000, Canada's Northwest Territories has spent more than $ 140 million in the last two years responding to problems linked to global warming, the territory's finance minister said.

Some shift in Americans» global warming views might have been expected this year, given the near - record warm temperatures experienced this winter across much of the country — Gallup finds 79 % of Americans reporting that the weather in their area was warmer than usual, though less than half of these attributed this to global warming.

And while you are doing that, davie, you might tell us in your own words how less than 1c warming since the end of the little ice age and the beginning of the industrial revolution, measured with ever changing systems in areas of exponential land use change by people who have a total, consensual belief in global warming by ACO2 and no demonstrable scientific scepticism whatsoever, must constitute a «bad thing», awa being scientifically based and believable.

Even in these source areas, CO2 only deviates from its global mean by less than 5 %.

The loss of large areas of ice on the surface could accelerate global warming because less of the sun's energy would be reflected away from Earth to begin with (refer back to our discussion of the greenhouse effect).

In fact, natural ponds less than 0.001 km2 are estimated to make up less than 10 % of global lake and pond surface area but constitute more than 15 % of CO2 emissions and more than 40 % of diffusive CH4 emissions (Holgerson and Raymond 2016).

And on 13 February the total area of frozen ocean in the two hemispheres was at its lowest: 16.21 million square kilometres, which is about 2m sq km less than the average global minimum for 1981 to 2010.

We show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25 % to 50 % of the global vegetated area, whereas less than 4 % of the globe shows decreasing LAI (browning).

When you leave these global technologies behind, the other shortwave interventions rank, unsurprisingly, more or less according to the area they affect.

As such, the GCRA (Section 106) mandated that the CCSP prepare, not less frequently than every four years, a scientific assessment report, or National Assessment, of global climate change research that, among other things, analyzes the effects of global change on eight specific areas, including: «the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity.»

The Brazilian portion of the Amazon comprises 4 × 106 km2, 12 less than 1 percent of global land area, but disproportionally important in terms of aboveground terrestrial biomass (15 percent of global terrestrial photosynthesis [Field et al., 1998]-RRB- and number of species (~ 25 percent, Dirzo and Raven, 2003).

Countering the view that global trade is necessarily harsh on the environment, the researchers contended: «A market shift from irrigated, chemical input - intensive growing areas such as the U.S. and China toward rain - fed and less intensive areas in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Brazil and India would bring significant net environmental gains.»

--- Atmospheric mass and composition: approx. 510 trillion m ^ 2 (surface area) * 0.1013 MPa (surface pressure) / 9.81 m / s ^ 2 = 5.266 E18 kg = 5.266 million Gt Hartmann, «Global Physical Climatology», p. 8 gives 5.136 million Gt (the difference could be due to actual average surface pressure being lower than average sea level pressure; counteracting that, gravity decreases with height (not much over most of the mass of the atmosphere) and I think global average g may be less than 9.81 (maybe Global Physical Climatology», p. 8 gives 5.136 million Gt (the difference could be due to actual average surface pressure being lower than average sea level pressure; counteracting that, gravity decreases with height (not much over most of the mass of the atmosphere) and I think global average g may be less than 9.81 (maybe global average g may be less than 9.81 (maybe 9.80?)

Worldwide, plantations account for less than 5 percent of global forest area but produce roughly 35 percent of the annual wood harvest.

Warming is less than the global average in southern parts of Asia and South America, Southern Ocean areas (containing many small islands) and the North Atlantic (Figure 2.6 a).

Global warming is predicted to give us longer, hotter summers, drier conditions across the US, more record temperatures, thinner arctic ice, and having it cover less surface area of the Earth.

With pricing reaching an all - time high in a deal - drought environment, coupled with global market volatility, investors and developers are skittish in where to put their dry powder, pushing private equity professionals to new, niche areas of real estate that haven't previously been explored.As the industry emerges from a low interest rate environment, and into a rapidly changing landscape with lower taxes, less regulations, higher rates and higher inflation, what does this mean for private equity real estate?