Sentences with phrase «less than the global average»

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.»

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

A situation which you describe in the paper (see Figures 3a, 3b, first full paragraph of page 461, that the reconstructed trends for the Peninsula are less than the global average and yet you describe is as one of the most rapidly warming places on earth, that your Figure 4e has spatial differences compared with Supplemental Figure 1c and 1d or the image you linked to in comment 18), and which renders that spatial detail of the cover image difficult to interpret.

While the richest income class in this study, earning more than 30,000 rupees a month, produce slightly less than the global average CO2 emissions of 5 tonnes, this amount already exceeds the sustainable global average CO2 emissions of 2.5 tonnes per capita that needs to be reached to limit global warming below 2 degrees centigrade.

In contrast, the average warming rate for stations situated in a county with less than 100,000 people was a paltry 0.04 °F per century.6 The warming rate of sparsely populated counties was 35 times less than the global average.

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).

According to the World Bank, as of 2014, the expenditure on public healthcare in India was below 1.5 percent of its GDP (gross domestic product), which is much less than the global average of 5.95 percent.

Not exact matches

Global beef consumption now averages less than 9 kg per head per year, down from 11 kg in the 1970s.

In scenarios in which the average global temperature rises less than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, short - term measures to reduce SLCF had only a minor effect on the long - term rise in temperature.

In its annual analysis of trends in global carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial lglobal carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial lGlobal Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial lglobal average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

That means that a climate with a lot of CO2 warming partially offset in the global average by a lot of regional aerosol cooling is still a very different climate than one with no anthropogenic aerosols and less CO2.

Third, using a «semi-empirical» statistical model calibrated to the relationship between temperature and global sea - level change over the last 2000 years, we find that, in alternative histories in which the 20th century did not exceed the average temperature over 500-1800 CE, global sea - level rise in the 20th century would (with > 95 % probability) have been less than 51 % of its observed value.

And they work more hours in total each week than their global counterparts (45 versus the TALIS average of 38), with much less time in their schedules for planning, collaboration, and professional development.

owners who never drive the exotics they purchase [98 % of Ferrari buyers drive their cars less than 500 miles a year and keep them on average for less than 24 months]... global warming on the rise [with pretend» Hybrid» supercars doing nothing to help the situation]... etc etc etc

While different organizations take up the cause of the employees in Amazon's global distribution centers for their wages (or perceived lack thereof), Amazon came back with a statement that it pays its employees at a higher average than even the minimum required; this includes its seasonal employees, who typically make less than full - hire employees in every industry.

When you look at the company today, it seems obvious chiseling shareholders is ultimately worth far less than the accretive impact of continued buybacks & the potential average / peak valuations which can be attained if / when TFG transforms itself into a top tier / global alternative asset manager.

While that group previously played as much as 50 percent more Counter-Strike: Global Offensive than most, their playtimes have reportedly dropped to 30 percent less than the average player since the rise of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds.

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.

Except that GHG forcing + cooling aerosol forcing results in less precipitation globally in general than reduced GHG forcing that produces the same global average temperature, as found in «Climate Change Methadone» elsewhere at RC.

During the Little Ice Age, the fall in average global temperature is estimated to have been less than 1 Â °C and lasted 70 years.

However, the corresponding increase in surface T (global average), of 0,17 °C / decade, also leads to less than 0,6 °C / W / m2.

And today Africa's agricultural yields are less than half the global average, and about 25 percent of what they could potentially yield.

If one takes the MBH98 / 99 reconstruction as base, the variation in the pre-industrial period was ~ 0.2 K, of which less than 0.1 K (in average) from volcanic eruptions, the rest mostly from solar (I doubt that land use changes had much influence on global temperatures).

The global average shows a trend of less than 1 degree per century!

This is a global data set, and it's a worldwide average so its shows vastly less noise than individual tide gauge records.

In addition, HELE technology could reduce CO2 emission from 25 — 33 % less than the existing average global power fleet and up to 40 % less than the sub-critical technology (WCA & ACE, 2017).

The slowdown in the upward march of global average temperatures has been greeted by climate skeptics as evidence that the climate is less affected by greenhouse gases than thought.

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.

bozzza - The differences in the Arctic are perhaps 1/4 the ocean thermal mass as global ocean averages, small overall size (the smallest ocean), being almost surrounded by land (which warms faster), more limited liquid interchanges due to bottlenecking than the Antarctic, and very importantly considerable susceptibility to positive albedo feedbacks; as less summer ice is present given current trends, solar energy absorbed by the Arctic ocean goes up very rapidly.

Since sea level rise is variable, some locations getting more than the global average and getting less, it's entirely possible both have to be considered.

However — the statement that global hydrocarbon usage (and hence CO2 production) has continued to surge greater than the 20th Century average, and Hansens scenario B was for less than 20th Century average in growth of CO2 was correct.

Model projections for precipitation changes are less certain than those for temperature.12, 2 Under a higher emissions scenario (A2), global climate models (GCMs) project average winter and spring precipitation by late this century (2071 - 2099) to increase 10 % to 20 % relative to 1971 - 2000, while changes in summer and fall are not expected to be larger than natural variations.

For increases in global average temperature of less than 1 to 3 °C above 1980 - 1999 levels, some impacts are projected to produce market benefits in some places and sectors while, at the same time, imposing costs in other places and sectors.

«The latest (February 2012) monthly global temperature anomaly for the lower atmosphere was minus 0.12 degrees Celsius, slightly less than the average since the satellite record of temperatures began in 1979.»

The largest year - to - year average global temperature change on record is less than 0.3 °C, so this was a rather remarkable prediction, and not surprisingly turned out to be very wrong.

80 % of the tide gauges show less rise than the official «global average».

Even before this Hansen and his colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute argued that due to positive feedbacks and climatic tipping points global average temperature increases had to be kept to less than 1 °C below 2000 levels.

The IPCC has a confidence level > 90 % that less than 50 % of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is the result of non-anthropogenic external forcings and internal natural variability within the climate system.

Donald Trump, President of the US, has announced that he is withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement to limit climate change to less than 2 °C average global warming.

In order to avoid the most devastating impacts of global warming, climate scientists have warned that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases need to be cut in order to keep the increase in average global temperature to less than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius).

This factor, when multiplied times the amount of reduction in tropospheric aerosol emissions, between 1975 and another later year will give the average global temperature for that year (per NASA's J - D land - ocean temperature index values) to within less than a tenth of a degree C. of actuality (when temporary natural variations due to El Nino's, La Nina's, and volcanic eruptions are accounted for).

Each attempt to «improve» your estimate of the global average temperature for a given month, year, etc., will not converge to the correct value but just produce another random number within the random - number generator's effective range, no more and no less meaningful than the previous one.

In a little less than a month's time, we have the opportunity to build upon the momentum unleashed by the INDCs and start to close the emissions gap to have a fighting chance of keeping global average temperature below 2 degrees C.

The second is because the global average temperature change is less than the change at high latitudes, where most glaciers are found (Section 9.3.2).

Based on the Cohen et al paper it's likely that leaving out the most volatile data series would in the present case result in a time series where warming continues with less plateauing than we see in the existing data on global average surface temperature.

One study estimates that there are likely to be places on Earth where unprotected humans without cooling mechanisms, such as air conditioning, would die in less than six hours if global average surface temperature rises by about 12.6 ° F (7 ° C).16 With warming of 19.8 - 21.6 ° F (11 - 12 ° C), this same study projects that regions where approximately half of the world's people now live could become intolerable.7

In 2050, global average macro-economic costs for mitigation towards stabilisation between 710 and 445 ppm CO2 - eq... corresponds to slowing average annual global GDP growth by less than 0.12 percentage points.

That's right, the latest climate science (some 10 studies published in just the past 3 years) indicates that the earth's climate sensitivity — that is, how much the global average surface temperature will rise as a result of greenhouse gases emitted from human activities — is some 33 percent less than scientists thought at the time of the last IPCC Assessment, published in 2007.

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.

Yet, since the world averages 6.5 CO2 tons of per capita emissions while countries like the United States are emitting 19 tons per capita, and the world must reduce per capita emissions to perhaps less than 2.0 tons per capita to prevent dangerous climate change, it is very unlikely that many groups or people in developed countries can make a respectable argument that they are already below their fair share of safe global emissions.