This year, the organization reviewed 2,077 applications from 120 countries, which represent
meaningful trends from the front lines of social change.
Climate impacts research is in its infancy compared to science on the physical climate, for a number of reasons: attributing cause and effect isn't easy; neither is collecting data over timescales and regions long and large enough such that it's possible to draw
any meaningful trends from their analysis.
Climate impacts research is in its infancy compared to science on the physical climate, for a number of reasons: attributing cause and effect isn't easy; neither is collecting data over timescales and regions long and large enough such that it's possible to draw
any meaningful trends from their analysis.
Not exact matches
Gen Z learners desire brief,
meaningful, and effective learning experiences and in general, they see issues and
trends from a global perspective.
There is no
meaningful measure to dis - incentivize Common Core, the teaching of which is harming our children, as evidenced by the NAEP scores that show Alabama has dropped
from about 26th among the states before common core to dead last as of 2015 — reversing a
trend of improvement.
If the markets aren't doing anything
meaningful and there are no obvious setups
from key levels or with
trends, then close up your charts and get on with your day.
But a
trend line produced
from some statistical procedure, such as linear regression, is
meaningful only if a
trend actually exists.
Of course, Gavin would claim that his graph is more
meaningful because it represents a «long term»
trend, but as we clearly see
from the NASA graph, no such thing seems apparent.
But we've developed these capacities far faster than we've figured out how to respond to them — both in filtering information that, while scary or sexy, distracts
from more
meaningful, but subtle,
trends, and developing the discipline to recognize human traits that cause us to ignore important, but less flamboyant, clues pointing to a promising path of least regret.
If that's really all he is saying, then is his claim wrong because the anomaly
trend so closely matches the anomaly
trend in the satellite data, or is he wrong because a
trend is
meaningful even if each data point is indistinguishable
from 0?
Of course, as they point out «because rainfall is such a variable element,
trend values are highly dependent on the start and end dates of the analysis» and the fact they are simply using linear interpolation it is very difficult to derive anything
meaningful in terms of climate change
from just one map.
You seem to think that by smoothing the data statistically you are eliminating the chaotic component
from the data series and arriving at some «
meaningful»
trend explainable by known forcings.
Then, it might be possible to make some
meaningful estimates of long - term global temperature
trends from the weather records.
In other words, are the temperature gradients between closely spaced collection points small enough to make milli - degree / year
trend lines based on data collected
from randomly drifting buoys
meaningful?
The EMD approach is used to extract physically
meaningful modes and nonlinear
trends from nonlinear and non-stationary time series that can not be captured by a linear least - square fit.
The
trend from 2002 is not
meaningful in itself — other than suggesting that we are still on track for a 20 to 40 years cool Pacific regime.
In all, 73 climate models
from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project are plotted against observations so that their respective 1979 - 2012
trend lines all intersect in 1979, which we believe is the most
meaningful way to simultaneously plot the models» results for comparison to the observations.»
Once you find the simple fact that you started
from an unusual low bottom, you have to realize the 0.4 C to 0.5 C / century is still not a
meaningful trend.
The gap between Democrats and Republicans who believe global warming is happening increased 30 percent between 2001 and 2010 — a «depressing»
trend that's essentially keeping
meaningful national energy policies
from being considered, argues sociologist Aaron M. McCright.
What's more, they continue to ignore the broader, more important problem with Will's discussion of sea ice: the facts that picking out two days
from a thirty - year time series is not a
meaningful way to look at climate
trends, and that climate models do not, in fact, lead you to expect a decrease in global ice cover.
Statistically -
meaningful trends can not be separated
from natural variation without sufficiently long records with small uncertainties.
The problem with the chart is that it starts in 1998 (not to mention thinking anything particularly
meaningful about long - term climate
trends can be extrapolated
from 12 years — try this one instead).
«The commercial real estate sector is on the path to recovery, but subpar economic growth, lack of financing available to small investors and the industry
trend towards squeezing more employees into existing spaces will keep demand
from meaningful acceleration,» Yun said in the NAR press release highlighting the report.