Sentences with phrase «measured average rise»

Then they settled down to calculate the likelihood that a proportion of past heatwaves or floods could be linked to a measured average rise in planetary temperatures so far of 0.85 °C.

Not exact matches

The indicator is a per capita measure, because a country's total income may rise as its population increases, even though there may have been no improvement in the income level of the average citizen.

Measured across all loan products, and taking into account changes in customer risk margins, however, it seems that interest rates paid on average by small businesses have increased by a little less than the rise in interest rates directly due to the tightening of monetary policy.

«The basic elements are 1) the market is in a rising trend, defined as the NYSE Composite being above its 10 - week average, 2) both daily new highs and new lows exceed 2.2 % of issues traded, and 3) the McClellan Oscillator is negative — meaning that market breadth as measured by advances and declines is relatively weak (there's some dispute, which I will not join, as to whether the Oscillator has to be negative that day or turn negative later).

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Following a sharp fall in March, consumer sentiment, as measured by the Westpac - Melbourne Institute index, rose only slightly in April, though it remains a little above long - run average levels.

According to the ABS measure, prices rose, on average, by 5 per cent in the June quarter to be 18 per cent higher over the year, with strong gains being recorded in all major capital cities (Graph 32).

Over the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 years.

People in countries that provide citizens with a high level of economic security have a higher level of happiness on average, as measured by surveys of national levels of life - satisfaction and happiness... The most important determinant of national happiness is not income level — there is a positive association, but rising income seems to have little effect as wealthy countries grow more wealthier.

The assemblyman's office noted he had co-sponsored a measure that would peg the then - $ 8 hourly minimum wage to the urban inflation rate, which has increased by an average of 1.7 percent annually over the last five years (and only increased by a tenth of a percent in 2015)-- which would have resulted in a far more modest rise in the pay floor.

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.

However, when all three key species were present, the average rate of all functions — a measure of overall ecosystem health — rose simultaneously.

And the Arctic, where the average temperature is rising twice as fast as the rest of the world, has become the unfortunate laboratory where researchers can best measure their impact.

This may be why real costs per student have increased substantially (nearly doubling in the past 30 years) while the performance of schools, as measured by average student achievement, has not risen at all.

Harvard Academic Todd Rose on the Fallacy of Averages Maclean's, 1/18/16 «We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates — below - average, above - average — are everyday speech.

These three groups have improved by more than 20 percentage points since 2006 on the measure of five good GCSEs, while the national average has risen by 13.5 percentage points.

During this time period, the U.S. stock market as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen more than 1,600 percent.

Given that correlations tend to rise in a panic, a reasonable measure of sentiment is to measure the average absolute value of 10 - day correlations.

The wide gap between the government - sanctioned CPI and the Shadow Government CPI presents a competing set of assumptions about how to measure the effect of rising prices on the average consumer and the market as a whole.

My questions, the answers to which I may have missed in this string, are how can one relate the forcing at 2XCO2 to an expected atmospheric temperature rise in a way that a citizen can understand; and is the forcing as stated as a degree C to be compared with the forcing at 280 ppm (pre industrial) NOT with today's measured temperature or rise above average?

The question isn't whether UHI contributes to surface temperature rise, but whether it affect temperature measurements sufficiently to bias the measured averages.

Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120 mm — an average of 2 mm a year — over the past 60 years, and found that just four had diminished in size.

Climate scientists have been able to close the sea level «budget» by accounting for the various factors that are causing average global sea levels to rise at the measured rate of about 3.2 millimeters per year since 1992 (when altimeters were launched into space to truly measure global sea level).

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average

Siemens Gamesa expects a rapid rise in the global offshore wind market to grow at an average rate of 11 % (measured as CAGR) and reach 15GW in installations per year in 2030, the wind OEM's offshore chief executive Andreas Nauen said.

Recharge news Siemens Gamesa expects a rapid rise in the global offshore wind market to grow at an average rate of 11 % (measured as CAGR) and reach 15GW in installations per year in 2030, the wind OEM's offshore chief executive Andreas Nauen said.

The global average rate of sea level rise measured by TOPEX / Poseidon satellite altimetry during 1993 to 2003 is 3.1 ± 0.7 mm yr — 1.

The world wide surface station measured average daily rising temp and falling temp is 17.465460 F / 17.465673 F for the period of 1950 to 2010, not only is the falling temperatures slightly larger than rising temperatures, 17.4 F is only 50 % -70 % of a typical clear sky temperature swing of 25F to 30F, which can be as large as +40 F depending on location and humidity.

A good determination of the rise in global land temperatures can't be done with just a few stations: it takes hundreds — or better, thousands — of stations to detect and measure the average warming.

Some locations, such as Brest, have measured a very slight acceleration in sea - level rise in the late 1800s or early 1900s, but globally averaged coastal sea - level rise has not accelerated since the 1920s.

A better measure, he said, was to look at the average rise in sea levels.

Considering that global average temperatures are still rising by a variety of measures, just more slowly, and as the last time we had a coldest year on record was 1909, this is quite a leap of faith.

Warm air rises, yet four satellite groups measuring TLT average to no warming at all for a human generation.

But if, instead, the world manages to act upon a global promise made in Paris in 2015, and to contain global warming to no more than an average rise of 2 °C, the number at risk would be measured only in millions.

Not that I think the world, on average, needs as much as 15ºC, but it it totally ridiculous that the Alarmists (and Warmists) are aghast at the supposed 0.8 ºC rise since 1880 they think they've measured

Not that I think the world, on average, needs as much as 15ºC, but it it totally ridiculous that the Alarmists (and Warmists) are aghast at the supposed 0.8 ºC rise since 1880 they think they've measured (of which about 0.3 ºC is probably data bias and only about 0.2 ºC is due to human activity).

The average rate of rise for 1993 - 2008 as measured from satellite is 3.4 millimetres per year while the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) projected a best estimate of 1.9 millimetres per year for the same period.

Regional indicators (as measured by a three - month moving average) also rose or remained at heightened levels.

Commercial real estate prices as measured by the Moody's / RCA Index are projected to rise by 7.6 percent per year, compared to a long - term average increase of 5.3 percent.

When rates as measured by Freddie Mac started rising in May and averaged 3.54 % for the month, the seasonally adjusted annual rate of new home sales dropped by 4 % from the prior month, according to the most recent housing data from the Commerce Department.