Sentences with phrase «observations over the recent past»

R. Gates, I'm curious to know why you think a paper about what happens in models of sea level into the future is much better than (or even has much to do with) a critique of a paper analysing empirical observations over the recent past?

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Contrary to recent blogosphere impressions, my close observation of Steve and his campaign over the past two months has strengthened the conviction behind my endorsement.

«Contrary to recent blogosphere impressions, my close observation of Steve and his campaign over the past two months has strengthened the conviction behind my endorsement,» he said.

My condence is based on recent developments in electronics and software, as well as on my own observations of robots, computers and even insects, reptiles and other living things over the past 30 years.

Both the observations of mass balance and the estimates based on temperature changes (Table 11.4) indicate a reduction of mass of glaciers and ice caps in the recent past, giving a contribution to global - average sea level of 0.2 to 0.4 mm / yr over the last hundred years.

Finds that observations over the past decade continue to support the finding that the area experiencing much above - normal maximum and minimum temperatures in recent years has been on the rise, with infrequent occurrence of much below - normal mean maximum and minimum temperatures

This recent shift towards more intense and frequent El Niños is related to the recent increase in dry areas around the world.5 However, past observations and reconstructions of El Niño events from non-instrumental records such as corals show that El Niño events naturally fluctuate in magnitude and frequency over time, and this has been demonstrated in long climate model simulations of past and future climate as well.6

The first point to make is that if asked to forecast the next twenty years observation from temperature anomaly time series most of us would do as Tom Scharf suggests — lay down a ruler over the recent past and extrapolate.

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.