Sentences with phrase «of urbanization trends»

His experience in this regard informs his knowledge of urbanization trends, particularly how they impact and apply to emerging markets.

As it had the same amount of warming, it likely had about the same amount of urbanization trend, given that the stations were spread as worldwide as data availability allowed (all networks have sparser coverage in the tropics).

«The accuracy of the data and results was confirmed in a later paper -LSB-...] much of the urbanization trend was likely due to the rapid economic development in China since the 1980s, after the period analysed in the 1990 paper http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/guardianstatement

Not exact matches

So urbanization actually is definitely the trend of China.

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

Facebook, Apple and other tech giants have gone against the trend of urbanization by erecting massive, inward - looking campuses featuring all the amenities their employees can dream up.

Jonathan has led numerous research efforts on global economic trends, including growth and productivity, urbanization, affordable housing, energy and sustainability, e-commerce, and the economic impact of the Internet, as well as on productivity growth and economic development in China and Asia.

This near - term drive for growth, coupled with longer - term trends of increasing urbanization and a growing middle class, will require greater and greater quantities of the wood, metals and minerals and other goods and services that Canada has to offer.

There will be a leveling off or diminishing of some aspects of the basic, long - term multifold trend, such as urbanization.

Despite those efforts, the use of wood fuels is rising due to population growth and emerging urbanization trends, the researchers point out.

And they examined data from sources like the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at various socio - ecological factors that have been posited as contributors to individualism, including prevalence of infectious disease and disasters, rates of urbanization, changes in secularism, and trends in occupational status.

For example, he says, Africa is the last «holdout» in the historic trend toward urbanization, with most of its people still living in rural areas.

Sun adds, «With the fast growth of China's economy, and increasing urbanization, this trend is likely to continue in the next few decades.»

While a great deal of research has explored the economic, political and environmental issues that will be affected by increasing urbanization, far less has examined how this trend has impacted China from a social standpoint.

The city which mimic's an architectural model of a city or development is an impressive work that comments on our current trend towards urbanization.

While they acknowledge that this trend in no way counterbalances the net urbanization of Europe, it does point to a contemporary desire for bucolic escape on the part of certain groups (I can only read «informed and emancipated» as wealthy and educated).

True, urbanization has been a defining trend of the Industrial Age, so on balance yes, that is what people mostly do now.

And Americans may not be flocking to cities as quickly as the rest of the world, but the trend still looks to be heading towards urbanization.

Few weather stations on Earth are immune to this trend: most places they set up stations will be subject to the relentless urbanization of our part of the planet.

Instead of eliminating the urbanization effects, these wrong - way corrections makes the urban warming trends steeper.

The issue is, as it always has been, the contribution, if any, of urbanization or landscape changes to the trend.

If a substantial fraction of all the weather stations from around the world have been affected by urbanization bias, then this could have introduced an artificial warming trend into the «global temperature trend» estimates.

I would surmise that increasing urbanization on the areas sloping up to the west from the station could be the primary cause of the warming trend and not the heat pump exchangers.

As a result, their «urbanization bias - corrected» global temperature trend estimates was pretty much the same as the estimates of the other groups who didn't apply any urbanization bias corrections (you can see this by looking back at Figure 1, at the start of the essay).

Could that mean that all of the warming trend in the Buenos Aires record was urbanization bias?

Therefore, much of the strong «warming» trend implied by the Buenos Aires record is probably just urbanization bias.

One of the groups using weather records to calculate global temperature trends has developed a computer program which they believe has removed the urbanization biases from their data.

AndThenTheresPhysics, I think John is referring to the claim in Jones et al., 1990 that the contribution of urbanization bias to global temperature trends is less than 0.05 °C / century.

In particular, it considers how climate change and urbanization affect the scope and scale of emergencies, as well as what these trends mean for emergency preparedness and response.

Johnston is more skeptical of the lasting potential of the trend, as he said he believes it is the result of increased urbanization and pricier land costs, which drive up home prices.

Also, Dr. Kevin Trenberth had written a comment (Trenberth, 2004 — abstract; Google Scholar access) criticising the Kalnay & Cai, 2003 study (Abstract; Google Scholar access) which suggested that nearly half of the apparent warming trends in the U.S. were probably due to urbanization bias (or land use changes).

They questioned the reliability of the National Climatic Data Center's homogenization adjustments, and suggested that a combination of poor station exposure, urbanization bias and unreliable homogenization adjustments had led to a spurious doubling of U.S. mean temperature trends over the period 1979 - 2008.

On Parker's unproven hypothesis that this trend is an index of urbanization increases, this would indicate a de-urbanization in most of the globe during the past 50 years.

Whether or not it covers the period «from 1950 to 2010» or a longer period, BEST shows that the net impact of urbanization was a spurious cooling trend of -0.019 C per decade.

Parker noted that Peterson found no impact of urbanization in trends between sites, when controlling for «elevation, latitude, time of observation, and instrumentation...» Parker went on to say «One possible reason for this finding was that many «urban» observations are likely to be made in cool parks, to conform to standards for siting of stations.»

In view of the many local studies that show exactly the opposite trend, it is very hard to imagine anything that could make increased urbanization lead to cooling.

Indeed, a portion of that small linear trend difference might be due to human CO2 emissions; or, then again, it might be due to the vast urbanization effect over the last 60 + years; or due to the large deforestation that's taken place; or, maybe it's entirely due to the serial fabrication of global warming by the world's climate agencies; or it's even possible that the post-1950 warming was entirely a natural phenomenon - the same as the prior 64 - year period experience.

It is simply a potential hypothetical explication, made by someone else, and included in the literature background portion of the introduction, of previous work that had also found minimal impact of urbanization on temperature TRENDS.

The question seems not to be whether or not urbanization causes warming (pretty obvious, based on all the data out there) but whether or not the UHI distortion has represented a significant part of the recorded land surface warming since the record started in 1850 and whether or not this has significantly distorted the globally averaged trend.

However, urbanization bias is still a significant problem, which seems to have introduced an artificial warming trend into current estimates of U.S. temperature trends.

This dramatic revision of the estimated impact of urbanization on temperatures in China does not change the global picture of temperature trends.

2009 saw major developments reflecting the implications of the shift from poverty - driven deforestation to enterprise - driven deforestation, a trend that continues to accelerate with urbanization and abandonment of government - sponsored colonization projects.

For example, the IPCC claims that less than 10 % of the warming trend over land was due to urbanization.

The analysis of 331 state weather stations associated a number of factors with temperature trends, including urbanization, population, Pacific oceanic conditions and elevation.

It seemed to me that random effects methodology could be applied to see the impact on trends of the various complicating factors — ratings category, urbanization class, equipment class.

Another paper in Climate Change in 2007 stated: Studies that have looked at hemispheric and global scales conclude that any urban - related trend is an order of magnitude smaller than decadal and longer time - scale trends evident in the series (e.g., Jones et al., 1990; Peterson et al., 1999)... Thus, the global land warming trend discussed is very unlikely to be influenced significantly by increasing urbanization (Parker, 2006).

Still, prior to the satellite - based measurements they were the best proxy for global temperature and if used just to measure trends they could have been a very good proxy if: · Measurements were taken from the same set of global positions each year · Adjustments for creeping urbanization, equipment upgrades and equipment movements were made honestly

Watts contends that if the global data were properly adjusted for urbanization and station siting, and land use change issues were addressed, what would emerge is a cyclical pattern of rises and falls with much less of any background trend.

Most futurists assume that this trend will continue throughout the current century, and many environmentalists welcome the prospect of urbanization because cities seem to impose lower environmental costs, per person, for a given standard of living.

And, I know that you're aware of work on the impact of urbanization on temperature trends in inflating instrumental warming measurements.