Sentences with phrase «over longer time periods»

Could the climate impacts of some sectors of the economy change over longer time periods?

Over longer time periods, however, the differences between different temperature series» settle out, and all show comparable warming temperature trends.

His assertion that the models will be more correct over longer time periods, for example, has not been shown to be true, so there is no good reason give it a lot of weight.

The difference is that natural effects average out to zero (as you showed earlier) over longer time periods.

It is very plausible that natural decadal fluctuations are 0.1 to 0.2 degrees, averaging to zero over longer time periods, while the CO2 trend is measured in degrees per century.

The absolutely dumbest thing you can do is «extrapolate» — especially over longer time periods (see Taleb).

While the above analysis yields good results for by tying past climate change to increases in human CO2 emissions, it should be cautioned that the suggested exponential time relation is not suitable for projecting the future over longer time periods, because of possible changes in human population growth rates and absolute limitations on carbon available in remaining fossil fuels.

It was of course a classic «cherry pick» — find a region or time period when there is a cooling trend and imply that this contradicts warming trends on global scales over longer time periods.

(1) The reported low contribution of CH4 production to anoxic carbon decomposition in thawing permafrost is due to the lack of an active methanogen community that only establishes over longer time periods.

Reduce your risk by choosing lower - volatility stocks to carry over longer time periods.

And while 10 years is hardly considered to be the «long run», other studies have shown that stocks have outperformed real estate over longer time periods (see this New York Times article).

That is why it is important to choose a manager that has good and consistent performance over longer time periods.

It is important for investors to understand the effects of compound interest as they have a big impact on fees and performance over longer time periods.

Otherwise, rebalancing DRAGS down the overall return much more than it reduces volatility, especially over longer time periods.

Checking your portfolio too frequently can make you more susceptible to loss aversion because the probability of seeing a loss in a short time period is much greater than over longer time periods.

While valuation - driven philosophies may fall in and out of favour, over longer time periods this investment style has shown the potential to deliver higher returns.

Investment - grade bonds have historically tended to suffer smaller losses than stocks, and they very rarely post losses over longer time periods.

Still, investment - grade bonds rarely lose money over longer time periods, even when rates rise.

Passive funds usually fare better than active over longer time periods.

Earnings growth should be examined over longer time periods that cover at least one economic cycle to make sure you are focusing on true secular growth companies, not cyclical firms during an economic upswing.

The methodology identifies companies that are able to maintain high levels of profitability over longer time periods than the market in general, thus mitigating the tendency for profits to regress to mean levels.

The percentage of under performing funds is well above 50 % in almost all cases, particularly over longer time periods.

Second, state and local officials must become more systematic in how data on ELs are collected and used, by tracking students» progress over longer time periods and by including all students who were ever ELs in accountability metrics.

Over longer time periods, the uncertainty is less and the trend is more statistically significant.

«Even more interesting is that as satellite measurements continue and so as the datasets get longer, we will be able to recalculate our metric over longer time periods to investigate how and if ecosystem sensitivity to climate variability is changing over time.»

While other studies have looked at wildfire records over longer time periods, this is the first study to use high - resolution satellite data to examine wildfire trends over a broad range of landscapes, explained Littell.

Over longer time periods (one or even multiple lifetimes), books might still be more environmentally friendly.

«If reproduced over longer time periods and across the UK, as a whole, the additional numbers of patients presenting to [emergency care], with alcohol related problems could be very substantial.»

Getting out of this trap starts with the clarity I've outlined — clarity around full market cycles, around investor time tolerance and around the need to evaluate performance over longer time periods.

However, over longer time periods, diversification has generally outperformed with less risk.

Over longer time periods, as we've debated many times, compound interest works fine.

Investment - grade bonds have historically tended to suffer smaller losses than stocks, and they very rarely post losses over longer time periods.

They know that changes and trends can best be recognized if you take a step back and take a wider look over a longer time period.

Because PhotoPoint provides free long - term storage for Kodak's brick - and - mortar retail customers, the Kodak retailers stand to get more reprint orders over a longer time period, Bernstein says.

Broad market index funds (such as those tracking the S&P 500) are a proven — and successful — way to invest in the stock market over a long time period.

If you are carrying the position over a longer time period and there is an overnight gap to the downside, there is no telling where you might sell your stock.

Extending the term of a loan will lower monthly payments because the same amount of money is spread over a longer time period.

The cycles that favor one market segment over another can extend over long time periods.

Over the longest time period analyzed, the study finds sustainable equity funds met or exceeded median returns for five out of six different equity classes examined, for example, large - cap growth.

All of our funds employ the same value investment philosophy and process because we believe that it is the best way, over a long time period, to maximize profit potential while reducing risk.

Under accrual accounting, the impact of a capital acquisition is spread out over a long time period.

The WSJ blog had a recent article The VIX Market Suggests It's Not Yet Time to Buy the Dips outlining: Typically, longer - dated VIX futures are more expensive than VIX futures expiring in the current month, as there's a greater chance of stock swings over a longer time period.

In this book Bill Schultheis presents a simple investing plan built on establishing an investment portfolio of low cost index funds that, based on historical performance, will generate positive returns over a long time period (10 + years).

The pump may need to be replaced if used frequently over a long time period because the motor is small and not meant for heavy - duty use.

Panel - based measurement provides excellent insight into visitor demographics, what consumers do across all of the websites they visit and analysis over long time periods.

In this blog we develop a better understanding of the sources and implications of UKIP support by looking back over a longer time period.

be that the increase in Taser use has not been accompanied by a rise in complaints, but if we see any themes or issues emerging as a result of complaints over a longer time period we will ensure these are properly addressed as part of the pilot.»

The most attractive feature of the material is that it allows cells to survive over long time periods.

«Our study illustrates that the complexity of climate change, adaptation, and flood damage can be disentangled by surprisingly simple mathematical functions to provide estimates of the average annual costs of sea - level rise over a longer time period.»

«All of a sudden it allows us to understand how dynamic the bottom of the ice sheet was — or was not — over that long time period,» Schroeder says.