Sentences with phrase «period of natural causes»

Chris -(I agree; great blog) I had the same question - So taking it a little further — if he was given automatic group insurance when eligible, leaves work down the road due to illness - work signs off on the conversion form that he is eligible, then the insurer says he is eligible & no physical is necessary under conversion and they issue his policy; he pays his premium then he dies within the 2 year period of natural causes, how & what can they contest?

Not exact matches

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

A total of 5,011 deaths recorded during the follow - up period included 1,938 deaths (39 percent) from cancer, 1,040 (21 percent) from heart disease, and 1,418 (29 percent) from other natural causes, including diseases of the circulatory system (excluding heart disease) and diabetes.

He did this by examining the plaque of a group of chimpanzees that had recently died from natural causes and whose diet was monitored over a period of 20 years.

The best estimates of the forcings — literally how hard we're pushing on the climate over the period from 1750 to 2005, both human causes and the principle known natural caused changes in the amount of sunlight reaching the earth over this period — overwhelming the human causes are prevailing.

Warming caused by natural climatic variation was blamed for the burning of 11.4 million acres of Western forests during the study period — slightly more than the effects of warming caused by humans.

This period isn't caused by the natural ebb and flow of estrogen and progesterone in the body, rather the lack of estrogen the body is receiving during the timed placebo pills.

Putting your body through a period of what I term a severe nutrient restriction will only trigger a natural reaction of lowering your metabolic rate and increasing * cortisol causing weight gain.

Just as it is a fallacy that PPIs are safe to take every day for an extended period of time, so it is also a fallacy that heartburn is caused by too much stomach acid, according to noted natural health practitioner Dr. Joseph Mercola.

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This is because electronic screens work by generating light, which may cause eyestrain or discomfort while reading text for long periods of time, while books simply reflect natural light from the environment.

If you pass away during this period of time due to a natural cause, such as a disease or heart attack, your beneficiaries won't get the full death benefit.

The absence of convincing attribution of periods other than 1976 - present to anthropogenic forcing leaves natural climate variability as the cause — some combination of solar (including solar indirect effects), uncertain volcanic forcing, natural internal (intrinsic variability) and possible unknown unknowns.

When there are alternative explanations for arctic ice melt (historical writings that suggest natural periods of very rapid decline, ever - increasing levels of soot that can cause and accelerate melting), how can you be so certain that the cause is CO2 - induced?

That natural drivers alone can be the cause of widespread coastal anoxia is evident from studies of greenhouse periods in Earth's past, including the oceanic anoxic events of the Cretaceous and Toarcian (Jenkyns, 2010).

At least one past global hot spell widely attributed to a natural spike in greenhouse gases, the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum 55.8 million years ago, appeared to cause a mass die - off of some marine plankton, but other forms thrived, as did mammals and other terrestrial species, specialists on that period say.

A corollary of the prediction that Co2 would take up to 20 years to rise above the noise of natural variation is that natural variation could conceivable cause a «pause» of up to 20 years, and so the recent short period with a lack of warming is totally consistent with Hansen's predictions.

Thus this period is not ideal for assessing the magnitude of natural changes (both intrinsic and forced by natural processes like solar variability or volcanic eruptions) since there is likely a contamination from human - related causes.

Also, the brief period I spent scanning abstracts [no time this week to read papers] indicates a difference of opinion suggesting whether there is a correlation between clouds and CRF (including a no by Balling and Cerveny Theoretical and Applied Climatology 75:3 - 4 pp. 225 - 231 — which may be a good indicator as there was a skeptic flurry last year over connecting CRF to climate as another try at natural causes being responsible for recent climate change).

Our main conclusion was that a), we had, in fact, gone back to a busy period in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, and b), it was caused by a natural fluctuation in the Atlantic Ocean and the atmosphere, called the Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation.

But if we consider a second natural parameter, the strength and direction of the stratospheric wind in the Tropics (the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation index, QBO) I found a very interesting result: During periods of low solar activity (few or no sunspots) an easterly QBO causes a negative AO, but a westerly QBO causes a positive AO.

So, I can not see how anyone can be positive that any particular time period is not caused by some sort of natural phenonema, which has nothing to do with what the human race is doing.

It is reasonable to assume that natural variability is in total charge of earth temperature and that it causes all the warming and cooling, including the Cold period after the Roman Warm Period, The Little Ice Age and the next cold period that will follow this Warm Pperiod after the Roman Warm Period, The Little Ice Age and the next cold period that will follow this Warm PPeriod, The Little Ice Age and the next cold period that will follow this Warm Pperiod that will follow this Warm PeriodPeriod.

«Anthropogenic Climate change» means a quantified change of climate which isattributed directly or indirectly to human activity and distinguished from natural causes that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate trends and variability observed over comparable time periods.

If natural global warming caused a warm Medieval Warm Period, then perhaps much (or all) of the recent global warming was also a natural phenomenon, i.e., not man - made global warming!

The authors conclude that the there is a higher retreat - rate for marine terminating glaciers in the recent warm period; in the 1930s when there is a natural mode of variability active that caused regional temperatures around Greenland to be anomalously warm, there was a higher retreat rate for land - terminating glaciers (the lower retreat rate today is in part because they are currently smaller).

but that ENSO can still cause natural cooling for periods of a decade or more so that even though the man - made influence continues to cause warming, it is cancelled by ENSO cooling and results in a «hiatus» of global temperature increase:»

Most of these major natural processes that we are witnessing now are interdependent and occur at the end of each interglacial period, ultimately causing sudden long term cooling.»

«We evaluate to what extent the temperature rise in the past 100 years was a trend or a natural fluctuation and analyze 2249 worldwide monthly temperature records from GISS (NASA) with the 100 - year period covering 1906 - 2005 and the two 50 - year periods from 1906 to 1955 and 1956 to 2005... The data document a strong urban heat island eff ect (UHI) and a warming with increasing station elevation... About a quarter of all the records for the 100 - year period show a fall in temperatures... that the observed temperature records are a combination of long - term correlated records with an additional trend, which is caused for instance by anthropogenic CO2, the UHI or other forcings... As a result, the probabilities that the observed temperature series are natural have values roughly between 40 % and 90 %, depending on the stations characteristics and the periods considered.»

I had suggested that as an approximation that one could subtract the average increase from the earlier period which represents one expression of temperature increase caused by natural variation from the later period where the increase is augmented by Anthropogenic CO2 in order to get some idea of what one might attribute to natural variation and how much to CO2.

On the other hand, satellite - observed changes in absorbed sunlight and emitted heat in the tropics over the period 1985 - 2000, which appear to have caused a strengthening of the tropical atmospheric circulation, could in principle be either anthropogenic or natural in origin.

The various kinds of evidence examined by the panel suggest that the troposphere actually may have warmed much less rapidly than the surface from 1979 into the late 1990s, due both to natural causes (e.g., the sequence of volcanic eruptions that occurred within this particular 20 - year period) and human activities (e.g., the cooling of the upper part of the troposphere resulting from ozone depletion in the stratosphere).

IPCC has stated (AR4 WG1 Ch.9) that the «global mean warming observed since 1970 can only be reproduced when models are forced with combinations of external forcings that include anthropogenic forcings... Therefore modeling studies suggest that late 20th - century warming is much more likely to be anthropogenic than natural in origin...» whereas for the statistically indistinguishable early 20thC warming period «detection and attribution as well as modeling studies indicate more uncertainty regarding the causes of early 20th - century warming.»

While a long - term trend is for global warming, short - term periods of cooling can occur and have physical causes associated with natural variability.

I don't consider myself to be an expert by any means but in the few years I have been taking an interest in the subject of climate change I have tried to educate myself as much as possible about the various scientific arguments surrounding the subject, and one thing that has constantly been impressed upon my mind is that when there is a long term trend caused by increasing GHG levels there will periods when it is masked (or accentuated) by short term natural variability.

Additionally a serious cooling period from natural causes is likely to increase oceanic CO2 absorption and so dampen down any CO2 effect in the subsequent natural upturn although the length of lag is uncertain and may be as long as 800 years.

Over the period the known natural drivers of climate have been flat or slightly negative, which leaves just 2 possibilities: some as yet undiscovered natural cause or that, as the IPCC conclude, the dominant factor was anthropogenic forcing from increased greenhouse gas concentrations, which are after all, at least 35 % higher than at any time in the last 600K years.

Once again the very natural cycle of the AMO caused the average temperature of the Earth to increase over the exact same period of time that the AMO was increasing.

The result will inform us about the causes of climate change over the early Anthropocene and will give us an estimate of the natural variability of climate based on a far longer time period.

In preparation for that program and using the results of Figures 4.4 and 4.5 of the report published on the website of The Right Climate Stuff Research Team: http://www.therightclimatestuff.com/BoundingClimateSensitivityForRegDecisions.pdf, I concluded that if one believes there has been no continued natural warming since 1850 from the approx. 1000 year period natural climate cycle that brought us the Roman Warm Period, The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, then the carefully worded IPCC AR5 report claim that most of the global warming since 1950 is due to human causes, isperiod natural climate cycle that brought us the Roman Warm Period, The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, then the carefully worded IPCC AR5 report claim that most of the global warming since 1950 is due to human causes, isPeriod, The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, then the carefully worded IPCC AR5 report claim that most of the global warming since 1950 is due to human causes, isPeriod and the Little Ice Age, then the carefully worded IPCC AR5 report claim that most of the global warming since 1950 is due to human causes, is TRUE.

This conclusion takes into account the approximately 62 year period natural cycle in global average surface temperatures that is obvious in the HadCRUT4 global average surface temperature data, that had a maximum in about 1945 and again in about 2007, and that seems to be the cause of the current «pause» in global average surface temperatures.

13 Natural Climate Changes Seasons: are short - term periods of climatic change caused by regular variations in daylight, temperature, and weather patterns.

One of the main themes that is promoted by «swindle» and people like Beck is that there was a Medieval Warm Period during which temperatures were warmer than they are today, and that therefore today's global warming is due to «natural causes».

As a researcher in the field for more than 30 years, I am not aware of a single peer - reviewed paper or review, in a quality atmospheric science journal, that relates the temperature changes over this period to only natural causes such as changes in solar activity.

The team, led by earth scientists at Ohio State University, pinpointed a period in 2010 when high temperatures caused the natural ice flow out to sea to suddenly accelerate, and 100 billion tons of ice melted away from the continent in only 6 months...

It ticks off all our boxes: it's natural, it's easy to use, has multiple uses, it doesn't cause cancer (unless you stick your nose in it and breathe in for one hour every day - but that's the case for any powdery substance that you breathe in for long periods of time) and, as far as we can tell, it isn't being over-exploited.

The difference between the emissions and the natural variation is that the emissions caused the entire increase of 60 ppmv 1959 - 2004, while natural wobbles caused a temporarely change of a few ppmv, followed by normal temperatures (and CO2 increases, 1994) or even cooler periods (1999)...

Now there were two papers put out by a Swiss team (you should know who) on consideration of European warming where they argued that natural effects could be ruled out; the first paper argued for strong water vapour feedback causing the 1980 to 1998 temperature rise and the later paper, using exactly the same data, argued for a reduction in aerosols causing a recovery in temperatures over the same period.

The paragraphs above the figure note that «The rise takes place during a period when, according to the IPCC report, the anthropogenic effect of global warming is evident above the background variations from natural causes» and «We are not aware of any global climate models that predicted the reversal of slope that we observe».

Peter Whale says: August 14, 2010 at 11:25 am Could someone on either side of the debate give me what weather conditions over an agreed period of time, that would then turn the observations so that they could be called climate, which would then either confirm catastrophic warming or confirm natural cause and variation =======================================================