Sentences with phrase «recent global estimates»

These results explain the difference between recent global estimates of forest «land use» area (3890 Mha) and the area with a «land cover,» the authors say.

In the recent global estimates of the year 2016, this trading company has received over 14 million new trading accounts.

The most recent global estimate shows an increase in precipitable water during the period 1973 - 1990, with the largest trends in the tropics, where increases as large as 13 % per decade were found.

Not exact matches

A recent Gartner report estimated that in2014 over 70 % of Global 2000 organizations will have at least one «gamified» application and by 2015 over 50 % of organizations that manage innovation processes will «gamify» their processes.

A recent report from retail think tank Fung Global Retail & Technology estimated that the widespread closures among those four chains alone — nearly 400 stores — will leave approximately $ 2.5 billion in sales up for grabs.

Swiss Re estimated in a recent report that the global micro-insurance market could be as much as $ 70 billion.

While global growth for 2015 is, once again, likely to come in below estimates, the recent volatility in China's equity market is unlikely to exacerbate the slowdown.

The changes wrought by the proposed legislation will have a much bigger effect on some groups — especially those who get insurance through their employers and those on Medicaid — than estimated by recent analysis from independent healthcare policy experts such as the Brookings Institution and credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings

Other recent estimates suggest that China could see a $ 2.5 trillion GDP increase from gender parity and that the world as a whole could increase global GDP by $ 5.3 trillion by 2025 if it closed the gender gap in economic participation by 25 % over the same period.

We view the recent slowdown in Macau as a temporary phenomenon that has given us the opportunity to own one of the best - positioned global gaming companies at a significant discount to our estimate of intrinsic value.

Today, the recent estimate from the Global Slavery Index comes in at 45 million individuals enslaved around the world.

In September 2015, UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group released updated joint child malnutrition estimates for the 1990 to 2014 period, which represent the most recent global and regional figures after adding 62 new surveys from 57 countries to the joint dataset.

Each part reviews the most recent evidence on infant and young child feeding practices and provides updated global and regional estimates and trends, where available, as well as disaggregated analyses.

Home birth is uncommon in the United Kingdom and uncertainty exists about its safety.1 2 Almost all mortality figures available nationally1 provide merely a single global figure for planned and unplanned home births, though the constituent rates differ greatly.3 The only recent figures for planned home birth in England and Wales relating to 19794 and 19935 provide an inaccurately low estimate of risk because it was not possible to account for those mothers who originally booked to have a home delivery but ended up delivering in hospital.

The global porn industry is estimated to be worth $ 97 billion (# 63 billion), with recent research suggesting young men now watch an average of 2.5 hours of pornography a week.

A recent World Bank report reveals that Global Average Annual Losses from disasters in the built environment are now estimated at $ 314 billion and can increase to $ 415 billion by 2030..

A recent study (pdf) estimated that at the current rate of global warming, Manhattan will face a sea level rise of 2 feet or more by 2080.

Dr Ghassem Asrar, Director of JGCRI, a co-author of study, said: «Among global regions, there was notable variability in trends in estimated emissions over recent decades.

The study estimates the carbon implications of recent changes in the country's economic development patterns and role in international trade since the global financial crisis.

In comparison, global sea levels are rising by about 3 millimetres a year, and a recent study estimated that one - third of that comes from ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland.

Recent estimates suggest the West Antarctic Ice Sheet alone could contribute 3.3 metres to long - term global sea level rise.

With an estimated $ 8 - billion global market in 2005, before the recent surge, industry experts now predict $ 21 billion worth of fungicides will be sold annually by 2017.

Holgerson and co-author Peter Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology at Yale, conducted their analysis by combining recent estimates on the global number of lakes and ponds with a compilation of direct measurements of CO2 and CH4 concentrations from 427 lakes and ponds.

The figure is also about 10 per cent less than the estimate given for China in the most recent publication of the Global Carbon Project, which updates annually the global carbon emissions and their implications for future tGlobal Carbon Project, which updates annually the global carbon emissions and their implications for future tglobal carbon emissions and their implications for future trends.

In a recent paper in Geophysical Research Letters, Scafetta & West (S&W) estimate that as much as 25 - 35 % of the global warming in the 1980 - 2000 period can be attributed changes in the solar output.

Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?

Global mean temperatures averaged over land and ocean surfaces, from three different estimates, each of which has been independently adjusted for various homogeneity issues, are consistent within uncertainty estimates over the period 1901 to 2005 and show similar rates of increase in recent decades.

One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to global average sea - level rise over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.

The series of reports concludes: «The recent pause in global surface temperature rise does not invalidate previous estimates of climate sensitivity.

Oct. 3, 2017 - A recent study by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators is the first to use an ensemble of global chemistry climate models to estimate death rates from air pollution caused by the impact of climate change on pollutant concentrations.

A recent report from the prestigious DigiTimes Research claims that global shipment volumes of e-book readers will drop during the first quarter of 2012 to an estimate of 2...

With more than half of passengers using the airport for business travel, the Oxford Economics report compliments the existing buoyant outlook for business air travel in the UK, with recent estimates by the Global Business Travel Association of a six per cent growth in the # 26 billion UK business travel market in 2016.

All told, lifetime global Wii U sales currently sit at just 3.45 million — two million less than Nintendo's original estimate, and more than 500,000 units lower than the company's most recent estimate.

The recent estimate was that global sea levels will rise by 2 feet.

Ed Dlugokencky of NOAA, who confirmed a couple of weeks ago that recent increases in atmospheric methane were continuing, tells me that the emissions estimates are reasonable, but that the global data is not yet consistent with a large and growing source of Arctic methane....»

The obvious answer (from someone who is indeed receptive to arguments for lower - than - consensus climate sensitivities) is that it was on a par with recent hot years because temperatures at US latitudes of the globe really weren't as much cooler in the 1930s / 1940s (compared to the present) than GISS / Hadley's best estimates (from often sketchy global coverage) suggest.

Instead, the web special opened with «Estimates of future global temperatures based on recent observations must account for the differing characteristics of each important driver of recent climate change», which sounds a bit ho - hum, if not, well, duh?

It is estimated, for example, that none of the [Millennium Development Goals] targets will be met in sub-Saharan Africa if current trends continue, and this is before account is taken of the real effects of the recent crises in food and energy, the rapid increase in impacts of climate change, and the major implications of a global economic slowdown.»

This is of some concern (hence the recent interest in this topic) since estimates for the global mean temperature during the Eemian suggest that it was only 1 - 2 ºC warmer than the present.

In recent decades, a number of groups have tried combining sets of these proxy records together to construct long - term estimates of global temperature change over the last millennium or so.

The net effect of their adjustments on their global temperature estimates was unrealistically low, particularly for recent decades, when urbanization bias is expected to have increased.

Energy - related emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that is widely believed to contribute to global warming, have fallen 12 % between 2005 and 2012 and are at their lowest level since 1994, according to a recent estimate by the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the U.S. Energy Department.

A recent report estimates that global climate finance reached a record high of US$ 437 billion in 2015.

Surface warming / ocean warming: «A reassessment of temperature variations and trends from global reanalyses and monthly surface climatological datasets» «Estimating changes in global temperature since the pre-industrial period» «Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus» «Assessing the impact of satellite - based observations in sea surface temperature trends»

They conclude that «urban warming does not unduly bias estimates of recent global temperature change.»

Ocean warming: «Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface temperature records» «Tracking ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus» «A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change» «Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006»

Abstract Recent estimates of the global carbon budget, or allowable cumulative CO2 emissions consistent with a given level of climate warming, have the potential to inform climate mitigation policy discussions aimed at maintaining global temperatures below 2 ° C.

«Despite recent advances in the state of the global ocean observing system, estimating oceanic variability on basin - wide to global scales remains difficult.

2) In addition to estimates of climate sensitivity, there are other lines of evidence showing that anthropogenic activity (predominately increased CO2) caused most of the recent global warming; this provides further credence for the > = 95 % certainty on the attribution point.

Recent studies estimate that even for conservative global mean temperature increases, between 11 % and 34 % of species alive today could be threatened with extinction.