Sentences with phrase «since global estimates»

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Unfortunately, however, government resources are actually flowing the other way: according to a report from the U.S. - based National Resources Defense Council, since 2009, global subsidies for fossil fuels have almost tripled to an estimated US$ 775 billion this year.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that an average of 800,000 barrels per day in production were taken offline last month, contributing greatly to May's having the highest monthly level of unplanned global oil supply disruptions since the agency began tracking such data in 2011.

P2P lending in Canada is at an inflection point today with firms, lenders and borrowers all looking for clear signals from government and regulators that Canadians will finally also be able to fully participate in a global phenomenon that has seen an estimated U.S. $ 50 billion in loan originations since 2008 and U.S. $ 20.5 billion in 2015 alone.

Since our last MPR in April, global economic developments have been quite disappointing, and these have led to a significant downgrade of our estimate of Canadian economic growth for 2015.

All told, global gross domestic product (GDP) is on track to increase an estimated 3.8 % next year, the strongest showing since 2011, and a few ticks higher than the long - term average of 3.5 %.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

The aluminum industry has closed or curbed output at more than 50 smelters outside of China since 2009, according to Goldman, which estimates global demand will exceed output by 579,000 tons this year and 619,000 tons in 2015.

In clear defiance of the lessons taught by the Global Financial Crisis, the price of new homes in Iceland have hit a record in the first quarter of 2012, having surged 40.1 percent since the final three months of 2010, according to estimates by the National Registry of Iceland in Reykjavik.

As a result of these trends, which generally have been stronger than expected, estimates of global growth in 1999 have been revised up further since the Bank's August report.

The state pension fund's estimated value is $ 146.5 billion — the highest since the global economic downturn in fiscal year 2008 - 2009, according to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

In a review article recently published online in the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted from land aquifers since 1900, the study states.

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.

Daniel Boyce of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and his colleagues estimate that the global phytoplankton stock has plummeted 40 percent since 1950.

They range from LANDSAT images of land use in the Chesapeake Basin, to fish catches off California since the 1920s, to 400,000 years of global temperature estimates from antarctic ice cores.

The range (due to different data sets) of global surface warming since 1979 is 0.16 °C to 0.18 °C per decade compared to 0.12 °C to 0.19 °C per decade for MSU estimates of tropospheric temperatures.

He says that «all five global temperature estimates presently show stagnation, at least since 2002.

From that number, they have calculated Greenland's contribution to sea level rise over that time, which they estimate to be about 10 to 17 percent of the total global sea level rise of about 1 foot since 1900.

Since 1950, the volcanic forcing has been negative due to a few significant eruptions, and has offset the modestly positive solar forcing, such that the net natural external forcing contribution to global warming over the past 50 years is approximately zero (more specifically, the authors estimate the natural forcing contribution since 1950 at -10 to +13 %, with a most likely value of Since 1950, the volcanic forcing has been negative due to a few significant eruptions, and has offset the modestly positive solar forcing, such that the net natural external forcing contribution to global warming over the past 50 years is approximately zero (more specifically, the authors estimate the natural forcing contribution since 1950 at -10 to +13 %, with a most likely value of since 1950 at -10 to +13 %, with a most likely value of 1 %).

Rates of Tropical Deforestation Several international groups produce routine estimates of tropical deforestation, most notably the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which has been producing a global forest resources assessment every five to ten years since the late 1940s.

Since the mid 1970's, global estimates of the potential destructiveness of hurricanes show an upward trend strongly correlated with increasing tropical sea - surface temperature.

Indeed, if one accepts a very liberal risk level of 50 % for mean global warming of 2 °C (the guiderail widely adopted) since the start of the industrial age, then under midrange IPCC climate sensitivity estimates, then we have around 30 years before the risk level is exceeded.

An estimated 26 million copies of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have been downloaded since its 2012 debut.

Having been downloaded 15 million times in less than a week, Nintendo's third mobile game, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, has grossed an estimated $ 10 million worldwide since its global launch, according to Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data.

But rather since carbon dioxide, for example, is generally accepted as one of the leading causes of Global Warming we should be able to come up with a somewhat accurate estimate of where all the carbon dioxide comes from.

First, it provides a compilation of global trends in glacier terminus positions since 1600 A.D. Second, it uses this compilation to create a new estimate of global temperature change.

Since the GCMs have clearly overpredicted the overall trend in global average mean temperature, and since there are other epochs where there fit to the overall trend is poor, I think that you confidence in an estimate of natural variability based on them is misplSince the GCMs have clearly overpredicted the overall trend in global average mean temperature, and since there are other epochs where there fit to the overall trend is poor, I think that you confidence in an estimate of natural variability based on them is misplsince there are other epochs where there fit to the overall trend is poor, I think that you confidence in an estimate of natural variability based on them is misplaced.

While land surface observations go back hundreds of years in a few places, data of sufficient coverage for estimating global temperature have been available only since the end of the 19th century.

[Response: While the raw data at any one station at any one time obviously doesn't change, the value for any regional or global average in the past is always an estimate since there isn't a perfect network of measurements across the whole area.

The author shows this lack with his statement «For which, by the way, there is no natural explanation, and the best estimate for the anthropogenic share of global warming since 1950 is 110 percent — more on this in my previous post.»

For which, by the way, there is no natural explanation, and the best estimate for the anthropogenic share of global warming since 1950 is 110 percent — more on this in my previous post.

Gavin Schmidt writes, «He (Crichton) also gives us his estimate, ~ 0.8 C for the global warming that will occur over the next century and claims that, since models differ by 400 % in their estimates, his guess is as good as theirs.

2.4 W / m2 since the industrial revolution, the global reduction (direct and indirect) by sulfate aerosols is estimated to be over 1 W / m2 (see Hansen.

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.

The range (due to different data sets) of global surface warming since 1979 is 0.16 °C to 0.18 °C per decade compared to 0.12 °C to 0.19 °C per decade for MSU estimates of tropospheric temperatures.

The IPCC stated with 95 % confidence that most of the global warming since 1950 is human - caused, with a best estimate that 100 % is due to humans over the past 60 years.

The main basis for the claim that there has been «unusual» global warming since the late 19th century is that the global temperature estimates constructed from weather station records suggest a warming trend of about 0.8 - 1.0 °C since about 1880.

We then used this new estimate of unforced variability to aid in our interpretation of observed global mean temperature variability since 1900.

Since 1999, they have been running this program on their data before they construct their global temperature trend estimates — see Hansen et al., 1999 (Abstract; Google Scholar access).

These estimated global temperature trends are the main basis for the claims that there has been «unusual global warming» since the Industrial Revolution.

Several other satellite altimeters have also been launched, and the data from these have been used to estimate global mean sea level trends since 1993.

The main basis for the claim that there has been «unusual» global warming since the Industrial Revolution arises from the various global temperature estimates constructed from weather station records.

Since land covers about 29 % of the Earth's surface, the warm bias due to this influence explains about 30 % of the IPCC estimate of global warming.

Since NASA only identified about half of the stations as being urban, the overall effect on their global temperature estimates was only half of that, i.e., about -0.05 °C / century.

Since the start of each estimate (usually 1880), they all suggest that global temperatures have been fairly steadily increasing by about 0.8 °C / century.

He says that «all five global temperature estimates presently show stagnation, at least since 2002.

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.

All estimates imply that there has been an almost continuous «global warming» since 1880.

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»

Since 1950, global mean sea surface temperatures have risen roughly 1 ° F (0.6 ° C).6 Scientists estimate that regional sea surface temperatures in the North Sea increased by 1.6 ° F (0.9 ° C) from 1958 to 2002.7

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»