Sentences with phrase «small fraction of global»

But, even then, trading volumes OTC markets in China only account for tens of millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin trades on a weekly basis, which is a small fraction of global Bitcoin trading volume in contrast to leading exchanges such as Bithumb which process hundreds of millions of dollars in trades on a daily basis.

Certification has expanded considerably in the past five years, although certified wood products still constitute only a small fraction of the global market.

Concerning sea level rise, I would just point out that even hundreds of trillions of dollars is a very small fraction of the global GDP integrated over the whole century, and that if you believe the work of Rahmstorf et al., the sea level rise would hardly change if we divide by two the CO2 emissions, so the problem will happen anyway.

The cited data in the paper, like earlier data, in fact demonstrate instead that no more than a small fraction of global warming during those decades could be due to internal variability, since a larger fraction would have revealed itself as a cessation or even reversal of positive OHC uptake, which is not what was observed.

While just a tiny country with a small fraction of global emissions, Switzerland has put forward a good starting model.

Internal variability can only account for ~ 0.3 °C change in average global surface air temperature at most over periods of several decades, and scientific studies have consistently shown that it can not account for more than a small fraction of the global warming over the past century.

In the global or hemispheric mean, the differences were imperceptible (since the US is only a small fraction of the global area).

I'm sure that it would still be the largest point source of CO2, but since CO2 emissions have grown faster than projected in 1989, it would probably account for a smaller fraction of global CO2 emissions.

Not exact matches

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

Coffee produced under various certification schemes is still a pretty small fraction of total global production.

Since 1979, when the National Academy of Sciences undertook its first major study of global warming, «Americans have been alerted to the dangers of climate change so many times that reproducing even a small fraction of these warnings would fill several volumes,» writes Elizabeth Kolbert.

Surface temperature is only a small fraction of our climate with most of global warming going into the oceans.

I also know that the majority of economic models indicates relatively small net economic damage in 2100 (1 - 5 % of global GDP), with a large fraction of that damage, in some modells virtually all the damage, concentrated in tropical nations.

If China and India were to adopt the unsustainable western economic model, the global system would collapse before even a small fraction of their citizens had made the lifestyle transition.

There also seems to be a denialist's myopic tunnelvision focusing on the US observations without realizing that they comprise a small fraction of the * global * database of surface observations.

Further, precipitation over land is a small fraction of the total, so there's a lot of room for changes in precip there without altering the result on the global mean.

The planet's temperature goes through constant, small fraction - of - a-degree fluctuations above and below the long term trend line of natural global warming.

These are a very small fraction of the globe, so UHE will then have very little effect on the global figure.

I am no longer a «believer» in human caused global warming, there is simply no evidece for more than a small fraction of one degree C per century — and without that and the fertilisation effect of the increased CO2 that we are enjoying, the human race would starve.

Thus volcanoes have not caused the long - term global warming over the past century, and can explain only a small fraction of the warming over the past 25 years.

Cloud variations are obviously an important element on a global scale, but the effects of Arctic ice melting are important locally and also a non-trivial fraction of global albedo feedbacks, which are a contributor to total feedback that is smaller than those from water vapor and probably from cloud feedbacks, but not insignificant.

And though the agency remains focused on a global energy overview, of which wind and solar remain a relatively small fraction, it should work in a concerted way to better understand the internal dynamics of wind and solar markets and not simply transfer the same assumptions that apply to fossil fuel energy.

And in many locations, even if were somehow successful at reducing / eliminating the component of sea level rise associated with anthropogenic global warming, this would address only a small fraction of local sea level rise in many of the most vulnerable locations.

Current global average surface air temperature is warmer than that for all but a small fraction of the past 11,300 years.

Any reduction in global mean near - surface temperature due to a future decline in solar activity is likely to be a small fraction of projected anthropogenic warming.

Unfortunately, establishing the reality of this cloud feedback requires a measurement of global cloudiness with an accuracy of a small fraction of a percent — a very difficult problem.

For a start, even though its growth figures have been increasing for the past five years, renewable energy, excluding large hydro, accounted for just a small fraction — 11.3 percent, to be precise — of the total global electricity generation last year.

U.S. land data is such a small fraction of the total that its contribution to the global land record is quite small.

Aerosols in the lower atmosphere have reduced global warming and the frequency of intense hurricanes by reflecting a small fraction of sunlight back to space.

101 weather stations across the U.S. is only a small fraction of the available data; there are over 1200 U.S. stations in the global historical climate network.

On the other hand, they do constitute a pretty small fraction of total GHG emissions, so your statement is correct in the sense that «contribute to global warming» would be more accurate than «cause global warming.»

To claim global warming stopped in 1998 overlooks one simple physical reality - the land and atmosphere are just a small fraction of the Earth's climate (albeit the part we inhabit).