Sentences with phrase «support lower estimates»

On the other hand the projected positive feedbacks you support, which are COMPLETELY theoretical, depend on the LEAST understood aspects of the affect of water vapor and cloud formation, so the strong feedbacks PROJECTED are the least dependable, while the «OBSERVATIONS» used by Lindzen, Spencer, and others, support the lower estimates of climate sensitivity.

Ultimately, given that we are able to detect little phenotypic impact where there are vast amounts of DNA turnover, our findings support lower estimates for the functional proportion of the human genome.

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The departments with the 2 highest estimated salaries are Sales and Marketing, while the departments with the lowest 3 estimated salaries are Admin, Customer Support, and Finance.

Fonterra has also announced it will provide an estimated $ 430 million in financial support for farmers to help them cope with the low payout.

A recent Siena Research Institute poll estimates that a record high of 58 percent of New York's registered voters support gay marriage, compared with a record low 36 percent who oppose it.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

The findings could also modify the famed Drake equation, which estimates the number of civilizations in the Milky Way, by lowering the estimate for the average number of planets per star that can support life.

This estimate is 11 percent lower than the current assessment of the IUCN, supporting the call for the upgrading of cheetahs from «Vulnerable» to «Endangered»,» says lead author Florian Weise, scientist at the Community Living Among Wildlife Sustainability Conservancy (CLAWS), USA.

I think it is interesting that Archibald had to go back a decade to find a sensitivity estimate low enough to support his assertion.

These results are supported by previous meta - analyses, which estimated a 0.9 — 2 kg (2 — 4.4 lbs) greater weight loss on a low - carb diet, compared to a low - fat diet (7, 8).

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.

That being said, we can not continue to use VAM estimates (emphasis added) to support claims about bad teachers causing low achievement among disadvantaged students when VAM researchers increasingly evidence that these models can not control for the disadvantages that disadvantaged students bring with them to the schoolhouse door.

Kane's research was, of course, used to support the claim that bad teachers are causing the disparities that he cited, regardless of the fact the inverse could be also, equally, or even more true — that the value - added measures used to measure teacher effectiveness in these schools are biased by the very nature of the students in these schools that are contributing their low test scores to such estimates.

This is supported by their negative or low positive three - year correlations to iShares Core Total U.S. Bond Market ETF (AGG), as estimated by Alpholio ™:

Previous estimates using microsatellites and an ultrametric UPGMA bootstrap consensus tree based on (δμ) 2 genetic distances with low support calculated the divergence of southern lineages (excluding San Nicolas) to be 5539 years ago and 12,000 years ago for the island fox lineage as a whole [14].

We would expect publishers to support such a move, given that the cost of porting an Xbox 360 game to the new Wii Plus HD format would likely be lower than the cost of building a ground up Wii game (we estimate under $ 5 million).

IMO — even if we accept only lower sensitivity estimates, that statement can only be supported if we completely ignore longer time frames, and only if we limit the range of proposed actions.

The people who claim that CS is lower than the «consensus» estimate have already had ample time to find flaws in the numerous other papers supporting the consensus position.

These findings run counter to the common view that low latitude reservoirs (and Amazonian reservoirs in particular) support greater CH4 emission rates than temperate systems (Barros et al. 2011), but are consistent with the recent influx of higher emission estimates from subtropical and temperate ecosystems mentioned above.

The derivation is also in my book published last year that includes the supporting observational evidence, plus lots of other ways to estimate an ECS lower by up to half than the IPCC estimate of 3.

«However, Fig. 15 and the associated uncertainties discussed in Section 3.4 show that long term estimates of time variable sea level acceleration in 203 year global reconstruction are significantly positive, which supports our previous finding (Jevrejeva et al., 2008a), that despite strong low frequency variability (larger than 60 years) the rate of sea level rise is increasing with time.»

What we have seen is not in contradiction with the scientific understanding that's represented in the IPCC reports, but it does certainly give some support for the lower estimates for the strength of the trend or equivalently for the transient climate sensitivity.

The EU's CO2 emissions are estimated to have increased by 0.7 percent last year relative to 2014, even though the continent has spent an estimated $ 1.2 trillion financially supporting green and bio-energy with the goal of lowering CO2 emissions.

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

«long term estimates of time variable sea level acceleration in 203 year global reconstruction are significantly positive, which supports our previous finding (Jevrejeva et al., 2008a), that despite strong low frequency variability (larger than 60 years) the rate of sea level rise is increasing with time.»

Because there is no commercial scale tidal, wave, or clean coal, Exelon's financially challenged nuclear facilities would likely earn an estimated $ 300 million per year from low carbon credits while renewables would get virtually no support.

Furthermore, an estimated 11 - 18 % of global fossil fuel subsidies don't go towards directly lowering the prices that consumers pay, instead occurring in the form of tax breaks for fossil fuel companies and other forms of indirect support for industry.

Estimates of low (< 1C) sensitivity are not supported by observational, palaeoclimate or modelling studies.]

Farrera et al. (1999) reviewed data that «support the inference that tropical sea - surface temperatures (SSTs) were lower than the CLIMAP estimates.»

While there is no income threshold for participation in the program, the target population for this program is the estimated 134,000 families living in the three areas receiving child support considered of low - or moderate - income.

For Indigenous Australians 77.4 per cent of estimated economic participation support is for social security support, which is lower than the 91.5 per cent for non-Indigenous Australians.

The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) estimates the 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 budgets strip approximately $ 1.5 billion over four years from basic services and supports for low and middle income households, with total projected cuts of $ 80 billion from health and schools funding to the states over the next decade [2].

For example, researchers have found that attendance in a high - quality early childhood program has short - and long - term benefits for children, their families, and the wider society.33 These benefits range from reduced need for special education services or remedial support during the K - 12 years to reduced dependency on government assistance in adulthood and increased tax revenue.34 Attempts to quantify these benefits have found a return on investment of between $ 3 and $ 13 for every dollar invested in early childhood.35 Even at the low end of this estimate, this is a significant return.

By the fifth year of implementation, federal funds for Strong Start combined with existing early childhood slots will support an estimated 4.3 million slots, raising the percentage of low - income children under age 5 served by federal and state programs from 31 percent to 39 percent.