Sentences with phrase «than today during»

After getting back home to Corvallis, Oregon, I read a letter to the editor of our local newspaper claiming that it was much warmer than today during the medieval warm period.

A pollen reconstruction from northern Finland suggests that the July mean temperature was c. 0.8 °C warmer than today during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (Seppa 2001).

In the Beaufort Sea region of the Arctic, surface temperatures were still up to 3 °C warmer than today during the late 1800s.

As you say five years is too short to discern a trend but as you can see, levels have been both higher and lower than today during the pat two thousand years.

There is no consensus about the variation in sea level since then although many scientists have concluded that the sea level was higher than today during the Holocene Thermal optimum from 9,000 to 5,000 years ago when the Sahara was green.

The sea level may also have been higher than today during the Medieval Warm Period.

However, there are many peer reviewed studies from various locations worldwide which show that temperatures were probably higher than today during the medieval warm period.

the NEEM ice core drilling project in northwest Greenland, led by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen show that the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C warmer than today during the last interglacial period, the Eemian period, 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago....

Over geological history, carbon dioxide levels have been far higher than today during periods when the earth was colder.

http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news13/greenland-ice-cores-reveal-warm-climate-of-the-past/ «The new results from the NEEM ice core drilling project in northwest Greenland, led by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen show that the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C warmer than today during the last interglacial period, the Eemian period, 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago.»

In general, terrestrial habitability has been about 50 % higher than today during most of the Phanerozoic, but it has been steadily decreasing since the last 100 million years.

«Our results indicate that tropical sea surface temperatures were significantly higher than today during the Early Silurian period (443 — 423 Myr ago), when carbon dioxide concentrations are thought to have been relatively high, and were broadly similar to today during the Late Carboniferous period (314 — 300 Myr ago), when carbon dioxide concentrations are thought to have been similar to the present - day value.

If we have real - world evidence that temperatures were warmer than today during most of the past 10,000 years (and also during several interglacial warm periods during the past few million years), and if we also have real - world evidence that human civilization thrived during these warmer temperatures and the warmer temperatures did not trigger so - called «tipping points» sending the planet into a climate catastrophe, then we have very little reason to believe that our presently and moderately warming temperatures are now poised to send the planet into a climate catastrophe.

These are also recorded in presentations in their local study centres whereby both the Uk Govt via the Dartmoor National Park and The National Trust, confirm that temperatures were warmer than today during both these periods.

It is clear that these passages have been more open than today during certain periods of the past and also more closed during other periods, IOW the currently observed retreat of multi-year Arctic sea ice extent is nothing unusual or unprecedented.

The new results... show that the climate in Greenland was around 8 degrees C. [14.4 degrees F.] warmer than today during the last interglacial period, the Eemian period, 130,000 to 115,000 thousand years ago.

Not exact matches

Shareholders who held stock on the date of Bertolini's announcement and still hold it today have seen the value of their original stake more than double (compared with the more modest 34 % gain for the S&P 500 during the same period).

This was back during a time when he had far less clout than he does today.

And since it was clear that people were far more interested in «news you can use» than a clever turn of phrase, whenever there was a choice during the rewrite, sounding like USA Today trumped The New Yorker every time.

During the first few weeks of this campaign, HotWired's banner ads had a 70 — 80 % clickthrough rate (today, it's less than 0.01 % for most banner ads).

This is a much more complex world today than it was during the Cold War.

«During the dot - com bubble, tech startups went public far more quickly than they do today.

«If equivalence plays a much bigger role than it plays today then we need enhanced equivalence, that means putting on the table how does this equivalence work,» he told Reuters during a visit to London.

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

The agency noted that the U.S. is in a better position today to to meet its obligations to investors than it was during the debt crisis of 2011 because the U.S. gap between revenues and outlays is considerably smaller.

During its 2010 peak, 4.7 million people watched her E! reality show, «Keeping Up With the Kardashians,» and though the show draws less than half that number today, it made her an established brand in her own right, not to mention a net worth of $ 53 million.

«Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who were around more than a decade ago during the dot - com mania say fund - raising today requires meeting a higher bar — namely, a working product and some marketplace traction — than it did in the late 1990s,» The Journal notes.

But the story is not quite so simple or bleak if you look at the historical trend: The ratio of older American men working today is still slightly lower than it was during the mid-to-late 1960s.

The city today looks far different than it did during its bleakest moments.

During the worst days of the housing crash, 43 percent of Tampa Bay homes were «seriously underwater» — their owners owed at least 25 percent more than the home's value.Figures released today show that just 9.4 percent of homes with mortgages now fi...

During 1952 - 54, when the 10 - year Treasury yield averaged about 2.5 %, its duration was only slightly less than today's 10 - year Treasury at 2.00 % yield.

More than half of the customers snapping up a Z10 — 55 percent — are coming from a different platform, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins said during a conference call today.

Well, to kick things off, it is important to mention the fact that during the last five years, bitcoin's value has increased with around 25,000 %, which means that if you would have bought the digital currency in the past, you may have been able to earn 250 times more than your initial investment today.

Not only are mortgage lenders approving more purchase and refinance loans than during any period this decade, but there is a growing number of low - and no - downpayment programs for today's first - time and repeat buyers to use; and for investors to use, as well.

Today, Canada Post will again reach that parcel - delivery milestone as it delivers more than a million parcels across the country; additional million - parcel days are expected during the holiday season.

Rates today are historically much lower than during past decades.

Even during the 1940's when bond yields were low, stocks were much better values than today, boosting long - term expected returns to about 6 percent.

Citigroup, however, the bank that spectacularly blew itself up with toxic derivatives and subprime debt in 2008, became a 99 - cent stock during the crisis, and received the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. financial history despite being insolvent at the time, today holds more derivatives than 4,701 other banks combined which are backstopped by the taxpayer.

Reid says such workarounds are far more common today than even just a few years ago, during the Great Recession, because the economic pain is confined to a single region and bank balance sheets are generally in good shape.

The strongest stock market rallies after an initial interest rate cut have occurred during periods very different than today.

In today's mortgage market environment, there is a bevy of low - and no - downpayment mortgage options available which make it simpler to purchase a home than during any period this decade.

Still, the announcement coming out of Facebook's annual developers» conference today caused Match's stock price to plunge more than 20 percent to $ 36.71 during trading hours, as of this writing.

The news and events of today are no worse than during the height of the Cold War, or during WW1 or WW2, but overall it is true that man's world gets progressively worse and will continue to do so until man's effort to deny and hide from God reaches its cl - imax.

One in 10 Christians think sport is «an idol that many people worship in society today» and more than half said it's okay to play sport on a Sunday, so long as they're engaged in their churches at other times during the week.

For four years, until his departure for his present eminent position at Munster, Professor Barth remained at Göttingen, and during that time he saw his theology, set forth in further books and in lectures and addresses, sweep through the universities of Germany, and today there seem to be hardly more than two classes of religious thinkers in the country, Barthians and anti-Barthians.

More blood was spilled during holy wars than anyone remembers today.

The Democrats were the ones who were fighting for slavery during the Civil War, which is really no different than today if you think about it.

From World War II until the 1970's — the same era during which income inequality has historically low — political partisanship was much more muted than it is today.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

Human Trafficking and child slavery is more common today than it was during the 300 years of slavery of our past.