Sentences with phrase «urbanization around»

The irrigation would lower the temperature during the reference period (1961 - 1990), making the 30s hotter in rural location, while the urbanization around the 5s would cause the reference period to be hotter, making the earlier temperatures look cooler by comparison.

See # 52 I don't think the sites moved to the airport are better than where they were before, I think they just aren't getting worse as fast as before, and I don't think the present 5's were would have been ranked that in the past as they are now because of the urbanization around them.

Addendum: There's a lot of fascinating background on the city's growing pains, and the lessons Istanbul holds in an age of urbanization around the globe, at the Web site of the Urban Age conference held there last year.

«That matches the rise of population centers,» Gemmel explained, suggesting that urbanization around that time paved the way for the AIDS epidemic.

Not exact matches

In science news around the world, eastern Asia is experiencing an unprecedented urbanization boom, the European Commission announces a plan to create a unified energy market for the European Union, an external review of the University of Minnesota's clinical trials procedures says the university didn't adequately protect its most vulnerable subjects, a new data repository of the world's oldest fossils is launched, and the Argonne National Laboratory's 24 - year - old Ask A Scientist service closes its virtual doors.

Rapid urbanization and industrialization will keep China's coal consumption at record highs of around 4 billion tons per year by 2015.

To their surprise they found that this happened in High Middle Ages, around 1000 A.D. Intriguingly these strong selection pressures coincided with increasing urbanization and Christian edicts that enforced fasting and the exclusion of four legged animals from the menu.

The land records contain artifacts due to things like urbanization or tree growth around station locations, buildings or air conditioners being installed near stations, etc., but laborious data screening, correction procedures, and a-posteriori tests have convinced nearly all researchers that the reported land warming trend must be largely correct.

But given that I've never been to this part of Africa, I've also been exploring urbanization issues and opportunities in the city's sprawling slums and I spent Sunday in and around Nairobi National Park.

If a substantial fraction of all the weather stations from around the world have been affected by urbanization bias, then this could have introduced an artificial warming trend into the «global temperature trend» estimates.

One such premise revolved around a cause and effect relationship between urbanization causing difficulties in absorbing poor from rural areas, increased squatter settlements and poor infrastructure, and leading to a hotbed of political activity and a fertile ground for communist organizing.

The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.

Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the urbanization of land around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.

Deriving a reliable global temperature from the instrument data is not easy because the instruments are not evenly distributed across the planet, the hardware and observing locations have changed over the years, and there has been extensive land use change (such as urbanization) around some of the sites.

I finally got around to doing a back - of - envelope calculation on the direct UHI impact — what we know «for sure» about the impact of urbanization — for the 6000 - acre suburban - U.S. community into which I and 75000 other people have moved during the past 45 years.

(Part of the How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic guide) Objection: The apparent rise of global average temperatures is actually an illusion due to the urbanization of land around weather stations, the Urban Heat Island effect.

With fast urbanization and population growth in Iran, the number of visitors to green spaces around the cities has increased, putting a strain on the environment with increased littering.

Dense urbanization, with around 75 % living in urban areas in Europe, inherently leads to acute awareness of space limitations, road congestion and eco-degradation due to increased road transport emissions.

The 1990s and 2000s brought with it an age of urbanization centered around the renewal of inner cities, development of mixed - use properties in urban areas, increased attention to mass transit, and a renewed focus on downtown condos.