Sentence examples for scientific estimate from inspiring English sources

He pointed out that, last summer, the International Whaling Commission had released a scientific estimate, based on years of study, that there were more than half a million minke whales in the Southern Ocean — a number, he said, that made the Japanese quota insignificant in terms of its over-all impact on the species.

To get a more scientific estimate, an independent third party, perhaps the SEC, might do a proper poll of a broad cross-section of Facebook's U.S. user base.

The best scientific estimate of the amount of warming (when CO2 levels double, which is likely to happen this century) is about 6 ºF.

The Roman dating supports recent scientific estimates that tuberculosis first emerged about 6,000 years ago.

According to scientific estimates, 300 or so of the animals are left.

In such circumstances scientific "estimates" do not deserve to be called any more than the wildest of wild guesses.

The intelligence divisions of those two laboratories provide the government's scientific estimates of foreign nuclear threats.

Perhaps that is just as well, because scientific estimates of the rate of climate change have steadily been downgraded.

I compared this with scientific estimates of "up to a million men, women and children [who] had died in the inferno lit by Britain and the US".

(Compare, for instance, Jack Nicholson's character's reaction to seeing Diane Keaton's character nude in the film "Something's Gotta Give".) In fact, in keeping with scientific estimates of the average 19-year-old male's sex drive, the young men are quite eager.

But key issues remain to be resolved, including whether future emissions should be divided up according to a "carbon budget", based on scientific estimates of how much more carbon dioxide can be poured into the atmosphere without pushing the world over 2C of warming above pre-industrial levels.