Sentences with phrase «at puny»

The IPCC summary is deeply flawed as a scientific document and as I have explained in other recent articles it appears impossible for increased levels of atmospheric CO2 at the puny levels caused by mankind to affect the characteristics of the atmosphere enough to significantly enhance the greenhouse effect and even if it could do so then any such effect would be quickly neutralised by the primary solar / oceanic driver and the oceans acting in conjunction with evaporation, condensation and atmospheric convection (which includes clouds and rain).

Nice try at a puny hockey stick.

I'm the Technical Artist at Puny Astronaut.

The reason I kept the book quiet even though it was listed on Amazon at a puny $ 0.99 was because I wanted the least amount of friction possible for people to download the book... and free is about as friction-less as it gets.

His team estimates that the distant galaxies, which are too tiny to be clearly resolved by Hubble, are making stars at a puny rate.

IDing crooks from the DNA in their fingerprints, the 8 percent of our genome that came from viruses, and the plant that laughs at our puny genetic endowment.

With some IL gilt funds up 25 % in a year while inflation is running at a puny 1 - 2 %, the disconnect is clear — and potentially liable to reverse.

Not exact matches

At first, the fees were puny: $ 100 here, $ 500 there.

Davis, however, believes that the made - in - the - USA movement has serious limitations — particularly a puny domestic supply chain crippled by an unskilled labor pool, at least when it comes to custom manufacturing.

If you're in your 20s or 30s there's a strong chance that you are getting puny paychecks that never seem to stretch far enough, and you may look at everything your baby boomer parents have and wonder if you'll ever catch up.

Adding insult to injury, the puny effective tax saving to those tax - filers from the capital gains partial inclusion (worth $ 7.50 in federal taxes at the 15 % marginal rate) was only half the effective savings pocketed by the top 1 % tax - filers (realized at a 29 % rate) on EACH $ 100 of their capital gains partial inclusion (which was then applied against a capital gains flow that was 600 times larger).

Amount per month looks puny at the beginning of the year... but lets keep it real hey

Your claim and others is that some, and let me be crude here, some puny miracle of Jesus healing someone at that time, is impossible.

Unfortunately this gigantic broccoli - imitating weed took over what probably was my actual plants at one point and left me with two very puny real broccoli plants.

Leaving my puny bottles of breast milk with my son as I dropped him off at daycare just added more layers to the guilt tower that I was building around me.

Faced with such puny incoherence May will find the Commons a relatively straightforward forum at least for the time being.

Cameron's ambitious and yet puny re-negotiation, the wariness of EU members and the dismissiveness of Tory MPs would not matter if it were not for the in / out referendum being staged at the end of the sequence.

Mr President, as a Citizen, I have observed with shame, the litany of «puny», and sometimes cookedstories thrown at us by your Ministers and Other Appointees in your Government!

At one centimeter long, Parhyale looks puny — you'd step on it at the beach without even noticinAt one centimeter long, Parhyale looks puny — you'd step on it at the beach without even noticinat the beach without even noticing.

The first optical storage techniques — which would later create the compact disc — were developed in 1965, but data transfer was still agonizingly slow: Mariner 4 radioed these pictures over 134 million miles with a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter at the rate of 81/3 bits per second.

Black holes on an altogether different scale are believed to squat in the centers of most galaxies, including our own and MCG -6-30-15; the latest estimate has ours weighing in at a relatively puny 2.6 million suns.

Bonus: Cheeky names for players» rankings: You start off as a puny Habilis, work your way up to Sapiens — and if you keep at it, achieve Cibernetis status.

With this knowledge, a University of California, Irvine, team found that Segue 2, discovered in 2009, weighs at most 150,000 times more than our sun — the puniest galaxy known.

The first - generation black holes were puny compared with the monsters we see at the centers of galaxies today.

Take a set of boy twins separated at birth: one is raised in a nurturing environment and develops into a tall, hearty man, while the other, neglected and malnourished, grows up to be significantly shorter and punier.

Baby black holes are puny compared with their humongous cousins at the centres of galaxies, but their birth may spew out the universe's mightiest particles.

Black holes on an altogether different scale arebelieved to squat in the centers of most galaxies, including our ownand MCG -6-30-15; the latest estimate has ours weighing in at arelatively puny 2.6 million suns.

These puny pests have ruined pumps at sewage stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner's gas meter as well as caused the malfunction of fire alarms.

It seems like only yesterday we could barely get the popcorn to our mouths, so atremble were our puny fingers at the sight, and the thought, of the Terminator.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

Yeah, using puny little weights is weird at first, especially if you train at a gym, but you get used to it.

Instead of goblet squats with a puny 24 - kg kettlebell or a normal dimensioned dumbbell, I used the monstrous, globe - headed Inch Dumbbell which weighs in at 172 - bs, and I got it for a set of 10.

At times, it feels like nothing: a puny daub of off - white pigment randomly placed in your peripheral vision, the suggestion of a thought that never quite developed.

These aren't small puny shocks by any means and the increased oil capacity should work well to keep the shocks performing while prerunning through the desert to keep cavitation at bay.

In place of the puny 1.8 - liter four cylinder in the standard Prius, the TRD SS starts with the Tacoma's four cylinder at 2.7 - liters.

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews I scored this novel at a book exchange party a couple months ago, and it felt like winning the most unexpectedly beautiful prize.

The total number of XOOM tablet devices shipped in the last quarter stand at a dismal 100,000, units which looks even more puny compared to the 11.1 million iPads sold during the same period.

Once again, that's just my take based on my puny sales — which at their peek amount to only a few hundred ebooks a month.

Puny spreads between the 30 - year fixed rate mortgage (FRM) and 5/1 ARM products have existed at other times, too, so borrowers should not expect to always find the one - percentage point (or more) break we commonly see today.

While holding cash at Ellevest isn't necessarily better than holding it at your own bank — interest rates are puny everywhere — seeing it incorporated into your plan may help you get a more comprehensive view of your finances.

At the end of the day, everything hinges on 3), which is not out of reach at all... I do it all the time for my work... just can't justify $ 500 for my puny portfolio.At the end of the day, everything hinges on 3), which is not out of reach at all... I do it all the time for my work... just can't justify $ 500 for my puny portfolio.at all... I do it all the time for my work... just can't justify $ 500 for my puny portfolio...

Amount per month looks puny at the beginning of the year... but lets keep it real hey

There's something so pleasurable about the sheer amount of dice that Fleet Battles typically has you handling at any one time, and I was engrossed in figuring out the best firing solutions for my battlegroups before inevitably being forced to watch as my puny plans were ruined by a devastating barrage of fire from a Covenant group I'd foolishly let get too close.

It took me around 15 runs at the first stage to hit the required targets, with each run becoming easier as any perk unlocked is permanent adding a feeling of progression to your little emplacement; turning it from a puny little one man dugout into a rocket - equipped death bunker dealing out thousands of rounds per minute.

I wrote at length about this concept earlier, but here's the quick version: When puny humans are asked to justify a decision, we tend to focus on the most salient or plausible explanations and then give them too much weight.

The hunters had found me, and I was surprised at just how puny they appeared.

Eric, thanks for the even - handed treatment of this «new» climate data, but I remain an anthropogenically - caused climate change skeptic because of the extraordinarily high number of unproved variables that must be shown to be true, in order for man's puny efforts at controlling the climate to have any long term effect.

The exchange of cold and warm water at 60 year cycles leads to a puny 0.1 C change in global average surface temperature.

If you need an example, I suggest clipping my toenails is at least as important to the fate of humanity and the earth than anything that man's puny addition to a trace gas in the atmosphere could possibly do.

19,000 scientists have signed a petition against CO2 being a driver, that the Earth isn't warming at an alarming rate and that we can't do anything about climate - we're puny compared to the main drivers such as the sun and water vapour.