Sentences with phrase «even conservative estimates»

While the exact value of these subsidies can be difficult to pin down, even conservative estimates add up to a substantial percentage of the value of the power nuclear plants produce — approaching or even exceeding 100 percent in the case of legacy subsidies and subsidies to new privately - owned reactors (see chart).

the impact on global economic growth begins to mount over time and even conservative estimates put the costs at up to 3 percent of global GDP annually if the Earth's temperature were to rise 2 - 3 degrees C, which many scientists believe could begin to happen as early as mid-century?

So, even conservative estimates of committed warming indicate that we have to urgently reduce radiative forcing, in other words peak global GHG emissions as soon as possible and then reduce them as quickly as possible by reducing our use of fossil fuels drastically, if we want to have a chance at keeping warming under 2C.

Jenna Jambeck and her colleagues at the University of Georgia found that an incredibly large amount of plastic waste is mismanaged by the populations living in coastal area, and that even a conservative estimate of how much ends up in the sea puts adds up to between 4.8 million to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic.

Not exact matches

This was a somewhat conservative estimate of that cash flow because it didn't reflect every cash outlay or payments for things like health insurance premiums, but the patterns of personal financial liquidity were clear even without them.

Given that two - way trade between Canada and the United States was over $ 750 billion in 2015, even the most conservative estimates of compliance costs are in the billions.

But if you take even the most conservative estimate out there, then about 5 % of those 10 24 stars are like the Sun.

(In some cases thousands might even be a conservative estimate.)

Now, only 60 years later, even by the most conservative estimates, there are hundreds of millions of Christians.

So even if the earth is only 6000 years old (a super conservative estimate), the Bible is missing roughly 4000 years worth of human history.

He notes that estimates of the percentage of homosexuals among male clergy «have ranged from the most conservative 10 percent to a more reasonable 20 percent or even 30 percent, although some have advanced estimates as high as 50 percent or more.»

The result exceeds even the most optimistic of Conservative estimates.

The effect of the Triborough Amendment is significant: Edmund J. McMahon, senior fellow at the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative research group, has estimated that longevity - based pay increases for teachers, guaranteed by the amendment even after contracts expire, add $ 300 million to school budgets annually.

The galaxy contains billions of potentially habitable Earth - sized planets, according to even the most conservative estimate drawing on data from NASA's Kepler space telescope.

«Our calculations are all conservative, so this is the lower end of the estimate — the impact could be even higher than this,» said Dr. Waters.

Even the most conservative cost estimates for Starshot far exceed Milner's initial $ 100 - million investment — the multi-decadal project could easily consume $ 10 billion, and perhaps much more, largely due to the enormous expense of building the ground - based laser array.

Shegerian said that estimate may even be conservative.

Cartwright said that even though IFAW's estimates are conservative, «you will find these numbers shocking.»

The researchers also note that a 4.1 percent rate of false conviction is conservative, given that separate calculations gauging the accuracy of the assumptions that took an even more conservative stance — assuming that people who were executed had zero chance of false conviction and that the chances of exoneration after retrial would be twice that of people on death row — would still produce a larger figure than their 4.1 percent estimate.

And even this is likely a conservative estimate; Barnes said the number may be as high as 99 percent.

But even with a very conservative estimate of 10 million EV sales in 2025, the demand for cobalt that year could reach 330,000 metric tons, whereas the available supply at that time would be at most 290,000 metric tons.

Even a more conservative estimate, which does not use the virial theorem, indicates that the mass - to - light ratio of Eridanus A must be at least 600.

Earn says he and his colleagues considered the various uncertainties and took care to be as conservative as possible in their estimates; they didn't even include the effect that after an aspirin, people may be more likely to go out and meet people, increasing chances of spreading disease.

Even by conservative estimates, the carnation's bloom outpaced the fastest - branching families of plants and flowers from New Zealand, the Cape of South Africa, and even the Andes, one of the most biologically diverse spots on the planet, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal SocietEven by conservative estimates, the carnation's bloom outpaced the fastest - branching families of plants and flowers from New Zealand, the Cape of South Africa, and even the Andes, one of the most biologically diverse spots on the planet, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Societeven the Andes, one of the most biologically diverse spots on the planet, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Professor Murray says the study is «a very competent and conservative assessment of what research studies tell us about the relationship between cannabis and psychiatric disorders» and that the risk could be even higher than the authors have estimated.

Waters noted that the study «calculations are all conservative, so this is the lower end of the estimate — the impact could be even higher than this.»

Difference is even more drastic when we compare the amounts of genes, as most estimates note that bacterial genes overrun the amounts of human genes 100 to 1 in conservative estimations (or even 150 to 1 and most genes are more active in bacteria).

«Even the most conservative estimate shows that parents of more than a half million students are attempting to vote with their feet to choose a public charter school that better meets their child's needs, added Rees.

Even though the «width» of 9 - 1 grades are narrower than A * - G grades, the rate of progress in years 9 and 10, even with a conservative estimate is at least twice, if not more, than it was befEven though the «width» of 9 - 1 grades are narrower than A * - G grades, the rate of progress in years 9 and 10, even with a conservative estimate is at least twice, if not more, than it was befeven with a conservative estimate is at least twice, if not more, than it was before.

According to an estimate by ESPN last Bonilla Day, had he taken the money upfront and invested it, even with a conservative rate of return, he would have made more money.

Even by the most conservative of estimates, the iPad will make up the lion's share of worldwide tablet sales for the next three to four years.

However, even with such conservative estimates, we have an overall estimate of having given away 100 million eBooks — in the three years and one month since we first began.

Even at a conservative estimate of $ 1.00 revenue per book, a traditionally published author needs upwards of 10x the sales to match out the earnings.

«Even with a conservative estimate of the hours, and if I were to pay myself a minimum working wage ($ 8.50 / hour in New York, she says)... it would be about $ 7,000 a month to run it» or $ 6,915 by her calculations.

Even if she had a smallish print run and only met the minimally acceptable sell - though of 50 % we should still be talking 20K books sold (as a very conservative estimate).

Even if you estimate everything else correctly, if you budget for a retirement lifestyle that's more conservative than the one you actually live, your savings may not be enough.

An average couples healthcare costs during retirement are estimated to be more than $ 250,000, and many experts think even that estimate is conservative.

If a property does not look like it will return at least 10 % on these conservative estimates, I wouldn't even consider it for investment.

Actually, even after inflation, I think 5 % is an overly conservative estimate.

While Wall St is happy to reference 2017 & even 2018 estimates at this point, I'd normally gross up the latest quarter to arrive at a reasonably conservative annual run - rate.

The following table of a single year's U.S. projected kitten crop from the estimated number of owned pet cats compared to the estimated number of community cats that are fed by residents illustrates how community cats are the main source of new cats, even when the most conservative survival rates are used.

«Even by conservative estimates, cats kill millions of mammals and birds each year in Florida.»

Studies have shown that the supply of animals available from rescue groups and shelters falls far short of even the most conservative estimates for what it will take to keep dog ownership at even current levels.

Still, I tried to be conservative in these estimates even as I find myself using them more and more.

The debate hinges around the way the falls are measured and the way the Tugela plunges, in five free - leaping falls that easily clock up 948 metres of waterfall (there are claims that this is a conservative estimate, and the Tugela has an even greater fall of around 990 metres).

One thing is for sure, PlayStation is the product to have, and with Sony implementing PlayStation Now through their consumer electronics, they could be even more popular than their conservative estimates.

The 51 1/2 - by - 96 1/2 - by -40-inch sculpture was also executed in 1981 and has a conservative estimate of $ 100,000 to $ 150,000, perhaps reflecting the fact that not every intelligent, sophisticated art lover smokes cigarettes nowadays but then that fact should make the sculpture even more precious, perhaps.

One of the highlights of this evening sale of Post-War Art at Christie's is Lot 9, «Woman in Landscape,» by Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997), an extremely powerful and fine work that has a conservative estimate of $ 1,400,000 to $ 1,800,000.

One could even argue that since most of the uncertainty resides on the high sides of the estimates, that the models are a conservative treatment — certainly from a risk perspective.

Significantly so (in the statistical sense), even using a conservative estimate of autocorrelation.