Sentences with phrase «future than a degree»

«Nothing can better prepare you for the future than a degree in math and science,» he told them.

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Holberton was announced last month as a project - based school that aims to teach the software - engineers - of - the - future how to attack problems and how to think using a project - based format, rather than traditional degree work.

Jenni has more than 30 years» experience in the Western Australian energy industry, holds Masters Degrees in both Business and Commercial Law, and is the owner of Future Effect, an energy sector consulting firm.

But they wore their youth and bright future so carelessly, and I found myself applauding until my palms tingled for the men and women like my brother - in - law who had to battle through school with so many other demands on their attention, for the women older than my mother who have finally finished their degree long after their nests emptied, the middle - aged men with a circle of whiskers on their shining bald heads.

I absolutely believe in equality and when I finish my degree and start work, it will be his turn to decide what he wants to do for a future career, and I am quite positive that he will be more than happy to pack me a lunch while I go off to work to hopefully support his dreams!!!

«A university degree gives you access to all sorts of things for the future and if you want to earn money, the chances of earning a lot more money than you would do if you didn't have a degree.»

Although the era Secord and his colleagues studied experienced a similar increase in temperatures (five degrees Celsius or more) as is predicted for us for the near future (four degrees C), he points out the ancient animals had tens of thousands of years to adapt to changing temperatures — rather than just centuries.

Involving 43 doctoral degree - granting institutions and more than 295 «partner» institutions, the PFF program seeks to transform the way future faculty members are prepared for research, teaching, and service.

However, comparing the results of the climate simulations for the most recent interglacial with scenario calculations for the future reveals substantial differences: thanks to the more intense solar radiation, back then the air temperatures at higher latitudes were also a few degrees higher than at present.

«We came to take a half a degree Celsius out of future warming, and we won about 90 percent of our climate prize,» said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, who has worked toward the agreement for more than a decade.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

Multi-lingual American, voice actor, writer, two Masters degrees, world traveler to more than forty countries, toned and in shape, seeks slim, intelligent, well - read, independent lady for future adventures.

Part of Khan's philosophy is to promote creative portfolios as part of the college of the future where creative projects will be more important than which college degree they have obtained.

Furthermore, more than half of degree holders would consider an alternative route into employment rather than a university degree, while nearly half (45 %) will still consider doing an apprenticeship in the future.

However, futures carry a bigger degree of risk than TIPS, treasury securities, bonds, real estate, and savings account.

It is impossible to say with any degree of certainly whether one account is better than the other for Canadians in middle tax brackets because of uncertaintly over future tax rates.

Trading futures contracts is different than trading stocks due to the high degree of leverage involved.

Anyway, the papers I mentioned included recent Hansen and Sato paper on paleoclimate and future warming where they argued that since the Eemian was less than one degree warmer (GAT) than today and had 4 - 6 meters higher sea levels, the set 2 degree limitation for future warming was too little.

For example, Hansen & Sato argued that since GAT during the Eemian (last interglacial before the present) was only slightly higher (less than 1 degree C) and sea levels 4 - 6 meters higher, a 2 degree rise in GAT in the near future will result flooding very quickly.

Climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, a senior researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric research, says that each and every person in the world would have to reduce his and her per capita consumption of fossil fuels by 75 percent to keep additional future temperature increases to no more than 1 degree.

The scientific community has also known for some time that the predicted future global warming in most climate models (more than 2 degrees C.) would probably be well above the long - term average temperature present at any time during the Holocene.

But as illustrated in the figure below, simply extrapolating this correlation forward in time puts the Antarctic temperature in the near future somewhere upwards of 10 degrees Celsius warmer than present — rather at the extreme end of the vast majority of projections (as we have discussed here).

«It seems that the UK government is expecting to spend about # 32 billion, (~ 2.2 % of UK GDP), according to the Stern Review [1], every year for the foreseeable future in order to achieve by the year 2100 at the absolute maximum global temperature reduction of ~ 0.0019 °C, (less than 2 thousandths of a degree Centigrade).

The announcement by the U.S. and China was important for several reasons: Together they account for around 40 percent of global GHG emissions, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists; there had heretofore been few signs of a Chinese willingness to commit to capping emissions; and it raised hope that future global negotiations might actually yield an agreement to rein in emissions enough to keep the average global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

For instance, some estimates of our future carbon budget have been based on the concept that we might be safe with a 50 percent chance of keeping below two degrees, rather than 66 percent.

«The unprecedented shareholder votes at Occidental and PPL, where more than half of the votes cast asked for the companies to conduct two - degree scenario analysis, demonstrates that US investors recognize that the direction of travel is towards a low - carbon future, regardless of the US administration's efforts to scupper the process.

Could models, which consistently err by several degrees in the 20th century, be trusted for their future predictions of decadal trends that are much lower than this error?

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel

It sounds like hyperbole, but on this task the future of life as we know it does in fact depend.President Obama and the Democrats are paradigmatically better than the Republicans on the issue of climate change, yet they to a dangerous degree understate and undervalue the criticality of the moment.

If they can be inferred to a reasonable degree, then one can use the observed characteristics of interannual NAO variability to estimate the error on future NAO trends, rather than relying solely on the model.

Wait until next week when we find out that atmospheric CO2 molecules exchange tachyon particles so that heat absorbance today heats the air in the future, which explains why we have hidden heat, a pause and why climate sensitivity appears to be lower than the 8.73 degrees it really is.

You want to spend trillions on carbon taxes, ruin people's lives, and destroy the economies of first world democracies to lower future temps by 1 tenth of 1 degree, which will be more than offset by increased emissions from emerging 3rd world economies?

This trend is about 0.15 degrees per decade, which is near the lower end of IPCC estimates for the future as they expect an acceleration rather than linear behavior.

I frankly doubt that this model can be extrapolated into either the past or the future, and the data uncertainties are so large (and almost certainly underestimated and / or systematically biased in HadCRUT4) that the sensitivity could easily be either larger or smaller than the best fit observed here — if you like, I get a TCS of around 1.8 C plus or minus maybe a whole degree.

On that pace * IF * TCR is 1.8, and we start from today (400ppm), if we hit 800ppm in 2090 (~ 1 % / year), would we expect temps to be 1.7 degrees higher than 2015 temps, with ECS still to work itself out over the future?

BUT, the idea of «those who have» all settling into their new, green, lifestyles while leaving the proles (who will never afford the new housing or the solar panels or even the replacement, more efficient boiler) to go cold, hungry, and without transport seems to me a far greater danger to the future of mankind than any degree or two of warming.

The very fact that models with differing and incomplete / uncertain physics sort of vaguely match reality, getting the «right» (to some degree) answer for the wrong reasons, should cause people to wonder how they are tweaked to do so and question why their future projections should be taken seriously since the «wrong reasons» are more likely to lead to the «wrong answers» in the future than to accidentally sort of be «right» in a future they can't tweak it now to match.

, this decision boils down to figuring out whether the cost of tuition and deferred income will be recouped in the future by the higher income you are likely to earn with a university degree than without one.

Each degree of global warming is likely to raise sea level by more than 2 meters in the future, a study now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows.

It remains true that Earth has warmed more than 1 degree farenheit degrees over last century largely due to the buildup of human - made greenhouse gases... it remains the case that the projections of future climate change are every bit of discouraging as they were before the recent flap began.»

But given that carbon dioxide levels were now substantially higher than anything in the past two millions of years, in either glacials or interglacials, it had become abundantly clear that the greenhouse effect was something we needed to take extremely seriously: even if the precise future increase in temperature was still an unknown quantity, with a fairly wide error - range, models indicated that for a doubling of carbon dioxide from pre-industrial levels, a rise of three degrees celsius as a global average was the most likely outcome.

That is the estimate that scientists calculate would hold future global warming to a little more than a 3 - degree Fahrenheit increase and is in line with what the European Union has adopted.

Never - the-less, it is generally accepted by most all climate scientists that, in the absence of feedbacks, future increases in atmospheric CO2 will have less effect on world temperature than past increases, and that there is a cap (in this chart around 1.5 degrees C) on the total potential warming.

«1989 — UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — possessor of a chemistry degree — warns in a speech to the UN that «We are seeing a vast increase in the amount of carbon dioxide reaching the atmosphere... The result is that change in future is likely to be more fundamental and more widespread than anything we have known hitherto.»

More often than not, the decision to earn a law degree is the result of careful consideration about one's future, but that does not necessarily mean a definitive career path awaits law school graduates.

The smartest thing you can do at uni - other than getting your degree, of course - is to prepare for your future career.

Your future employer wants to know about your professional expertise and contributions more than your academic degrees.

With exception of highly specialized degrees (medical, engineering, etc.), internship experience enables one to bring far more to their future employer than they do with «just» a degree — even against a high GPA from a prestigious university.

Those who want to jump right into the job will benefit from a diploma or certificate, usually completed in less than one year; those who want to expand their horizons can go for the associate degree, which provides a potential stepping stone to a higher degree in the future.