Sentences with phrase «increasing fraction of»

Generally, considering that technological applications of scientific models, developed to reduce uncertainty about real - world risks, have been widely successful for making life safer and more comfortable for an increasing fraction of the world population, why is there so little trust in the judgments of scientists who generate and test such models?

Based on these Energy Economic findings, the CPP should not be replaced with anything because increasing the fraction of electricity generation from Intermittent Renewables will cause (1) enormous consumer electricity price increases, (2) the Grid to become even less reliable and less resilient, and (3) even more serious negative micro and macroeconomic impacts — but would have zero impact on the climate.

• Climate change alone will tend to suppress both land and ocean carbon uptake, increasing the fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions that remain airborne and producing a positive feedback to climate change.

And as other carbon pools fill up, an increasing fraction of the carbon we dump in the atmosphere stays there, in effect, forever (unless our grandchildren decide to pump it out again).

Instead of increasing the fraction of CO2 in the hohlraum decrease it to zero (and we'll assume we now have 100 % N2 at the original hohlraum pressure).

The increasing fraction of GHGs will cause energy to accumulate in the climate system.

The problem with this particular fantasy kim is that the physics of radiative transfer mean that increasing the fraction of atmospheric CO2 will cause energy to accumulate in the climate system (mainly the global ocean)-- exactly as observed.

For an increasing fraction of the world's population, the real climate crisis is not the possibility that dangerous human - caused global warming may someday occur.

: The current Federal, State and private sector policies that are now increasing the fraction of electricity generation from Intermittent Renewables must be stopped / reversed in order to avoid / mitigate very severe micro and macroeconomic impacts and National Security ramifications involving skyrocketing electricity prices as well as dramatically reduced power grid reliability and resilience.

To address this need, a policy instrument similar to a Renewable Portfolio Standard could work wonders — if countries / states mandated that an increasing fraction of their emissions be offset through direct air capture, it would create a bankable demand driver that would stimulate further investments in technology research and development.

The problem is not so much that we don't have or can't develop the technology to increase food and feed production, it's that urbanization has rendered an ever increasing fraction of humanity unable to produce its own food — and more than that — totally unaware of what it takes.

If the birth rate in each country stays constant, those countries with high birth rates will account for an increasing fraction of the world's population each year, which would lead to 109 billion people in 2100 (Cohen JE.

A rapidly increasing fraction of high school teachers are even letting students use their own mobile devices as powerful research tools right in the classroom.

Increasing the fraction of non-white young adults who earn bachelor's degrees would increase the number of potential non-white teachers, and would likely reduce the racial and ethnic mismatch between students and teachers.

«Given price competitiveness of wind and commercial - scale solar and the public and corporate appetite for clean, renewable energy, an increasing fraction of U.S. electricity will be generated renewably.»

The increasing fraction of carbonate ions in the buffer at higher pH promotes cluster formation and in this way increases calcium binding (principle of LeChatelier).

Particularly since solar output has not increased in approximately 60 years, and has only increased a fraction of a percent in the past 300 years, as discussed above.

Interestingly, an increased fraction of the cell population was found to express CD44 + / CD24 - / ESA + cell surface markers.

As blood sugar increases the fraction of glycated Hg increases.

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The increased forcing from an increased fraction of CO2 is the most likely cause Jim.

Climate change increases the fraction of emissions that remain airborne by suppressing ocean uptake, enhancing soil respiration and reducing plant NPP.

Emissions, they discovered, increased the fraction of cirrus clouds where vapor trails were most prevalent but decreased the fraction in some areas by increasing the temperature and consequently decreasing the relative humidity in the lower atmosphere.

Particularly since solar output has not increased in approximately 60 years, and has only increased a fraction of a percent in the past 300 years, as discussed above.

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Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

Together a declining exit rate and a rising entry rate should increase the self - employed fraction of the population.

Yes, many of these businesses are young, but the relatively small increase in total receipts suggests that only a fraction of these companies are being built to grow.

Exchanges around the world such as those in Tokyo, London and Shanghai are seeing their volumes increase, though they still draw just a fraction of the volume seen in New York at the NYSE and the Nasdaq.

In fact, between 2004 and 2012, when student loan levels took off, the fraction of people interested in being successful at business ownership actually increased slightly to 41.2 percent.

Even if Keystone XL is eventually approved, it would still only provide a fraction of the pipeline capacity the energy industry will need to increase production by several million barrels a day.

However, our research suggests that credit standards seem to explain only a fraction of this increase when judged through the lens of expected default rates.

Second, the fraction of products exposing investors to complete losses increased significantly over our sample period.

To put it in perspective, if a website like Amazon were to increase their conversion rate by a fraction of one percent, it would contribute millions of dollars in extra revenue each month.

So, if the Bitcoin price keeps increasing by thousands of dollars (which it has been over the past few months) it's still possible to buy or use small fractions of Bitcoin.

When the economy really does get bad, inflation will increase and the real value of the debt will be reduced to a fraction of its current level.

The Bantam Series provides the same benefits as the larger Ultra-Series such as increased oven productivity (25 % or more) elimination of checking, and reduced water activity, at a fraction of the cost both to purchase and to maintain.

The lipid fraction consists of 93 % saturated fatty acids, 5 % mono - unsaturated fatty acids, and 2 % poly - unsaturated fatty acids, he says, explaining that experiments indicate that the saturated fatty acids are responsible for increasing serum cholesterol levels in blood.

As the US Federal government pays for a greater and greater fraction of health care, I see it as inevitable that an increasing amount of care is provided by mid-level staff as a means of cost control.

Try these games and activities using dominoes to increase your child's understanding of basic math operations, as well as fractions and decimals.

The fraction of crude oil consumed in the U.S. that was imported went from 35 % immediately before the 1973 oil crisis, peaked at 60 % in 2005, and then returned to 35 % by 2013 [7] thanks to increased domestic production [8] from the shale oil boom.

In contrast, the effect of spending for Conservative candidates is much more muted: although spending more money increases their probability of winning, they have to spend much more than Labour candidates for a fraction of the result.

«Over the past five years, the operating costs of owners of rent - stabilized apartments have increased 16 percent, while the RGB has limited rent increases on a 1 - year lease to a fraction of that, 2.25 percent, over that same period — including two consecutive rent freezes,» said RSA president Joseph Strasburg.

The tax cut for middle - class wage earners amounts to a fraction of 1 percentage point and will be funded by an increase in the rate for married taxpayers making more than $ 2 million a year and single taxpayers whose yearly income exceeds $ 1 million.

Still, this accounts for at most a fraction of the increase in electricity prices, which are among the lowest in Europe despite a 20 per cent surge since 2007.

«Randomized trials have confirmed the value of radiation dose escalation for prostate tumors, and the potential benefits of larger radiation doses in fewer fractions, are expected to increase the therapeutic efficacy for men with prostate cancer,» said Anders Widmark, MD, a professor of radiation sciences at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden and lead author of the study.

An international team of scientists analysing data from over 190 countries found that every increase in temperature of one degree Celsius was linked with a decrease in the alcohol - attributable fraction (AAF *) of cirrhosis of 0.3 %.

So far they have mapped the natural geologic stresses throughout Oklahoma and Texas — the states with the largest populations at risk from human - induced quakes — and have discovered that only a fraction of faults hold the potential to slip in the presence of moderate pressure increases.

In this study, Ghanbarzadeh developed a computer model to simulate the distribution of molten iron between rock grains as porosity, or melt fraction, increased or decreased.

For one measure, the fraction of science and engineering papers written in teams has steadily increased between 1955 and 2000, from about 50 % to 80 %, with the average number of co-authors nearly doubling during the same period.

«The fraction of cited papers that are at least 10 years older than the paper citing them has increased steadily, from about 28 % in 1990 to 36 % in 2013.»