Sentences with phrase «is small compared»

My bathroom is small compared to the house, which is a shame, but you don't really live in there..

«Although the amount awarded is small compared to the huge cost that homeowners must assume for the work, the QFREB recognizes the government's desire to lighten their financial burden,» it says.

«Because the absolute size in households of the luxury market is small compared with the whole, luxury retailers are always constrained.»

LED bulbs cost arguably three to six times more than an incandescent bulb but this acquisition cost is small compared to their lower energy consumption, maintenance costs and other factors.

The size of the update is 135 MB which is small compared to other updates.

The Galaxy S7's non-removable 3000mAh battery is small compared to the non-removable 3760mAh in the Droid Turbo 2, but it should get you through most of the day.

Huawei's second - gen smartwatch looks rather bulky thanks to its active styling, but it is notably thinner and lighter than the LG Watch Sport — of course, pretty much every watch is small compared to the Watch Sport.

Plus, the cost is small compared to the benefits.

Although the anthropogenic radiative forcing of 2.4 W / m2 [IPCC 2001] is small compared to the natural one, it is of major importance to the future trend of Earth's climate.

So the climate change signal is swimming uphill in the MSE criterion just because it's narrowband, let alone that it's amplitude is small compared to higher frequency components.

From impacts, they mention that «resilient» societies are better able to survive climate stresses — for example, they downplay the oft - mentioned risk of malaria spreading under increasing temperature: the increase expected is small compared to the total number; all it means is that existing efforts to combat malaria should be strengthened.

The magnitude of the [geomagnetic - CO2] mechanism is small compared to the magnitude of the preponderant mechanisms driving the exchange of carbon between ocean and atmosphere, such as water temperature, biological pumping, overturning circulation... it would be preposterous to make the weakening Earth's magnetic field responsible for global warming.

The thermosteric acceleration is small compared with the ice sheets, but on par with the acceleration from mountain glaciers and small ice caps.

Every seller will tell you his pile of pollution is small compared to the total pile on Earth, and that is correct.

The relative increase in power prices is small compared to the existing charges for transmission, distribution and retail margins: it would add about as much as a carbon price.

The ice cube warms up by maybe a hundred degrees F but the coffee only cools by maybe 10 degrees because the volume of the cold ice cube is small compared to the volume of the hot coffee.

This seems small, and indeed it is small compared with weather fluctuations.

The whole idea of dealing with global mean temperatures and averaged - out energy budgets is by itself crude, and one commenter at least has noted that when an observed global warming of the order of 1C is small compared to the coarseness and sensitivity of such back of an envelope calculations, we need to look elsewhere to resolve disputes.

It maybe that the square area of water caused by humans is small compared to the oceans but the problem is that the waters are so shallow.

If the efficiency is small compared to the solar thermal system (or a photovoltaic system), then it would be much better to use the solar to make electricity.

Employing patented Pascvaks reasoning, when a patient visits a doctor with a venomous snake latched on to his arm, the doctor shouldn't remove the snake, since the total volume of venom being injected into the patient is small compared to the massive volume of blood that must be treated, and we should be discouraged by the amount of effort it takes to perform a full - blood transfusion.

That's because the amount by which it is wrong is small compared with the total and with the accuracy that you actually need, ie, it is «information» not «anti-information».

So, that change in radiative forcing of maybe -0.3 W / m2 for a new Maunder Minimum is small compared to the 2.3 W / m2 we see for human factors.

But when an object is small compared to the wavelength, then radiation can be emitted from any point within its volume.

To clarify, I accept that carbon dioxide is one of a number of «greenhouse gases», but that the warming from an increase due to human activity is small compared to other factors contributing to natural variability.

At present, Australia «s domestic consumption of natural gas is small compared to its Asian neighbors.

They assume that the system has «reasonable» dimensions for thermodynamics to work, e.g. that the mean free path is small compared to the size

Rather, while the ocean may be doing something to the surface energy budget in parts of the subpolar gyre in coupled models, its effect on the AMO is small compared to the stochastic atmospheric forcing.

This integral is over the same region for any hypothesized calendar age, and therefore can be ignored when the amount of rounding is small compared to the standard deviation of the error.

I inferred from your statement that since the heat capacity of the atmosphere is small compared to «say, the oceans» that (a) it [the atmosphere] won't store much energy, and (b) as such won't change the total «heat content» of the Earth, and (c) as such won't change the Earth's temperature.

While the adjustments do make a difference, the difference is small compared to the overall warming signal since 1979.

Global warming is evaluated on the basis of the land - ocean temperature record; the impact of adjustments on recent warming is minimal, and on the whole record it is small compared to the total amount of warming.

However, because it is well understood that the influence of the exact sea surface temperatures in Europe is small compared to the overall effect of global warming, these numbers provide a good first step towards answering the climate question.»

The power of other geophysical processes is small compared with the power of variations of the Earth's rotation.

In summary the findings to date indicate that the effect of cosmic rays on cloud formation is small compared to the large variations in natural biogenic aerosol emissions.

When the spread is small compared to the mean (at a defined time and length scale), the parcel of air is moving fairly uniformly and can be approximated by a smooth flow represented by the mean of the distribution.

It is small compared to natural climatic variations.

While advances in modern technology have shortened development cycles for many products considerably, there are a number of factors suggesting that CDR development might progress more similarly to historical technologies: the non-regulatory demand for CO2 is small compared to that for energy, there are few network effects or natural monopolies associated with many forms of carbon removal, and regulatory markets necessary to support CDR development have been anemic at best.

Farmland soil carbon is much higher using no - till than the amount gained from converting forest, but the total amount sequestered that way is small compared to all that is lost through deforestation.

[Response: Our rate of mining CO2 from the Earth and putting it in the atmosphere is small compared to the back - and - forth rates of photosynthesis and dissolution / exsolution from the ocean.

And the cost of such investments is small compared to the cost in lives and lost infrastructure after the fact.

While elephant ivory sales provide astronomical funds for criminals and terrorists, the consumer ivory market is small compared to autos, solar panels and electronics.

And for methane, what I wrote was that the Arctic is small compared with low - latitude natural + anthropogenic sources.

The cold stored in polar ice is small compared to the solar forcings related to global warming.

Just because 2 % is small compared to 90 % doesn't mean the 2 % is unimportant.

In these GHG experiments however, the lifetime effect is small compared to the Clausius Clapeyron effect.

If the mean shift is small compared to sigma then it is hard to say anything.

This is small compared to total incident solar radiation.

Like most fairs, Basel has its fair share of overly familiar work — regular fair goers will likely have grown tired of looking at Nick Cave sound suits for example — but even this problem is small compared to past years.

This is small compared to that of PS4 (which has 30 %) and Xbox One (which has 26 %), but that's understandable since those systems have been out longer and have larger install bases.