Sentences with phrase «less than a degree»

The two nebulae are less than a degree away and part of the same molecular cloud.

If the degree to which you are doing anaerobic work is less than the degree at which you are developing your aerobic base, you'll see your aerobic progress slow, but not stop entirely.

If the level of CO2 in the atmosphere suddenly doubled, the initial warming over 10 years would be less than a degree, in part because the build - up takes time and also because the oceans slowly take up the heat, and act as a buffer.

But it is one heck of a leap to go from those general propositions to assert that you can measure local average annual temperature — and temperature alone — to within less than a degree by doing the same.

Then the temperatures stay there, varying by less than a degree with hardly any year - to - year variation at all, up to about 1880, when the dotted line become solid — indicating (though this is not explicitly noted) that we have switched to modern thermometer measurements — at which point they begin to tick jerkily upward.

The USHCN V2 adjusted temperature record shows an increase of less than a degree Celsius over those years.

The difference was less than a degree but sea levels were about 5 metres higher than now, with this water currently held in the polar glaciers.

Dr. James Hansen said at a July 20 press conference that average global temperatures today are less than a degree cooler than they were during the last major interglacial or «Eemian» period 120,000 years ago, when global temperatures were just 2 °C above the pre-industrial climate and sea levels stood at five to nine metres higher than they are today.

If we are able to reduce the global average yearly temperature to a single value, a value that is accurate to + / -.1 degree C, over a period of 150 years and that indicates an increase of somewhat less than a degree C, what does that mean?

Not exact matches

I never lost consciousness, was never short of breath, and suffered less damage to my heart than might have been expected (although I do have some degree of permanent damage.)

WHITE HOUSE, citing a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: «If all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate would be negligible,» curbing temperature rise by «less than.2 degrees Celsius in 2100.»

A survey I conducted with colleagues showed 38 percent of U.S. workers have signed one, and 12 percent of those without a bachelor's degree who are earning less than $ 40,000 a year had one in 2014.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

Admitting that you're already likely doing less than optimal (perhaps even straight up dumb) things and trying to eliminate them of course takes a degree of intellectual humility.

The OECD has estimated that 44 percent of American workers holding less than a high school degree work in jobs made up of «highly - automatable» tasks, while just 1 percent of Americans holding a bachelor's degree or higher hold such jobs.

According to the International Energy Agency, reducing pollution to levels consistent with limiting climate change to less than two degrees would see 715 million EVs cruising the streets in 2040 — which would also shrink global oil demand by 20 % relative to today.

Basically, Horowitz unabashedly argues the hugely unfashionable opinion that a humanities degree is «nothing less than a rite of passage to intellectual adulthood.

Wadhwa, who like Sankhla was born in India, said it took him less than 18 months to get his own green card in the 1980s, because he was highly skilled, had advanced degrees, and there was less competition at that time.

On average, members of this group earn 32 percent less than their contemporaries with college degrees.

It's called «Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon» and it refers to the fact that pretty much any actor or actress is most likely just a few roles away (or less) from having worked with Bacon, who has starred in more than 80 films and TV shows.

The system, inspired by work done at Stanford's VR lab, uses 360 - degree video to put players — primarily quarterbacks — through their paces, with less physical risk and wear - and - tear than on - field practice, and more interactivity than just watching game video.

Fifty - six - year - old Amie Crawford, who graduated with an associate's degree in interior design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and had a successful 30 - year career as an interior designer, never thought she'd be in a job where the average take - home pay was less than a fifth of what she had made before.

Money: While pay in the field starts low — research assistants with BAs make less than $ 35,000 — those with graduate degrees can earn over $ 80,000, and senior advisers crack six figures.

The degree is identical in every way to one earned on - campus except for this: It costs less than $ 7,000, compared with around $ 42,000 when a student attends in person.

But for us to do so requires nothing less than a very substantially heightened degree of direct political activism by people who really care about the survival of our country.

Under current policies, the IEA puts the chances of holding global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees — the threshold at which global warming tips us into the danger zone — at a scant 2 percent.

The study explores «middle - skills» jobs, those that require more than a high school diploma and less than a bachelor's degree.

Less than $ 15,000 room, board, tuition, fees and books for a bachelors degree and my CPA certification for the entire 4 years.

A beta of 1.00 indicates that the fund's returns will, on average, be as volatile as the market and move in the same direction; a beta higher than 1.00 indicates that if the market rises or falls, the fund will rise or fall respectively but to a greater degree; a beta of less than 1.00 indicates that if the market rises or falls, the fund will rise or fall to a lesser degree.

Actually, nurses have less debt and earn higher than average for a 2 - 4 year degree.

MARTA does service the area, but to a lesser degree than in the Atlanta city limits.

13A -6-67: (a) A person commits the crime of se ual abuse in the second degree if:... (2) He, being 19 years old or older, subjects another person to se ual contact who is less than 16 years old, but more than 12 years old.

I sense, although you're much younger than me, we who follow Ray's comet are members of a big international creative club separated by less than one degree.

Is that... wait... that old drunk turned preacher... wait it is... and now because of how extreme his conversion was he is... he is... hating on all the others that can not convert to the same degree as he did... he's actually mad they seem to give less than him... he thinks they are ungrateful... let's go get drunk!

Because everyone interprets scripture differently than everyone else, to a greater or lesser degree.

It is clear that philosophy, no less than theology, has always taken it for granted that man has to a greater or lesser degree erred and gone astray, or at least that he is always in danger of so doing.

There are lots of other sex acts in which people engage other than penetrative sex which all carry less risk of disease transmission (in differing degrees).

In 1998, however, a meta - analysis in Psychological Bulletin found that most victims of pedophilia turned out only «slightly less well adjusted» than the average adult, with the probability of maladjustment being influenced by the degree of physical force or coercion present in pedophilic encounters.

Legend, no less than history, remembers the past; but it remembers it with a creative abandon, in disregard of history's concern, always present whatever the degree of interpretation, to give a rational and coherent reconstruction.

I would be too, and I am though to a lesser degree than you.

A few degrees co-oler than that yields a solid, ice, which unlike any other solid form is actually less dense than its liquid form.

I believe less in a hard - and - fast line between these two aspects of the theological enterprise than in a difference of degree.

In addition to agent and public self - consciousness and the various degrees and mixtures of the two, we also experience «introspective» or «private» self - consciousness, though it is less common than the public or agent forms, since it involves a purely «inward» focus of attention.

One indication of this divide, as we learned last week, is that more than 50 percent of babies to mothers who don't have college degrees are born outside of wedlock, compared to less than 10 percent of babies born to mothers with college degrees.

A flame that boils water can not be less than one hundred degrees hot.

Per this study, there is less than a 4 % difference between HS to College grad in belief in God (97 % at HS or below, 94 % with College degree express faith in God or a higher being.

To that extent the formula more or less fits physics and biology, though to different degrees, but more than it does philosophy and other branches of inquiry which directly concern man as a whole, in his totality.

We can't not know the preciousness of human life - therefore, if we tell ourselves that humanity is a matter of degree, we can't help holding those who are more human more precious than those who are less.

Evangelical Democrats are slightly less likely to have a college degree than evangelical Republicans (18 % vs. 25 %):

Tragically, we should expect that those systems providing the greatest degree of freedom, security, and economic opportunity (today, almost all Western or Westernized states in Asia) will be viewed as rivals and threats to be eliminated — or overrun and poached upon — rather than beacons to be praised and emulated by the less successful.