Sentences with phrase «much opacity»

This in turns implies we may have underestimated how much the opacity to long wave radiation has increased.

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I very much disagree with him, I think the old Wall Street bulge bracket business model is cooked forever and is now in secular decline — there is simply no way to estimate what their true earnings power is or will be next year combined with the opacity of their balance sheets.

And finally, that no blemish may separate him, by so much as a single atom of himself, from the essential limpidity, he labours unceasingly to purify his affections and to remove even the very faintest opacities which might cloud or impede the light.

Opacity depends on how much the «battery» is charged,» says Rui - Tao Wen, a doctoral student who carried out the study as part of his thesis.

A higher opacity has an insulating effect that retains more energy at the core, so the star does not need to produce as much energy to remain in hydrostatic equilibrium.

I also have a soft spot for brown lenses especially, and while I was a little sceptical about the lenses opacity at first, I can't really express how much I love the fact you can half - see my eyes through that 60 % brown tint!

The opacity is really excellent, much better than I get with other polishes I've used in the past.

Much to our chagrin, some were even worn with blatant disregard to opacity, outside the gym, and in lieu of traditional bottoms — an alarming and widespread practice that went on to launch a nationwide debate on whether leggings should be worn solo.

AIG had a AAA credit rating, but its bonds frequently traded cheap to other AAA bonds because of the opacity of the financials of the firm (and among some bond managers, a growing sense that AIG had too much debt).

Screws anchoring it to the wall count as part of the work, much as for Robert Ryman, but with neither clarity nor opacity a given.

Conspicuously missing in much of the discourse of queer abstraction is discussion of those projects that have tied race to questions around abstraction, whether they are philosopher Édouard Glissant's notion of the «right to opacity,» or curator Adrienne Edwards's lauded Blackness in Abstraction exhibition at Pace Gallery last year.

And in addition to their radiant colors, which pit orange against purple and blue against red, much of their impact comes from the simple handmade contrasts in paint application: transparency versus opacity, brushiness versus smoothness.

This much is true, and the only way that this imbalance will be eliminated will be for the Earth to heat up sufficiently that the rate at which thermal radiation is emitted will compensate for the increased opacity of the atmosphere to thermal radiation.

However, it is much easier to figure out what happens when you add more radiative gases to an atmosphere that already has them: And, the answer is that it increases the IR opacity of the atmosphere, which increases the altitude of the effective radiating level and hence means the emission is occurring from a lower - temperature layer, leading to a reduction of emission that is eventually remedied by the atmosphere heating up so that radiative balance at the top - of - the - atmosphere is restored.

Perhaps somehow the extra opacity of the atmosphere causes thick low clouds to form, having little greenhouse effect and much reflective capacity.

The conflict minerals provision has begun to establish much needed transparency and scrutiny of Congo's mineral sector whose opacity has for too long benefitted predatory armed groups.

To climate scientists, fog's physical opacity symbolizes how much remains to be discovered about it.

Toxicologists rank the degree of irritation by measuring how long contact is required to induce swelling, judging the severity of effects (for example how much corneal opacity or iritis or redness occurs), and watching how long it takes before the situation returns to normal.