Sentences with phrase «of a few degrees per»

However, including other greenhouse gases and taking into account a «thermal shrinking» of the upper atmosphere result in a cooling of a few degrees per decade.

Not exact matches

Cooling this to a few degrees above absolute zero and applying a magnetic field aligned the spins of one phosphorus electron per atom.

So Weschler and Wisthaler simulated a typical office environment at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen — two people in a carpeted 28.5 — cubic meter room at a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius with two small stainless steel tables, two chairs, two flat - screen LCD monitors, two headsets, one walkie - talkie, one small mixing fan, a few books, two laptops, two bottles of water and ozone concentrations that reached roughly 32 parts per billion, an average exposure for a hot, smoggy day.

Jolted by the 40 - million mile per hour sledgehammer blow, one knot of gas — 100 billion miles in diameter in a piece of the ring — has already begun to glow brightly, as its temperature surges from a few thousand degrees to a million degrees Fahrenheit.

It really gets interesting when plants are mutualized with fungal partners of varying degrees of cooperativeness: a «meaner» one, which supplies fewer phosphates per unit of carbohydrate provided, and a «more generous» one, which «pays» more phosphates for its nutrients.

And on a technical level, Wright brilliantly mimics the structural characteristics of these films, with rapid - fire editing (Wright deploys Bay's fast - edited style to such a degree that there can be up to eight cuts per second in a few action sequences, a noticeable and hilarious gag) and swooping, circling and slow motion camerawork that would make John Woo proud.

But then adding a substance that can endure thousand degree temperatures to the surface of metal or carbonfibre that also blocks 33 per cent of that heat from passing through it, even though it's only a few microns thick, you didn't expect that to be easy now, did you?

Add on to that the UHI problem, the poor distribution of the measuring stations (sometimes quite close, sometimes thousands of miles away from each other), and then consider how accurate the whole «global average» is likely to be... and we want to detect a signal of a few hundredths of a degree per year?

The higher the degree of education and GDP per capita of a human population, subpopulation or social stratum, the fewer children are born in any industrialized country.

It doesn't take much energy to change things especially when the change is only a few tenths of a degree or a few milliseconds per decade.

Earlier last year, following an article reviewing 6 (also alarmist) books on the environment including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Nicholas Stern's report, and George Monbiot's Heat, we discovered that, inconveniently, May had taken a few liberties with the facts himself, citing a single study, referenced in the Stern Report to make the claim that» 15 — 40 per cent of species «were vulnerable to extinction at just 2 degrees of warming, and that oil companies were responsible for a conspiracy to spread misinformation, and prevent action on climate change.

-- Ocean warming is being reported in the tiniest units possible (joules)-- a unit that means nothing to the general public, but sounds «big» (because there's a bunch of them); if it were reported in degrees C (which people can relate to), the warming would be a few thousandths of a degree per year

=== > The 1 - year trends (moving 12 - month) reach the greatest extremes, with excesses coming close to either a cooling trend of minus 80 degrees per century or a plus 80 degrees warming trend per century - amazingly, within a few years of each other

The top chart is a cumulative and you can see that the probability of seeing a 0.75 degree change per century is just a few hundredths in historical terms.

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/gistemp/mean:12/from:1950/offset:-0.05/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:1950/mean:12/offset:0.05/plot/esrl-co2/scale:0.01/offset:-3.3 100 ppm per degree is a handy reference for the effects of adding CO2, and even though the log behavior diminishes the gradient going forward, it holds for the first few hundred ppm we are adding by 2100.

The few specific proposals I have seen to date would all require around $ 2 trillion per tenth of a degree warming theoretically averted.

Do you think you can convince me that we aren't in a interglacial period that is getting a bit long in tooth, that the Milankovitch cycle that helps the glaciers grow by making northern hemisphere winters warmer and summers cooler isn't moving in the direction favorable to glaciation, and that the next once - per - thousand year volcanic eruption won't happen in this century, and it won't be the straw that breaks the camel's back by lowering the earth's temperature a couple degrees for a few years to mark the end of the Holocene?

On the other hand, a majority of studies indicate negative trends in the lower and middle mesosphere with an amplitude of a few degrees (2 — 3 K) per decade.

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