Sentences with phrase «partially cancelling each other out»

So at the ocean surface, the atmospheric pressure remains relatively constant, increased CO2 concentrations lead to an increased partial pressure of CO2 but temperature leads to to a decreased solubility, partially canceling each other out.

While the above criteria are fairly easy to understand, their application can be complicated because a number of uncertainties relevant to a given decision may reinforce each other or may partially cancel each other out (e.g., optimistic estimates of technological change may offset pessimistic estimates of climate damages).

Not exact matches

A possible explanation is that Clarke would indeed win more votes from Labour as leader, but they would be partially cancelled out by Tory voters drifting away to UKIP or other fringe parties.

Basically, the parallel movement of these high - and low - carbon substitutes to oil and gas partially cancels out the emissions benefits and consequences of one or the other.»

Well the response to different forcings can be similar, but D&A has generally managed to at least partially distinguish them, and it's a well known problem with geoengineering that we can not completely cancel out co2 with other things.