Sentences with phrase «percent water change»

There may be a freshwater tank that requires a 50 - percent water change every month due to a heavy fish load, while another tank of the same size may only need a water change every other month.

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There are a few things that could cause the caramel to be too runny: — adding water to the sugar for the caramelisation part (in this recipe, you melt and caramelise the sugar with no water added; if you do add water, it might end up runnier), — not «caramelising» the sugar enough (but that changes the consistency by only a few percent), — not cooking the butter and caramelised sugar mixture long enough (it really needs to be a few minutes), — not using double cream but whipping cream or something with a lower fat content, — not allowing the caramel to set in the fridge for a few hours (the caramel should set into a sticky layer that should be able to be cut and isn't runny).

Other recent changes include lowering the fat content of canned pork from 21 to 18 percent, eliminating the use of tropical oils in peanut butter, reducing the fat content of ground beef to 22 percent, and purchasing only unsalted peanuts and chunk tuna packed in water, not oil.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has said he doesn't want to negotiate any changes to the 2 percent cap Cuomo proposed, saying anything less than the gubernatorial program bill passed by the Senate early on in the session would be too watered down to be effective.

His job performance rating remains under water and similarly little changed from last month: 40 percent to 59 percent, the poll found.

New Zealand experienced an extreme two - day rainfall in December 2011; researchers said 1 to 5 percent more moisture was available for that event due to climate change, which is increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

As the two of us started to evaluate the feasibility of such a change, we took on an even larger challenge: to determine how 100 percent of the world's energy, for all purposes, could be supplied by wind, water and solar resources, by as early as 2030.

Changes in forest structure and species composition alone decreased water yield by as much as 18 percent in a given year since the 1970s after accounting for climate.»

The recent paper, published August 30 in Science Advances, found that without significant changes, Jordan could face lower rainfall, much higher temperatures and as much as a 75 percent decline in water flowing into the country from Syria.

During the same period of Flint's water source change, 5.1 percent of Jackson, Mich. children age five and under, 8 percent of Grand Rapids, Mich. children and 7.5 percent of Detroit children had blood lead levels higher than the CDC reference point (compared with 3.7 percent of Flint children).

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

In addition, agriculture accounts for at least 85 percent of human water consumption — a growing concern as aquifers diminish and hydrology changes in the face of climate change.

Adhikari estimated that about 40 percent of the Earth's polar movement is due to Greenland, 25 percent to Antarctica, and 25 percent to changes in water storage on continents.

Moreover, the researchers determined that changes in water availability for agriculture of plus or minus 20 percent had little impact on global food prices, bioenergy production, land - use change and the global economy.

Because sudden radical changes rarely stick, implement gradual healthy changes instead, like swapping out soda for 100 percent fruit juice with no added sugar — or better yet, milk or plain water or unsweetened tea.

Combine these measurements with your gender, weight, and age and this calculator will find your percent of body fat, how much of your weight is lean mass and how much is fat mass, and your general fitness category.While the water displacement test is the most accurate way to determine body fat percent, skinfold tests are valuable because they can be done at home with the same person measuring each time, providing good measurements to monitor body composition changes over time.

That means for every 20 hours of principals» time a new change requires, it needs to improve their performance by one percent just to tread water; for teachers, it's more.

Other changes to the paint shop include a dry scrubber booth with a limestone - handling system that eliminates sludge water and waste, LED lights for the process decks for visual inspection, FANUC robots with versa - bell 3 electrostatic applicators to give each paintjob a smoother finish and to reduce lost paint materials by 25 percent, and high - efficiency baking ovens.

You accomplish this by changing 20 to 25 percent of the water in an aquarium every two weeks.

So to protect the health of your fish, we recommend that you change only 25 percent of the current tank water once a month.

Advise customers to immediately change 50 percent of the water and remove any excess debris, which would otherwise bind with some of the remedy making it less effective.

Cleaning the tank includes gravel - washing the substrate, scraping all the algae off the aquarium glass, scrubbing algae from rocks, soaking ornaments in a benign cleaning solution, changing the filter media, and doing a 50 percent or more water change.

In models it varies by a couple of percent over temperature changes that lead to specific humidity (the total amount of water) changing by much larger amounts.

It also found that changes in landscaping practices and designs could cut outdoor water use 40 percent.

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They were also asked about three specific climate - change mitigation policies that have been proposed or implemented in many cities: regulating coastal properties, so their bottom floor is «elevated among the highest estimated flood level»; limiting outdoor water usage, such as lawn sprinklers; and setting aside at least 25 percent of residential lots for land that allows water to filter into the ground.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other climate scientists regard global warming of two degrees Celsius as catastrophic, bringing water stress to arid and semi-arid countries, more floods in low - lying coastal areas, coastal erosion in small island states, and the elimination of up to 30 percent of animal and plant species.

After Katrina's flooding had subsided, 8.2 percent of the pixels in their study area had changed from land to water; Gustav changed an additional 1.4 percent of pixels.

One of the simplest relationships in climate change is how the water - vapor capacity of air increases about 6 - 8 percent for every degree Celsius of warming.

U.S. Drought Monitor California http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA Once - In -1200-Year California Drought Bears Signature Of Climate Change http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/08/3600717/california-drought-climate-change-2/ Leading Scientists Explain How Climate Change Is Worsening California's Epic Drought The Water Levels Of The Middle East's Biggest Lake Have Dropped 95 Percent In Two Decades China's Largest Freshwater Lake Dries Up: Is the Massive Three Gorges Dam to Blame?

Ninety - five percent of the greenhouse effect is water vapor, and water vapor is not changing.

And the simple equations for how much water vapor is in the atmosphere as a function of temperature would be several percent, but, in addition, the distribution of the storms that release the moisture is changing.

So the first step in understanding the climates of Venus, Earth, and Mars, is the relative amounts of Greenhouse gases in their atmospheres: Venus has too much, Mars too little, and Earth just the right amount (in fact, water vapor, which is one percent of our atmosphere, dominates most of our Greenhouse effect — but additional CO2 can dramatically change the amount of Greenhouse effect).

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Africa: The report focuses on the ways in which climate change can contribute to shortages of food, drinking water and farmland, adding strain in a region that is already the source of 30 percent of the world's refugees.

(02/12/2008) There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the southwestern U.S., will be dry by 2021 if climate changes as expected and future water usage is not curtailed, a new study finds.

About a third of the current rate of sea level rise is from thermal expansion of the oceans (the water expands like mercury in a thermometer), because they are absorbing about 90 percent of the increased heat from climate change.

A July 2015 study finds that climate change may increase horizontal water vapor transport by up to 40 percent in the North Pacific, due mainly to increases in air moisture.

And coupling that finding with the 32 percent increase in water use efficiency over the same time period, Urrutia - Jalabert et al. conclude the trees «are actually responding to environmental change.»

Well, the German government has just announced new building codes that will change the landscape when it comes to distributed renewable power: starting 1 January 2009, all new homes built in German will have to meet 14 percent of total energy consumption for heating and domestic hot water with renewable power.

A 2012 Carbon Tracker report asserted that 80 percent of fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground to avoid some of the worst effects of climate change, including more intense and frequent extreme weather events, changes in water availability and the spread of vector and waterborne diseases.

But when researchers account for changes in plants» water needs, this falls to 37 percent, with bigger differences concentrated in certain regions.»

Percent snow depth changes in March (only calculated where climatological snow amounts exceed 5 mm of water equivalent), as projected by the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM; Plummer et al., 2006), driven by the Canadian General Circulation Model (CGCM), for 2041 to 2070 under SRES A2 compared to 1961 to 1990.

How much does potential surface area for CO2 absorption vary with a one percent change in the number and nature of water droplets in the atmosphere?

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's June 2008 report «Climate Change and Water» precipitation will very likely, which the IPCC defines as more than a 90 percent probability, increase in tropical and high - latitude regions and will likely (more than 66 percent probability) decrease in subtropical and low - to mid-latitude regions.

Changing one's diet to replace 50 percent of animal products with edible plants like legumes, nuts and tubers results in a 30 percent reduction in an individual's food - related water footprint.

Reveter designed a project to get local restaurant chains to change to water - saving faucets (up to 50 percent water savings), installing cisterns, and educating employees on water conservation.

Homeowners can also save between 5 and 20 percent on their premiums by making changes to their homes that increase safety and security, such as installing new house wiring, protective roofing materials, natural gas and water leak detectors and burglary and emergency event alarm systems.

«Your brain is 80 percent water,» says brain disorder expert Daniel Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain, Change your Life.