Sentences with phrase «relatively small impact»

The scientists believe that nitrogen's relatively small impact on the carbon cycle is due to the fact that deeper layers of permafrost won't thaw until the fall or even early winter, when summer's warmth finally reaches more than one meter below ground.

Similarly, an assessment of lithium - ion batteries released by the Swedish Environmental Research Institute last year found GHG emissions from battery production were largely due to the manufacturing process, while mining and refining had a relatively small impact on the life cycle.

I guess you could argue that is a relatively small impact given the huge difference in emissions.

The overall level of consistency between attribution results derived from different models (as shown in Figure 9.9), and the ability of climate models to simulate large - scale temperature changes during the 20th century (Figures 9.5 and 9.6), indicate that such model differences are likely to have a relatively small impact on attribution results of large - scale temperature change at the surface.

Despite their relatively small impact on your score, too many credit inquiries by creditors can also reduce your credit score.

However, it's a bit too bold to summarize that the the sanctions had a relatively small impact compared to that.

This may be one of the reasons why this equation shows a relatively small impact over the first year or so following an interest rate change.

For all three studies, Mathematica's research team effectively recruited enough districts, schools, and teachers to participate, ensuring the analysis could detect even relatively small impacts on student outcomes.

«They believe by hyping the relatively small impacts during the past few decades that they can motivate people to act.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

Not exact matches

But what crystallized for Giustra in 2016 is that small, targeted and relatively low - cost projects can have an outsized impact.

«Our illustrative estimate of the long term impact of reduced net migration from the EU27 on UK GDP per capita after Brexit is negative, but relatively small compared to many other uncertainties about average UK income levels in 2030,» said Hawksworth.

Microloans are a good choice for businesses that can leverage a relatively small loan amount into a bigger impact.

The impact on aggregate welfare was estimated to be relatively small, in the range of $ 65 to $ 111 billion.

Although metro - wide the rent impacts would be relatively small, rents in specific neighborhoods that are popular with tech - workers would likely see much larger rent increases.

The total amount of the notes was relatively small so it didn't have a huge impact on the economics of the investment but we could have avoided the ambiguity by dealing it with more clearly up front.

The tariff on steel and aluminum should have a negligible impact, however, as the U.S. imports a relatively small percent of those metals from China.

It may not be able to raise capital and because the equity is a relatively small portion of the capitalization, very small movements in the operating performance of that business can have a damaging impact on the equity value.»

The foreign buyers» tax has an indirect effect on a relatively small group of buyers, but the psychological impacts of its introduction have been profound and have lingered.

The impact on trade would be relatively small.

Projects like DAI Token and TrueUSD have a much smaller impact on the market with relatively small market caps but still are important players in the stablecoin sub-industry.

At present, the best available data indicate that the worldwide impact of religious switching alone, absent any other factors, would be a relatively small increase in the number of Muslims, a substantial increase in the number of unaffiliated people, and a substantial decrease in the number of Christians in coming decades.

We saw this happen to some South Korean products in recent years and it had a major impact,» wrote Jim Boyce, Beijing - based wine consultant and founder of Grape Wall of China, «although, as noted, the amount of U.S. wine in China is relatively small.»

Reducing demand for meat, even by a relatively small amount, would have a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

Because the earthquake did not hit densely populated regions and the impact on people was relatively small, not too much has been reported about the outcome.

While the number of impacted bottles is relatively small, Constellation is recalling select packages of Corona Extra that may contain defective bottles as a precaution to ensure the safety of consumers.

This means that it is a relatively small part of the ingredients list, and is unlikely to have a large impact on your baby's health.

Sophie: if your relatively small company could have that kind of impact, there's really no excuse for Houston...

Cripe said the impact of the TIF district on the Park District would be relatively small.

The panel responded to the other inquiries by stating that costs not included are relatively small and will not greatly impact the final estimate and designers are being consulted for aesthetic considerations.

Brahmer emphasizes that the relatively small increase in median survival time with the use of the new immunotherapy drugs may be somewhat misleading in terms of overall impact of the medicines.

So, what tourism is impacting and actually what climate change is impacting is a relatively very small piece of that peninsula; but you know the impact on the peninsula if all that ice melts could be huge; when they talk about sea levels rising, you know, by inches and feet, you know if that ice along the peninsula melts they will add to the volume of the sea very quickly.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

Oil spills on the tundra, for example, have had relatively little long - term impact, because they are generally small and well cleaned up.

On average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have shown.

And she goes on to say that even though the size of the effect seems relatively small, the ubiquitous nature of ambient air pollution exposure suggests that exposure to it might have considerable impact on stillbirth risk at the population level.

This abrupt event shows how a relatively small occurrence — such as a slight slide in rainfall — may have a tremendous impact.

Charon's near - infrared spectra reveal highly localized areas with strong ammonia absorption tied to small craters with relatively fresh - appearing impact ejecta.

In an accompanying editorial, Dr Hagai Levine, Visiting Scientist, from Hebrew University - Hadassah, Israel, and Professor Shanna Swan, Professor of Preventive Medicine, who are both at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (USA), write: «Despite the relatively small sample size and exposure assessment limitations, the paper makes a convincing case that dietary exposure to pesticides can adversely impact semen quality.

As we said last year, the El Niño impact on the annual means is relatively small.»

The large impact that formed the crater likely involved a lot of heat, explaining the relatively smooth crater floor punctuated by smaller craters.

The Coral Sea is one of the few regions where these impacts have been relatively small.

In addition, the collision with a 372 - kilogram (820 - pound) projectile launched by NASA's Deep Impact probe in 2005 has created a 150 - meter - wide (490 - foot - wide) crater with a small mound in the center, as some of the ejecta of the impact apparently fell back down within the crater, but the crater's relatively soft outline indicates that its edges have undergone significant changes since the 2005 impact (NASA / STARDUST / NExT news release; Astronomy Picture of the Day; David Shiga, New Scientist, February 15, 2011; Jonathan Amos, BBC News, February 15, 2011; and Richard A. Lovett, Nature News, February 15, Impact probe in 2005 has created a 150 - meter - wide (490 - foot - wide) crater with a small mound in the center, as some of the ejecta of the impact apparently fell back down within the crater, but the crater's relatively soft outline indicates that its edges have undergone significant changes since the 2005 impact (NASA / STARDUST / NExT news release; Astronomy Picture of the Day; David Shiga, New Scientist, February 15, 2011; Jonathan Amos, BBC News, February 15, 2011; and Richard A. Lovett, Nature News, February 15, impact apparently fell back down within the crater, but the crater's relatively soft outline indicates that its edges have undergone significant changes since the 2005 impact (NASA / STARDUST / NExT news release; Astronomy Picture of the Day; David Shiga, New Scientist, February 15, 2011; Jonathan Amos, BBC News, February 15, 2011; and Richard A. Lovett, Nature News, February 15, impact (NASA / STARDUST / NExT news release; Astronomy Picture of the Day; David Shiga, New Scientist, February 15, 2011; Jonathan Amos, BBC News, February 15, 2011; and Richard A. Lovett, Nature News, February 15, 2011).

In light of our relatively small size, we are particularly proud of our outsized impact on cardiovascular disease, HIV / AIDS, and neurological disorders.

These are, admittedly, relatively small quibbles, but they have a major impact on the overall success of film.

«By now it's a familiar pas de deux in the public schools,» wrote New York magazine columnist Robert Kolker about the early months of retention and the relatively small actual impact on retention figures.

«If you've got four teachers working as a group and can free those people up for a half day each (a full day is preferable)... even with that relatively small intervention or investment of giving people time to work together, it then seems to have an impact on their ongoing practice.»

Although we knew from the outset that charter schools would serve only a relatively small part of our overall population — probably less than 10 percent — we expected they would have a significant impact nonetheless.

«The charter school industry has targeted our relatively small urban district with an over-saturation of charters that causes a financial drain, without concern for the impact on the majority of students who will continue to attend the public schools.»

Relatively small improvements in students» educational performance can have large impacts on a nation's future economic well - being.