Sentences with phrase «shorter than the lifetime»

So it would be a good idea to get to the bottom of the discrepancies, especially since the countdown to dangerous climate change may be shorter than the lifetime of a new coal - fired power plant.

Not exact matches

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

Programs vary little in cost per year of service regardless of the professional level of the provider.13 However, programs that have a lifetime impact have a higher benefit / cost ratio than do those with limited and short - lived impact.

Other than Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I've only known two Chads in my short lifetime, and I hope to meet more!

The team recalculated the expected lifetime of Chariklo's rings based on their results and found it to be only 1 to 100 years, much shorter than previous estimates.

Blanco and his colleagues think male short - tailed opossums may have gained their large teeth initially for sexual display rather than for hunting: competition between males is particularly acute because these opossums breed only once in their lifetime.

Furthermore, KELT - 9b receives ~ 700 times more extreme ultraviolet radiation (wavelengths shorter than 91.2 nanometers) than WASP - 33b, leading to a predicted range of mass - loss rates that could leave the planet largely stripped of its envelope during the main - sequence lifetime of the host star.

The estimated grain lifetimes are 84,000 years — much shorter than the star's lifespan.

In general, brighter stars like A-spectral-type Sirius A have wider habitable zones than dimmer ones, if for much shorter lifetimes (more).

It could also be that the reason why we can not see any rotational modulation in the Kepler observations is because the starspots of these stars have lifetime much shorter than their rotation periods.

This will give you a chance of having a lasting relationship rather than a lifetime of short, intense romances.

In a lifetime of movie - going I've been happier with movies adapted from short stories than movies adapted from novels, and movies adapted from novels more than those made from plays.

Which is why buying an annuity for lifetime income probably doesn't make much sense if you have good reason to believe you'll have a shorter - than - average lifespan (although if you're part of a couple, you'll also want to consider how long your spouse or partner may be around).

In short, for investors with a long enough horizon, there may be no better way to generate a lifetime of safe, steadily - growing income than by owning a select group of these stocks.

The lifetime interest cost of a shorter loan will be less than a 30 - year mortgage, however — and this is a big catch — the monthly payment for the 15 - year loan can be significantly higher.

For a bond that pays interest monthly or semi-annually during its lifetime, the duration is lower (shorter) than its maturity.

But don't let that stop you from adopting; just because cats» lifespans are shorter than ours doesn't mean that they can't be filled with love, fun, and memories that will last for YOUR entire lifetime.

«While feral cats in managed colonies live far shorter lives on average than indoor cats, many can live at least six years, [5] and therefore, one vaccine dose does not necessarily offer lifetime coverage.»

Though Mendieta was a prolific filmmaker, creating more than 100 films in her short lifetime, this aspect of her oeuvre has not been studied independently from her broader interdisciplinary practice.

We heard that the tourist operators were less concerned regarding long - term flooding than short - term erosion as infrastructure has a limited lifetime due to the standard of which tourists expect (say 20 years).

Because of their very short lifetime (a few days) vs. volcanoes (a few years) for identical physico - chemical reactions, their (primary) effect is less than of volcanoes, despite the higher emission rates (secondary and tertiary effects even are far more uncertain).

Although these gases have shorter lifetimes than CO2 [34], they still have the potential to influence rates of warming beyond that induced purely by CO2.

This would cause stars like the Sun with appropriate planetary systems to burn somewhat more brightly and have shorter lifetimes than identical stars without planets.»

The response of atmospheric concentration to a methane release depends on whether the release time scale is shorter or longer than the atmospheric lifetime of methane.

Also depends on the relative radiation lifetime of the excited states of H2O, if shorter than the CO2 lifetimes or not.

Methane's lifetime in the atmosphere is much shorter than carbon dioxide (CO2), but CH4 is more efficient at trapping radiation than CO2.

For example, the direct radiative effect of a mass of methane is about 84 times stronger than the same mass of carbon dioxide over a 20 - year time frame [22] but it is present in much smaller concentrations so that its total direct radiative effect is smaller, in part due to its shorter atmospheric lifetime.

[39] A 2014 analysis, however, states that although methane's initial impact is about 100 times greater than that of CO2, because of the shorter atmospheric lifetime, after six or seven decades, the impact of the two gases is about equal, and from then on methane's relative role continues to decline.

Bromine, the ozone - depleting element found in methyl bromide, is nearly 60 times more effective at destroying ozone than the chlorine found in CFCs.9 This means that even though its atmospheric lifetime is quite short (a little over a year) 31, the immediate impact of changes in methyl bromide emissions on the ozone layer is very high compared to other chemicals.

Many term life policies do allow prorated refunds at some point during the life of the policy, during the insured's lifetime, although such refund is usually «short rated», that is, it is significantly less than the imputed value of the refund if calculated using conventional tables, using the rate of return specified in the insurance contract.

Although whole life insurance premiums are generally more expensive than those for a term life insurance policy, if you have combined insurance needs that include your mortgage and other estate planning issues, the lifetime protection aspect of a whole life product can lend itself to meeting both your short - and long - term needs.

Some policies approve of premiums being paid in lump sums or shorter - than - lifetime payments (e.g., 10 or 20 years), while others may require lifetime payments.

It is generally purchased to cover a short term insurance need (10 - 30 years) rather than lifetime.

Although more than a third of their children had a current psychiatric disorder at baseline and more than half had a lifetime history, some improvement was observed in the children in a relatively short time, ie, 3 months, and this occurred, in most cases, without the children receiving direct treatment.

Programs vary little in cost per year of service regardless of the professional level of the provider.13 However, programs that have a lifetime impact have a higher benefit / cost ratio than do those with limited and short - lived impact.