Sentences with phrase «significant fraction of them»

I am a realtor and I know what we have to invest is not a significant fraction of the investment made in other professions.

However, within this population, there is variation, with a significant fraction of teen parents» children acquiring adequate preparation for school entry during early childhood.

Hu et al. (16) have recently shown that a significant fraction of 10 — 25 % (depending on ethnicity) of L alleles in the 5 - HTTLPR are in fact low - expressing due to contributions from an interacting SNP, rs25531.

On average, you should expect to spend more money on a computer that will lose a significant fraction of battery life over the course of a day, have a limited number of applications that are actually designed for touch, and interact with a screen that can't replicate the same amount of precision you would get out of a Wacom / stylus peripheral.

We've demonstrated that in fact, a significant fraction of both the California and Illinois Supreme Court's civil dockets arises from unpublished unanimous decisions.

It isn't for everyone (not even for a significant fraction of practicing lawyers, but they tell themselves otherwise).

Posting all questions or a significant fraction of them would tend to make it look like infringement.

Without proof, that conclusion is as unfounded as concluding a significant fraction of stations have supposed barbecue grill problems based on photographs of just a few stations.

A significant fraction of OHC rise below 700 meters can be accomplished through warmer river runoff from the continents.

Here too there is a curious oblique Biblical resonance: the story of the escape of Israel from Egypt describes how the Israelites were guided in the wilderness: «And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light...» (Exodus 13:21) The natural «fire from heaven» reverses this supernatural pattern: by day the ground and sea receive fiery direct sunlight, while (as we shall see) a significant fraction of the nocturnal «fire» is provided by cloud.

We can estimate the potential magnitude of the ice mass biases by noting that if the average velocity prediction bias of ~ 5 mm / yr evident in Figure 5 is developed over ~ 2 × 10 ^ 6 km2, an area somewhat smaller than that of West Antarctica, this would cause an apparent but spurious ice loss of ~ 33 Gt yr - 1, which is a significant fraction of all published ice mass rates derived from GRACE [Velicogna and Wahr, 2006; Chen et al., 2006; Ramillien et al., 2006; Sasgen et al., 2007a].

«100 % (all of them) support the consensus view that a significant fraction of recent climate change is due to human activities»

Actually I think I had originally meant reaching a significant fraction of whatever size it would eventually achieve, though there's an element of both ideas in what I was thinking.

This makes a difference to the allowance bank because a significant fraction of the allowances are owned by entities without a compliance obligation.

This is a significant fraction of what has been ejected by volcanoes in paleoclimate changes, and will lead to significant warming as those events did.

A significant fraction of New York's RGGI investments have been allocated to energy efficiency and those investments were preceded by years of subsidies for energy efficiency in other programs.

Forest regrowth may account for a large part of the land carbon sink in some regions (e.g., Pacala et al., 2001; Schimel et al., 2001; Hurtt et al., 2002; Sitch et al., 2005), while combustion of vegetation and soil organic matter may be responsible for a significant fraction of the interannual variability in CO2 (Cochrane, 2003; Nepstad et al., 2004; Kasischke et al., 2005; Randerson et al., 2005).

«Recent research, however, suggests that there is a possibility that this gradual global warming could lead to a relatively abrupt slowing of the ocean's thermohaline conveyor, which could lead to harsher winter weather conditions, sharply reduced soil moisture, and more intense winds in certain regions that currently provide a significant fraction of the world's food production.

Furthermore, the data reveal that the methane - derived carbon was mixed from the surface ocean downward, suggesting that a significant fraction of the initial dissociated hydrate methane reached the atmosphere prior to oxidation.

Even the annual variations are, however, a significant fraction of the total human influence, but over periods of several years the fraction is smaller.

«The deep ocean accounts for a significant fraction of the global energy imbalance (Levitus et al. 2005; Johnson et al. 2007).

We need remember, however, that to ascribe any significant fraction of the documented warming since 1850 to the Sun requires high estimates of climate sensitivity.

The «regional curve» from just these twelve trees is quite unlikely to be very representative of some significant fraction of the mean regional growth pattern associated with tree age.

They agree carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that the world is warming, and that a significant fraction of this is down to humans.

Yes but if the stats from the most advanced nation in the world are basically wrong / overstated, what credence should we give to data coming out of Africa, S America, for the sake of obvious examples, which together comprise a significant fraction of the worlds surface?

The only thing that prevents me from thinking that it is all is sea level as measured by tide gauges, but recent evidence that a significant fraction of SLR may be caused by subsidence that we are only just barely beginning to measure with universal GPS access is making me wonder even about that.

This one is tremendously useful, because it's a significant fraction of the population, which most surveys are not.

Therefore a significant fraction of what Chief is rebelling against doesn't make a lot of sense.

The researchers estimated that hundreds of millions of trees were potentially destroyed, equivalent to a significant fraction of the estimated mean annual carbon accumulation for the Amazon forest.

From a partisan political point of view, I don't actually care much about the false claims of» 97 % scientific consensus», since (as Dan has pointed out in the past) they don't actually work persuading people, and for a significant fraction of the population actually serve to turn people against it.

It's simple and effective in practice but politically difficult to put in place because there are approximately 100,000,000 freeloaders and a significant fraction of them can vote if there's no one at the polling place checking ID cards against outstanding arrest warrants or felony convictions.

A significant fraction of the funds they are seeking for prediction could more effectively be used if they were spent on assessing risk and ways to reduce the vulnerability of local / regional resources to climate variability and change and other environmental issues using the bottom - up, resources - based perspective discussed in Pielke and Bravo de Guenni (2004), Pielke (2004), and Pielke et al. (2009).

If you knew — knew for certain — that there was no God, would you continue to donate money to a Church, to spend a significant fraction of your life in Church hearing tiresome lectures on silly antique myths and singing songs and chanting things?

# 6: Replace with: No other known forcings (except for natural variability) had the proper sign and magnitude to produce a significant fraction of the observed warming since the mid 20th century.

That's why I suggest you, or others here, go to his site and ask those questions about calving and Greenland's net loss rate that already contributes a significant fraction of sea - level rise.

An object does not even need to be rotating in order for a significant fraction of its linear momentum to be converted to angular momentum.

A significant fraction of so - called denialists have no problem with that figure.

Given that the NAAQS were designed principally with the goal of protecting human health, failure to meet these standards implies a significant fraction of the population live in counties characterized by air quality that is harmful to human health.

Now, try your assertion the other way around: We have pumped out a significant fraction of the pollution that some of the most devastating activities the world has inflicted on life in it's entire history.

I think a significant fraction of the population, and our politicians, is still not aware of how wind - power is incapable of matching our constant power needs, and how crucial our constant power needs are.

It may not be as bad as the harm that would be visited on future generations and poorer countries, but it is more than serious enough to justify devoting a significant fraction of society's resources to building a carbon neutral future.

This effect is, however, important only when the poorly known area is a significant fraction of the whole sea surface.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

But even more to the point, 250 gigatonnes CO2 is an extremely significant fraction of the total remaining 2 °C emissions budget, which (since about 330 gigatonnes of this 1000 gigatonne budget was already consumed between 2000 and 2009) is only 670 gigatonnes.

As a natural process, could this account for a significant fraction of the 40 percent increase, which in total amounts to more than one trillion tons of CO2?

It is an unpleasant fact that Saudi Arabia currently uses a significant fraction of their extracted crude oil to generate electricity to run their air - conditioning units.

• cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

Joint attribution involves attribution of significant changes in a natural or managed system to regional temperature changes, and attribution of a significant fraction of the regional temperature change to human activities.

Actual and projected emission levels are already at the high end of Hansen's «alternative scenario» which was suggested as an achievable outcome (based on significant control efforts) that kept forcings (including Co2, CH4 and black carbon) below a level that Hansen considered would be «dangerous» (specifically a level that would avoid the melting of any significant fraction of the WAIS or Greenland ice sheet).

As a consequence, a significant fraction of the multi-year ice has surface emissivity signatures of first - year ice.»