Sentences with phrase «small cumulative changes»

If we project this ahead a decade, it assumes rather small cumulative changes in human culture: a bit more E85,

[25] Also the observed position angles of the stars are also subject to small cumulative changes (additional to position angle changes caused by the Precession of the Equinoxes), as first determined by W. H. van den Bos in 1926.

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An enormous number of small changes have been introduced, few of them creating major shifts in meaning but whose cumulative effect is to produce a magnificent translation — in short, a stunning achievement.

Humans do emit only a fraction of the 750 gigatons of CO2 that move through the atmosphere each year, but small changes in the total amount can overwhelm so - called carbon «sinks» such as the ocean, resulting in important, and cumulative, changes in the atmosphere.

Sometimes small changes in landscape irrigation practices, such as calibrating your sprinklers to apply the recommended amount, may seem like they would have minimal effect, but consumers can see reductions in their water use, especially when they consider the cumulative effect of small changes over time.»

A limit of approximately 500 GtC on cumulative fossil fuel emissions, accompanied by a net storage of 100 GtC in the biosphere and soil, could keep global temperature close to the Holocene range, assuming that the net future forcing change from other factors is small.

Since bile salts are resorbed from the small intestine, 115 effects of bile supplementation are cumulative and the dose would change over time.

On a cumulative basis played out over decades, the costs of these changes would be relatively small, and meanwhile the state would stop adding to their current debt loads.

The cumulative effect of small change is amazing.

Importantly, whether one thinks global warming poses little or no threat or that the planet is on a path toward catastrophe, the cumulative climate effect of these policies, if implemented, would be a change in the earth's temperature almost too small to measure.

Since you dismiss GCR's as having any effect, this won't matter but if they did have an effect, especially if its small, one would not expect to see smallish changes in sunspots or cumulative GCR's over the course of several cycles, like was the case thru cycle 23 to show up.

I can only hope that these have had a small, but cumulative, effect on our policy makers, because we despartely need to change direction if we are to keep our lights on and our energy costs sensible.

One way to ease children into this situation is by making small, but cumulative changes during the divorce process.