Sentences with phrase «smaller fraction over»

Regardless of how much warming is natural vs anthropogenic, if the warming rate is half, one - third, or an even smaller fraction over the past 25 yrs than you have been led to believe it was, would that not be cause for serious reflection?

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While the share of sales going to women - owned businesses rose over the past five years, after having declined over the previous half decade, the actual fraction remains small.

Spread out over several years, that would amount to a small fraction of Boeing's $ 96 billion in annual revenue.

His latest donation represents 38 % of his Microsoft holdings (his stake is now down to 1.3 % from 24 % in 1996), but it's still only a small fraction of his total wealth, estimated at over over $ 85 billion by Bloomberg.

Having a service like this is great for small businesses that ship all over the world at a fraction of the cost of Canada Post, and you get a tracking number!!!! My packages get to their destination quickly, even my international ones.

So, if the Bitcoin price keeps increasing by thousands of dollars (which it has been over the past few months) it's still possible to buy or use small fractions of Bitcoin.

Among people over 50, 60 percent find life dull.2 Psychologists have declared that most of us use only a small fraction of our brainpower, our creativeness, our personality potential.

Far from conforming fully to the ideals of the faith as Western Europe of these centuries was, in that small fraction of the earth's surface Christianity had more nearly free course over a longer period of time than in any other part of the world.

The habanero relatives that we have collected and planted over the years are but a small fraction of the total number of pod types in the species.

and over half - a-million people voted for a child molester, and I'm sure no small fraction of those people also believe that Obama and Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a DC pizza joint's basement

This week's win has given us a chance but UCL history shows it be a small one, with a fraction over 20 percent of the other teams in this position making it to the next round, a report in The Mirror reveals.

The 1,300 small donations to Cuomo's campaign total just under $ 94,500 — a fraction of the $ 76.6 million he's raked in over the seven - year period, filings show.

The news trickling in from the Standards Authority and the Communications Authority is a small fraction of the mess and malevolent dissipation of state resources I am privy to over the past four years.

The Antarctic Peninsula holds only a small fraction of the continent's ice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.»

Two new studies indicate that at least some of the 2 million cubic kilometres of lava which spread over parts of Siberia 250 million years ago came from the lower mantle, up to 2900 kilometres below the Earth's surface, and a small fraction may even have come from the core itself.

Compared to the conventional radiation therapy (RT) approach of small doses given daily over several weeks, SBRT delivers a highly targeted, escalated dose of radiation in a single session or as many as five of treatments, usually between one and five fractions.

Over a long enough period of time, the increased carbon burial could help offset a small fraction of carbon emitted by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, says study coauthor Antje

«People have made good films over relatively small areas — a fraction of a centimeter or so square.

«This interesting paper from Dieter Egli's lab addresses the question of whether the small fraction of mitochondrial DNA carried over during spindle transfer might occupy a larger fraction in the embryo, and eventually in babies born, following spindle transfer for prevention of mitochondrial DNA disease.

Dating women Harley riders isn't very easy, particularly due to the fact that only a small fraction of women ride a Harley or prefer it over other sports bikes coming from brands like Honda, Kawasaki and BMW.

Small boobs have feelings too Muslims account for over twenty percent of the population of the world and more than that fraction of prime - aged girls.

The employees, just over half of them teachers, represent a small fraction of the CPS workforce.

While there are over 250,000 apps in the Android Market, only a small fraction are designed to run specifically on Honeycomb, Google's tablet OS.

On the content side, the Amazon Appstore currently includes more than 16,000 apps, but this is just a small fraction of the 425,000 apps in Apple's App Store, over 100,000 of which are tailored specifically for the iPad.

The whole week saw small body candles and the price action stayed within just over a 3 point range, and ending within a fraction of the all - time high.

«Who Cares» The defence for this game is amazing Oh it's fine about all the shit they promised for over a year, since the very start and then failed to deliver, it's totally fine, they made it up by release free updates to us which offers us like a small fraction of what they originally promised in the full game at launch Good grief.

In the bundle we have over 20 + games and different bundle prizes to give away with a fraction of those games, which will include smaller amounts of the games.

Further, precipitation over land is a small fraction of the total, so there's a lot of room for changes in precip there without altering the result on the global mean.

Overall, net biospheric uptake is about 1.3 GtC / yr [billion tons of carbon a year], which is a small fraction of the overall annual exchange of about 60 GtC / yr and only a modest fraction of fossil fuel emissions of over 8 GtC / yr.

The media hyperventilate over statistically insignificant temperature changes of small fractions of a degree.»

While these forgotten gases account for only a small fraction of total greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, nitrous oxide is up to 300 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere when compared to carbon dioxide over a 100 - year time period.

Thus volcanoes have not caused the long - term global warming over the past century, and can explain only a small fraction of the warming over the past 25 years.

I wish to make it clear that my own preference for estimating TCR is the approach of Otto et al., i.e. comparing temperatures over an interval at a time when human influence was only a small fraction of the present with the recent data.

Internal variability can only account for ~ 0.3 °C change in average global surface air temperature at most over periods of several decades, and scientific studies have consistently shown that it can not account for more than a small fraction of the global warming over the past century.

The Goldmans sent out over 3,000 invitations to the ceremony, expecting only a small fraction to attend.

Can't get people too excited about warming caused by mankind that's only a small fraction of a fraction of a degree of total warming over a century.

(GHG increases would add only a small fraction of a watt / M ^ 2 over the same period.)

The small fraction of that warming that's expressed by changes in surface air temperature does appear to have slowed over the past decade.

In the final analysis we are arguing about a temperature record made by volunteers with little oversight over many generations on continents where a truly massive amount of land use change due to industrialization and agriculture and where said land mass is but a small fraction of the globe's surface one might wonder why we bother with it.

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

Even though it causes only a small reduction in concentration - the input to the Slater model - «this trigger accelerates ice melt through the enhanced solar heat input over the open water fraction.»

If over the course of 40 years the world switched all the coal power plants over to natural gas, generating half as much greenhouse gas per watt - hour of electricity, then the warming would slow — but only by a small fraction.

Because only a small fraction of shale gas can be extracted cost effectively, production declines by an average of 80 - 90 % over the first 36 months.

While many of these threats are likely to come to the fore over the coming decades (if not earlier), they might still constitute only a small fraction of the problems we will likely be dealing with in 2050.

Concerning sea level rise, I would just point out that even hundreds of trillions of dollars is a very small fraction of the global GDP integrated over the whole century, and that if you believe the work of Rahmstorf et al., the sea level rise would hardly change if we divide by two the CO2 emissions, so the problem will happen anyway.

After centuries of deforestation in the Atlantic Forest, an ecosystem which once stretched unbroken for over 500,000 square miles along the eastern coast of South America, now only a small fraction remains.

101 weather stations across the U.S. is only a small fraction of the available data; there are over 1200 U.S. stations in the global historical climate network.

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].

Oh, and in case you were wondering about specific numbers: Kitty kills about one billion birds annually, with over a billion more killed colliding with buildings and communication towers; the flockpocalypse has killed a small fraction of that.

The Earth must be in radiative (energy) balance within a very small fraction of 1 W / m2 averaged over the current interglacial period as well as during the peak of the last ice age 20,000 years ago.