Sentences with phrase «than a degree above»

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Formed in 1961 by a merger of Unitarians and Universalists, this relatively new denomination is small (its membership peaked at slightly above 200,000 during the bulge of the «60s); wealthy (43 per cent of its members earn more than $ 25,000 a year); and highly educated (42 per cent of them have at least a master's degree).

I have said above that even the simplest biological mechanism is to a superlative degree more complex than the most complex of humanly constructed machines.

Following Aristotle and Whitehead, it is unreasonable to expect a datum to submit to a more rigorous degree of specification than is appropriate to the complexity of the datum.32 At the same time, some religious discourse is more meaningful than other discourse, and it is precisely the task of theology to discover the most adequate symbolic forms using the three principles of verification outlined above.

It's better to use unrefined cane sugar than honey as honey becomes toxic once heated above 110 degrees.

While this process can be done manually with careful selection and monitoring, we recommend Better Than Roasted Nuts which have been carefully prepared with premium, raw whole, and certified organic nuts that have been hand - sorted, soaked, rinsed and dried at a low temperature (not above 108 degrees) to preserve sensitive enzymes.

Noting that cold foods should be stored below 40 degrees Fahrenheit and hot foods above 140 degrees, the study concluded that less than 2 % of lunches tested containing perishable foods were within the safe temperature zone (even though half of those lunches contained at least one ice pack.)

A platform literally tilts guests outward 30 degrees so they can gaze downward from more than 1,000 feet above the Magnificent Mile.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, your newborn baby's wardrobe requires far more attention than your own when the temperature is above 75 degrees Fahrenheit.

Do NOT use the sanitary cycle and be sure your water heater is not set above 120 degrees as temperatures hotter than that can damage your cloth diapers.

It's no different than point 1 above — these are people with Masters degrees that would likely make far more in the private sector — even downstate.

This «fat tail» scenario would mean the world experiences «existential / unknown» warming by 2100 — defined in the report as more than 5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

The Earth's core consists mainly of a sphere of liquid iron at temperatures above 4000 degrees and pressures of more than 1.3 million atmospheres.

The research found that cutting soot and methane as described above produced an average temperature reduction of 0.16 degrees Celsius by 2050, which is substantially less than the 0.5 - degree reduction found in earlier studies.

Both atoms were cooled to less than one ten - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero.

The cluster failed to melt even when the researchers raised the temperature to 282 °C, more than 50 degrees above the melting point of bulk tin, they report in the 18 September issue of Physical Review Letters.

The true outer limit is at least 500 times farther out, about 5 trillion miles beyond Pluto, where the sun looks like nothing more than a bright star and temperatures hover just a few degrees above absolute zero.

As global leaders gather in Paris seeking a much - anticipated agreement to keep global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, nations face increasing pressure to reduce emissions and contribute to decarbonizing the global economy.

In response, lakebed temperatures of Arctic lakes less than 1 meter (3 feet) deep have warmed by 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 degrees Fahrenheit) during the past three decades, and during five of the last seven years, the mean annual lakebed temperature has been above freezing.

According to the latest U.S. Survey of Earned Doctorates, the proportion of new Ph.D. graduates who come from families where neither parent has earned more than a high school degree has fallen from about 31 % in 1992 to just under 20 % in 2012, while the proportion of graduates from families with at least one parent with an advanced degree has climbed; it was about 33 % in 1992, and it is now above 40 %.

But as the heat wave stretched from days to weeks, Coral Sea temperatures spiked more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, and many corals succumbed to starvation or disease.

Since the surface is a few tenths of a degree cooler than the water below, when a wave breaks, the warmer water beneath (orange and red) mixes with the cooler water above (blue and violet).

Last year's historic Paris climate agreement set the goal of keeping global temperatures no higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial levels.

Hudson's laboratory used laser light to cool tiny amounts of the reactant atoms and molecules to an extremely low temperature — one one - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero — and then levitate them in a space smaller than the width of a human hair, inside of a vacuum chamber.

Below that is saltwater that comes from the south, 6 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 4 degrees Celsius) warmer than the fresher water above.

The above notwithstanding, the world of SF and the world of «real» science do overlap to a considerable degree — more than either of them do with any other human activity, I believe.

Travelling between the stars for a hundred light years or so, we would find ourselves moving between regions where the density of gas changes a millionfold — more extreme than the difference between air and water — and with changes in temperature from just a few degrees above absolute zero to over a million degrees.

The cloud is 120 times more massive than the sun, is packed within a relatively small volume, and has an extremely low temperature of barely 18 degrees above absolute zero.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

And some of us would like to eat more than ramen noodles and frozen food every now and then, or turn the heat up above 60 degrees in the winter, or keep our cars running.

After removing one of the atom's electrons, researchers trapped the atom using electric fields and cooled it to less than a thousandth of a degree above absolute zero -LRB--- 273.15 ° Celsius) by hitting it with laser light.

Now Hulet and his colleagues cooled both lithium - 6 and lithium - 7 atoms to temperatures around 240 nanokelvins, less than one fourth of a millionth of a degree above absolute zero.

Ice in space forms at temperatures far more frigid than the coldest pockets on Earth — between 3 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero -LRB--- 459.67 degrees F, or — 273.15 degrees Celsius).

In scenarios in which the average global temperature rises less than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, short - term measures to reduce SLCF had only a minor effect on the long - term rise in temperature.

Less than a millionth of a degree kelvin above absolute zero, chemical reactions can still proceed rapidly

Most importantly, the supply of liquid helium — which cools the optics to 5 degrees above absolute zero — is being consumed more slowly than mission scientists dared hope.

«Since these detectors only work at temperatures less than one degree above absolute zero the equipment also included a compact cryostat,» said Tittel.

The IPCC has determined that in order to keep Earth's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times by the end of the century, global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced between 40 percent and 70 percent by 2050.

Doniger notes that Bush has refused to sign on to a plan that calls for a 50 percent cut in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2050 or to an effort to hold average temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels, as have been proposed by other countries.

Their «gravito - magnetic trap» cooled the gas to — 459.67, less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, the point at which all the molecular movement halts and our heat - vision eyes see only black.

Water can be kept liquid, for example, at temperatures more than 300 degrees Fahrenheit above its boiling point, because it needs a onetime injection of energy to start vaporizing.

When it comes to academic achievement, Asian - Americans outclass every other ethnic group, with more than half over age 25 holding a bachelor's degree — well above the national average of 28 %.

It will be hooked to a dilution refrigerator set at 10 - to - 50 milli - Kelvins, a temperature more than 50 times colder than deep space and a small fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

By NASA's reckoning, October was more than a full degree Celsius (nearly 2 °F) above the average from 1951 - 1980, the first month that has ever happened.

Skywatchers in the UK looking to the south - southeast shortly before midnight on Friday 9 June can see the rising full Moon just 2 1/2 degrees above Saturn, the pair fitting comfortably in the same field of view of binoculars and telescopes magnifying less than 20 ×.

The open ocean around the atoll was 2 degrees Celsius warmer than usual, but a short - term change in weather conditions pushed temperatures on top of the reef to 6 degrees Celsius above normal.

A 122F day in July seems (to me) much more unlikely than an 83F day in March, even though they are the same number of degrees above average.

But as you can see in the NASA figure above, the record breaking heat wasn't uniformly distributed — it was particularly pronounced at the top of the world, showing temperature anomalies above 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 1951 to 1980 average in this region.

The center reports temperature anomalies at this altitude of «more than 6 degrees Celsius (13 degrees Fahrenheit) above average» for the month.

The ninth [very compound Nebula, or Milky - Way] is that in the girdle of Andromeda, which is undoubtedly the nearest of all the great nebulae; its extent is above a degree and a half in length and, in even one of the narrowest places, not less than 16 ′ in breadth.

That means warming would be 1 C (1.8 F) lower than what would happen if governments did nothing, said Andrew Jones, co-founder of Climate Interactive, but well above the international goal of keeping warming below 2 degrees C (3.6), which is 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) from now.