Sentences with phrase «what fraction of it»

What remains unclear is precisely what fraction of the observed changes in these climate - sensitive systems can confidently be attributed to human - related influences, rather than mere natural regional fluctuations in climate.

I've just completed an analysis to determine what fraction of the atmospheric CO2 is anthropogenic and what is natural.

And unless something like the hockey stick is known with high confidence, it's hard to know what fraction of the temperature trend assign to CO2, and then «supported by temperature trends» becomes a very iffy argument.

To go from the amount of CO2 emitted to the actual increase in the atmosphere, one needs to know what fraction of the emissions remains in the air: the «airborne fraction».

If all the light from the beam were then collected by an orbiting astronaut with a sufficiently large lens, what fraction of a Watt would that be?

«The big question to this day is, what fraction of that carbon gets out of the surface water and into the deep ocean where it's sequestered for long periods of time, keeping it out of the atmosphere?»

Now if Angstrom had used an IR camera to determine what fraction of the photons were able to make the trip without being absorbed and were available for creating an image of the IR source, then his analysis would have made more sense.

The second is a population issue: what fraction of all climate scientists are the CE ones (c97 - 98 % they say)?

What fraction of everything thrown out is that?

(What fraction of energy use is best left for hydrocarbons?

Some ask, «What fraction of our investment goes to the cause versus overhead?»

The scientific consensus amounts to this: (1) climate is changing (2) human activities contribute to it, (3) nobody can say for sure what fraction of (1) is accounted for by (2), or how much impact we can have by altering human activities.

GPS can help illuminate what fraction of SLR is due to VLM, but won't eliminate the effects of changes in wind.

In addition there is no known catastrophic event caused by rising CO2 levels [regardless what fraction of this increase is caused by humans].

By combining these data, the scientists figured out «what fraction of Antarctic glacial ice is lost through icebergs, and what is lost through ocean melting,» Holland said.

Regarding the other half of the warming, what fraction of that is due to regional to super regional scale surface / near surface waste heat, albedo / vegetation modification, and, disturbances to boundary layer laminar flows by human made structures and tree plantings?

Another important issue is what fraction of man - made carbon dioxide emissions will stay in the atmosphere and for how long.

Having run a small hill farm on the Cambrian mountains for the last 10 years (160acres in - by plus hill commons grazing rights for 700 head) I've been able to ask those born and bred as shepherds what fraction of the hill they see as no use for raising sheep.

[5] The SWE / P ratio shows what fraction of current water year precipitation remains in the snow pack for any given day of the water year: the closer SWE (snow water equivalent) is to P (overall precipitation), the more water resources remain.

You do know what fraction of a percent this all represents?

Regardless of what fraction of the observed warming is due to anthropogenic carbon dioxide, the actual temperature trends are not troubling.

Thus, for the sake of simplicity, we focus on CO2 alone, and do not consider the issue of what fraction of these long - term emissions might be made up of N2O, although we note that, in several other papers considering the impact of emissions over the very long term, this fraction is substantial.

If you remove the ««Unknown, «I Don't Know» and «Other»» responses from Question 1a — «What fraction of global warming can be attributed to human induced increases in GHGs?»

What fraction of global warming since the mid-20th century can be attributed to human induced increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations?

But so far, no one has «properly measured what fraction of the oil is collected that way.»

What fraction of the global warming was caused by human emissions of CO2?

«We don't know yet what fraction of the drops we make will actually get up to where the clouds are», says Salter.

I'm skeptical about what fraction of climatism IS science.

And what fraction of the daily average temperature is due to new energy from the sun?

What fraction of the below - ground volume will become carbon, and how deep?

Specifically what fraction of the «dimming» would you estimate from your work to be caused by the GHG warming?

What fraction of a week (or day) in our Iraq venture's funding would provide the needed money?

«One of the problems with ozone is that we don't understand how the UV - B is changing at ground level, and what fraction of the ultraviolet light really causes cancer.»

What fraction of that is convective and what fraction is radiative I haven't a clue, since it's not my field.

A couple of suggested topics that I think you could do a job with: 1) Quantitative view of how to evaluate closed end funds trading at a discount to NAV with a given NAV and discount history, fee / cost structure, and dividend history; 2) How to evaluate the fundamentals of the return of capital distributions from MLPs — e.g. what fraction of them is true dividend and what fraction is true return of capital and how should one arrive at a reasonable profile of the future to put a DCF value on it?

You will then get a deduction for the fraction of the amount based on what fraction of your home is an office.

R squared tells us what fraction of the variance in the data is explained by the curve fit.

I don't know what the fraction of those books are today.

The question is posed, which of the two examples would provide greater opportunities for students to think through a wide range of mathematical concepts: «What fraction of this rectangle is shaded brown?

Once we have made these specifications, the spreadsheet will tell us what fraction of teachers we can actually identify.

(With solutions)[8 questions] Fraction of a certain category presented in the question (e.g what fraction of the following shapes have one line of symmetry?)

Each student determines what fraction of a pizza he or she ate by looking at the extra-cheese portion of the pizza on the top of the card.

This is a resource for upper KS2 and it is to help them practise the questions in SATs that ask them to work out what fraction of a shape is shaded...

The key barometer throughout is what fraction of a state's youngsters scored at or above «proficient» on the NAEP scale.

By following these isotopes into the food web, we can determine what fraction of a worm, a crayfish, or a fish was ultimately supported by terrestrial versus aquatic photosynthesis.

In order to determine what fraction of the total dsRNA was bound to RDE - 4 and to examine the requirements for the stability of the dsRNA bound to RDE - 4, RNA extracts from wild - type and rde mutant strains were analyzed.

There have been posited limits on what fraction of electricity can reliably come from variable renewables — that is photovoltaics and wind power, which vary according to the weather and the Earth's rotation and so on — and those limits used to be said to be a few per cent, five per cent, ten per cent, 15, 20, 25, 30 etc..

What remains unclear is precisely what fraction of the observed changes in these climate - sensitive systems can confidently be attributed to human - related influences, rather than mere natural regional fluctuations in climate.

In addition, there were occasional inquiries from Washington about what fraction of time went to non-US observers.

«We really had no estimate at all of what fraction of stars might harbor Earth - like planets,» Marcy told Discovery News.