Sentences with phrase «world by an order of magnitude»

Starting college changes a teen's world by an order of magnitude.

Not exact matches

Not most importantly that since the bible is the most heavily researched book in the history of the world by wide orders of magnitude, scholars have thoroughly examined textual criticism issues such as this, and the Christian can rest assured that: — the bible we have is over 99 % original text — none of the verses under issue affect the Christian message of salvation through faith in the atoning work of Jesus on the cross at all, not even the smallest amount.

The number of people in the world who believes in some form of deity far outnumber people who don't believe in a god by several orders of magnitude.

The engine recently produced an output of more than 200 kilowatts, an order of magnitude above previous technology, making it «by far the world's most powerful plasma rocket,» Chang Díaz says.

Kurzweil has his skeptics — most of whose counterarguments can be summarized as, nah, that would just be too weird — but even if he's grandiose in his predictions by several orders of magnitude, it still seems a safe bet that we are heading into a world where discretion has no meaning.

So we can speed up the mapping of world biodiversity by an order of magnitude easily.

This, in spite of the fact that the world's total imaging capacity has expanded by several orders of magnitude in the past 20 years.»

It is one thing to raise sea levels by several metres, ravage climates, devastate human civilisation and wipe out half of global biodiversity, but a hydrogen sulphide world is an order of magnitude more horrific.

«In doing so, we are not only gaining a world - class print partner, but also enabling our authors to reach out to a far wider audience and increase their potential sales by an order of magnitude.

The point is that the damage to the world is beginning to be detectable — and it's going up by orders of magnitude, not simple additive steps.

Cleary, the focus on controlling population in countries where per capita emissions are minute is unreasonable, when per capita emissions in the developed world are larger (by orders of magnitude!)

-- As Ashok Gadgil and I showed ~ 23 years ago from World Bank data, investing in negawatts wherever they're cheaper than megawatts cuts by ~ 4 orders of magnitude (3 from intensity, 1 from velocity) the capital needed by the power sector — the most capital - intensive sector, gobbling about 1/4 of all development capital.

Consequently, the world appears to be on the threshold of an era which in terms of energy consumption will be at least an order of magnitude greater than that made possible by the fossil fuels.

Even if they are off by an order of magnitude, a 6 meter rise in sea level will dramatically alter the coastlines of the world.

This firm made enviro - lobbying heroic among the vastly well - funded world of environmental activism, which outfunds their opponents by some orders of magnitude.

Plugging a volcano does not sound easy or particularly safe, but the larger problem is that CO2 emissions from volcanoes are two orders of magnitude smaller the anthropogenic CO2 emissions, so the relevant comparison is the cost of plugging all the volcanoes in the world vs cutting human emissions by 1 %.

This continuous process of growth raised world oil production by three orders of magnitude from 1879 (58.5 thousand barrels per day) to 1973 (58.5 million barrels per day).

Refugees and Aliens in the USA — illegal or not — from the 3rd world increase their carbon footprint by orders of magnitude.

The model outputs are generally presented as an average of an ensemble of individual runs (and even ensembles of individual runs from multiple models), in order to remove this variability from the overall picture, because among grownups it is understood that 1) the long term trends are what we're interested and 2) the coarseness of our measurements of initial conditions combined with a finite modeled grid size means that models can not predict precisely when and how temps will vary around a trend in the real world (they can, however, by being run many times, give us a good idea of the * magnitude * of that variance, including how many years of flat or declining temperatures we might expect to see pop up from time to time).