Injecting sulphate particles into the stratosphere, for instance, would cool the Earth by reflecting more sunlight into space. (Nature has already shown that this concept can work, since volcanic eruptions that send sulphur-rich plumes into the stratosphere can temporarily alter the world's climate.) However, Dr Lenton notes that the method becomes less effective as the atmosphere becomes more saturated with particles.
However, the method is much less time consuming and comes with a lower risk of injury, making it ideal for elite athletes wishing to remain injury free.
Now a report released by the National Research Council more or less suggests that the method has serious flaws.
The method also makes the industry less vulnerable to fluctuations in wild oyster populations and natural disasters.
The Russians perfected a far less energy-hogging method that uses centrifuges to spin the uranium hexafluoride at 50, 000rpm so that heavier u-238 separates from lighter u-235.
Cities around the world have been encouraging residents to adopt a more environmentally friendly, less expensive method of commuter travel: the bicycle.
Mr Stanley said the number of ways to get at information on a handset was growing, even as it got far less likely that the method used by the NoW journalists would still work.
Streaming video, which enables the viewer to play a file that resides on a remote server, was believed to be a less desirable method of delivery, because the picture quality was often inferior.
What is less than clear is the method that will be employed to bring additional money into the Treasury courtesy of high-earning Americans.
It works as advertised, though we found it only nominally less complicated than the alternative method of dialing in a street name one letter at a time with the MMI dial.
The fact that the wheels have come off the government's fuel tax policies so disastrously this week emphasises the need for a fairer, less crude method of taxing motorists.
Most economists think that the CPI method is the right one, because its formula mimics the behaviour of consumers, who buy less of a product that is becoming relatively dearer.
Then, a future Congress could find another, less constitutionally offensive method to serve the same function as the mandate.
The system works well at what it does, which is to create a simultaneous match of thousands of people at once that is less subject to gaming than the old method.
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The only unambiguously effective method of reducing the long-term carbon and energy cost of air travel is to fly less a behavioral change, not a technological one.
Scientists who ran the Krebs trial have warned the government that its plan to allow shooting of badgers as they roam was likely to be less effective than the trap-and-shoot method deployed during the trial.
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This is less comforting than it sounds, because the usual method for doing a safety analysis is to include all the deaths that occurred in patients who were assigned to take a drug, not just those that are clearly linked to a treatment, in order to avoid missing anything.
The combinatorial method, if it works, should make it a lot less painstaking, and a lot more profitable.
Dr David Gunnell and colleagues from Bristol University point out that the method of suicide favoured by women - drug overdose - has become less lethal owing to the replacement of barbiturates by the less toxic benzodiazepines in the 1980s.
Other than embarrassment, why on earth would the engine maker oppose a method that makes its engines run cooler and with less fuel?
Considering that the entire futuristic Korean story is performed by its characters in plain English, and that we have no reason to believe that these later post-apocalyptic humans would even incorporate English into their own language, it feels less like a world-building method, and more like the writers being unnecessarily clever.
On Wednesday, Apple released an update to its iOS operating system for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches that closes two vulnerabilities used by JailbreakMe, a site that surfaced less than two weeks ago with a clever method of breaking the safeguards on iPhones to allow unauthorized apps to be installed.
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Hence, if there is a less restrictive method to satisfy legitimate regulatory purposes, more restrictive methods fail the standards that protect pluralism and free expression.
Ms. Lopatin said that method might not give all potentially gifted children a fair shot, so the DOE stuck with the less precise option.
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Justice Minister David Ford has written to the Justice Committee to outline what progress has been made in finding "an effective and less intrusive method other than full-body searching for prisoners leaving and entering prison".
When you define a goal according to this method, you make your plans more real, and you now have a reason to sacrifice the things that are less important to you than your goal.
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