"Significant uncertainty" means a high level of doubt or confusion. It implies that things are unclear or uncertain to a noticeable degree.
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The proposed measures are far too broad and have
created significant uncertainty for entrepreneurs, large private corporations and subsidiaries of multinational corporations.
The measures put forward are far too broad and have created
significant uncertainty for entrepreneurs, large private corporations and subsidiaries of multinational corporations.
This statement gets to the main point of the commentary - that there remains
significant uncertainty regarding the effect of these short - lived pollutants on the global climate.
As with many things in science, there is
still significant uncertainty surrounding climate sensitivity, and different approaches can obtain fairly different results.
The issue of new and emerging technologies is one that is filled with questions and
significant uncertainty as some of the technology has yet to mature.
In a memo the plan boldly declared its goal would be to convince «a majority of the American public» that «
significant uncertainties exist in climate science».
Recent law school graduates face challenging transitions,
significant uncertainty starting out in their careers, and pressure to create fulfilling lives and careers that will sustain them for years to come.
There are
significant uncertainties in exactly what is happening and will happen with the climate, all the feedback mechanisms at play, and what the net results will be.
They have focused on looking at the warmer climates of the Cenozoic (the Pliocene, etc.) to avoid the confusion from the response of ice sheets to orbital forcing during the ice age cycles of the Pleistocene, but obviously have
significant uncertainties due to less precision about ancient greenhouse gas levels.
But the UK's shocking decision to leave the European Union and Donald Trump's equally unexpected victory in the US presidential election have left international law firms
facing significant uncertainty in the world's two largest legal markets.
The Bank's Governing Council remains attentive to the impact of
significant uncertainties weighing on the outlook and continues to monitor risks outlined in the January MPR.
Although TAR is now so widely accepted that it has become — as Judge Peck said — black letter law, there remains
significant uncertainty over the degree of transparency and cooperation required with respect to the training sets used in TAR.
In our model this threshold is below 2 °C, a threshold often used by policy makers in their definition of dangerous climate change27, although the quantitative nature of our results
carries significant uncertainty.
In holding the rate at 0.5 per cent, the central bank said it also
considered significant uncertainties still weighing on its outlook, including the potentially adverse impacts of the U.S. economic agenda.
Now, with the likely «TC Heartland» redistribution, parties face
significant uncertainty when litigating in a district that is unfamiliar with patent disputes.
... [O] ur sense is that the most important structural issues will be pushed off into the future,
leaving significant uncertainty about the long - term direction of the economy and corporate profits.»
Submissions at the hearing
revealed significant uncertainties on the effects of the project on primary productivity in the water ecosystems, impacts on endangered marine mammals, and impacts on existing indigenous and commercial fishing interests.
They
noted significant uncertainties that remain for global temperatures before 1600, but emphasized «surface temperature reconstructions for periods prior to the industrial era are only one of multiple lines of evidence supporting the conclusion that climatic warming is occurring in response to human activities, and they are not the primary evidence.»
Their survey
uncovered significant uncertainties in current climate projections of the intensity and vertical structure of the low - level convergence of moisture to and upper - level divergence of heat away from the tropics.
Moreover,
significant uncertainty presently surrounds the spatial and temporal response of numerous climate and ecological parameters to SWCE, making the near - term deployment of large - scale SWCE extraordinarily risky.