Sentences with phrase «address issues of uncertainty»

Formal prediction must rigorously address issues of uncertainty, skill, and methodology and such predictions are generally stated in terms of probabilities.

Not exact matches

They also address issues such as the unequal distribution of harm and benefit of applications among social actors; the control over technology and its administration; and the uncertainty about the future impacts of technology.

«The evolutionary consequences of climate change are one of our greatest areas of uncertainty because empirical data addressing this issue are extraordinarily rare; this study is a tremendous step forward in our understanding of how climate change can influence evolutionary process and ultimately species biodiversity,» said Ryan Kovach, a University of Montana study co-author.

This research helps the Agency develop its strategy on endocrine - disrupting substances, a mixture of cost - effective action to reduce the risks of harm to the environment, targeted environmental monitoring, further research to address areas of uncertainty, and work to raise the public's awareness of these issues.

Lewis makes a couple of potentially interesting points, chief of which concern the magnitude and uncertainty in the aerosol forcing I used and the time period over which the calculation is done, and I address these issues here.

[Response: A similar conclusion to the one cited by Gavin above was reached independently by a panel of scientists (of which I was a member) convened to report on these issues by the National Academy of Sciences last year, resulting in the NAS report «Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties (2005)».

Thankfully, investment firms have addressed this issue with something that takes uncertainty and human error out of the equation.

Even within these bands of uncertainty, however, it is clear that global warming is an issue that must be addressed.»

Encourage you to address the uncertainties in the issues, not make blanket statements implying catastrophic anthropogenic global warming in the guise of «climate change».

«Because the 21 individual reports are planned to address scientific uncertainties associated with climate change and other technical subjects and are to be issued over a period of three or more years, it may be difficult for the Congress and others to use this information effectively as the basis for making decisions on climate policy,» according to the GAO.

To address the scientific, cultural, health, and social issues arising from climate change requires an in - depth and cross-disciplinary analysis of the role of uncertainty in all of the three principal systems involved: The physical climate system, people's cognitive system and how that construes and potentially distorts the effects of uncertainty, and the social systems underlying the political and public debates surrounding climate change.

As an excuse for not addressing the issue of fossil carbon, I'd admit the uncertainty is too small.

«(B) make available to the Secretary options and recommendations for the program as a whole and on offset methodologies for each practice type that should be considered under regulations promulgated pursuant to section 504 of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, including methodologies to address the issues of additionality, activity baselines, measurement, leakage, including the application of sector specific leakage factors, uncertainty, permanence, and environmental integrity;

And I especially appreciate the care with which you noted the «uncertainties» of the present understanding of the issues you addressed at my request.

One can make it more complicated than that but the idea of propagation of uncertainty is still one of the main issues that this post is addressing.

When a show of hands is required to address uncertainties on separate climate issues I think the integrated view remains very much in play.

If you replace «denial machine» with «uncertainty machine», you just replace one fictional account with another, without addressing any of the scientific or policy issues.

However it reminds me of a thought I had that it might be a good idea to have a guest article on this blog that deals with the ozone layer issue, uncertainties in the science, ramifications of the policies that were implemented, and implications for addressing the possibility of AGW — or not.

It consists of 11 chapters covering the scope of the analysis, decision making under uncertainty, equity issues, intertemporal equity and discounting, applicability of cost and benefit assessments to climate change, social costs of climate change, response options, conceptual issues related to estimating mitigation costs, review of mitigation cost studies, integrated assessment of climate change, and an economic assessment of policy options to address climate change.

Address the real issues: Breakpoints take longer station records with uncertainty and convert them into shorter station records with a LOSS of LOW FREQUENCY information content and more uncertainty.

This issue brief identifies the major types of uncertainties in water quality trading markets and summarizes the various mechanisms that could be used to address them.

In any event, during this period of uncertainty, we may see an increase in WSIA premiums, and we may see legislators attempt to amend the WSIA to address the constitutional issues raised by WSIAT.

As the representative body for the Bar, we have been working to identify the key legal issues which we believe need to be addressed by the Executive and the Legislature to facilitate a transition that minimises the risk of legal uncertainty, the loss of rights, and possible adverse consequences to the national economy, and that capitalises on the opportunities for post-Brexit global Britain.

We shall have to see, but there is no doubt that these issues will have to be resolved and it would be unsatisfactory if that should only arise from a slow drip feed of cases addressing the uncertainty that remains in a piecemeal fashion.

Our team of attorneys and paralegals have years of experience to help you manage the stress and uncertainty that comes with the breakup of the family unit and address the issues that exist after.

A number of recommendations were made by its author Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts, namely to address the uncertainties and issues raised in the growing number of Employment Tribunal claims in recent years, such as employment status, holiday entitlement and pay.