Sentences with phrase «deep uncertainty about»

The dirty little secret in many environmental matters is that there is deep uncertainty about how human actions will affect the environment and proof one way or the other is illusive.

But behind the photo ops, observers say, lies a still - deep uncertainty about how the U.S. - China relationship will play out this week as nations struggle for a new international agreement.

Yet the new endorsement of geoengineering research comes amid deep uncertainty about the direction that climate research will take under the new administration of President - elect Donald Trump.

There also remains deep uncertainty about future prospects for the unstable Middle Eastern country.

The report also urges the Transport Select Committee to consider the need for an inquiry into processes that inform and influence transport policy and investment in the face of deep uncertainty about the future.

Deep uncertainty about the future has held investors on edge.

Amidst deep uncertainty about its future as a public company, BlackBerry is launching a new flagship smartphone.

But the fix is provisional; insurers have been exiting the Affordable Care Act marketplaces over deep uncertainty about the health law's future, and insurance commissioners in some states have had to plea with firms to remain committed to the exchanges.

They clothe themselves in an armor of achievement that they hope will protect them against uncertainties — of the job market, of course, but also deeper uncertainties about their status, their identities, their self - worth.

Not exact matches

And while the insurance lobby is lauding the rule, it's also expressed deep concerns about the uncertainty still swirling around the health law, which is making it difficult for insurers to effectively set their rates for next year.

Her words are emblematic of so many of the posts in the synchroblog, sure, but it's also beautifully written, wise, wry, deep, beautiful, and honest about the mess and uncertainty that often accompanies our shifts.

But I have to confess that I've seen nothing at the NYFF that resonated as deeply or engaged me as thoroughly as Looper — yes, a Bruce Willis action movie, but one with an ingeniously worked - out plot, surprisingly deep emotions, and a thing or two to say about the uncertainty of inevitability.

Steven E. Koonin, once the Obama administration's undersecretary of energy for science and chief scientist at BP, stirred up a swirl of turbulence in global warming discourse this week after The Wall Street Journal published «Climate Science is Not Settled,» his essay calling for more frankness about areas of deep uncertainty in climate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much as data.

Instead, they discuss new ways of playing around with the aerosol judge factor needed to explain why 20th - century warming is about half of the warming expected for increased in GHGs; and then expand their list of fudge factors to include smaller volcanos, stratospheric water vapor (published with no estimate of uncertainty for the predicted change in Ts), transfer of heat to the deeper ocean (where changes in heat content are hard to accurately measure), etc..

My statements on policy relate to how think about policy decisions under conditions of deep scientific uncertainty, and to to assess whether policy responses will have their intended / desired effect and what their unintended consequences will be.

There is deep and persistent uncertainty about responses.

Judith keeps talking about decision making under «deep uncertainty».

Deep uncertainty persists about the likelihood of a rapid ice - sheet «collapse» contributing to a major acceleration of sea - level rise; for the coming century, the probability of such an event is generally considered to be low but not zero (e.g., Bamber and Aspinall, 2013).

Even just acknowledging more openly the incredible magnitude of the deep structural uncertainties that are involved in climate - change analysis — and explaining better to policymakers that the artificial crispness conveyed by conventional IAM - based CBAs [Integrated Assessment Model — Cost Benefit Analyses] here is especially and unusually misleading compared with more ordinary non-climate-change CBA situations — might go a long way toward elevating the level of public discourse concerning what to do about global warming.

Even in the ARGO era (2003 --RRB-, the error bars and uncertainty ranges for our educated guesses (that's what they are) about deep ocean heat are 10 times greater (and more) than the suggested temperature changes (hundredths of a degree) themselves.

In today's economic times, when everywhere you look there's a rumbling of great uncertainty, I think we should all take a pause (and a deep breath) to think about our lives.

But so far the year has brought uncertainty for the world economy, including deep questions about the Chinese economy and a surprisingly bad U.S. jobs report.

The opening paragraph says: «A deeper understanding of infant deaths has created fresh uncertainty about mother Kathleen Folbigg's murder convictions.»