Sentences with phrase «even as the certainty»

But even as the certainty of the models improved, Exxon focused instead on their uncertainty in its campaign to delay climate action.

Not exact matches

As human beings we learn to get comfortable in even the most unusual and unfulfilling situations, mainly because we have certainty in staying where we are.

Our resource estimations include estimates of hydrocarbon quantities for (i) new areas for which we do not have sufficient information to date to classify as proved, probable or even possible reserves, (ii) other areas to take into account the low level of certainty of recovery of the resources and (iii) uneconomic proved, probable or possible reserves.

While I've got a new comment open, though, here's my thoughts on the Roth debate: It's generally good to diversify your funds as much as possible, tax-wise; nobody can say with absolute certainty what the tax system will look like numerous years from now (although the smart money says that it'll probably be even more complex than our current system).

Maybe you are not convinced... but it comes across as certainty and even arrogance sometimes.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Permit me to preface my remarks by saying that I do not wish to take a position on the thorny doctrinal question whether we know that some (unknown) persons will be damned, although I take it for granted» as do von Balthasar and Neuhaus» that Catholic theology does not hold or teach that we know all will be saved, a proposition it is unlikely even the optimistic Origen affirmed with certainty, and is surely difficult to square with Jesus» repeated teaching on the «two ways» (e.g., Matthew 7:13 «14), especially his answer to the question whether only a few would be saved.

There is even a recognisable group (the preterists) who would be seen as Christian and would reject such certainty.

Not only are the meager materials in the Gospels which deal with his earlier life obviously legendary and late, but even within the brief compass of his public career no certainty is possible as to the order of events and little as to the historicity of a great many particular events.

(For example, a Christian woman once told me earnestly that even if biologists were able to demonstrate common descent to a certainty, she would still reject it for a simplistic interpretation of the Genesis creation account as a matter of faith.)

The focus of its curriculum in the seventeenth century and well into the eighteenth was logic — not formal logic as we understand the subject, but the art of reasoning and living well, and even the introduction of Cartesian logic in the 1680s was seen as a simplified way of discovering certainty and praised for its «use in the affairs of life.»

Just as androcentric competition in the polis had the dark underside of classist, racist, and sexist repressions of women - slaves - children, so Greco - Roman cultures and politics came to renounce even their limited democratic ideals and practices in the pursuit of the certainties and necessities of militaristic imperialism.

A responsible scientist will not regard the theory as absolutely certain in every respect and as strictly demonstrated, even if he ascribes a certain pragmatic certainty to it such as is appropriate in the scientific domain.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

I will quite willingly explain to God that in the absence of 100 % certainty, I guarded my faith as scripture warned time and again - something that is not necessary if God keeps people safe even from themselves and the exercise of their free will that he gave man in the garden of Eden.

The time will come when time will run out for us too, and once we see that, we see also that for the 18 - year - old at McDonald's as well as for the old crock in the retirement - home cafeteria, every one of our suppers points to the preciousness of life and also to the certainty of death, which makes life even more precious still and is precious in itself because under its shadow we tend to search harder and harder for light.

Cohen was one of those rock - era poets (and arguably the only genuine poet among them) who sounded like he knew something of the utmost importance, even as he spent most of his time sidestepping every certainty and making the most of every mystery.

I can say with absolute certainty, categorically, that Rafa Benitez will not be sacked as manager of Liverpool this evening and that these rumours are not true.

But while the period of time to concoct a bid is guaranteed, there is little certainty about what would follow, and no indication as to whether the seller would even have to consider the bid from the fans» trusts.

There have been reports from a newspaper in Marseille that Nasri is on his way and even The Guardian have marked the Frenchman's move down as a near certainty.

Before even seeing the numbers we'd nailed down Diego Costa as a certainty, with the Chelsea striker looking a rejuvenated man under Guus Hiddink, who is still unbeaten in the Premier League since replacing Jose Mourinho back in December.

And now, we hear that another Labour moderate who represents no one at all, is going to put his name forward as well, which makes Corby's re-election even more of a certainty.

Classical certainty ceded its stewardship of reality to the probabilistic rule of quantum mechanics, even as the parallel revolution of Einstein's relativity displaced our cherished, absolute notions of space and time.

Since the fish eggs are only a few hours old, this technique allows researchers to assign spawning locations with certainty, as opposed to methods of looking for older larvae which could have been floating in the ocean for weeks or even months.

In fact, even if the world does cool over the next few years as some predict, it in no way undermines the certainty about long - term warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.

That finding neatly encapsulates one of the most wondrous aspects of science: Even as it destroys old certainties, it opens our eyes to amazing new possibilities awaiting in the world all around us.

Yet too many of us choose comfort and certainty as our primary values, even if it means violating how the soul yearns to contribute in this world.

It's by no means a flawless show, and there's no certainty that even a trio as strong as this one can float the series by sheer force of will, but if the last 10 minutes are any indication, Up All Night may just find itself the most elusive trophy of all: an audience.

Sims, a simulated reality that exists only in a subject's mind, are in the forefront of that struggle, and nightmares plague Tris, as she contends with her own self - doubt, guilt, and certainty that anyone she loves, or even gets close to, will meet a bad end.

As if within her, beneath the span of her own days, there are other hunts going on continuously, giant elk in flight from the pursuit of hunters other than herself, and the birth of other mountains being plotted and planned — other mountains rising, then, and still more mountains vanishing into distant seas — and that even more improbable than her encountering that one giant elk, on her first hunt, was the path, the wandering line, that brought her to her father in the first place, that delivered her to him and had made him hers and she his — the improbability and yet the certainty that would place the two of them in each other's lives, tiny against the backdrop of the world and tinier still against the mountains of time.

He may even be willing to pay a small premium for the certainty of knowing that his book will work as expected.Thus in this case, Amazon will be like Microsoft and will extend their dominance from one area (books) to another (ebooks.)

My goal as an artist is to create powerful images that invite the viewer to move away from certainty and experience something new... even years after the first encounter.

Moreover, while common usage may sanction «fuzzy» certainty, this is a usage that simply takes a perfectly good word and weakens its meaning even while this is avoidable, as there are other words that serve the purpose better.

As mentioned in an earlier post, as a layperson, I am more interested in avoiding false negatives, so I don't need 95, 90, or even 20 % certainty to be thinking about thiAs mentioned in an earlier post, as a layperson, I am more interested in avoiding false negatives, so I don't need 95, 90, or even 20 % certainty to be thinking about thias a layperson, I am more interested in avoiding false negatives, so I don't need 95, 90, or even 20 % certainty to be thinking about this.

A scientist who strays, even momentarily, off the path of certainty or who wanders from hard science into policy is immediately dismissed as someone with an axe to grind.

He said it's natural for people and even scientists to go along with science that has the sanction of the United Nations and is covered as a certainty by the media.

The 99 % certainty / 1 % possibility starts to be at the upper end or perhaps even beyond, of what I see as possible to consider, the 90 % / 10 % and 95 % / 5 % cases are perhaps more important, but most definitely not the 50 % case.

The problem is that this science is much newer even than climate change, has even less certainty and is as much infused with apocalyptic visions of future states.

In AR5 IPCC chose to arbitrarily define the forecast to have even greater probability - likelihood - certainty having > 95 % confidence as compared with previous ARs having lower certainties.

As we continue to ramp up renewables (which the CES will deliver), we need comparable regulatory certainty for energy efficiency: New York needs a clear energy - efficiency standard, even as the means of delivering that efficiency will continue to evolve under the REV.. Once this standard is put in place, it can ensure New York accomplishes what other leading states already have — year - over-year electricity savings of 2 percent a year or morAs we continue to ramp up renewables (which the CES will deliver), we need comparable regulatory certainty for energy efficiency: New York needs a clear energy - efficiency standard, even as the means of delivering that efficiency will continue to evolve under the REV.. Once this standard is put in place, it can ensure New York accomplishes what other leading states already have — year - over-year electricity savings of 2 percent a year or moras the means of delivering that efficiency will continue to evolve under the REV.. Once this standard is put in place, it can ensure New York accomplishes what other leading states already have — year - over-year electricity savings of 2 percent a year or more.

The correct statement is that there is no God including me, and even a positive atheist would generally only say there is probably no God, not state it as a certainty.

«This is an important shift because it offers greater certainty that emissions can be cut even as Brazil's economy expands.»

Even year - to - year «emissions certainty» is vitiated in the European Emissions Trading System by provisions allowing borrowing and banking of allowances as well as by voluminous offsets.

In fact, the authors suggest that fear of those incentives going away helped make 2012 so stellar, and their 11th - hour extension for another year doesn't provide the certainty that wind's business case needs, even as wind - power technology improves and gets cheaper.

Now, taking even the most wildly optimistic statement of certainty of AGW — the «very likely (> 90 % probability) stated by IPCC in AR4, this hardy makes AGW a «fact» such as gravity, and thus subject to the pejorative denialist label (Catastrophic AGW and effectiveness of mitigations would have certainty far far below this 90 %).

Therefore as you have pointed out that means that even using Gavins «model based» approach to certainty the probability CO2 is the 110 % cause of the modern warming is drastically reduced.

As Dr. Curry has pointed out, even the AR5 report does not answer that «catastrophic» question with any certainty.

As I mentioned in my article, the state of California might allow some of its industries to comply with a forthcoming global warming policy by steering money into tropical forest protection, but even that is no certainty.

I've been thinking about the PRO-CON FORMAT the media use (which has been discussed earlier), and now think that the format itself is not as bad as the fact that the media have limited the debate between contrarians (who need 99 %, perhaps 101 % certainty on AGW) and scientists (who require 95 % certainty, and even with that, bring all their caveats on screen — as if the scientific devil's adocates were there with them on TV).

Under EU law, individuals will not be able to oppose this since in the EU legal order the principle of legality and even legal certainty do not apply to such «procedural» matters as statutes of limitations.