Sentences with phrase «high consequence»

Low probability, high consequence events provide particular challenges to developing robust policies.

For science of high consequence, rapid peer review is crowd sourced by the media and blogs.

Paying a mortgage is more demanding, and has higher consequences if you fail to pay, than rent.

We should talk less about consensus and more about the consequences of being wrong — about the lower probability (or low consensus) but high consequence outcomes.

This makes it very hard to stick to behaviors that protect us from low - probability but high consequence events that could occur sometime in the future.

The Bismarck route also would have crossed an area considered by federal pipeline regulators as a «high consequence area,» which is an area determined to have the most significant adverse consequences in the event of a pipeline spill.

The coalition members blasted de Blasio for stating, in response to Vance's announcement, that frequent fare beaters are «asking for higher consequences» and that there is «no way in hell anyone should be evading the fare.»

In addition, Jean represents her office on several federal committees and working groups addressing issues ranging from mitigating the risks posed by high consequence animal diseases, to animal rights extremist groups, and enhancing preparedness of pet owners in the event of a natural or man - made disaster.

The general principle that seems to sum all this up is that humanity may tend to ignore high consequence low probability events that it hasn't yet experienced because people may find them too difficult to imagine and to spend money on until they occur.

It's the kind of risk humans don't have a good history of addressing — the kind experts call «low probability, high consequence events.»

It's a piece that reveals, as has been the case for decades, that the ice factor (and thus the sea level factor) are areas of high consequence and durable uncertainty.

Low risk is not zero risk and the risk is high consequence.

«They are low probability and high consequence, and politicians only hope they don't happen on their watch.»

Extreme stress in teens — who may be mirroring surrounding burnt - out adults — has high consequences.

Still, the most serious impacts from human - driven warming remain largely in the realm of «low probability, high consequence» threats.

The unfolding oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico shows what can happen when planners don't adequately consider scenarios in girding against «low probability, high consequence» risks.

But the country can no longer be lulled to allow «low probability, high consequence» risks to go unaddressed.

For decision - making we are often interested in low probability - high consequence events but it is critical to give some impression of their likelihood.

Everyone makes mistakes, but some mistakes levy a higher consequence than others, especially when it comes to your professional life.