Sentences with phrase «highly uncertain»

Since the timing of the disposition of foreclosed properties can be highly uncertain, we will witness choppy price movements as individual metro markets stabilize.

But the harsh truth is that this life is highly uncertain.

But while enjoying the luxuries of life one should also be aware that life is highly uncertain.

It's obvious that the future of Obamacare is highly uncertain.

Our firm has developed sample «conclusory» language, ranging from being highly confident in your opinion at the one extreme to being highly uncertain as to the likely outcome at the other extreme, with varying degrees of language in between.

The outcome of this scrutiny, particularly in the Othman case, where it is likely that evidence will be used in a prosecution in Jordan which was obtained by torture, must be highly uncertain.

I'll leave the substantive issue about the legitimacy of an employee privilege claim to another day, but will set up the thoughts below by noting that the issue is highly uncertain in... [more]

The Samaroos were acquitted of all charges in a 2010 criminal trial where the trial judge found the Crown's case «weak» and supported by «unreliable» and «highly uncertain» evidence which contained «significant flaws» and «discrepancies».

Employers have an indisputable duty to provide a safe and harassment free work environment, but the scope of the «workplace» and the limits of the duty are highly uncertain when employees are targeted by «trolls» or other internet miscreants.

There is SOME observational data suggesting the global average temperature has increased on the order of 1 deg C over the last 150 years, but the exact figure is highly uncertain due to instrumental error and the adjustment games CRU, GISS and the rest have been playing.

However, what if anything will replace the carbon price remains highly uncertain.

China's emissions are set to grow from 10 Gt CO2e today to 11 - 14 Gt in 2020, India's from 2 Gt to 3 - 5 Gt, Iran and Saudi Arabia have not made pledges, South Africa is unlikely to meet its pledge to approximately stabilize its emissions, Mexico and Brazil have pledged absolute emissions cuts conditional on finance, and Indonesia's emissions (mostly from forestry) are highly uncertain.

The direct and indirect radiative effects of aerosols suspended in the atmosphere above clouds (ACA) are a highly uncertain component of both regional and global climate.

a theory whose basic mechanism is well understood, but whose magnitude is highly uncertain.

The magnitude «is highly uncertain.»

I think what you mean is difficult and highly uncertain.

Such a narrow focus also overlooks legacy emissions of CO2 that will remain in the stratosphere for decades, possibly capable of cascading us, in one highly uncertain scenario, to a catastrophy which no amount of new technology or life style changing could reverse.

The fact that ice sheets will respond to warming is not in doubt (note the 4 - 6 m sea level rise during the last interglacial), but the speed at which that might happen is highly uncertain, though the other story this week shows it is ongoing.

Exact rate of sea level rise for any period prior to satellites is also highly uncertain.

As stated many times, the period before 1940 remains highly uncertain due to a lack of good data.

Additionally, the report also acknowledges the highly uncertain (but not clearly quantifiable) the possibilities of positive feedbacks in natural CO2 and CH4 emissions.

«We are in effect forced to make current decisions about highly uncertain events in the distant future even though these estimates are highly speculative and are almost sure to be refined over the coming decades.»

Quantifying the net human influence on the climate is a more difficult task, because the magnitude of the cooling effect from aerosols remains highly uncertain.

``... the amplitude and even the sign of cloud feedbacks was noted in the TAR as highly uncertain, and this uncertainty was cited as one of the key factors explaining the spread in model simulations of future climate for a given emission scenario.

A number of anthropogenic and natural factors (e.g., aerosols, greenhouse gases, volcanic activity, solar variability, and internal climate variability) must be considered as potential contributors, and the science remains highly uncertain in these areas.

«The implications of the level of ocean warming that already has been attained include the need to reassess the way we quantify and manage today's catastrophe risk; specifically, after moving away from historical averages, the need to define a «new normal» which is itself highly uncertain.»

However, the cause or causes of the recent enhanced warming of the Atlantic, relative to other tropical basins, and its effect on Atlantic tropical cyclones, remains highly uncertain (e.g., Booth et al. 2012; Zhang et al. 2013; Dunstone et al. 2013; Villarini and Vecchi 2013).

The IPCC AR4 states: «While the 11 - year solar forcing cycle is well documented, lower - frequency variations in solar forcing are highly uncertain.»

Risk of natural disturbances makes future contribution of Canada's forests to the global carbon cycle highly uncertain.

On one hand, the reduction in global SO2 emissions reduces the role of sulfate aerosols in determining future climate toward the end of the 21st century and therefore reduces one aspect of uncertainty about future climate change (because the precise forcing effect of sulfate aerosols is highly uncertain).

The sign and magnitude of these effects are highly uncertain and will vary regionally.

Anthropogenic climate change is a theory whose basic mechanism is well understood, but whose magnitude is highly uncertain.

One of the most vexing aspects of predicting climate change, of course, is that future outcomes are highly uncertain.

«Given the large variability in discharge and SMB observed within the past decade and the potential for unaccounted positive feedback within the ice - climate system, however, the contribution of GrIS discharge to future sea level rise remains highly uncertain.»

«Curry: AGW understood, magnitude highly uncertain 1.

The exact speed with which these are going to contribute to sea level rise is highly uncertain, the synthesis report says, but the best scientific estimate — based on observed correlation between global average temperatures and sea level rise over the past 120 years — shows that by 2100 we will experience sea level rise of one meter or more.

I hadn't encountered the NIPCC argument before, but Lindzen at least has half a point in that the aerosol feedback is highly uncertain.

Apart from this, the way to get around the whiplash problem is to get rid of the mindset and decision analytic framework whereby policies are based on a most likely outcome (with an uncertainty range), determined from a negotiated consensus about a highly uncertain topic.

Yet your focus is on a highly uncertain threat which not one person has died from.

Caps will error because (1) they won't cover some major emitters for decades, (2) they won't cover land - use changes, (3) the best scientific estimate of climate sensitivity is uncertain by hundreds of billions of tonnes, (4) the earth's CO2 uptake by 2 ° target date is highly uncertain.

Climate IAMs have «hundreds of input parameters, each of which is highly uncertain in the long run.»

So, all in all, it appears highly uncertain that AGW, caused principally by human CO2 emissions, has been the primary cause of past warming, or that it represents a serious potential threat to humanity or our environment.

However, O'Brien and colleagues found that this result is highly uncertain because the development and incidence of coastal marine fog are dependent upon interactions among three systems — atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial — which are each subject to broad ranges of variability.

Thus, predictions of future trajectories of pH in coastal ecosystems are still highly uncertain even though model predictions can provide reliable predictions for the future trajectories of open - ocean pH and, thereby, the open - ocean end - member affecting coastal pH. Moreover, we argue that even the expectation that the component of coastal pH change associated with OA from anthropogenic CO2 will follow the same pattern as that in the open ocean is not necessarily supported.

Although the timescale is highly uncertain, a qualitative WAIS change could occur within this millennium, with collapse within 300 years being a worst - case scenario.

The paper finds that the entirety of the global ecological overshoot consists of carbon emissions, which are translated into a highly uncertain, hypothetical area of forest needed to offset these emissions.

That is one area that is highly uncertain.

Because the majority of recent ΔFP − M estimates (see Sect. 1) are only in the range 0.1 − 0.2 W / m2, and amplification processes have not been identified, the role of the solar forcing in the natural climate change remains highly uncertain (Solomon et al. 2007).

Likewise, simulations of dust emissions in 2100 are highly uncertain, ranging from a 60 % decrease to a factor of 3.8 increase as compared to present - day dust emissions (Mahowald and Luo, 2003; Tegen et al., 2004; Woodward et al., 2005; Stier et al., 2006a).

Soil carbon release remains a highly uncertain climate feedback.