Sentences with phrase «knowledge about future climate change»

By the way: «the degree of uncertainty and» should be scratched to attain accuracy: «The state of our knowledge about future climate change is such that the level of ignorance precludes formulating a PDF of outcomes -LSB-...] ``

The state of our knowledge about future climate change is such that the degree of uncertainty and the level of ignorance precludes formulating a PDF of outcomes, or even putting bounds on the outcomes with a high confidence level.

«The state of our knowledge about future climate change is such that the degree of uncertainty and the level of ignorance precludes formulating a PDF of outcomes -LSB-...]»

Yet even though I have significant experience and knowledge about future climate change policy challenges, the CBAT model helps me visualize the significance of certain policy options facing the world.

Not exact matches

If scientists could know more about Arctic climate of the past, they could better understand today's changes, and use that knowledge to improve projections for the future.

While the body of scientific knowledge about climate change and its impacts has grown tremendously, future conditions can not be predicted with absolute certainty.

You can't know the inputs you need until you know the end result... so if it doesn't expand our knowledge or help us to understand the «how,» and it also doesn't help to predict future climate change, then what is the value (except to convince simple people that this explains everything, and so they don't have to think about it anymore)?

«There has been over-claiming or exaggeration, or at the very least casual use of language by scientists, some of whom are quite prominent,» Professor Hulme told BBC News -LSB-...] «My argument is about the dangers of science over-claiming its knowledge about the future and in particular presenting tentative predictions about climate change using words of «disaster», «apocalypse» and «catastrophe»,» he said.

You have painted them all with a convenient brush for your theory, but that doesn't work with any knowledge of the many individuals in this 97 % who only want to talk about the science, and the explanations of past and current climate and how it can change in the future.

In this chapter we make no specific assumptions about the rate and direction of technological change into the future, recognising that very wide ranges of potentials will exist at the local and organisational levels at which climate vulnerability and responses will often be shaped, and also that the knowledge base referenced in the chapter reflects a range of assumptions about future trends.