Sentences with phrase «less worse scenarios»

Without effective policy, we are looking at the difference between catastrophic climate change and less worse scenarios.

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If your worst case scenario is only having the friend mad at you for awhile as you go it alone, that's a much less serious risk.

The worst case scenario is that the country will experience what economists call a «hard landing,» essentially a major slowdown in GDP growth, to less than 5 % or the approximate rate of inflation.

«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.

Worst case scenario it drops his price down a few hundred k. Most likely scenario he'll gain a bit of interest from a lesser team, drive his price up a tad.

maybe you don't understand that Wenger's words are simply an attempt to recover some of the market value that was lost due to the way they have mishandled his contract negotiations, which means that everyone, once again, knows that we have little to no leverage when it comes to negotiating a transfer... much like we did with RVP, when we sold the EPL trophy to ManU for less than $ 25 million... any reputable team with a sporting director would never have allowed this situation to occur again and if they had heads would roll... if handled correctly the worst case scenario would have seen us get a minimum of $ 65 million for a player of his ilk in the present economic climate and we could have used those funds to purchase the best available striker in the early days of the transfer window... just imagine what outsiders must think about the state of our team if all you did was read the headlines... sadly, things might just might be worse than they think

Worst case scenario is that your baby turns out a little less smart than he otherwise would have been, which seriously?

And while the globe faces a no less complex scenario than in 1974 the reaction is to shrug our collective shoulders at best and at worst talk down politics and write off politicians as venal and selfish.

Both species were less defensive at 11,000 and 16,000 microatmospheres (considered worst - case scenario values for many lakes)-- displaying fewer neck spikes or developing smaller crests.

Less than 1 percent of the sample said they would go to an emergency shelter and only as a «last resort» or in «a worst - case scenario,» the study found.

Wang said he'll investigate how new ideas for service contracts can provide more flexibility and less risk to power - system operations — all without relying on conservative plans for worst - case scenarios.

An improbable event with very bad consequences (the high population scenario) is much more relevant for policy decisions than an improbable event in which impacts are less severe.

Worst case scenario, they're the one pulling away, which oddly, is a less awkward situation for you to be in!

Worst - case scenario: Harvey Weinstein has pulled a Weinstein, either acquiring the kind of middlebrow pap he buys in bulk or dicing up an interesting film into a less interesting one.

Prompt action in an allergic reaction can literally save a child's life in a worst case scenario, or in a less severe situation can make a child more comfortable and reassured that staff understand how they are feeling.

Superintendent White's plan would allow schools to enroll students on the waiting list if the schools agree in writing to accept a potential «worst - case scenario» of a nominal payment from the state of less than $ 100 per child for the year.

The waiting list is being trimmed down as schools agree to accept a potential «worst - case scenario» of a nominal payment from the state of less than $ 100 per child for the year.

I'm confident to say then that the range of 130 miles is a reasonable worst case scenario for the Ioniq Electric - with those reaching less either driving the majority of the time on the motorway at 70mph, or bizarrely thrashing their Hyundai EV on a track day.

While I'm less than happy about Goodreads selling away its independence to Amazon, a far worse scenario would have been if Apple had acquired it.

If the publisher makes less on each digital sale, well, then that worst - case scenario destroys the publisher, and they can't take that risk.

This means that though commodities may generally have a higher standard deviation (overall volatility), they also tend to snap away from a losing streak faster than equities do, so their worst periods tend to be less significant than the worst case scenarios presented by equities.

Credit card debt, on the other hand, is a type of unsecured loan that presents a lot less risk because worst case scenario is that your rating and score will suffer a bit.

Not only were the mean and median ending values higher when the glide - path was reversed, but the worst - case scenarios were less bad, and the up - side potential was greater.

It protects you from worst - case scenarios and makes it less likely that you will see best - possible scenarios.

The current Shiller PE of 23.4 implies a real return of less than 0.9 percent per year for the next decade, with a best - case scenario less than 8.3 percent annually, and a worst - case scenario of less than -4.4 percent annually.

If the inflation rate announced in November is 0 % or less, you will earn no interest from November 1 through April 30; in this worst case scenario, you will have earned $ 230 on your $ 10,000 for about 11 months (assuming you bought the I Bonds at the end of May), which comes out to about 2.5 %.

The bad scenario is possible ($ 150 billion in tariffs), with less than 50 % odds.

The worst - case scenario when it comes to these less accurate tests is that the results will pinpoint its ancestry or the more common class of dog.

Let me add my wife as an authorized user so the net will go down to $ 486 ($ 75 annual fee for an authorized user) which is nothing less than awesome and even in the worst of the worst case scenario where you do not even qualify for $ 1 of Travel Credit in one of those years (extremely unlikely) you will not spend anything out of pocket.

Worst - case scenario: He could also play too much of the old Red Faction games and pull the series back towards its first - person roots, turning it into more of an Unreal, and less of a Red Faction: Guerrilla.

This creates a stall, meaning that in a worst - case scenario, instead of a smoother frame - rate all you have really achieved is less utilisation of the GPU and a less attractive, lower - res image.

An improbable event with very bad consequences (the high population scenario) is much more relevant for policy decisions than an improbable event in which impacts are less severe.

If anything, the current article indicates the threat is less likely to be in line with worse case scenarios which assume the simplistic model of: more CO2 = higher temperatures.

That conclusion, based on a new, sophisticated computer model, makes the worst - case scenario of sea level rise — an increase of 6 feet or so, on average, by 2100 — look less likely to play out.

Pouring money into a corrupt countries state budget most often leads to, in the less evil scenario, the money going straight into a Swiss bank account, or, which is worse, into buying weaponry used against neighbours or the country's own population.

If you thought like a military officer, used to considering worst cases, the IPCC's approach — concentrating on what everyone could agree was most likely, while ignoring less likely but more dangerous scenarios — was not «conservative» at all, but irresponsible.

More significant perhaps is the legacy of nuclear power for future generations, particularly if the worst case scenarios of anthropogenic climate change play out, where society will be vulnerable and incohesive and possibly less able to cope with the technical challenge of maintaining or decomissioning elderly nuclear power stations or dealing with the build up of waste.

Leaked internal reports of Pemex's own worst - case scenarios published in Mexican newspapers show production plummeting to about 520,000 barrels a day by the end of 2008 — a 71 % free - fall from May levels in less than three years.

RCP8.5 is less plausible as a worse case scenario than a super volcano emerging over the next decades or an asteroid strike.

AGWers don't seem to realize that the worst conceivalbe AGW scenario is much less scary than the result ot a conscientious effort to FIGHT global warming.

RE # 37, people usually make decisions and policy on less that «beyond a resonable scientific doubt» evidence, and it's always good to consider the worst case scenario & see what can be done to avert it.

On average, stateside PV manufacturing in a worst case scenario the CO2 payback is 4 years (best case: less than 1 yr for thin films).

This plan provides the best balance of 1) low monthly premiums (only $ 5 / mo more than the absolute lowest monthly payment), 2) low worst case costs ($ 6700 less than the average plan), and competitive costs for a variety of common medical scenarios (emergency room, doctor's office, etc).

In the Marketplace you can choose from several categories of coverage, from plans with low premiums that mainly protect you in worst - case scenarios to plans where you'll pay more each month but less out - of - pocket when you get health care services.

Recall that dividends are paid when the company's income less its expenses exceeds its projected worst - case scenario.

In a worst - case scenario, Pasalis says, when the seller's agent is less than honest, «escalation clauses act like a blank cheque that the seller and their agent can fill in as they please.»

But in a worst case scenario, when the seller's agent is less than honest, escalation clauses act like a blank cheque that the seller and their agent can fill in as they please.