Sentences with phrase «like loaded dice»

As climate scientist Michael Mann says, global warming is like loaded dice.

Not exact matches

The trouble is that, like every on - screen male, Stillman allows himself to fall under her spell, and the result is a film whose dramatic dice is so loaded in its anti-heroine's favour that it fatally undermines her victory.

In 1988, James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who, through much of his career, has pressed elected officials to limit greenhouse gas emissions, constructed «loaded» cardboard dice for a Senate hearing, to illustrate that we were, in essence, tipping the climate system toward ever higher odds of unpleasant events like droughts and flooding rains.

Concepts like «loading the dice» create images that lay people such as myself can intuitively understand.

It reads like it's less likely to roll a six with dice loaded to prefer sixes.

This is how I understand it (correct me if I am wrong): It's like with increasing GHGs in the atmosphere the dice are increasing loaded for such record - breaking events, but under the null hypothesis (that increasing GHGs have no effect) there is this very long long tail of possibility.

As climatologist Michael Mann says, it's like throwing loaded dice; you might have gotten two sixes naturally in any given throw, but over time they'll turn up more than they should randomly.

Just as loading the dice with more weight on one side increases the likelihood that the opposite number will appear, so too does loading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide increase the likelihood that winters like the one behind us will greet our future lives.

NASA's James Hansen likes to call it «loading the climate dice.»

You would stop playing if you had some other, indirect evidence that the dice are loaded (say, like Kerry Emanuel telling you after having x-rayed the dice).

Perhaps I'm biased because I'm a physicist not a statistician, but to me it is clear that physical evidence, like our physical understanding of how CO2 affects SST and how SST affects hurricanes, gives you warning of the loaded dice long before you can prove it from the damage statistics.