Sentences with phrase «loading the dice toward»

Here's a followup to my piece on how greenhouse - driven warming is loading the dice toward more hot weather extremes.

«For example, one can quantify the odds of a typical heatwave happening and estimate how much a warmer world would load the dice toward the more frequent occurrence of a similar event.

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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.

Back in 1988, this was a core message of James Hansen of NASA, who compared the impact of global warming on year - to - year conditions to the progressive loading of a pair of climate «dice» toward hot outcomes.