Sentences with phrase «much less uncertainty»

Shaviv claims much less uncertainty of CO2 doubling sensitivity ΔTx2 = 1.3 ± 0.4 °, but he's not getting paid as much as the others for his research.

Why isn't a TCR type of simulation, but instead using actual history and 200 year projected GHG levels in the atmosphere, that would produce results similar to a TCR simulation (at least for the AGW temp increase that would occur when the CO2 level is doubled) and would result in much less uncertainty than ECS (as assessed by climate model dispersions), a more appropriate metric for a 300 year forecast, since it takes the climate more than 1000 years to equilibrate to the hypothesized ECS value, and we have only uncertain methods to check the computed ECS value with actual physical data?

Scientific predictions of climate change for the next couple centuries, when we already know that CO2 and water vapor will be high, involves much less uncertainty than prediction of climate change when CO2 and water vapor are low.

Not exact matches

That the Times didn't report these findings, much less bother to interview anyone for the article other than Dr. McKee, wasn't at all surprising to me (and, I'm sure, to many scientists) for one simple reason: such uncertainty didn't fit the Times» 10 - year football = CTE meme.

Though I see nothing but vague & cloudy uncertainty in the foreground of our being, yet I fancy I discern a very bright light a good way further on, and this makes me care much less about the cloudiness & indistinctness which is near.

The internal structures of giant planets are much less well known than those of main - sequence stars because of uncertainties in the equation of state of degenerate gas, the composition (typically non-solar), the interaction with the magnetic field and, in the upper layers, the relative magnitudes of internal heat and energy deposited from the sun.

We find that our estimates and their associated uncertainties are comparable to the results of other methods, but with the additional benefit of being able to explore many more stellar parameters while using much less computation time.

This means you have a better sense of how much your investment is worth, and less uncertainty is always a good thing.

«If anything, macro uncertainties may be less worrisome now than they have been for much of the past century,» Zweig says.

This is much less stressful for the pet than having to go into a foster home and eliminates the uncertainty of what might happen to the pet if it was surrendered to a shelter.

Solar is much less likely to have driven the rise than expect only 5 years ago (0.1 w / m ^ 2 Wang 2005 slightly less with Svalggard 2007 Perminger 2010) and aerosols have the largest uncertainty (when you include cloud albedo).

(It's important to keep in mind that uncertainty could result in outcomes being much worse than the midrange outcome, or much less severe).

The skin temperature can be measured with absolute uncertainties of much less than 0.1 ºK The thermometer in the surface following float is accurate to better than 0.01 ºK.

You say that this uncertainty is used «to argue that environmental policies based on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support», but it seems to us that it is less the case that your objection is based on an argument made as much as the fact that they outlined a difference of opinion.

In my opinion, there is enough autocorrelation in these series such that, statistically, the uncertainties in the trend are much wider than sometimes thought and are sufficiently wide that neither Hansen's Scenario B (nor scenarios with lesser and greater «true» increases) can be said to be rejected — contrary to the views of many readers.

The total uncertainty is much less than the long - term changes in climate during the last 150 years.

But the uncertainty cuts both ways — it might warm more than we expect, just as much as it might warm less.

The uncertainty monster pressures scientists into not rocking the boat too much so they tend to believe results that are less dramatic, more in line with accepted wisdom.

It suggested that the climate might be much less sensitive to greenhouse gases than had been claimed by the IPCC in its report last September, and recommended that more work be carried out «to reduce the underlying uncertainty».

The SSTs should be free of UHI and much less susceptible to uncertainty due to lack of complete coverage, i.e. something we could hang our hats on — then Steve M opens this can of worms.

Despite decades of persistent uncertainty over how sensitive the climate system is to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, we now have new satellite evidence which strongly suggests that the climate system is much less sensitive than is claimed by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

I admit, I stay out of Australia as much as possible, but every time I do look that way, I'm told with increasing certainty that the Great Barrier Reef is dying rapidly, and more and more blame is being laid at the feet of governments» and businesses» bad hydrology practices with less and less uncertainty.

We demonstrate how TCS is related to ECS and TCR metrics to reduce uncertainty in ECS and TCR, and prove ECS uncertainty is much less than claimed in the IPCC AR4 report consulted by the IWG.

This uncertainty offers fertile ground for contrarians to imply that future global warming will be much less than commonly thought.

energy budget is much less dependent on the shortwave scattering component which makes up the bulk of uncertainty with cloud feedback.

Zhai makes much less allowance for uncertainty than does Brient Alb, hence its narrow constrained ECS range.

Optimum averaging gives less weight to areas of high data uncertainty than do ordinary averaging methods, and it takes much better account of data gaps.

The date this piece is September 22, 2006, a bit less than three months after the release of Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» movie, so it would not be much of a stretch to guess that when the writer says he recently came to understand this «false sense of uncertainty» situation, he gleaned it from the movie, where Gore spelled out the «reposition global warming» phrase full screen and then immediately followed it with a reference to the infamous «Doubt is Our Product» leaked memo phrase from the tobacco industry.

The Brexit vote in the U.K. has added new uncertainties that will not be fully understood, much less resolved, in the near term.

With QM and BASEL III released, there's much less of the regulatory uncertainty that lenders have been concerned about since the big Wall Street reform bill, Dodd - Frank, was enacted a few years ago.