Sentences with phrase «much uncertainty makes»

The fact that its filled with so much uncertainty makes us feel guilty about our natural reactions and constantly doubt whether we're doing a good job.

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The uncertainty in achieving a redeemed $ 0.015 per point value is where the credit card companies make much of their profits.

These results suggest that rather than lowering the opportunity cost of having children, recessions create the economic uncertainty that makes those about to undertake breeding much more skittish and therefore more likely to postpone childbearing.

Mr Trump's aggressively conservative policies added to this uncertainty as he made no secret of his desires to reduce the amount of non-American imports and move as much production as possible back to US shores.

This makes it difficult to predict how much election year uncertainty will influence market performance.

I don't make much out of policy uncertainty indices, which are too new.

Driving up to the cottage — ahem, being a passenger while Thom drove up to the cottage — was filled with so much hesitation and uncertainty that I was shocked when we made it to the top of the hill (with no help from our navigation system) to find the tiny house I recognized from the pictures.

The drama surrounding Wenger's future at Arsenal; the fan's genuine disappointments and angst; the uncertainty over the future of Sanchez and Ozil at the club — and so much more making negative headlines — is taking its toll.

With all the uncertainty over contract extensions making the headlines, especially Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil, Oxlade - Chamberlain and, of course, Arsene Wenger, the ex-Arsenal striker Charlie Nicolas believes that we need as much as 5 or 6 arrivals, and he wants Wenger's future clarified as soon as possible.

As one put it: «Right to the wire, I'm not sure if the decision I'm making is correct... there's so much uncertainty on either side»

On Monday, days before a budget is supposed to be in place, Cuomo suggested the federal government and President Donald Trump's administration has made for too much uncertainty at the state level.

«It has added an uncertainty and chaos to the state's finances that makes doing the budget a much more difficult exercise because you just don't know what's down the road,» Cuomo said.

«In the face of unprecedented uncertainty from the federal level, your partnership is more important than ever,» Mr. de Blasio told his audience, making a plea for unity to a legislative body that — on the Republican - controlled State Senate side, at least — has never had much use for him.

He says there's just too much uncertainty here, and other states offer a more stable regulatory climate that helps the companies to make business decisions.

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.

By improving the understanding of how much radiation CO2 absorbs, uncertainties in modelling climate change will be reduced and more accurate predictions can be made about how much Earth is likely to warm over the next few decades.

«But we do encourage space agencies and satellite groups to make sure that all data sets come as research - friendly, and with as much information on uncertainty, as possible.»

The uncertainty in the science makes it difficult for policy - makers to see how much investment is justified, and what kind, says van Scheltinga.

As can be seen your graph, our climate models make a wide range of predictions (perhaps 0.5 - 5 degC, a 10-fold uncertainty) about how much «committed warming» will occur in the future under any stabilization scenario, so we don't seem to have a decent understanding of these processes.

The period where ARGO data makes up the bulk of data (2004 - 2008 in red) has a greater uncertainty only because their period of observation is much shorter (5 years), versus 11 years for the interval where XBT data predominates (1993 - 2003 in blue).

«There's quite a bit of uncertainty and disagreement about what the actual leak rate is,» said Tom Moore, Western Regional Air Partnership Air Quality Program Manager for the Western States Air Resources Council in Fort Collins, Colo. «That makes it difficult to understand how much any particular regulation would reduce methane leakage.»

Although we may spend a huge chunk of the day fantasizing about how much happier we would be if we could only find a more meaningful job, ditch a dysfunctional relationship, or finally take that dream vacation, we tend to stay stagnant because we're afraid of the uncertainty involved in making a change.

Those are an array of challenges, juxtaposed against the uncertainty of how long it takes to make a AAA title, which means we can find ourselves in fiscal 2018 with a much thinner schedule than we'd like

Unfortunately, Hollywood's record of adapting video game franchises for the big screen hasn't improved in any notable way since then, making this Tomb Raider reboot feel like just as much of an uncertainty as ever.

Given how much of a lower percentage the author tends to get from a publisher per sale and the uncertainty of being able to convert a casual reader into a regular, the author needs to be certain that the publisher can at least quadruple the book's reader - base before it makes sense to go with them.

In other words, we've covered a lot of background information about the choices that self - publishers have to make (far more than we usually realize), and it's easy to feel overwhelmed when faced with so much uncertainty.

The thing is, it's nearly impossible to make solid, informed decisions about our careers when so much of the financial realities are clouded in uncertainty or hyperbole.

Does so much uncertainty mean it's time to toss out the cereal and instead make do with grapefruit and cottage cheese?

Also, the uncertainty of the economy made some homeowners much more fiscally conservative about making a move.

I don't make much out of policy uncertainty indices, which are too new.

The uncertainty in achieving a redeemed $ 0.015 per point value is where the credit card companies make much of their profits.

Not having to put up with a period of too much uncertainty is good news for both SPG and Marriott Rewards members as it makes planning for the future that much easier.

Those are an array of challenges, juxtaposed against the uncertainty of how long it takes to make a AAA title, which means we can find ourselves in fiscal 2018 with a much thinner schedule than we'd like.»

In addition they vary in types by level and you can never be quite certain what the game will throw at you next, it is the constant uncertainty that made each level that much more of a thrill.

Second guesses and uncertainty gnawed at my conviction, much like they did when making some of the biggest decisions in Telltale's lauded The Walking Dead series.

It's hard to be engaged in the discussion and / or make meaningful remarks with that much uncertainty that they will get posted.

But the bias uncertainty is smaller than the errors which are not persistent in time (e.g. due to incomplete spatial coverage), so I don't think accounting for this would make much difference, as Victor suggests.

Re uncertainties — while the uncertainties create confusion and doubts and inaction, in actuality they make the immorality of what we are doing much worse.

Secondly, for others who understand what the skeptics are doing, there is an enormous frustration that any uncertainty created in the media and in the political culture is making it that much more difficult to alter the economic, societal and political culture towards addressing the crisis with dispatch.

I was wondering for some time now, how much the findings of the work of scientists, be it the IPCC, be it the PIK in Potsdam or what have you, can be taken for granted in order for policy makers to make valuable decisions (e.g. cutting carbon emissions by half by 2050) and if the uncertainties in the models might outweigh certain decisions to reduce carbon emissions so that in the end it might happen that these uncertainties make these decisions obsolete, because they do not suffice to avoid «dangerous climate change»?

How much time will humans waste making claims of too much uncertainty and calls for more study, before acting to try to save the life on this planet?

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.

Cohen made it sound like the chart's wide range of climate outcomes was due to scientific uncertainty, when in fact much of the range is tied to social and economic unknowns.

That takes too much time and money and the uncertainty for both parties makes planning difficult.

So any uncertainty in initial conditions makes the later state that much more unpredictable; after a sufficient time for the exponential growth to get large the state of the system is essentially randomly selected from the ensemble of possible states at that point in time.

The specific claim made is that the number of grid boxes in actual climate models is relatively much smaller — but all that means is the statistics of climate models will have much more uncertainty than the actual physical climate, hardly something modelers don't recognize.

It seems to me that the issue is not so much that the IPCC AR4 chapter 9 authors have made an error in determination of the sensitivity in Fig 9.20, but rather that there is unacknowledged structural uncertainty in their methods for determining climate sensitivity (both statistical and physical / conceptual).

If we have concerns over how much CO2 effects the flux, which makes it an overall climate response or feedback parameter, then we might also consider the uncertainty in the 3.7 number.

Uncertainty about the magnitude of methane emissions from leaking wells makes it difficult for federal and provincial regulators to identify and set up programs to control methane emissions, a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

There is just too much uncertainty to be able to make that judgment (unless the «decision» includes: «do nothing now expect identify possible adaptation measures to be implemented if and when needed»).