Sentences with phrase «much uncertainty over»

With so much uncertainty over regulations, gas prices, and the evolution of customer demands, having a variety of powertrains in your back pocket equals a good amount of flexibility, which is an enviable position to be in.

The state's AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento says there's just too much uncertainty over how the convention would be run to give «carte blanche» to the process through a «yes» vote.

Not exact matches

But uncertainty over whether the Fed feels economic conditions are appropriate for such easing, along with questions about how much the bank might cut back, have resulted in volatility where daily, triple - digit moves have become almost routine.

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.

Given the uncertainties of interpretation, it seems unwise to put too much emphasis on changes in employment over short periods; viewed over the past year, employment has been sluggish, and does not appear to have accelerated further since the initial pick - up in the September quarter 1996.

With former President Piñera set to take office next month, much of the uncertainty hanging over the country's forecasts could soon be lifted, and a better picture could soon develop.

«Confirmation by the UK Government that it wants devolved powers over food labelling to transfer to them creates further risk and uncertainty, when much of our success depends on our ability to market Scottish produce and provenance effectively.

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.

Given the uncertainty over Britain's future in the EU and the tough negotiations likely to consume much of the next three years, Cameron's choice of commissioner is potentially fateful.

But she doesn't spend much time stewing over that uncertainty.

Instead, most modelers accommodate the inevitable uncertainties by averaging over many runs of each scenario and displaying a likely range of outcomes, much like landfall forecasts for hurricanes.

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.

During the September Congressional fight over how much to provide and whether to offset it, Mulvaney posted a Facebook update in which he questioned the relationship between Zika and birth defects, and asked whether «we really need government - funded research at all» given this alleged uncertainty.

The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in the effort, has just received a whopping $ 41.5 million in 2015 to study the vital mass of tissue that sustains a developing fetus.

You wouldn't want to drive over a bridge with so much uncertainty about the forces acting on it.

«We've recently concluded that there's not much doubt or cause for concern over produced - water discharges in Norway's North Sea sector today, although some uncertainty remains,» says Sanni.

In the end, the panel decided there was too much uncertainty in the Antarctic models to say how much ice the continent would lose over this century.

Over the instrumental period, fractional uncertainty in the latter is very much larger than fractional uncertainty in temperature change measurements, and is approximately normally distributed.

Uncertainty over the future of Social Security, longer life expectancy, and inflation all factor into how much income you'll need in retirement.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- The New York Federal Reserve officials tasked with prying interest rates off the floor have been meeting with bankers and traders to plot how best to do it, amid deep uncertainty over how much control they will really have over short - term lending markets.

Sklar was puzzling over how much retirees should withdraw from their portfolio each year, given the uncertainty over how long they'll live.

That uncertainty only appears in bear markets, and all the hubbub over optimizing the capital structure is so much hooey.

Uncertainty over how much the asset will pay out, or when how much cash the liability will require

In that equation, we supposedly gain agency over our time and labor, but we are also in a much more economically precarious position, having accepted all of the uncertainties, risks and demands of irregular and far - flung opportunities.

I don't think there was much prior uncertainty in the literature over the general notion that orbital forcing changes were an initiating factor and that consequent rises in CO2 contributed a major subsequent warming influence, but the timing (regional vs global) and the interaction between the hemispheres has not been well illuminated.

In comparing the track forecasts for Isaac with that for Katrina, he noted how much of what is called the «cone of uncertainty» — the wide area over which the track could range — had shrunk in comparing the forecasts seven years apart.

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.

The greatest economic uncertainty is not over climate, but over how much oil is left and how fast we can transition to alternatives.

The arguments are over how much, how fast, what are the impacts (WGII), what should we do about it, what the uncertainties really are, is reality matching models, if not then can we rely on their projections.

It's not very good for saying «in 2050, the temperature will be X», but it is useful for determining what range the average temperature is likely to be within over, say, a 30 - year period centered on the date in question (with much uncertainty) given certain starting conditions and certain inputs and changes in forcing over time, and.

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.

A lot of people have different positions in the AGW debate, and with so many people and so much uncertainty particularly about the mechanisms and rate constants of all of the kinetic processes involved, I find it implausible that people would waste time on the simple comparisons, making much sound and fury, when it starts out with a short term comparison of CO2 and temperature over the same last few years.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Over the longer term the sun varies (there is uncertainty as to how much) and in the medium term the oceans vary much more than we previously thought possible in that they can act as net absorbers or net emitters of previously acquired solar energy for decades at a time.

What will reveal a reliable trend in the short - run will not be related to global warming, but where a trend can only be discerned over a much longer period and with much greater uncertainty is going reflect global warming.

Note that there's some uncertainty over how high, exactly, China's emissions are expected peak in 2030, but no matter what assumptions you use, they're expected to peak much higher (the orange lines) than what would be required under «inertia» or «equity» approaches to stay below 2 °C:

Uncertainty in natural climate drivers, for example how much solar output will change over this century, also affects the accuracy of projections.

Given that for over 20 years since international climate change negotiations began, the United States has refused to commit to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions based upon the justification that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends of others, should the United States be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?

«There is uncertainty over exactly how much it is going to warm over next 100 years.»

Once next - generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change cheaper, Pielke believes that much of the political arguments over scientific uncertainty will diminish.

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).

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

Much of the debate over support levels reflects uncertainties about how the technologies will progress in the years ahead.

While considerable uncertainty exists in predicting just how much climate will change in the future, scientists agree that we are committed to at least some change, likely a minimum of 2 degrees Celsius and perhaps much more, over the next 50 to 100 years.

Paterson doesn't dispute that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, but he says there is «considerable uncertainty» over how much warming we'll see.

Because of that uncertainty, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the international body that reviews and assesses the most recent peer - reviewed climate research from around the world — assumed in 2007 that the rate of ice loss from the poles wouldn't change much over the next century.

No advances in earth science, hydrology, materials science, or engineering will do much to reduce our uncertainties about how spent nuclear fuel will behave underground over the course of tens or hundreds of millennia.

Over land, however, much larger uncertainties are present, and complex models are used to try and adjust for changing observation times.

Just as much of the world languishes in uncertainty over the future of a low carbon transition, the Globe and Mail reports that Canada steps up and announces an almost complete phase out of coal for electricity by 2030 at the latest.