Sentences with phrase «on relative uncertainties»

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When this happens and as debt levels rise relative to debt servicing capacity, at some point the major stakeholders — including businesses, creditors, household savers, workers and so on — became uncertain enough about how this gap will be allocated that they take steps to protect themselves from this uncertainty.

Although Canadian earnings have been holding up well, the market has cheapened relative to global stocks likely on account of the uncertainty overhang.

Puerto Rican residents in Bridgeport have been meeting with Connecticut's U.S. senators, sharing their uncertainty about relatives on the island and its future after Hurricane Maria.

The researchers note that the most likely response from industry will involve a combination of the approaches outlined in the study, and although there is a high level of uncertainty in the estimates, the findings provide much needed evidence on the relative effects of different industry responses, and the possible magnitude of health outcomes.

This figure gives a sense of the wide uncertainty distribution in the total anthropogenic forcing relative to just the GHG forcing (which also includes methane, N2O, etc) which is a prime reason the instrumental record doesn't inherently give good constraints on sensitivity.

Since the beginning of April, the relative strength on foreign stocks has been eroding on euro - zone uncertainty and economic deceleration in Asia.

Although Canadian earnings have been holding up well, the market has cheapened relative to global stocks likely on account of the uncertainty overhang.

What ARM meant: To unravel the uncertainties in cloud feedbacks it was necessary to obtain simultaneous measurements of a broad range of parameters relative to clouds and their impact on the radiative energy balance.

Differentiating Future Commitments on the Basis of Countries» Relative Historical Responsibility for Climate Change: Uncertainties in the «Brazilian Proposal» in the Context of a Policy Implementation

The first step in being truly objective is to openly acknowledge the large degree of uncertainty which exists today on the relative importance of natural and anthropogenic climate forcing components and, hence, on the validity of any long - term projections of future impact of anthropogenic factors.

It would clearly be inappropriate to regress surface temperature changes on forcing changes for the reasons you give, since relative uncertainty in forcing changes is much larger than that in temperature changes.

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

The ISCCP calibrations are now the most complete and accurate set of calibrations available for the imaging radiometers on the weather satellites: total relative uncertainties in the radiance calibrations are estimated to be ≲ 5 % for visible and ≲ 2 % for infrared; absolute uncertainties appear to be < 10 % and < 3 %, respectively.

Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that (1) climate warming occurs with great uncertainty in the magnitude of the temperature increase; (2) both human activities and natural forces contribute to climate change, but their relative contributions are difficult to quantify; and (3) the dominant role of the increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (including CO2) in the global warming claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is questioned by the scientific communities because of large uncertainties in the mechanisms of natural factors and anthropogenic activities and in the sources of the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration.

As valuation depends strongly on the transient climate response, uncertainty in sensitivity is based on the range in a recent study of the AR5 models (1.3 — 3.15 °C; (Shindell 2014)-RRB- relative to the mean of those models (1.8 °C, hence − 28 % / +75 %; those models also exhibited a mean ECS of 3.2 °C).

This Bill is an attack on their families» ability to bring to Canada their older relatives, and make them citizens, with secure status in Canada, instead of the uncertainties of Permanent Resident status.