Sentences with phrase «overly conservative assumption»

Although the new JGR analysis assumed that solar cycles during the next 70 years would roughly match those seen over the past 30, this may prove an overly conservative assumption, Lewis acknowledges.

Unscrupulous executives discovered they could set aside reserves in good periods by making overly conservative assumptions.

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Nick Eyre, leader of the Lower Carbon Futures group at the University of Oxford, says some of the assumptions made by the team on how much energy could be saved by efficiency measures may even be overly conservative.