Sentences with phrase «per cent certainty»

This, in turn, was a significant increase on the 66 per cent certainty reached in 2001's third assessment and just over 50 per cent in 1995.

This is above the IPCC's own «likely» range and the 95 per cent certainty» level established by recent peer - reviewed research.

Mr Miller highlights a World at One report in September of a landmark UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) research project which found concluded with 95 per cent certainty that the climate is changing and that human activity is the main cause.

Now, researchers at DTU Systems Biology have combined genetics with computer science and created a new diagnostic technology based on advanced self - learning computer algorithms which — on the basis of a biopsy from a metastasis — can with 85 per cent certainty identify the source of the disease and thus target treatment and, ultimately, improve the prognosis for the patient.

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Given the certainty that revisions will always be made, it might even be worth questioning the wisdom in Statistics Canada publishing marginal declines in GDP unless it is absolutely certain the data is flawless: a 0.1 per cent drop in GDP receives a 100 times the attention that zero growth does (and 1,000 times more during election campaign), so the agency needs to be several times more certain that the economy really did shrink.

The East African nation, which with 36 million Orthodox Christians make it the world's second - largest Orthodox population are also more likely than Orthodox Christians in Central and Eastern Europe to wear religious symbols (93 per cent vs 64 per cent), to say they believe in God with absolute certainty (89 per cent vs 56 per cent), and to tithe (57 per cent vs 14 per cent).

We can say with scientific certainty that a survey sample of 1,000 Brits will give you a result within 3.1 per cent of the «true» figure in 19 out of 20 polls.

It's true that age is correlated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and other causes of dementia, but it's far from a certainty; it only develops in about 5 to 8 per cent of people.

Risk is not certainty, and my best guess is that there is only a 25 % per cent chance of a leadership ballot after the local elections, but is is impossible to make an accurate assessment.

According to the summary for policymakers, there is now even greater certainty, 95 per cent, up from 90 per cent in its 4th assessment of 2007, that more than half the warming since 1950 was caused by fossil fuel carbon dioxide.

So, while their certainty has increased from 90 to 95 per cent, the margin of uncertainty in the science on which this is based has nearly doubled, in complete contradiction.

As former US vice-president and climate sceptic Dick Cheney said: «If there is only a 1 per cent chance of terrorists getting weapons of mass destruction, we must act as if it is a certainty.»

Notwithstanding the 2016 Supreme Court ruling (2016 SCC 25), demand for scientific certainty sets a high bar in cases of occupational cancer, the number one cause of workplace death, and other work - related disease — particularly «when only one per cent of the 100,000 chemicals used in the workplace have been thoroughly tested for health risks.»

The much awaited and talked about GST regime in India is finally attaining certainty with a four - slab GST tax structure of 6, 12, 18 and 26 per cent being mooted at the GST Council meet after unveiling of the Model GST Law in June 2016 («GST Law»).