Sentences with phrase «reliance upon their models»

With less reliance upon their models, the World Bank made substantive changes to personnel in leadership roles to adapt and accommodate as the models failed them.

Not exact matches

The idea that events can be isolated or set apart in classifications or categories has led to the breakdown of the unity of knowledge and experience and to general reliance upon technological models in all endeavors.

Viewed thus, the Strathclyde model amounts to a triple - whammy: it would permit the Government, just as it can at present, to shield parts of it legislative proposals from the full scrutiny that primary legislation attracts; it would substantially undermine the already lesser scrutiny to which statutory instruments are subject; and it would incentivise greater reliance upon statutory instruments as distinct from primary legislation in order to exploit the significantly weaker scrutiny regime applicable to the former.

The data that Exxon relies upon are from old models with dated technology cost assumptions and, as demonstrated by a reliance on significant growth in bio-energy, many of the models appear limited in their capacity to fully capture potential impact upon oil demand.

Jeff Tollefson in Nature points to the 2C scenarios in the fifth IPCC report as a source of hope for policymakers, yet their unreasonable reliance upon negative emissions technologies like BECCS — a systemic bias, as Chris Mooney in the Washington Post reports — suggest there's limited or distorted hope in models.

Such solecisms throughout the IPCC's assessment reports (including the insertion, after the scientists had completed their final draft, of a table in which four decimal points had been right - shifted so as to multiply tenfold the observed contribution of ice - sheets and glaciers to sea - level rise), combined with a heavy reliance upon computer models unskilled even in short - term projection, with initial values of key variables unmeasurable and unknown, with advancement of multiple, untestable, non-Popper-falsifiable theories, with a quantitative assignment of unduly high statistical confidence levels to non-quantitative statements that are ineluctably subject to very large uncertainties, and, above all, with the now - prolonged failure of TS to rise as predicted (Figures 1, 2), raise questions about the reliability and hence policy - relevance of the IPCC's central projections.