Sentences with phrase «rosy assumptions»

In a couple of posts last week — here and here — I laid out the brutal logic implied by the latest climate science (with credit to scientist Kevin Anderson for stripping away the rosy assumptions hiding in many of today's common climate scenarios).

Smil has forced climate advocates to reckon with the vast inertia sustaining the modern world's dependence on fossil fuels, and to question many of the rosy assumptions underlying scenarios for a rapid shift to alternatives.

The economic landscape since then has clouded over considerably, suggesting that the achievement of a balanced budget by fiscal 2015 - 2016 could be too rosy an assumption.

Under this sort of planetary event, I assume that we are probably making a rosy assumption that anybody would be able to resume any kind of normal functioning from a manufacturing standpoint.»

Not exact matches

Small down payments, rosy occupancy assumptions, and cheerful average rent projections have a habit of combining to form a trifecta of fiscal disaster for the unwary speculator who mistakenly believes he is acting like an investor.

Of course, when you peruse the fine print, these figures reflect heroic extrapolations and rosy projections — all based on the assumption that every effort will work like the most successful boutique pilots.

Even applying a reasonably generous valuation on the business, to reflect the assumption that ICON will bounce back to its LT average margin, it's obvious that the market has opted for a rosier scenario...

The problem with this rosy scenario is that it is based on several false assumptions, the first of which is that pet store puppies all come from «puppy mills.»

Mortgages were granted under assumptions that now look rosy: The building would throw off $ 119 million in net operating income and would be 98 percent occupied, underwriters expected.

Zandi notes a range of assumptions behind this rosy forecast, including the expectation that mortgage rates would remain very low, the availability of housing credit will improve as private mortgage lending begins to pick up, and the job market gains traction as policymakers work to resolve fiscal issues, which will ease market uncertainties.