Sentences with phrase «systematically underestimated»

The study also highlights how the environmental impacts of plastics can be systematically underestimated when making policies which impact food packaging — including new measures being developed by the European Commission to tackle plastic pollution.

Concentrating here on Zürich sunspot numbers (Rz), we demonstrate that the rY values do not actually imply that the observed Rz values in the 19th century are systematically underestimated.

The different conclusions arise at least in part because the studies have systematically underestimated statistical uncertainties.

The NAS indicated that the hockey stick method systematically underestimated the uncertainties in the data (p. 107).

In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.

Almost all of the methane leakage calculated from the Texas research «could be affected by this measurement failure,» according to the paper; «their study appears to have systematically underestimated emissions.»

Do other countries use similar methodologies and is it likely that methane inventories have been systematically underestimated across countries?

Our new distance implies that these masses may have been systematically underestimated by 40 percent.»

Now a refined version of an old calculation is causing a stir by suggesting that researchers have also systematically underestimated the number of the particles» antimatter partners — antineutrinos — produced by nuclear reactor experiments.

In trying to not be alarmist, scientists have systematically underestimated the threat.»

B.C.'s Premier Christy Clark, previously opposed to Kinder Morgan's tanker proposal, greenlighted the project based on the same flawed NEB review, which systematically underestimated the environmental and economic costs while relying on industry numbers to overstate the economic benefits.

A McKinsey study showed that 80 - 90 % of poorly - chosen prices are actually too low, meaning companies systematically underestimate what they can charge.

Not only are women forced to choose between professional success and personal fulfillment more often than men, Sandberg argues, but women also systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Like many of us, my students systematically underestimate their resilience in challenging situations.

10 «Liquidity illusion» describes a situation in which market participants systematically underestimate the cost of liquidating the assets that they hold; see Nesvetailova (2008).

According to Sanberg, women systematically underestimate their own abilities, often attributing success to either luck or help.

The nullip numbers are identical for home and hospital, reassuring me that the midwives are probably not systematically underestimating blood loss in the home setting.

«The estimates that we had up until now have been pretty systematically underestimating the likely changes.»

This is known as the probabilistic seismic - hazard analysis (PSHA), a method that is state of the art in many countries, but that, in Mualchin's view, systematically underestimates seismic hazard because it does not consider extreme and rare events.

Moreover, policymakers may systematically underestimate the economic benefits of improved schools in their states.

So, while large - scale quantitative studies might seem to policymakers to be more reliable sources of evidence about leadership effects, such studies systematically underestimate leadership effects in schools where it is likely to be of greatest value.

As a result, as Steve Sorrell concludes his post, «we may be systematically underestimating the already formidable challenge of reducing global carbon emissions.»

The combined instrumental and proxy evidence indicates that models systematically underestimate regional temperature variability and that this mismatch increases toward longer timescales.

One reason is that the statistical inference procedure, which is similar in both studies, systematically underestimates uncertainties.

New research finds that citizens in the US and China systematically underestimate popular support for taking action to curb climate change.

«If the models do systematically underestimate precipitation changes that would be bad news», because the existing forecasts would already cause substantial problems, says Gabriele Hegerl, a climate - system scientist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and a co-author on the paper.

From our portfolio analyses and in - depth discussions with many major banks and insurers, we have reached the conclusion that financial institutions systematically underestimate their holdings in the coal industry.

Proxy - based indicators of past climate change show that current global climate models systematically underestimate Holocene - epoch climate variability on centennial to multi-millennial timescales, with the mismatch increasing for longer periods1, 2,3,4,5.

Other studies have similarly reported stronger inequalities for objective versus self - report or parent - report measures15 implying that parent reports may systematically underestimate SEP effects on children.

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I recall reading — but can't give you citations off the top of my head — that this also plays out in the form of people systematically overestimating the costs of change, and underestimating the benefits; once change does happen (for example the congestion pricing schemes in London and Stockholm), people report that the costs are less than anticipated and the benefits greater than anticipated.

I frankly doubt that this model can be extrapolated into either the past or the future, and the data uncertainties are so large (and almost certainly underestimated and / or systematically biased in HadCRUT4) that the sensitivity could easily be either larger or smaller than the best fit observed here — if you like, I get a TCS of around 1.8 C plus or minus maybe a whole degree.

All of the others are going to underestimate the correlation hole, and their errors will be systematically deviant from the correct spectrum.