Sentences with phrase «too optimistic»

This scenario, considered perhaps too optimistic, is likely to keep temperature increase below 2 °C.

This is especially worrying because the models climatologists use to predict ice melting are being proven too optimistic.

Indeed, that's what the opening post is about: Are these models too optimistic about technological change?

(11/13/2011) Not known for alarmism and sometimes criticized for being too optimistic, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that without bold action in the next five years the world will lock itself into high - emissions energy sources that will push climate change beyond the 2 degrees Celsius considered relatively «safe» by many scientists and officials.

Because this is where I've been criticized for being too optimistic.

It is too optimistic.

A new study argues that the speed of tree growth in tropical rainforests isn't keeping pace with rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, and so it may be «too optimistic» to expect this buffering effect to keep pace with rising emissions.

He accuses the NYT of playing down the seriousness of global warming by ignoring: «the substantial number of climate scientists who believe that the consensus predictions are much too optimistic, including some of the leading scientists right here [at MIT] who have recently run what they call the most extensive modelling ever done and concluded that it's far worse than anticipated and that their own results are an understatement...» That would be the MIT Climate Research group financed by Exxon, Shell, BP and Total.

When you say that this «may finally lay to rest all the absurd claims of its demise made by contrarians (not to mention apparently libelous accusations of scientific malfeasance)», I believe that you are being way too optimistic.

It is, of course true that the IPCC may have been too optimistic in their developing world growth projections.

And it looks like the company isn't feeling too optimistic that they will succeed.

e360: Some critics have said that you're being too optimistic about what sort of indicators the public — and even climate negotiators — can really apprehend and turn into policy.

Those emissions are based in part on carbon cyclemodel assumptions, which recent work suggests may be too optimistic.

The result shows why the 450 — 550 ppm criterion may be too optimistic.

This is, after all, necessary for your point about 450 - 550 being «too optimistic».

Given current trends, this assumption is considered to be too optimistic without strong policy in countries such as China and India where growth in conventional car ownership is on the rise.

The Russian scientist was immediately and disrespectfully admonished by the chair and former IPCC chief Sir John Houghton for being far too optimistic.

Utterly brilliant and diabolical and unredeemable by science, WVOQ was too optimistic.

You are NOT being naive nor too optimistic, but the devil is in the details — as they say.

While the rumor states that the next gen iPad with OLED would launch in 2011, a Digitimes Research senior analyst says that's way too optimistic - it's just too expensive to be practical for an iPad.

I know the AR5 has moved away from economic storylines to radiative forcing scenarios, but I've read a decent amount of criticism that the SRES storylines were almost all far too optimistic / demand - side focused on plausibly recoverable fossil carbon.

Or are Allen and Meinshausen too optimistic?

To the extent that demographers talk about the assumptions underlying the UN medium variant, which now shows world population reaching 9 billion, by 2042, there's a growing consensus that the assumptions may prove too optimistic (i.e. population may grow more rapidly than projected).

Thus expecting each decade's temperature and forcing to line up perfectly is too optimistic.

I wrote this piece at the time of the Seacom launch and there were some really difficult conversations with some of the editors who thought I was way too optimistic: «New Africa broadband «ready.»»

But I would really have preferred if they had written in Helvetica, 30, Bold that the uncertainty band is not on the actual, as measured in the field, global average temperature, but on their matematical model of it, and because of the steps that model contain, probably an order of magnitude too optimistic with respect to the actual temperature.

The piece is also listed as being present in other places I had visited — a bathroom on the top floor of the EMST, the Panathenaic Stadium — and I had not actually encountered it yet (or, at least, I didn't think I had), so I was not too optimistic.

Is this starting to sound too optimistic?

It was probably too optimistic to assume that Rare's old Nintendo 64 classics such as Banjo - Kazooie, Blast Corps, and Perfect Dark would appear on Nintendo's upcoming virtual console download service now that the developer is part of the Microsoft empire.

It makes you wonder if Nintendo is getting too optimistic about early launch sales or if they have some sort of ace up their sleeve for the holidays, other than Super Mario Odyssey.

- Hand - drawn is a little TOO optimistic for a game today.

But before we get too optimistic, don't forget that Evolution's first showing of MotorStorm on the PS3 back in 2005 turned out to be «target renders» rather than actual gameplay footage, so we can't say for sure whether or not the same is true for Drive Club.

I was about to write that other studios should learn from Turn 10's example, but I think that's a bit too optimistic in the current atmosphere of the market.

Today, the publisher has revealed that even that forecast might be too optimistic.

Sometimes feels like he's too optimistic for this industry.

That's way too optimistic.

I can see how customers might get a skymiles credit card, fly delta, or otherwise earn skymiles being way, way, too optimistic that when they reach 120,000 miles they will be able to get a business class seat to Asia without the slightest compromise with respect to dates of travel, itinerary, or just where in Asia they go.

«We think that there has been an overenthusiasm for risky assets and that the new valuations that have been reached are a little bit too optimistic,» Jamin said.

Whenever I see a leveraged structure, I think about «potholes» — time overruns, cost overruns and far too optimistic revenue projections — and the consequences of encountering them on the fixed charges coverage ratio [4].

There is some upside there but I think you're being too optimistic looking at how much capex this thing needs.

Not too optimistic, as you can see, and one looking through the financials would note that they are running out of cash.

However, one should never be too optimistic as there could be other interpretations for the same set of facts.

Anyway, I feel stupid for being too optimistic given management's track record.

Would that be too optimistic?

The worry is that well - heeled hedge funds, Wall Street proprietary trading desks and ratings agencies may be too optimistic when analyzing or valuing exotic mortgage investments.

He is looking for sources of unique insight that might have been missed by others who may be too optimistic.

Even so, economists still tend to be too optimistic with their guesstimates, resulting in A LOT of downside surprises.

I think the Fed is too optimistic about the economy.

It is too optimistic about the performance of hedge funds.

Maybe the onrush of money was too strong, maybe the attitudes were too optimistic.