Sentences with phrase «uncertainties limit predictions»

Not exact matches

«In the face of natural variability and complexity, the consequences of change in any single factor, for example greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence of future change.»

Given that uncertainty, I'd far rather see scientists produce 50 - year limits, 100 - yr limits, 150 - yr limits, 250 - yr limits — those are the kinds of predictions that would be interesting, as they would give you an idea of how fast the approach to equilibrium might be.

Britain's Met Office, for example, while providing detailed climate projections on its website, acknowledges that such predictions are «always subject to uncertainty», thanks largely to the current limitations on scientific knowledge of how the Earth's climate system works and on the relatively - limited amount of data available.

However, multiple sources of uncertainty in the chain from climate forcing to impact model limit confidence in specific predictions.

It should be emphasized that solving (the solvable) problems of climate prediction (or, just as important, making a realistic assessment of the ultimate limits to climate prediction set by the inherent uncertainties within the system) requires the deployment and long - term maintenance of massively expensive observational satellite and oceanographic programs.

Also there is an irreducible prediction limit arising from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (who knows where the next virtual particle pair will appear?)

And re-review the confidence limits on the forecasts / predictions / scenarios with a complete re-evaluation of the areas of uncertainty and their impact on the models.