Sentences with phrase «uncertainty about future changes»

«As always, there is uncertainty about future changes in interest rates,» Swift says.

What the report says about extratropical storms and climate change: There is uncertainty about future changes in winter extratropical cyclones.

Consequently, in many cases, alternative means of communicating uncertainty about future changes in climate should be employed instead.

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Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future is a multilayered, genre - defying book; it's also about the changing dynamics of teenage friendship, the uncertainty of post-high school plans and the dark and bizarre glimpses of a misogynist, dystopian future that Glory and Ellie begin to see after drinking a petrified bat (reFuture is a multilayered, genre - defying book; it's also about the changing dynamics of teenage friendship, the uncertainty of post-high school plans and the dark and bizarre glimpses of a misogynist, dystopian future that Glory and Ellie begin to see after drinking a petrified bat (refuture that Glory and Ellie begin to see after drinking a petrified bat (really).

In 2016, we saw a lot of industry changes and the formation of other future trends including robo - advisors, uncertainty about the DOL fiduciary standard, new technology emerging, and more.

Based on the above conclusions, they consider that the future integrity of the property is highly at risk, taking into account the possible prospect of offshore oil exploitation, the uncertainty about the impact of invasive species, the already existing threats for which progress on the corrective measures is unclear and the globally increasing effects of climate change to coral reef systems, including the Belize Barrier Reef system.

e360: You've written recently about uncertainty over the future impacts of climate change and how that plays a role in discouraging action in reducing greenhouse gases.

Uncertainty about the extent of future global warming is in itself an indicator of serious climate change to come, scientists have claimed.

Professor Curry has led debate in the science community about the process of reviewing climate change, including giving testimony before the US house subcommittee on environment this year, remarking on the many large uncertainties in forecasting future climate.

When we talk about future climate change, our discussion often stalls at the uncertainties inherent in scientists» statistical models and forecasts.

The dynamic interplay of an increasing number of users and uses, in a context of political and regulatory uncertainty and global environmental changes, has catalysed stories of hope, hype and horror about the future of the Arctic.

In the face of uncertainty about future policies to address climate change, companies are using internal carbon pricing in their strategic planning to manage regulatory risk and explore future scenarios for potential investments.

«The state of our knowledge about future climate change is such that the degree of uncertainty and the level of ignorance precludes formulating a PDF of outcomes -LSB-...]»

The state of our knowledge about future climate change is such that the degree of uncertainty and the level of ignorance precludes formulating a PDF of outcomes, or even putting bounds on the outcomes with a high confidence level.

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Even our hostess (who knows a lot about «the science») concedes that it is «complicated» and that there is great «uncertainty» regarding attribution of climate change (and, hence, all the projections for the future).

Because adaptation policy requires decision - making amid uncertainties about future climate change and its impacts, the major pillars of adaptation plans are iterative assessment, flexible and adaptive planning, and enhancement of adaptive capacity.

It also presents a new set of estimates of the uncertainties about future climate change and compares the results will those of other integrated assessment models.

Both forcings are poorly understood and may represent the largest source of uncertainty about future climate change.

Firstly, there is uncertainty about the future levels of greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change [34] and considerable uncertainty in modeling how this will affect other aspects of climate such as local rainfall or temperatures.

However, uncertainty about the current state of Himalayan glaciers (4) and the future state of the climate, as well as an incomplete understanding of the processes affecting Himalayan glaciers under the current climate, make any projections of climate change's impact on glaciers uncertain as well (2, 23, 17, 39).

Of the myriad of claims made in the climate debate, Cox thinks it is sufficient to answer even the IPCC's own statement that «Uncertainties about future vulnerability, exposure, and responses of interlinked human and natural systems are large» with the mantra, «climate change is happening», which means precisely nothing.

One of the most important economic and political points arising from climate change is uncertainty about how seriously future governments will respond to the problem.

Moreover, most of the uncertainty in the ECS value results from climate model speculation about climate changes that might occur far into the future, not in the next 300 years!

Both Hallegatte [8] and Adger & Barnett [7] emphasize uncertainty about the future arising from climate change.

On one hand, the reduction in global SO2 emissions reduces the role of sulfate aerosols in determining future climate toward the end of the 21st century and therefore reduces one aspect of uncertainty about future climate change (because the precise forcing effect of sulfate aerosols is highly uncertain).

The researchers emphasize that there are numerous uncertainties about the magnitude of future climate change, such as energy feedbacks from clouds and the carbon cycle.

Uncertainty about the baseline is associated with assumptions adopted for rates of technological change and economic growth, and future prices of fossil fuels.

As managers of change, we have to understand that what on the surface appears as «hate» is in reality a fear of the unknown; fear of the future and uncertainty about our ability to secure a place in it.

I am sensitive to the emotional turmoil, uncertainty about the future and anxiety that these changes bring not only for adults but also for children.