Sentences with phrase «uncertainty around the change»

In a statement, Emanuel said, «In the past, there has been too much uncertainty around changes to our schools: year after year, Chicago Public Schools did not do an adequate job of engaging communities in these critical decisions, and year after year students, families and communities were left wondering of what was to come.

Parents can help children manage these intense feelings by creating a safe environment for them, and reducing the level of uncertainty around the change.

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The uncertainty around the fate of Google's operations in China has already resulted in changes for Bing.

The finance minister was tight - lipped Friday about the upcoming budget but said the discussion with economists touched on the uncertainty around NAFTA renegotiations and the impact of changes to U.S. tax rates on the Canadian economy.

Like all small businesses, they have seen ups and downs over the past year, buffeted by major changes in tax policy and, more recently, great uncertainty around trade policy.

There have been a lot of changes recently to the late - night television landscape — where ad - spending is actually on the rise, despite uncertainty around the industry in general — but no debut has been more hyped than Stephen Colbert stepping in David Letterman's shoes as the host of CBS» (CBS) Late Show franchise.

Being closely surrounded with mentors has changed how I approach all sorts of situations: what to say to the top executives to guarantee a meeting, how to build a strong network and use it regularly to strategically grow the company, how to start every day by visualizing and rehearsing events, how to constantly push everyone around me to their full potential, how to maintain confidence and cope with tremendous uncertainty and bad news, and on and on.

With the recent changes to the U.S.'s immigration policies, we know this is a time of real uncertainty for many of our colleagues around the world.

Uncertainty around the policy path of President - elect Trump, coupled with a changing interest rate landscape and rising PBGC premiums create a challenging environment for plan sponsors.

There can be changes around the edges, or changes at the core, but I expect with certainty that there will be uncertainty for a while.

In general, whether it's a crisis in Europe, a stock market downturn in China, or uncertainty around the Federal Reserve, your strategy as a long - term investor shouldn't change because of short - term market gyrations.

In a world of uncertainty and insecurity, «things outside ourselves change - and many times we have little control over those elements — but if we learn to utilize our inner resources, we carry our security around with us.»

But by November 2016 Mr Evans cited setbacks caused by a global oversupply of infant formula product and uncertainty around Chinese import regulations for the change of plans.

Clearly there is a balance to strike between doom - ridden messages and «bright - side» opportunities, and uncertainties around the science and the expected effects of climate change must be factored in too.

She has had experiences with reporters who thought the scientific community «didn't know anything» when she expressed caveats and uncertainty around a complex topic (such as how mosquito - borne diseases in the U.S. - Mexico border region may be affected by climate change).

Until this research, a major uncertainty around the future impacts of climate change was whether the eddy field would change with stronger winds or whether it would remain static.

That representation matches the public discourse around global warming, in which previous studies have shown that media characterize climate change as unsettled science with high levels of scientific uncertainty.

This uncertainty is changing because of improved supercomputer modelling of the movement of water through ecosystems, based on 20,000 locations around the world.

There is a great post at the Council on Foreign Relations blog where by Michael Levi boils down global climate change in to two overarching unknowns: (1) extent of damage by an accumulation of greenhouse gases, and (2) an uncertainty around which policies, or set of policies, will succeed in reducing emissions.

The study could help narrow the range of uncertainty around how climate change is expected to alter California's precipitation patterns.

The central motivation behind these proposed changes is of course uncertainty around the effectiveness of this completely new assessment.

Uncertainty around the policy path of President - elect Trump, coupled with a changing interest rate landscape and rising PBGC premiums create a challenging environment for plan sponsors.

The fears and uncertainty around the current economy might just be the impetus many people need to make changes they wouldn't otherwise have the willpower to make.

In general, whether it's a crisis in Europe, a stock market downturn in China, or uncertainty around the Federal Reserve, your strategy as a long - term investor shouldn't change because of short - term market gyrations.

I've written in the past about other issues related to setting a numerical limit for climate dangers given both the enduring uncertainty around the most important climate change questions and the big body of science pointing to a gradient of risks rising with temperature.

Errors are estimated to be around 0.1 deg C on any individual year, and so there is a little uncertainty in any ranking, but nothing would change the basic thrust.

The terminology that the IPCC uses — such as «virtually certain», «very likely», «likely» etcetera and the very careful definitions that are attached to them, are an excellent way of communicating the uncertainties around various aspects of climate change, and are a significant improvement over the traditional way of discussing uncertainties in the scientific literature.

If Dr Curry's scientific position is «there is a considerable amount of uncertainty, therefore we should at least be able to draw some boundaries around them before pushing for a consensus on certainty» (I hope my paraphrase is close to the mark), then advocating for a change in the process of conducting climate science follows logically.

Instead, they discuss new ways of playing around with the aerosol judge factor needed to explain why 20th - century warming is about half of the warming expected for increased in GHGs; and then expand their list of fudge factors to include smaller volcanos, stratospheric water vapor (published with no estimate of uncertainty for the predicted change in Ts), transfer of heat to the deeper ocean (where changes in heat content are hard to accurately measure), etc..

Uncertainty and risks around carbon removal should not paralyze us, but rather galvanize us to address uncertainties and mitigate risks so these solutions are available at the appropriate scale needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

However, early estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) using preliminary data suggest that this is likely to change in 2017 with global emissions set to grow by around 2 %, albeit with some uncertainties.

Exaggerating scientific uncertainty around the climate change threat was one of the planned tactics of the oil industry's Global Climate Coalition formed in the 1980s to push back against the Kyoto Protocol, and continued to be a recurrent theme at Exxon headquarters.

I get the sense that interannual variation aside that essentially modelled changes in the arctic are pretty much all forced and the uncertainty is around the magnitude of the impact of that forcing in terms of feedbacks etc?

When you argue that a nation emitting high levels of ghgs need not adopt climate change policies because there is scientific uncertainty about adverse climate change impacts, are you arguing that a nation need not take action on climate change until scientific uncertainties are resolved given that waiting to resolve all scientific uncertainties before action is taken may very likely make it too late to prevent catastrophic climate change harms to millions of people around the world?

In a time of great uncertainty over the future of global climate action, the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led by Internews» Earth Journalism Network (EJN), will bring 14 journalists from around the world to report directly from the upcoming climate talks.

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

Because of that uncertainty, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the international body that reviews and assesses the most recent peer - reviewed climate research from around the world — assumed in 2007 that the rate of ice loss from the poles wouldn't change much over the next ceChange (IPCC)-- the international body that reviews and assesses the most recent peer - reviewed climate research from around the world — assumed in 2007 that the rate of ice loss from the poles wouldn't change much over the next cechange much over the next century.

In the one area that has been around long enough to judge — the impact on climate of rising concentrations of CO2 — the interesting finding is that assessments of the uncertainties have changed little since the first major review in 1979.

This pamphlet is a collection of information aimed to highlight uncertainty around climate models and whether fossil fuels contribute to climate change.

Prof Allen said the change «reflects greater uncertainty about what was happening around the last millennium but one».

Allocating responsibility for changes in law can become a significant issue, particularly given the uncertainty around the effect of Brexit.

«Despite the uncertainty around trade relations, tariffs and VAT, retailers have to plan now and consider all the changes that may lie ahead.