Yet considerable uncertainty remains about the magnitude of the impact of rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases on temperatures and climate. This uncertainty must be taken seriously when formulating strategies to combat climate change.

Back to some of the more mundane issues of thinking about uncertainty.

However, uncertainty about future funding continues to jeopardize the MNT elimination goal.

But uncertainty remains even about the date for that phase to begin.

There's a lot of uncertainty about exactly how much climate change is too much.

Other reasons included absence of a partner (27 ) and uncertainty about the future (23 ).

And it's more recently a unifying way to think about how the brain deals with uncertainty.

It has also helped to dispel some of the uncertainty about what would happen after 30 October.

There is increasing uncertainty about whether the general elections can be held in 2005 according to the agreed timetable.

Today, we know that, 60 years later, we also have reason to feel anxiety and uncertainty about the future.

Consistent with recoveries from such recessions, demand has grown slowly, despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, and that explains why the unemployment rate remains high. Indeed, businesses cite uncertainty about the strength of demand, not uncertainty about regulation or taxation, as the main factor holding back job creation.

They thus pose a significant threat of inflation, and the uncertainty about their future course is likely to discourage investment.

We note with concern the Secretary General's disquiet about the uncertainty of operations, owing to a constant drop in voluntary contributions.

Manufacturing Scientific Uncertainty

The uncertainty values have been grouped into five sets of uncertainty bands, with corresponding conservativeness factors, by assigning a given uncertainty values to a given band.

The uncertainty values were then mapped into the appropriate uncertainty band, to yield a conservativeness factor.

Arab States of Uncertainty

Uncertainty Shifts to China

And uncertainty results in caution.

Play is one of the only human endeavors where uncertainty is actually celebrated. Uncertainty is what makes play fun.

Unfortunately, there are two further and even more problematic aspects of uncertainty. These arise where we are unsure not just about how likely different outcomes are, but also about which outcomes are relevant.

Angry electorates will boot out austerity minded governments. And uncertainty about what kind of governments come next will not reassure investors or positively influence growth.

Nay, but they have lost their knowledge of the Hereafter. They are steeped in doubt and uncertainty about it rather they are blind to it.

Nay, but they have lost their knowledge of the Hereafter. They are steeped in doubt and uncertainty about it rather they are blind to it.

At a time of regional uncertainty about North Korea and China including the looming prospect of China s first aircraft carrier Japan s participation in the evolving Asian security framework is fundamental to stability. The time when Japan could remain on the sidelines is over.

And fifth, the element of uncertainty.

Only doubts and questioning and uncertainty.

Now, who remembers Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?

The Anatomy of Global Economic Uncertainty

Economic growth is expected to moderate in 2005 in all three countries if the external environment weakens and uncertainty remains about the sustainability of domestic demand.

In some economies, structural rigidities adversely affect investment incentives and returns. Similarly, regulatory opacity and, more broadly, uncertainty about the direction of economic policy has discouraged investment.

Even seasickness is a consequence of uncertainty.

Too often, expert opinion is thought most useful to policymakers when presented as a single definitive interpretation. As a result, experts typically understate uncertainty.

We are not good at reasoning with uncertainty.

The problem with questions is they create uncertainty.

I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty.

Lebanon has since been beset by political uncertainty.

One problem is architectural any banking union is only as strong as its weakest component. What matters for markets is not what happens in normal times, or even what happens when uncertainty and volatility rise what markets care about are possible scenarios in truly adverse conditions.

In spite of the increasing uncertainty of the Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station project, there is no doubt about China's high level and sophisticated experience in nuclear power technology.

Uganda, South Africa and others mentioned that due to uncertainty about the impacts of climate change, they would put emphasis on win win and no regrets climate change measures.

Asian and Middle Eastern central banks with large euro reserves have become jittery about the euro s political underpinnings. But America s large fiscal deficit, along with continuing uncertainty about its financial markets, mean that the dollar is also potentially vulnerable.

They make errors of logic in reasoning with uncertainty.

In the end, there is much uncertainty about these trade agreements economic and political consequences, and considerable room for concern. Proponents only discredit themselves by deriding the skeptics as protectionists.

The Chernobyl Forum grew out of an understanding that uncertainty and misconceptions about the impact of Chernobyl were widespread, even among the scientific and medical communities in the affected countries.

What I want to do more generally is to get you thinking about the place of uncertainty and randomness and chance in our world, and how we react to that, and how well we do or don't think about it.