Predictions tools made significant progress during the decade, UN-sponsored organisations such as the IPCC gained influence, and studies such as the Stern report influenced public support for paying the political and economic costs of countering climate change.

Predictions have often been made, from antiquity until the present, by using paranormal or supernatural means such as prophecy or by observing omens.

Predictions of an Oscar nomination circulated, but such recognition only came in January 2010 when Plummer received his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of author Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station ( 2009 ).

His predictions use the visual system as a prototype for some example predictions, such as Predictions 2, 8, 10, and 11.

Predictions not sufficiently specific to be tested are similarly not useful.

Predictions of a future maximum's timing and strength are very difficult ; predictions vary widely.

Predictions must also be reliable, as false alarms and cancelled alarms are not only economically costly, but seriously undermine confidence in, and thereby the effectiveness of, any kind of warning.

Predictions are usually reduced to symbol rankings.

Predictions of physical and mental performance are computed via genetics from DNA collected from hair, fingernails, skin flakes, spit swabs, eyelashes, etc.

Predictions have been made as to how many DLNA Certified products are shipping:

Savonarola's prophecies or the Friar's Predictions are the main basis for the series.

Predictions for each edition are made as far as two years in advance.

Predictions from reliable sources have been used for these elements.

Predictions from these models can be tested in patients and / or via pharmacological manipulations, and these studies can in turn be used to inform the models, making the process recursive.

Predictions from these 100 smoothers were then made across the range of the data.

Predictions of the force were later extended to finite-conductivity metals and dielectrics by Lifshitz and his students, and recent calculations have considered more general geometries.

Predictions have been made that more than 40 % of the animal and plant species in Southeast Asia could be wiped out in the 21st century.

Predictions for the Moon's Leonid impacts also noted that in 2000 the side of the Moon facing the stream was away from the Earth but that impacts should be in number enough to raise a cloud of particles kicked off the Moon by impacts would cause a detectable increase in the sodium tail of the Moon.

Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture, second edition.

Predictions of quantum mechanics have been verified experimentally to an extremely high degree of accuracy.

Predictions of similar increases in computer power had existed years prior.

Predictions of ozone levels remain difficult.

* Predictions have been made for commercial hypersonic air travel by 2050.

: " The previously unrelased track " Predictions of Fire " which Laibach readily contributed to this compilation functioned in an early version as background to a 1994 speech of the NSK philosopher Peter Mlakar and is followed by an ecstatic dance orgy.

Predictions from both these theories have been confirmed in different experimental contexts, with no theory winning outright.

The Sub-bureau for Rapid Service and Predictions of Earth Orientation Parameters of the IERS, located at the United States Naval Observatory, monitors the Earth's rotation.

Predictions of the neoliberalism were extended to these six countries in four areas: urban systems and primacy, urban unemployment and informal employment, urban inequality and poverty, and urban crime and victimization.

The NSK were the subject of a 1996 documentary film written and directed by Michael Benson, entitled Prerokbe Ognja in Slovenian, or Predictions of Fire in English.

Numbers, Predictions, and War.

Predictions vary, including race war or a Jewish-backed United Nations takeover of the USA and endorse physical struggle against what they see as the forces of evil.

** The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions ( together, part of the " Bickerstaff Papers ")

Predictions that came close ( but given a probability of only 30 %) had ten or twenty year windows.

The NSK were the subject of a 1996 documentary film written and directed by Michael Benson, entitled Prerokbe Ognja in Slovenian, or Predictions of Fire in English.

I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

such are simply not within his bounded province.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

We are forced, in our behavior towards others, to adopt empirically successful patterns in toto because we have such a minimal understanding of their essential elements.

Within this notion clarity is possible, but for us who are neither Greek nor Jansenist there is not such clarity.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

Not discussed here are some military problems of modern times such as undersea warfare, where the surveillance, sending, transmitting, and receiving are all so inadequate that networks and decision making are not the bottlenecks.

The reasons for this experience are rooted in the metaphysical characteristics of such a change.

I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.

such capacities are impressive evidence pointing to a conception of the human being which does not appear in the accounts of biologists and organic evolutionists ; ;

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

Granted, such `` functional '' images are subject to human error ; ;

No one will deny that such broad developments and transitions are of great intrinsic interest and the study of ideas in literature would be woefully incomplete without frequent reference to them.

Still, we must remember that we cannot construct and justify generalizations of this sort unless we are ready to consider many special instances of influence moving between such areas as theology, philosophy, political thought, and literature.

We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.

Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

Other conceivable goals, such as character-education and social adjustment, are of secondary importance to them.

A variety of data are assembled to bear upon such alleged changes as diminished puritan morality, work-success ethic, individualism, achievement, lessened emphasis on future-time orientation in favor of sociability, moral relativism, consideration and tolerance, conformity, hedonistic present-time orientation.

Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.

Classic mythology and Christianity are such architectures of the imagination.

Concepts such as grace, damnation, purgation, blasphemy, or the chain of being, which are everywhere implicit in classic and Shakespearean tragedy, lose their vitality.

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.