Bruno Monteyne, an analyst at Bernstein Research, said the publicity around the spat was probably helpful to both Tesco and Unilever as it would help explain probable price rises to shoppers.
The study describes a probable true rise in the incidence of follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in certain parts of Yorkshire over the last 20 years; there is less evidence of a similar change in Hodgkin's disease incidence over the same period of time.
The first event becomes more probable as SI rises, whereas the probability of the second event decreases with the rise in SI.
Such a nightmare scenario is becoming more probable with the rise of state-sponsored suicide bombing, where mutually assured destruction is synonymous with martyrdom rather than deterrence.
But it is at least as probable that the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as Soviet leader in 1985, and the presence of the Republican Reagan in the White House, created a window of opportunity, which both men, to their credit, took full advantage of.
Joe Wiggins, a spokesman for Nationwide building society, turned the focus away from the probable mortgage rate rises and concentrated instead on the benefits to savers.
Expectations begin to adjust to take into account this dynamic; firms build in larger price increases to take into account probable future wage rises, and workers build in larger wage demands to take into account probable future price increases.
The report under challenge is the National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, an analysis of the probable effects of rising temperatures Congress commissioned in 1990.
