Sentences with phrase «president debating society»

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Obama Secretly Laid Out Why Climate Skeptics Are Bad For Democracy Former President Barack Obama said while debating climate change policy solutions is good for democracy, questioning the underlying science is bad for society.

This view has been echoed in the UK by Royal Society president Paul Nurse, as well as in the House of Lords during a debate on the proposed Protection of Freedoms legislation.

In debating education reform, Goodman adopted not the point of view of The System, even less that of society or the nation (in one recurring riff, he savagely criticizes James Conant, Harvard president and education reformer, for even mentioning «national needs» alongside «individual development»), but that of the dropout, The System's rejects.

With help from Professor Randall Abate and their co-sponsor, the Federalist Society, they presented The Legal Battle on Personhood Debate, featuring Steve Wise, president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, and Bob Kohn, fellow at the Center for Great Ideas.

Like his predecessors, however, Nurse fails to understand why partial statements from the president of the Royal Society do more to impede the progress of debate than move it on.

HANNITY: When the president says the debate is settled, when the secretary of state says that we're not going to — we have no time for a meeting with the Flat Earth Society — five years ago, Al Gore predicted the north polar ice cap would be completely ice - free.

It's like an astronomer getting into a debate with the president of the Flat Earth Society over the latest stellar observations.

I mean if, as Nurse is now suggesting, the scientific mainstream understanding of global warming is that it's happening but that it's open to debate how significant it is then doesn't this completely contradict pretty much everything he, the Royal Society, and its two previous presidents Lords Rees and May have been doing this last decade or more to stoke up the Anthropogenic Global Warming scare for all they're worth?

And their way of looking at the world exists outside of the climate debate, which brings us back to the Royal Society, and what it and its presidents were trying to do with their scientific authority.

As president of the Law Society of England and Wales from July she will be at the forefront of debates with the Ministry of Justice and HM Courts and Tribunals Service over the government's plans for online justice.