The Wall Street Journal editorial page has for years railed against these scientific findings on climate change, even
as the global consensus has reached nearly 100 percent of the scientific community, including the reports commissioned by the skeptical Bush White House.
The Commission took unilateral action and retroactively changed the rules, disregarding decades of Irish tax law, US tax law, as well
as global consensus on tax policy, that everyone has relied on,» Apple said.
Not exact matches
Now the
consensus from market watchers suggests it could see another weak year
as other
global regions pick up.
As the year progressed, the
consensus abandoned talk of «secular stagnation» for a new catchphrase: «
global synchronous growth.»
For much of my career I pretty much accepted the
consensus, but
as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve
as the
global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.
The
consensus achieved by the faithful comes to the individual
as embodied in a broader culture that moves from the local to the
global and back again.
scientific
consensus as to the facts quoted above — specifically those related to
global warming and anthropogenic
global warming.
However, the important thing to remember is that there is a significant scientific
consensus as to the facts quoted above — specifically those related to
global warming and anthropogenic
global warming.
Would it not be that the West and the institutions of
global governance, having closed themselves to transcendence, have stopped searching for what is real, true and good for humanity
as a whole and for each individual person, and therefore prove unable to forge any genuine
consensus?
Consensus, accords and other soft agreements (such
as the 1994 Cairo
consensus or the recent Copenhagen Accord), while not being «legally binding», do substantially determine the direction of
global governance, establish a «
global normative framework», are often «enforced» - effectively implemented,
as if political and cultural agreements had become more «binding» than hard law.
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Global governance can be «described» as the new global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based
Global governance can be «described»
as the new
global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based
global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «
global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based
global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based NGOs.
As IIS often highlighted it, the UN
consensus - building exercise of the 1990s, which set the framework in which
global governance operates today, hijacked humanity's universal aspirations at the end of the Cold War.
The bodies that rule our
global economy today, the G8 (the world's industrialized countries), the IMF and the World Bank (together known
as the «Washington
consensus») prescribe for the world a neo-classical recipe of privatization, decentralization, deregulation and other market liberalizations, assuming that our common interests are best served by the invisible hand of the market.
The authoritarian
consensus about
global warming that actively suppressed dissent,
as Climategate revealed, is a case in point.
In all likelihood it will serve
as the unifying worldview that will undergird any future
global consensus.
Despite the «science is settled» and «
consensus» claims of the
global - warming alarmists, the fear of catastrophic consequences from rising temperatures has been driven not so much by good science
as by computer models and adroit publicity fed to a compliant media.
That should give companies confidence that they will make money, although
as yet there's no
consensus on exactly how to do it (see «Superbug crisis:
Global push to save antibiotics begins «-RRB-.
When his turn to question Holdren arrived, Rohrabacher began by requesting permission to submit the names of 100 climate scientists who disagree with the
consensus on
global warming, including people Rohrabacher described
as prominent academics.
I don't care about
consensus, but for what it's worth: 10 out of 17 means a 59 %
consensus that climate sensitivity is likely to be 2C or lower and
as such
global warming is not dangerous according to UN politically agreed criteria.
The world government would also work
as mediator in international conflicts and build
consensus among all nation states, to make every national state respects the rights of its citizens, and seek to prevent the spread of
global systemic risks.
As current trends in contemporary society demand new educational responses, and traditional systems of learning are substantially challenged and reshaped,
consensus is building around the importance of developing learners well prepared to meet the demands that current and future
global trends make on individuals and societies, particularly in the area of civic and social participation, and ethical behavior in a world increasingly marked by difference.
Although GCE is well recognized
as a key dimension of education for dealing with the challenges and opportunities posed by globalization,
consensus about what
global citizenship means, and consequently what GCE should promote, is yet to be reached.
This year our lead theme All About That Pace again appears out of
consensus as the market view for rates has shifted towards fears of deflation and expectations that low
global rates means U.S. rates can never move higher.
Our exposure to the Norwegian krone (NOK) benefitted the most
as inflation was higher than expected, breaking the
global trend for below -
consensus inflation.
[2] The contemporary
consensus seems to be that the painter's wide - ranging practice forged in twentieth century Istanbul, London, Amman and Paris, positions her
as the quintessential «
global» artist.
According to a recent article in Eos (Doran and Zimmermann, «Examining the Scientific
consensus on Climate Change `, Volume 90, Number 3, 2009; p. 22 - 23 — only available for AGU members — update: a public link to the article is here), about 58 % of the general public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing the mean
global temperature,
as opposed to 97 % of specialists surveyed.
The obvious answer (from someone who is indeed receptive to arguments for lower - than -
consensus climate sensitivities) is that it was on a par with recent hot years because temperatures at US latitudes of the globe really weren't
as much cooler in the 1930s / 1940s (compared to the present) than GISS / Hadley's best estimates (from often sketchy
global coverage) suggest.
The petition, despite being frequently cited by
global warming critics
as showing that thousands of scientists disagree with the
consensus on
global warming, contains almost no people with relevant expertise; and its vetting was so lax that it included fictional signatories such
as Star Wars characters and a member of the Spice Girls.
When an economist at the Environmental Protection Agency rejected the Obama administration's stance on
global warming by writing an unsolicited report challenging the scientific
consensus on greenhouse dangers, groups fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases hailed him
as a courageous maverick.
To start with carbon trading
as a stop gap measure, simply because the
global consensus exists to move forward, makes sense
as a starting point.
But to generate a
global consensus among states
as varied
as Italy and Indonesia, enormous compromises were made.
Journalists dealing with
global warming and similar issues would do well to focus on the points of deep
consensus, generate stories containing voices that illuminate instead of confuse, convey the complex without putting readers (or editors) to sleep, and cast science in its role
as a signpost pointing toward possible futures, not
as a font of crystalline answers.
Western academia's supposed «97 %
consensus» — a form of revanchism against growing skepticism of
global warming and AGW theory — is the biggest backfire in history if in the end it paints 97 % of academia
as hopelessly clueless.
As we documented in our paper, research has also shown that when people are aware of the expert
consensus on human - caused
global warming, they're more likely to accept the science and support climate policy to address the problem.
There is no
consensus on
global warming among scientists and
as the saying goes, Opinons are like assholes, everybody has one; and most of them stink.
Or is Paul defending against the charge by making a numbers argument — the scientists in question are on the same side
as the
consensus, so to challenge any aspect of
global warming science or politics is to make a statement about «the majority of scientists» (many of whom are in fact social scientists)?
In January of this year, author Kenneth Richard conducted a broad survey of climate change literature for 2017 and found that the alleged «
consensus» behind the dangers of anthropogenic
global warming is not nearly
as settled among climate scientists
as people imagine.
Margaret Thatcher, Sarah Palin and many other conservatives accepted what was presented
as a scientific
consensus on «
global warming», until the political agenda of the advocates became clear at Kyooto, Copenhagen, and finally the release of the CAGW manfesto called the SPM of the AR4.
10: Given that the authors of the largest ever survey of peer - reviewed opinion in learned papers marked only 64 of 11,944 papers, or 0.5 %,
as stating they agreed with the official «
consensus» proposition that recent warming was mostly manmade, on what rational, evidence - based, scientific ground is it daily asserted that «97 % of scientists» believe recent
global warming is not only manmade but dangerous?
In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report stated a clear expert
consensus that: «It is extremely likely [defined
as 95 - 100 % certainty] that more than half of the observed increase in
global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic [human - caused] increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together.»
One might first note,
as The New American has reported before, that «
consensus» itself is often manipulated, a good example being the debunked claim that «97 percent of scientists affirm anthropogenic
global warming.»
We don't have a second America to use
as a control group, but without the
consensus messaging that's happened over the past decade, my guess is that the public would be even more misinformed about
global warming than it is now.
In particular, BECI can play a critical role in catalyzing the additional multidisciplinary academic work around carbon removal needed to address the growing scientific
consensus (from institutions, such
as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Research Council, and the
Global Carbon Project) that preventing further climate change likely requires carbon removal in addition to reductions in carbon emissions.
Those who accept the
consensus that the Earth is warming due to human activity (anthropogenic
global warming or AGW) point to declining Arctic sea ice
as one line of evidence to support this conclusion.
Their efforts have been successful,
as evidenced by the «
consensus gap» whereby the public believe scientists are split on the cause of
global warming; a stark contrast to the reality of the 97 percent
consensus.
In any case,
as one of those rare contrarian climate scientists, Spencer is in a good position to present the best arguments against the
global warming
consensus.
Global warming believers need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC scientists», declare this to be the settled consensus opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other
Global warming believers need only to counter dry recitations of skeptic science material with assertions about the numbers of «IPCC scientists», declare this to be the settled
consensus opinion, then claim there is leaked memo evidence proving skeptics are paid industry money to «reposition
global warming as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other
global warming
as theory rather than fact» — hoodwink the public, in other words.
As to the «scientific
consensus», Mann and his hockey stick have been called «scanty», «sloppy», «sh*tty», «rubbish», «a disgrace to the profession», «dubious», «invalidated» and «just bad science» by his fellow scientists, including the climatologist who came up with the term «
global warming» back in the Seventies.
It came
as no surprise to anyone working in climate research that there is an overwhelming scientific
consensus on human - caused
global warming.
According to The Guardian, which describes the interview
as «revealing,» Christy offers an innacurate response on the 97 %
consensus on human - caused
global warming: [12], [22]