Sentences with phrase «body of science»

To impugn the body of science, the scientific method and Dr. James Hansen in such manner is beyond childish, it is truly pathetic.

an emerging body of science indicates that rapidly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide may be boosting the onrushing waves of woody vegetation.

«The Greens opt to pressure democratically elected governments to reject a large body of science in favour of authoritarianism and promote policies which create unemployment and economic contraction.»

These politicians are, in essence, asserting that they know better than the established body of science.

Since the bill attempts to tear down a ruling based on the findings of our nation's top public health experts and scientists — a ruling that a Supreme Court decision turned into a legal obligation to uphold — we're witnessing a case wherein Congressional politicians are actually arguing that they know better than the conclusions of an entire body of science.

On the one hand, warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder, as an increasing body of science points to rising dangers from the ongoing buildup of human - related greenhouse gases — produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.

Saño is referring to an emerging body of science authored by researchers from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute known as Probabilistic Event Attribution (PEA), which deals with examining to what extent extreme weather events can be associated with past anthropogenic emissions.

Now imagine that, after thorough examination and debunking by their peers, these skeptics finally admitted their many false claims and assumptions, and perhaps some or all moved on to contribute meaningfully to the vast body of science confirming manmade climate change?

This is latest in an expanding body of science that has looked at the urban heat island effect in excruciating detail and found nothing to undermine the observed and disturbing warming in the US over the last several decades.

Such organisations, when they do «endorse» something, usually do it when a body of science has built up sufficiently on a subject.

I am usually very conscientious about building on a body of science with new ideas.

Another technique used by the UN that we see in play here is their willingness to cherry - pick one author that follows the UN narrative to refute a whole body of science that is contrary to the narrative.

But whoa, this body of science started settling core questions back when Fourier (sp?)

For illustration I mention a few of the remaining ones here: Climate denial is therefore perhaps best understood as a rational activity that replaces a coherent body of science with an incoherent and conspiracist body of pseudo-science for political or psychological reasons.

The Red Team will critique a huge assessment report that purports to summarize an entire body of science.

Like the ideological think tanks and Astroturf groups discussed later in this report, these front groups are not interested in educating the public about the large body of science that supports concern that greenhouse gases are threatening people around the world and the ecological systems on which they depend.

I don't see dogma anywhere — I see a painstaking assessment of a huge body of science.

Is there a universal code of scientific professionalism & ethics that guides the body of science?

... The apparent rise in scientific fraud, said Dr. Horton «is a scar on the moral body of science.»»

The only difference is the IPCC is science, and the NIPCC is cherry - picked information from the entire body of science that supports a pre-determined conclusion.

In recent weeks I'd been in touch with two scientists involved with a parallel effort *, John Abraham of St. Thomas University, and Scott Mandia of Suffolk County Community College *, as they pondered various responses to the rightward shift in politics and the intensifying challenges to the vast body of science pointing to a human - heated planet.

The PBS Frontline documentary, written and directed by Martin Smith, explores the world to explain why there has been such a persistent gap between the growing body of science pointing to an increasingly human - warmed world and action by policymakers, politicians and the public to limit risks.

To my eye the summary accurately reflects the body of science aiming to find a signal of greenhouse - gas influence on climate extremes and disaster frequency and severity (the full report is still being finalized).

I first dug in on behavioral and social science research related to global warming views and responses in 2006, and it quickly became clear that this was the scariest body of science of all — topping ice - sheet instability and even calling into question the utility of my profession.

(A broad body of science says there is a long - term environmental cost, but that message butts up against the discount rate and our tendency to frame today's policies around today's priorities)

Bill McKibben writes on body of science pointing to a very low «safe» long - term threshold for carbon dioxide concentrations — 350 parts per million — which was hit and passed in 1988, around the time McKibben and I began writing on global warming.

On the one hand, warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder, as an increasing body of science points to rising dangers from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases — mainly those produced by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.

This all jibes with earlier posts here on what is perhaps the most unnerving, and under - appreciated, body of science related to problems like the greenhouse - gas buildup — the sociological work showing how poorly people deal with looming risks (from global heating to Social Security insolvency) and exploring ways to improve the situation.

The work adds to a growing body of science pointing to large changes, with some types of marine organisms and ecosystems seemingly able to adjust and even thrive, while others ail.

We discussed the body of science pointing to troubles ahead from rising carbon dioxide levels during a break after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's speech on the «tragic lag between what we know and what we do.»

But one of the most robust realities in this body of science is that short - term (a decade or so) and regional forecasts remain beyond the skill of even the best modelers and supercomputers.

I've written in the past about other issues related to setting a numerical limit for climate dangers given both the enduring uncertainty around the most important climate change questions and the big body of science pointing to a gradient of risks rising with temperature.

The exchange is worth posting here now (Miller gave permission), to give you a sense of how intelligent people with related, if not identical, goals can interpret a large body of science very differently:

It's written by five leading climate scientists, all of whom have long been reliable guides to a complicated and consequential body of science — John M. Wallace at the University of Washington, Isaac M. Held at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, David W. J. Thompson at Colorado State University, Kevin E. Trenberth at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and John E. Walsh at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

A group of Australian scientists has begun a new online effort to communicate the body of science pointing to a rising human influence on the climate system.

For Melanie, this is unacceptable, particularly when there is a large body of science around how dogs think and learn and how best — and most humanely — to train them.

But according to the Science Fiction Writers of America, they're a professional body of science fiction and fantasy writers, they determined that a short story is anything up to 7,500 words.

On February 3rd, the membership body of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has approved by - law modifications that will allow indie authors to obtain Active and Associate memberships in their venerable organization.»

After that, he began looking into the science behind it, again discovering that there's a huge body of science showing the benefits of HIIT.

«There's an impressive body of science showing» that such workouts «are very effective at improving health and fitness.»

It's a little more restrictive than what I recommend, at least in the form some people describe it, but unlike adherents other diets, Paleo is not driven by any single person's ideas, but rather by the body of science that describes what people in the past have done.

A growing body of science now backs up what humans have naturally done since existence; walking barefoot.

(There's quite a large body of science that suggests «heavy metal» toxins like lead, mercury and arsenic can poison systems important to heart health, so even at the time, it made some sense.)

To explore this in - depth, this Symposium brought together an international body of science journalists with experts who can help identify the promises, problems and opportunities of data mining.

an emerging body of science indicates that rapidly increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide may be boosting the onrushing waves of woody vegetation.

First, the IPCC charter is to assess the body of science on climate change.

This depressing tale is the latest incarnation of denialism, the systematic rejection of a body of science in favour...

The body of science does not support the opinion of the authors, Fallon says.

There is an increasing body of science that shows just how important the role of dad is.

This concern about artificially transferring genes between kingdoms and species in a way that has never occurred naturally is now being validated by a large body of science.