Sentences with phrase «by the consensus view»

Though scientific consensus must always be open to responsible skepticism given: (a) the strength of the consensus on this topic, (b) the enormity of the harms predicted by the consensus view, (c) an approximately 30 year delay in taking action that has transpired since a serious climate change debate began in the United States in the early 1980s, (d) a delay that has made the problem worse while making it more difficult to achieve ghg emissions reductions necessary to prevent dangerous climate change because of the steepness of reductions now needed, no politician can ethically justify his or her refusal to support action on climate change based upon a personal opinion that is not supported by strong scientific evidence that has been reviewed by scientific organizations with a wide breadth of interdisciplinary scientific expertise.

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Additive manufacturing so far has tapped just eight percent of its global market potential, according to consensus views of industry experts surveyed by Wohlers.
He shares the consensus view that the 30 - year bull market in bonds is now spent and recommends buying floating - rate notes issued by corporations that reset their coupon according to market rates every three or six months.
In a new report, «Beyond Secular Stagnation,» Morgan Stanley's Global Investment Committee deconstructs the consensus view by examining some of the most frequently - cited drivers of secular stagnation.
We are very much in agreement with the ECRI on this, though our methods are different, and our conclusions are clearly still seen as «fringe» views by the consensus.
A note from Pivotal Research senior analyst Brian Wieser said that Publicis» results were viewed favorably by investors given consensus estimates of 0.7 percent (but said Pivotal was expecting results of 2.8 percent).
Complex historical and literary issues are involved here, but a consensus exists for viewing the genocidal violence recounted in many of the stories in Joshua and Judges as the product of a royal period in which kings were attempting to justify their own nationalistic ideologies by appeal to divine favor.
We believe that there are many Christians whose moral inclinations might persuade them to take the same view of current problems as our own, except for the fact that they are inhibited by religious presuppositions that they regard as more «purely» Christian than those represented by the consensus of the Church through all the ages.
However, despite the directive to «respect their point of view» he marginalizes such dissent by claiming that the «majority of Americans... have come to a consensus» and that the «proper course has become clear».
The tide is turning and depending on the questions and how they're asked, most public opinion surveys indicate that the consensus of the majority of the population is that LGBTQs should be viewed and treated equally by the our laws.
The ACSM consensus statement appears to reject earlier guidelines (Colorado and AAN) that focused heavily on loss of consciousness and retrograde amnesia (RGA) and to endorse the retrospective approach of the Cantu revised and Prague guidelines in viewing an approach to the return - to - play decision that considered «RGA, PTA, as well as the number and duration of additional signs and symptoms» as «more accurate in predicting severity and outcome ¡ -[and hence] more useful,» and by endorsing an individualized RTP decision, not one «based on a rigid timeline» [like the Colorado, AAN and Cantu Revised Guidelines)
There are also plenty of solid Conservative supporters who feel encouraged by his unapologetic views including a willingness quite often to challenge and debunk consensus banalities.
Internationally, the view - encapsulated by the key international organisations, the IMF and the OECD - that fiscal policy has been too restrictive not just in crisis countries like Greece but across the major advanced economies, has become the new consensus.
«The ACMD's consensus view is that a psychoactive substance has a direct action on the brain and that substances having peripheral effects, such as those caused by alkyl nitrites, do not directly stimulate or depress the central nervous system.»
Another reason they're offended by the consensus is because they view themselves as part of a scientific intelligentsia.
In 1998, Tony Lupo boasted that climate skeptics outnumbered the consensus view that global warming is happening and caused by people, proclaiming, «there is no scientific consensus whether global warming is a fact and is occurring.»
Prominent climate contrarians are seeking to insert their views into an unusual science tutorial scheduled to be held in federal court on Wednesday by offering «friend of the court» briefs that run contrary to the prevailing mainstream consensus.
If awards are a snapshot, preserving the consensus thoughts about cinema at a given time for the sake of posterity, a report from a group of passionate lovers of film about what they believe is great in the present moment, then why should they define that snapshot by the parameters of an industry that views their efforts only in the crudest terms?
Toward that end, ADP has moved beyond the kinds of standards that reflect experts» consensus view of what is desirable for students to learn, to expectations linked directly to the essential demands faced by students preparing for college, work and citizenship.
Opinions about the worst developments in 2010 — as viewed by those who voted in the Ednext poll — were sharply defined, while little consensus formed around the good that happened last year.
There are a myriad of opinions, reviews, and view about the device and no clear consensus other than to agree that Apple is taking a risk by offering a device that appears compromised to many.
This seems to be a consensus view, as demonstrated in this article, which included the following chart of 10 - year return projections by asset class:
The view is that once the situation is explained adequately, that reasonable people will be forced to draw the same reasonable conclusions as concluded by the consensus of the scientific community.
Another reason they're offended by the consensus is because they view themselves as part of a scientific intelligentsia.
Generally, the public forms views by what it sees in the media and internet (not peer - reviewed journals, academia, scientific conferences, or the consensus from the major science academies) and what I see in the general media a pretty even mix, with many outlets covering contrarians exclusively (such as the WSJ op - ed columns to name one of many).
``... a consensus is by definition the most credible view
Remember, these agencies are using the models and forecasts of the «so - called» consensus view as put forth by the UN IPCC and Mr. Gore, etc..
One has to wonder how many other papers with incorrect results have been published by scientists who go along with «consensus» views, and have never been corrected.
Does Richard Alley still believe that the LIA was characterized by NH temps falling 1 - 2C over an extended period as he did in 1998 while doing his paleo studies, or has he invalidated his own data and accepted the more consensus view (Gavin et al) that it was a far milder event (approx -.3) as stated in the op?
However, from what I've been able to learn from the people who actually do this type of research, there are simply too many variables and too many uncertainties in the field of climate science to make the sort of claims being made by advocates of the so - called «consensus» view.
Re: # 46 The factcheck.org item strikes me as a good - faith attempt at balance that fell prey to the usual journalistic pitfall; that is, it poses on one side the IPCC consensus view and on the other individual detractors like Patrick Michaels (citing 3 blog entries by him, no less — not peer - reviewed papers).
Instead, it seems like an effort to support your pre-determined view by rationalizing your choice of the minority view over the consensus.
The decision by the editor of the quarterly newsletter of the APS Forum on Physics and Society to invite opposing (scientific) views on climate change does not change the overall consensus.
Climate consensus or group think: Andrew Dessler has posted a followup on Grist's blog re-examining whether statements issued by professional scientific organizations have value as a barometer of their memberships» views on matters like climate.
Revealed that Earth's Heat Source is a neutron star — that is hidden from view by the brightly glowing waste products (91 % H and 9 % He) that «consensus» scientists mistakenly call the Sun [«Neutron Repulsion», The APEIRON Journal, in press, 1011]:
For the IPCC both the MWP (Medieval Warm Period) and the LIA (Little Ice Age) existed before the «hockey stick,» so viewing the situation objectively — after the IPCC participated in the rewriting of history by showcasing the «hockey stick as a part of the Left's efforts to manufacture a supposed consensus about climate change — the IPCC condoned a fraud that federal climatists to this very day persist in perpetrating on the public.
This explanation obviously did not fit in with the «consensus view» that climate is forced only by human emissions.
The consensus view that climate is only forced by human emmisions is pure bunk, where the heck did you get that?
In 2004 the secretariat was warned by the SBI on its role as an impartial actor (after the Executive Director attended an international energy conference to endorse renewable energy) when it formally «took note of the concern expressed that officials of the secretariat should take care in their public statements to reflect the views of parties held by consensus, and not to appear to support only one side or another on contentious issues.»
The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change has been vigorously attacked by some environmentalists and global warming alarmists who view it as a threat to their claim of a «consensus» in favor of their extreme views.
We do, however, believe that the mainstream scientific views as articulated by such prestigious scientific organizations as the United States Academy of Sciences are entitled to respect until peer - reviewed science changes the consensus view.
It seems that the definition of «consensus» varies by field, just as the decision - making framework does, with unanimity or near unanimity expected from the scientific community, even including those scientists who in many cases have not really embedded themselves in the literature nor been required to put together a coherent assembly and analysis of scientific knowledge (and even including, somehow, CEI's [Competitive Enterprise Institute] lawyers with their ExxonMobil support, who are often quoted as the contrary view in papers on the science of climate change).
I also explained I don't have any real beefs with ice core data but if you want to state something specific I'm sure I can find something to cast doubt upon it as very little in this debate is writ in granite, confirmation bias is rampant, overconfidence abounds, the race to publish by inexperienced youngsters on the tenure track is heated, and pal review let's just about anything that supports the consensus view get published while simultaneously quashing anything contrary.
This new evidence defies the consensus view promoted by mainstream newspapers, such as the New York Times.
This post examines the ethical duty to act to reduce the threat of climate change even if one assumes there is more scientific uncertainty about the causes and impacts of climate change than those identified by the scientific consensus view as articulated most recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
-- should be giving any kind of publicity to those sort of views... But it is effectively BBC policy, enthusiastically carried out by the BBC environment correspondents, that those views should not be heard — witness the BBC statement last year that «BBC News currently takes the view that their reporting needs to be calibrated to take into account the scientific consensus that global warming is man - made.»
Rather than imposing scientific principles on IPCC, United Nations allowed IPCC to be governed by: — the unscientific principle of a mission to support an established view (§ 1)-- the unscientific principle of consensus (§ 10)-- an approval process and organization principle which must, by it's nature, diminish dissenting views.
«By keeping the discussion focused on whether there really is a problem, these dozen or so dissidents — contradicting the consensus view held by 2,500 of the world's top climate scientists — have until now prevented discussion about how to address the problem.&raquBy keeping the discussion focused on whether there really is a problem, these dozen or so dissidents — contradicting the consensus view held by 2,500 of the world's top climate scientists — have until now prevented discussion about how to address the problem.&raquby 2,500 of the world's top climate scientists — have until now prevented discussion about how to address the problem.»
Another tactic frequently used by the climate change disinformation campaign that also constitutes reckless disregard for the truth are claims made about one controversy among the enormous body of scientific literature that supports the consensus view that assert that this controversy proves that the entire scientific basis for the consensus view has been undermined by this controversy.
«Consensus» is a word used by the IPCC itself, it is a consensus of the participants in the IPCC process, and many other scientists have supported the IPCC consensus view.
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