Sentences with phrase «certainty over climate science»

Experts liken the certainty over climate science to the science that says cigarettes kill.

Not exact matches

It is not the statement of uncertainty that causes problems rather the over statement of certainty in press releases that causes the loss of confidence in climate science.

regulars and those responding to this thread in particular may be interested in the class assignment I presently have underway: students are required to select an environmental issue of interest to them and compare the blogging from three sites that reflect a stasist perspective (command and control, science certainty, centalised government, precautionary principle) with the blogging from three dynamist sites (libertarian, individual responsibility, free market, adaptation over prevention, non-dogma): I expect that several of the students will use climate change as a topic and would expect that climate audit, real climate and prometheus will be prominent in the analysis.

You have indicators that who ever stole them may have believed in the sanctity of FOIA over the certainty of climate science.

So let us quote the University of East Anglia climate scientist, and former director of the Tyndall Centre, Mike Hulme, who is concerned that science is being used to provide certainty over big, complex political issues:

Neither do I think it likely that advances in climate science will give us great certainty about exactly how bad global warming will be over the coming centuries.

Many things are uncertain in climate science and we really need to appreciate that our historic data is often poor and that we need to acquire information over decades before we can say things with certainty.