Sentences with phrase «confidence in the science on»

81) The UK's Met Office has been forced this year to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man - made global warming has been shattered by revelations about the data.

The Times of London had a blockbuster of an item in its reporting of ClimateGate: The Met Office plans to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man - made global warming has been shattered by leaked e-mails.

Its first task was to erode confidence in the science on which environmental concerns were based by arguing that the scientists had become politicised and were using their research, or allowing it to be used, to advance an anti-corporate political agenda.

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Ok, can I have that little chat with Jesus, but still keep my better judgment based on my confidence in science and logic, which suggests that he wasn't divine, or do I have to trade in my better judgment and just accept that Jesus was divine on faith?

John Beddington, the UK government's chief scientific adviser, says that climate scientists should be less hostile to doubters who question man - made global warming, and that public confidence in science depends on more openness to varied opinions.

That the confidence in an orderly universe and the impulse to venture on the unexplored which lay back of them, as of the science and the geographic expansion of the age, were to some extent from the Christian faith appears clear.

What you're basically claiming is that science can't really tell us anything that we can't see personally happening for ourselves which is utterly ridiculous considering that we convict people of murder often on the confidence we have in forensic science.

She continued: «We signalled our willingness to work with MPI to ensure its proposed science definition is robust in meeting shared objectives around consumer confidence and authenticity, and will be making a detailed submission on behalf of industry.

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Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

The House of Lords science and technology committee said the government is doing too little to improve security on the internet and risks undermining public confidence in the service.

Commenting on the announcement by Ofqual around issues related to GCSE Computer Science, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT — The Teachers» Union, said: «The NASUWT recognises that Ofqual has a critical responsibility to establish and maintain public and professional confidence in the qualification system.

These examples are the low - hanging fruit on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, so it is easy for both science and religion to pluck the ripe ones and declare with confidence that such acts as, say, lying, adultery and stealing are wrong because they destroy trust in human relationships that depend on truth telling, fidelity and respect for property.

For Cooper, these results showed both that researchers had strong confidence in data from volunteers and revealed that the influence of citizen science on the study of birds and climate change was greater than is commonly acknowledged.

Trudeau promised to «restore confidence» in the reviews and «ensure that decisions on major projects are based on science, facts, and evidence.»

«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

Inspired by what he had seen abroad, he decided to set up on his own, and found the confidence to do so through the master's degree in science & technology management and commercialisation, a course run jointly by the Technical University of Lisbon and the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas, Austin.

«This evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.

This article is not really sober, jumping from glaciers length to the french society's confidence in science, from the snowball earth to Svensmark, and so on.

[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»

Speaking at a seminar on public confidence in biomedical science at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Prof Wilmut warned there was a danger in missing scientific opportunities because of public fears and misunderstandings.

Can someone with the article and some competence in reading it comment whether the new Science article is an improved statistical analysis on the same dataset, or has other data or basis for what sounds like greater confidence in saying this is an apparent trend?

«It also boosts their confidence in their ability to understand science, gives them a head start on their upper division courses, and helps them see themselves as researchers.»

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The initial study reported in 1992 (Romance & Vitale, 1992) showed that 4th grade Science IDEAS students displayed higher achievement on nationally - normed tests in reading comprehension and in science (in comparison to demographically similar students) and more positive attitudes and self - confidence toward reading comprehension and sScience IDEAS students displayed higher achievement on nationally - normed tests in reading comprehension and in science (in comparison to demographically similar students) and more positive attitudes and self - confidence toward reading comprehension and sscience (in comparison to demographically similar students) and more positive attitudes and self - confidence toward reading comprehension and sciencescience.

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We are concerned that the incorporation of unsubstantiated theories into what the public understands to be the «scientific consensus» on global warming is eroding public confidence in climate science.

This article is not really sober, jumping from glaciers length to the french society's confidence in science, from the snowball earth to Svensmark, and so on.

Here's Allenby on Seeger's conclusion that confidence in science as en endless source of progress is based on faith: Read more...

Can someone with the article and some competence in reading it comment whether the new Science article is an improved statistical analysis on the same dataset, or has other data or basis for what sounds like greater confidence in saying this is an apparent trend?

There's been a range of interesting reactions to my piece on Pete Seeger's question about whether confidence in science as a source of human progress is underpinned by fact or faith.

While many of his colleagues are (appropriately) quick to point out hype from those aiming to undermine public confidence in climate science, Schmidt has been unafraid also to note that reality on important issues — from tipping points to extreme weather — is not always convenient for greenhouse campaigners.

Here's Allenby on Seeger's conclusion that confidence in science as en endless source of progress is based on faith:

Here's the news: A committee of experts recommended by the Royal Society has completed the second of three inquiries into the affair, which foes of restrictions on greenhouse gases tried vigorously to use to undermine public confidence in decades of science pointing to a human - heated climate.

Thomas M. Lessl, a scholar at the University of Georgia who has long studied the rhetoric and societal relationships of both science and religion, is well positioned to add to the recent discussion here over whether confidence in science as a source of progress is based on faith or fact.

«Confidence in the authority of the science of climatology is currently eroding in the public consciousness,» says Roger Pielke Jr., an American social economist and expert on natural disasters.

On the contrary, even as confidence in the mainstream scientific consensus was solidified be the released of the IPPP Fourth Assessment Report in 2007, the rightwing opponents of science were buoyed by the La Nina event of early 2008, which produced a sharp, but temporary drop in temperatures, particularly in the Pacific.

there is a highly interesting discussion of how a «very likely» level of confidence as to attribution was obtained in AR4 in a McKitrick paper in 2007: http://rossmckitrick.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/0/8/4808045/mckitrick.final.pdf after having a look on it, you may conclude that IPCC expert knowledge may be closer to alchemy than to science

I find the whole presentation of sigma in climate science, maybe it is common in the natural sciences, as shown on charts to be a silly representation of confidence.

Since so much is riding on an uncertain art and imprecise science, only further methodological debate, exposure, and interdisciplinary consensus about legitimacy will allow us to place the needed level of confidence in results like MBH.

I believe that the public's confidence in climate science and climate scientists may increase if it is felt that the scientists can take a mostly disinterested view on climate policy.

That statement is an attack on science, it is a denial of scientific ethics, and its mere assertion undermines public confidence in science.

Current GCM models may have realistic - seeming weather patterns, but are totally incapable of producing phenomena that look like the Holocene (Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, Holocene Optimum, the steady decline of temperature on average over the last 3,000 years, etc.) The Climate Science community has, instead, taken the path of trying to claim that these swings didn't occur (Michael Mann's «Hockey Stick», etc.) This does not give me a lot of confidence in the rest of their «science&Science community has, instead, taken the path of trying to claim that these swings didn't occur (Michael Mann's «Hockey Stick», etc.) This does not give me a lot of confidence in the rest of their «science&science».

This makes it all the tougher to evaluate the language of «high confidence» etc., which, in the end, papers over whether the material is truly based on science or not.

climate science is very well established and has been very extensively studied, analyzed and reported on which is why people can have a relatively high degree of confidence in the «official story (from scientists, both governmental and independent)».

Public confidence in the leaders of the scientific community is one indicator of public willingness to rely on science.

«He said that public confidence in climate science would be improved if there were more openness about its uncertainties, even if that meant admitting that sceptics had been right on some hotly - disputed issues.»

I've noticed too on other subjects that Nick has more confidence than I do in the science establishment.