Sentences with phrase «consensus position»

Most others identified as «activists» have signed a public declaration indicating agreement with the usual consensus position, and sometimes indicating explicit support for emissions reductions.

While the current market reflects a very short consensus positioning in sterling, some commentators, including BNP Paribas's Edmund Shing believe the negativity could be overdone.

The fluoride segment has a number of problems but let's start with the main one - the failure to wrestle with scientific consensus positions that water fluoridation is effective and safe (update: should describe the consensus as «effective, and safe enough to be highly recommended»).

The purpose of the meeting was to determine whether consensus positions could be reached among the delegates regarding lot release, stability, characterization, and comparability testing.

What is most striking to me is that Sauven stresses all the time the alleged consensus position and authority of science.

In fact, when it comes to pressing matters of public policy where decisions depend upon a clear understanding of the underlying science (such as global warming), we ignore scientific consensus positions at our own peril.

The facilitators were asked to drive the process towards consensus positions over the three days, to inform future consultations by enabling them to target those aspects where there was not consensus and a need for broad community consideration of the issues.

Of the abstracts that expressed an opinion, Cook et al. claim that 97.1 % (less than one - third of the original total) agree with the IPCC consensus position.

In such a case it makes rather more sense to weight near - unanimous scientific consensus positions than the weight assigned to some uncredentialed fringe or another.

Without insight into high - level deliberations and leaders» priorities, it is almost impossible to differentiate between a strong Chinese leader who forces his compatriots to adopt his preferences and one who has a supportive environment and institutional capacity to enact such policies — or indeed, one whose statements and actions only ever reflected a consensus position in the first place.

«Right now on the Women's Equality Agenda, I'm working with the womens groups and I'd like to get a consensus position among the womens groups because there's a variety even within the women's groups,» Cuomo said.

This consensus position does change (for example, human transplants in the 1950s were viewed far less positively than now) but it is important this conversation happens in a consensus, societal way.

The consensus position in the research community is that tracing back the biochemical chains of cause and effect to root causes, something that is not yet possible for many common medical conditions, will show that all age - related conditions and their complexities are the consequences of a comparatively small number of types of cellular and molecular damage.

In fact, among peer - reviewed scientific literature, 97.1 percent endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.

Countless professional and honorific scientific societies have looked at the science — and not one has dissented from the consensus position.

All of the organizations listed support the consensus position that humans are largely responsible for the undeniable changes in climate we are seeing and that these changes represent a significant concern.

Some old - timers will remember a series of «bombshell» papers back in 2004 which were going to «knock the stuffing out» of the consensus position on climate change science (see here for example).

«Not a single paper in a large sample of peer - reviewed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 refuted the consensus position, summarized by the National Academy of Sciences, that «most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.

Later publicly and loudly contradicting the IPCC estimate for sea - level rise to undermine the consensus position and to again emphasise the extreme scenario, he has close ties with the Democrats, and publicly endorsed Kerry's presidential campaign.

He had claimed he found 34 abstracts in the scientific mainstream that did not accept the consensus position that humans are causing rapid climate changes.

Read gets to claim as the consensus position whatever suits his argument, without attention to the actual substance of the consensus, or its putative denial.

A paper by John Cook and colleagues published in May 2013 claimed that of the 4,000 peer - reviewed papers they surveyed expressing a position on anthropogenic global warming, «97.1 % endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming».

Skeptical Science takes a different approach to Naomi Oreskes» Science paper who sorted her papers into «explicit endorsement of the consensus position», «rejection of the consensus position» and everything else (neutral).

The paper itself doesn't even make that claim... it only states: «Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1 % endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.»