Its ostensible purpose will be to «expose Congressional staff and journalists to leading scientists and economists in the nation's capital» and demonstrate that «global warming is not a crisis and that immediate action to reduce emissions is not necessary» — which it calls
the emerging consensus view of (the handful of) scientists outside the IPCC.
What follows is a brief discussion of the issues, and an effort to reframe, refine and build upon
the emerging consensus view concerning the «cap and trade» approach, and to suggest the minimum regulatory structure necessary to this end.
Not exact matches
Last week was not a crash, though a free - fall appears increasingly possible, as the reality of
emerging recession (and all that it implies for fresh credit risks, sovereign defaults, fiscal imbalances, banking strains and other problems) will likely smash against the
consensus view of economic expansion in next few months.
Hayek feared that increasing government intervention in the economy would inevitably lead to the undermining of democracy, but within a few years his
views were regarded as old - fashioned and irrelevant to the
emerging consensus.
There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of
view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13
Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.
Equally interesting was the
consensus view that
emerged on HSBC InvestDirect has a lot of ground to make up to compete with other online discount brokerages.
This
consensus - driven
view, which
emerged from sharing data related to cryosphere dynamics, was needed to enhance U.S. - China collaborations.
He's disdainful of what he calls «orthodoxy,» not understanding that scientific
consensus usually
emerges when the evidence supporting the
consensus view is persuasive.
62 Serious study of verbal fillers produced a wealth of scientific data, and while linguists disagree on the details, a
consensus emerged in which uh and um are
viewed as signals that perform communicative functions.
The concept of deliberative democracy has
emerged as a technique to both build
consensus and help engage minority
views, and involve these
views in decisions.