Sentences with phrase «level of scientific certainty»

The expert reports used by the Board were still attempting to hold the claim to a level of scientific certainty, which is wholly inapplicable in determining causation for workers» claims.

But critics say that the report in some cases overstated the level of scientific certainty on the issue or simply got things wrong.

If you claim that the climate change impacts predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have not reached a level of scientific certainty that warrants action, do you agree that climate change impacts predicted by IPCC could be wrong in both directions, potentially leading to even harsher adverse impacts than those predicted?

Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are recognized.

Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are recognized.

Not exact matches

In a food additive petition filed with the FDA, GMA said the scientific evidence will enable FDA to find there is a «reasonable certainty of no harm» from consumption of PHOs from the uses and use levels specified in the submission.

All health claims are required to be supported by scientific evidence, and each proposed relationship between an ingredient and a claim must meet the same level of certainty, whether they are pre-approved by the Food Standards of Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), or they are self - substantiated by food businesses.

# 68 «Furthermore, the nature of the scientific evidence and corresponding burden of proof are not the same — these are completely different kinds of systems with different levels of noise and different levels of certainty of cause and effect.

The principle calls for action despite a lack of scientific certainty (and by now we've got a healthy level of certainty).

Even if, for argument's sake, there were to emerge a broad consensus that the impacts of SRM could be accurately predicted (which seems highly unlikely and endlessly contestable), the social and political impacts of such an intervention are essentially un-knowable, meaning that whatever level of physical scientific certainty or engineering know - how we might gain in this area, the whole enterprise will remain radically unpredictable and risky.

Although there are legitimate questions about which scientific assertions are entitled to higher levels of support, lack of certainty is not a legitimate criterion for ignoring scientific concerns as a matter or ethics.

could better be stated «Such variability has important implications for the assertions of levels of certainty unsupported by the current level of scientific knowledge regarding climate change.

The IF was used on these threads as an heuristic device to enable understanding of the role of uncertainty in scientific problems where there are «conflicting certainties» and expert assessments of confidence levels.

In 2011 API brought suit with other parties against the EPA over its authority to regulate greenhouse gases, stating that «EPA professes to be 90 to 99 % certain that «anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible for «unusually high planetary temperatures», but the record does not remotely support this level of certainty» (Goldman and Rogerson 2013), a statement that flew in the face of the prevailing scientific consensus (IPCC 2007).