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