Sentences with phrase «near unanimity -lsb-»

The amendments relating to trading stock on a blockchain were added at the last minute to a host of amendments related to recognizing blockchain transactions, all of which were passed with near unanimity.

2 This response, Brulle wrote, doesn't reflect «the near unanimity of the scientific community about anthropogenic [i.e., man - made] climate change.»

The scientific community is certain with near unanimity that man - made global warming is disrupting Earth's climate and that remedies are urgently needed.

It seems that the definition of «consensus» varies by field, just as the decision - making framework does, with unanimity or near unanimity expected from the scientific community, even including those scientists who in many cases have not really embedded themselves in the literature nor been required to put together a coherent assembly and analysis of scientific knowledge (and even including, somehow, CEI's [Competitive Enterprise Institute] lawyers with their ExxonMobil support, who are often quoted as the contrary view in papers on the science of climate change).

I don't think it's likely that you could get 97 % of any particular group to have near unanimity in opinions about anything terribly complex.

Although the IPCC claims near unanimity for its conclusions, 11 there remain a significant number of skeptics who do not agree.

With near unanimity, all groups in the survey agreed that this is important.

Brown signs bill spelling out evaluations (for principals) Ed Source: Without the acrimony and fanfare that doomed a teacher evaluation bill last month, the Legislature with near unanimity passed and Gov. Brown has now signed a milestone principal and teacher evaluation bill.

• There was near unanimity among the task force members (myself excluded), the State Board of Education, and the California Department of Education that NCLB - era accountability systems were excessively punitive, and that the focus should instead be on «continuous improvement,» rather than «test - and - punish.»

The scientific community is certain with near unanimity that man - made global warming is disrupting Earth's climate and that remedies are urgently needed.

«If this is so important for European science, we should have been able to get near unanimity.»

«We must remember that the bi-partisanship and near unanimity -LSB-...]

The margin of victory, won in the teeth of a near unanimity of yes propaganda pouring from media outlets, means that when the troika meet the negotiating team again, they know there's a solid democratic mandate behind them.

Though a governor, unlike a president or member of Congress, has virtually no influence on foreign affairs, the state's political class with near unanimity supports Israel in its armed conflicts.

With an evenly split Senate and essentially a divided House (Democrats would need near unanimity to pass a budget), shouldn't we hold members of both parties equally accountable for reaching consensus?

The near unanimity in Parliament yesterday in support of the new approach was a powerful indication of how far the press needs to move in order to restore faith in its regulatory structure.

Boulder's residents believe, with seemingly near unanimity, that this lifestyle is worth preserving.

But while its origins remain mysterious, there is near unanimity; about the fact that individuals exercise no real personal choice in the development of their sexual orientation — heterosexual or homosexual.

That they are to be involved brings near unanimity; how that involvement takes shape and what is its Christian motivation bring only debate.

We found that in the latter half of the 20th century Christian churches have proclaimed with near unanimity their rejection of supersessionism and their affirmation that God's covenant with Israel has not been revoked.

«Equity sentiment is, unsurprisingly, very bullish and Barron's annual mid-December poll of buy - and sell - side strategists revealed near unanimity in terms of economically bullish sector views,» notes BCA Research in a note titled, «U.S. Equity Froth Watch.»

Banishment recently achieved the rarest of things — near unanimity from a group of economists.

Not exact matches

However, there is near - unanimity on the ends to be achieved in this area of public policy, and intense, often bitter, debate on how to get there.

Such near - unanimity in public opinion is rare.

Also this seemed a good contemporary roundup of the evidence, not for the climate crisis itself, but for the near - unanimity among scientists that there is one.

Normally, getting scientists to agree with such near - unanimity is like herding cats.

In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the near - unanimity among economists that carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»

That research is now in, and the scientific uncertainty that once justified skepticism has been replaced by near - unanimity among credentialed researchers that an artificially warming world is a real phenomenon posing real danger.

The irony to me is we in this post appear to have near - unanimity on the inability to conclude anything (project with meaningful confidence) about the future from the GISS data alone.