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.
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.
«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.»
Not exact matches
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near unanimity their rejection of supersessionism and their affirmation that God's covenant with Israel has not been revoked.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Such
near -
unanimity in public opinion is rare.
With
near unanimity, all groups
in the survey agreed that this is important.
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).
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.&raqu
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.&raqu
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.&raqu
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.