Sentences with phrase «of broad scientific consensus»

Although scientific evidence increasingly shows that fossil fuel consumption has caused the climate to change rapidly, the issue has grown so politicized that skepticism of the broad scientific consensus has seeped into classrooms.

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This is a familiar dodge - emphasizing uncertainty about the precise amount of humanity's contribution while ignoring the broad scientific consensus that human activities are largely responsible for dangerous warming of our planet and that action is urgently needed before it is too late.

First, a caveat: without getting bogged down in the scientific status of the theory of evolution, we should note that among scientists there is a consensus on the broad lines of the theory of evolution.

His favorable reference to «State of Fear» is a dead giveaway, as is his broad - brush scathing dismissal of the scientific consensus on human - caused climate disruption.

There is a broad scientific consensus that human activity — including the burning of fossil fuels for transportation, heating and industrial manufacturing — is driving recent climate change.

His favorable reference to «State of Fear» is a dead giveaway, as is his broad - brush scathing dismissal of the scientific consensus on human - caused climate disruption.

There is broad scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change but there still a huge amount of ongoing research into many of the details.

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.

Lets abandon the scientific consensus seeking approach in favor of open debate and discussion of a broad range of policy options that stimulate local and regional solutions to the multifaceted and interrelated issues surrounding climate change.

These uncertainties are exploited by those — such as Myron Ebell, head of Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency transition team — who reject the broad scientific consensus that humans are warming the Earth.

That sounds pretty progressive, and is certainly greener than the position of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has explicitly denied the «broad scientific and policy consensus» on climate change.

He will also look at the broader issue of scientific consensus and why it generates such intense opposition.

The drawback of this approach is that uncertainty and minority interpretations are so much in the spotlight that we may forget the items that actually do enjoy broad scientific consensus.

After all, the «broad scientific consensus» could still be wrong, precisely because of the high level of «uncertainty» (even if there has been no «gaming of the system»).

Plus, most professional American scientific organizations, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, acknowledge that there is a broad scientific consensus on climate change.

There once existed a broad consensus that the Church must be the ultimate judge of scientific truths.

The new target: Naomi Oreskes who last week found her research used as a foil by some lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives to try and discredit the widely - accepted and growing view that there is a broad scientific consensus on the evidence of human - caused global warming caused by rising carbon dioxide emissions.

In a statement, Mr. Boehlert, who is retiring at the end of the year, expressed satisfaction with the results, saying, «There is nothing in this report that should raise any doubts about the broad scientific consensus on global climate change — which doesn't rest primarily on these temperature issues, in any event — or any doubts about whether any paper on the temperature records was legitimate scientific work.»

There is a very broad scientific consensus on the issue of man - made global warming that is arrived at through evidence from a wide range of research spanning the past century and more.

A strategy used by climate policy proponents to counter the strategies of the merchants of doubt (Oreskes and Conway, 2010; Schneider and Flannery, 2009) has been the establishment of a broad international scientific consensus with high confidence levels, strong appeals to the authority of the consensus relative to opposing viewpoints, and exposure of the motives of skeptics.

One of our main quibbles with the way the climate change debate is presented is precisely that the IPCC «consensus» belies a broad range of nuanced positions and arguments — both scientific and political — as does the so - called sceptic camp.

The «global cooling» myth is another favorite of climate deniers, despite broad scientific consensus that the planet is in fact warming.

Moreover, a broader scientific consensus may make a stronger impression by showing how science works in terms of finding the most credible explanation.

Toyota Motor Corp.'s North American President Jim Press, whose company has pushed fuel - efficient hybrid vehicles, noted that Toyota «has long been mindful of and accepts the broad scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and will continue unless there are significant and coordinated global efforts to slow the growth of man - made greenhouse gas emissions.»