Sentences with phrase «of scientific certainty»

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

Many letters take issue with individual points of climate science, but I am particularly intrigued by the ones that aim wider, targeting the very concept of scientific certainty.

Waiting for an arbitrary standard of scientific certainty before changing any behavior is an option the world has, one option among many: the «continue as before» option.

Moreover, once environmentalists decided to invest their political capital in the notion of scientific certainty, they let the politically - and - financially - motivated - science cat out of the bag.

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

It is perfectly legitimate to argue that that global warming has achieved such prominence not because of scientific certainty, but because of activism, and because of political environmentalism.

I learnt to communicate in crisis situations within the limits of scientific certainty while working with the gelatin manufacturers during the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) affair.

This interpretative function is important because, as researchers from the fields of science communication and science studies have shown, traditional notions of scientific authority, of the presentation of scientific certainty, and of science being the supreme method of understanding the world have been increasingly questioned.

Since that post, we've been looking for another good example of the precautionary principle being applied in an argument framed in terms of scientific certainty, like Naomi Oreskes does in her lecture on «the tobacco strategy».

Discrediting the expert in her 2014 case whose opinions were not based on a reasonable degree of scientific certainty.

Therefore, you need to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate.»

And now — as Andrew Revkin reported — a leaked draft report of the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report seems to have downgraded the level of scientific certainty about global warming and hurricanes in a couple of ways.

The theme acknowledges the fact that claims of scientific certainty and predictions of climate catastrophes are based on unvalidated atmospheric models and post-normal science, which tries to substitute claims of consensus for the scientific method.

Vorsorgeprinzip — the forecaring or precautionary principle — suggests that in the absence of scientific certainty we should act to protect ecological and cultural health against the possibility of future harm.

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

By the time the effects of AGCC are so obvious that they visibly support its already undeniably high degree of scientific certainty, it will be too late to do much to stop AGCC's worst effects.

Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate.»

(«You need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate...») The unlikely chain from Luntz to Obama included two important links, E.D.F. President Fred Krupp and Senator Lindsey Graham.

«Therefore you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue.»

Therefore, you need to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate, and defer to scientists and other experts in the field.»

For a long time, GOP pollster Frank Luntz was mainly known as the guy who wrote a 2002 memo advising the Bush administration to «make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate [about global warming].»

Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate, and defer to scientists and other experts in the field -LSB-...] Let me emphasize that while the economic arguments may receive the most applause at the Chamber of Commerce meeting, it is the least effective approach among the people you most want to reach — average Americans.

Republicans should «continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate» because otherwise, he warned, «[s] hould the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly.»

While I can't say with any degree of scientific certainty, I would be willing to bet that the law firms with mobile friendly sites are predominantly from the following: plaintiff's personal injury firms and BigLaw firms.

This standard (of scientific certainty) is wholly inapplicable to determining causation in the workers» claim.»

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.