Sentences with phrase «of substantial debate»

The 2 °C target is a matter of substantial debate (too weak, too strong, too vague...), but it is a good yardstick for understanding the scale of climate change, and its impacts, that we are setting ourselves up for this century.

This is a matter of substantial debate.

Not exact matches

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admits there's «substantial debate» about the type of air duct to use, but doesn't recommend one over the other.

Considering the consistent treatment of this topic on this blog & the magnitude of the event (for both sides of the debate), that's a substantial miss.

Until now, HHS cases have largely fought over the term «substantial burden» — essentially debating the political version of the youth - group perennial, «How far is too far?»

The Archbishop of Canterbury's big chance to make a substantial contribution to the debate on the Bill's second reading: an extempore intervention (that it was unprepared is indicated by the barely coherent assertion that «any lack of clarity in this area seems fatally compromising and ambiguous») of 124 words.

The Panel first notes that, despite earlier reviews generating debate about the appropriate test to be applied for mergers, the submissions to this review demonstrated «near - universal support» for the substantial lessening of competition test.

The party needs to debate whether in the absence of such further changes, and considering the substantial changes already underway on the NHS front - line, the Bill can retain Lib Dem support — the Social Liberal Forum will continue to support the likes of Graham Winyard, Charles West, Evan Harris and Shirley Williams as they seek to secure that debate.

Liberal Democrats should press the government to propose substantial reforms in Europe: a smaller European commission whose members are individually accountable to the European parliament for their conduct of their office; a council that meets openly whenever it debates legislative matters; a core of human and social rights embodied in the next amended treaty.

Given this substantial overspend it is imperative that parliament given the opportunity to properly scrutinise the «concept phase» process and a full debate in the House of Commons on the issue should be scheduled immediately on publication of the Initial Gate report.

It got substantial support from across the House of Lords when it was debated initially and I hope that with some redrafting the House of Lords will agree to it.

Several polls immediately following the debates showed a substantial boost for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats, and this new survey confirms that actual voting behaviour was indeed impacted by the debates - though perhaps not as spectacularly as some snap polls suggested at the time of the debates.

These «non-specific effects» are documented in a substantial body of peer - reviewed research, keenly debated by vaccine researchers.

Co-author Professor Eelco Rohling, from the Australian National University and formerly of the University of Southampton, adds: «By developing a novel method that realistically approximates future sea level rise, we have been able to add new insight to the debate and show that there is substantial evidence for a significant recent acceleration in the sea level rise on a global and regional level.

A major point of debate remains whether the Gulf Stream, or Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), will just decline or could «switch off» entirely with substantial implications for Northwest Europe's climate.

While there is ongoing debate regarding the contribution of different mechanisms in dengue illness, there is substantial evidence supporting both viral and host factors in disease pathogenesis.

Make them the same length as a decent lesson — at least 50 minutes — so that they can be planned properly, and they can be used to wrestle with substantial content, such as a wellbeing issue like bullying, a big political debate like who should be the next President of the United States, or an area to explore in science, maths, or history.

No one debates whether doctors or lawyers should have to undergo professional training in a university or college environment, but there is still substantial debate over the very value of teacher - training programs.

If CCSS were to enhance public knowledge of the performance of local schools as compared to schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are ranked below average nationally.

You can change the way schools are inspected as many times as you like (and Ofsted does — on average two substantial changes a year to inspections frameworks or guidance since Michael Wilshaw became chief inspector in January 2012) but until you can guarantee the quality of the process (let alone the contentious debate about whether the right aspects of education are being looked at in a methodologically sound way), Ofsted inspections will be flawed.

While many educational leaders give lip service to the concept of decentralization, most principals and superintendents continue to debate about how much of the decision - making process should be shared — despite substantial research that validates the benefits of teacher empowerment for classroom learning (Hannoway and Cannoy 1993).

The debate over the direction we follow will involve a substantial commitment of resources and will therefore be a highly political struggle.

While there is substantial academic literature on school vouchers and while debates continue between opposing camps of researchers, it's safe to say that vouchers have not produced the kind of large improvements in academic achievement that market - oriented reformers originally promised.

This matter has received substantial coverage in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and other national media outlets, detailing the public debate and opposing views of other U.S. aviation stakeholders (e.g., FedEx, jetBlue, Boeing, airports, tourism industry, etc.), many of which have shared their views with DOT.

The substantial history of this theme, including recent critical commentary in which theorists turn a genre of painting into an arena of philosophical debate, is presented in the painting volume of the catalogue.

With more than 100 works by 16 artists, Debating Modern Photography is the first exhibition to provide a substantial consideration of the group since 1992, and is unique in its inclusion of pictorialist examples to illustrate the debate.

regarding the abovementioned «intelligence squared» debate (which i listened to on new york's npr station wnyc) regarding the extent and risks associated with agw, i'd just like to point out that by the end of the debate, there was a substantial increase in the audience who described themselves as skeptics.

That a substantial portion of the public does not widely accept the science does not make it a scientific debate.

As a lake ecologist (limnologist) my study will not contribute to debates about the causes of climate warming but it will show that the indirect effects of warming on food chains (over the past 30 years) can be very substantial (even dramatic).

As the Chapter details, in 2010 as the Senate version of cap and trade was being debated, overall news attention had taken a substantial downward turn from 2009 levels, in part because of the likely loss of perceived political viability.

The vigor of the responses and debate surrounding «Conservation in the anthropocene» and the published discussion of the original article reveals that there are some substantial issues and differences in the conservation community worth working our way through.

A painfully slow process... which often debates semantics and national agendas rather than addressing the validity of the statements, but one which... very seldom in my experience results in a substantial distortion of the message.

But it does suggest that if both sides of the debate paid close attention to the social consequences of policies, rather than the present intractable debate on the reality of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might think it is pointless with regard to the climate (but a substantial proportion of people think it will), but if it produces some other good outcomes it might be ok.

But it does suggest that if both sides of the debate paid close attention to the social consequences of policies, rather than the present intractable debate on the reality of AGW, then we might get to a point where we can agree on some action — you might think it is pointless with regard to the climate (but a substantial proportion of people think it will), but if it produces some other good outcomes it might be OK.

This outcome is strong evidence that a substantial contingent of Climate Etc. commenters individually prefer — and deliberately foster — a climate - change debate environment that is ideologically polarized & personally abusive.

This kind of allusive, slanderous conspiracy theory is a debating tactic of one who can not answer an opponent's substantial arguments.

Now, the two of us have very substantial disagreements with these environmental economists and most neoclassical economists, many of which we laid out in our on - line debate hosted by Cato, which included participation from Joe Romm.

In substantial part, I note, debate in Washington (and not just in Washington) proceeds by way of advocates» deployment of half - truths, selectively marshaled data, scientific studies with agendas, and so forth.

Fourth, it became very apparent at Le Bourget, the conference site on the edge of Paris, that the global climate debate is receiving a substantial boost from the Lima - Paris Action Agenda.

Although there have been substantial methodological debates about the calculation of trends and their uncertainty, a 95 % confidence interval of around ± 0.1 °C per decade has been obtained consistently for both LT and MT (e.g., Chapter 2; McKitrick et al., 2010).

It therefore seems problematic to me when such lively, well - informed and yet largely unresolved debates among a substantial cohort of the world's climate change researchers gets reduced to six key messages, messages that on the one hand carry the aura of urgency, precision and scientific authority — «there is no excuse for inaction» — and yet at the same time remain so imprecise as to resolve nothing in political terms.

Sir John Houghton made the hockey stick into an icon for the climate change problem, which became of substantial importance in the marketing of climate change to the public; therefore, challenges to the hockey stick, while maybe not being of particular scientific importance are highly important in the public debate on climate change.

The IPCC fifth assessment report concluded «Although there have been substantial methodological debates about the calculation of trends and their uncertainty, a 95 % confidence interval of around ± 0.1 °C per decade has been obtained consistently for both LT and MT (e.g., Section 2.4.4; McKitrick et al., 2010).

Judith — you started # 2 in this series with «The significance of the debate over the hockey stick and «hide the decline» is the following: Sir John Houghton made the hockey stick into an icon for the climate change problem, which became of substantial importance in the marketing of climate change to the public; therefore, challenges to the hockey stick, while maybe not being of particular scientific importance are highly important in the public debate on climate change.»

And the debate over the role of law schools in preparing students for the reality of practice continues to rage in full force, with a diverse coalition comprised of both law professors and practitioners advocating for substantial reform.

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More broadly, Dunphy wrote that Platnick's suit «had a substantial chilling effect on discussion and debate about the proper use and utility of this type of derivative expert's report» in accident benefits claims.

There is no doubt that the findings of the National Inquiry generated a substantial amount of public interest and debate reflected in widespread and sustained media coverage.

Use of the diagnosis of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) in family law cases has generated substantial debate.

During the tax debate, the National Association of REALTORS ® was able to secure substantial wins for residential and commercial real estate, including retention of the rules for the exclusion of capital gain on the sale of a principal residence and preservation of 1031 like - kind exchanges for commercial property owners.