Sentences with phrase «over group consensus»

We are told that, «in short, lawyers are skeptical people who value individual achievements over group consensus, and dislike change for the uncertainty that it brings, rather than valuing it for the opportunities that it provides».

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The new requirement is one of many changes that were recently made, which also saw Free Schools become unable to teach against the scientific consensus, and also a check placed on plans for faith groups to take over Academies without a religious character.

«This 18 - month - long shambles wasn't an attempt at papering over cracks of consensus on rights and freedoms but at bridging the Grand Canyon,» said the group's director, Shami Chakrabarti.

On a topic such as evolution, there is near consensus among all disciplinary groups that humans and other living things have evolved over time.

We have no consensus yet for Best Director — the critics groups are, so far, going all over the place.

Using Pastoral Auditor, teachers can audit the consensus of pupil groups over time, building a secure, centralised «hub» of evidence for Ofsted and demonstrations of ongoing strategies to support vulnerable young people.

But critics of the idea pointed out Tuesday that despite the efforts of an advisory group gathered under the leadership of the LAO over the past year - no consensus has been reached over how best to revise the program.

NCTE's coalition work with other subject matter organizations helped create consensus about the role of literacy in every subject area, the seed that grew to over 30 stakeholder groups collaborating actively through the National Center for Literacy Education.

Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection spent over $ 300 million to promote «consensus messaging,» which was featured in Gore's 2006 movie Inconvenient Truth (no doubt the organization gave a $ 1 million to an advertising agency, which conducted a focus group to validate its seat - of - the - pants guess that «reframing» the organization's name as «Climate Reality» would convince farmers to «believe in» climate change).

We don't have a second America to use as a control group, but without the consensus messaging that's happened over the past decade, my guess is that the public would be even more misinformed about global warming than it is now.

But they are not getting nearly the support that they need from those who care about climate change policymaking, because nearly all of that support — in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars — is going instead to groups that prefer to pound the other team's members over the head with «consensus messaging.»

They are also difficult because the multilateral climate body — the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — includes over 190 countries; these countries are grouped into various blocs with criss - crossing agendas and priorities; long - standing north - south resentments continue to rile the debate; and negotiations are governed by a consensus rule of procedure (bloody consensus!

As a start toward specifications of accuracy, recall that the consensus group are earnestly and energetically seeking explanations for the lack of accuracy over the past 15 + years.

In numbers, after all, there is strength, while individuals and small groups are far more vulnerable — and the purpose is two-fold: to undermine the credibility of wider scientific consensus and to discourage other researchers from sticking out their necks and participating in the public discourse over matters of policy - relevant science.

Tax records show that the Mercers have given a little over $ 19 million to a variety of conservative groups, including at least three that reject the scientific consensus around fossil fuel - driven climate change: the Heartland Institute in Illinois, as well as the CO2 Alliance and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.

In testimony before the US Senate in 2003, he stated: It is the consensus of the climate research community that the anomalous warmth of the late 20th century can not be explained by natural factors, but instead indicates significant anthropogenic, that is human influences... More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the northern hemisphere in past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millennia.

Scientific groups have issued numerous statements supporting the consensus, and numerous surveys (including one released this week) continue to show that over 95 percent of those working in the field see evidence of an anthropogenic impact on climate.

Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin, a former executive at Coinbase, and a long - time supporter of Bitcoin, has expressed his concerns over SegWit2x and the pursuit of the solution by a group of companies that are trying to alter the Bitcoin protocol without user consensus.

Group leaders met together with the first author several times before the intervention to discuss and determine a consensus over the various concepts that were used in the manual.