Sentences with phrase «overwhelming consensus on»

The overwhelming consensus on global warming among journalists may be cracking.

If there is an overwhelming consensus on climate change within the scientific community, then what is the point of funding further research on the subject?

They start with a premise of proving the overwhelming consensus on climate science wrong, whereas the real IPCC simply summarizes the best science to date on climate change.

But something much more interesting struck me about many of my peers» choices: There seemed to be an overwhelming consensus on shorting bitcoin and, as a contrarian, this uniform cynicism obviously piqued my interest.

Because states would be drawn to maximize the number of the predominant political persuasion and minimize the number of those in the political minority, each state would have overwhelming consensus on political decisions, and relatively few people would have to be governed in a way they find objectionable.

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In Alberta, the overwhelming consensus is that it centres on the pipelines themselves and the expansion of Canada's oil producing capacity (77 % say this).

The overwhelming consensus and the unanimous Scientific Advisory Committee's report indicate that television violence, indeed, does have an adverse effect on certain members of our society.

The reason for this overwhelming consensus is clear: ordinary Catholics actually believe the teaching of the Church on the necessity of baptism for salvation, they therefore know that it is important for a child to be baptised and they also have an immediate perception that it is simply unjust for a child to be deprived of baptism and therefore of God's grace because of the spiritual defects of its parents.

All GMOs currently on the market have been tested extensively over decades, and scientific consensus on existing GMOs being safe is overwhelming.

There are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle that are questioning the events leading to Trump's election win, mainly the overwhelming consensus in the intelligence community that the Russian government carried out cyber warfare against a major political party with the intent (cont)

There is now a «clear and overwhelming consensus» among scientists over the reality and risks of climate change, Mr Noon told delegates, calling on the TUC and UK to show leadership and commitment towards averting its environmental impact.

«We look forward to reviewing the MRT's final report and reiterate the Assembly's commitment to delivering an on - time budget that reflects the overwhelming consensus that emerged from the MRT process.»

However, aides were unable to add details to how Corbyn might be able to reach a consensus, while MPs opposing him said there was no substance in the Sunday Mirror article, and called on him to show leadership and respond to the overwhelming vote of no confidence among MPs last week.

Pruitt is currently participating in a lawsuit against the EPA's regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and denies the overwhelming scientific consensus on human - caused climate change.

Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well - established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that have achieved an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community.

The consensus on glucosepane as the overwhelming majority of relevant cross-links in the process of aging is not airtight - there are growing doubts.

The consensus has been overwhelming positive in regards to Jonathan Liebesman «s upcoming alien invasion movie Battle: Los Angeles and that's not going to change after fans get a glimpse of a new viral website for the film which provides all kinds of details on the aliens.

Anyway, it's looking like a Razzie contender based on the overwhelming critical consensus.

The decision to discontinue cooperative book display at BookExpo was not taken lightly by IBPA's Board of Directors, but the consensus was overwhelming that by removing a service no longer benefiting its members, IBPA frees up significant resources to better focus on the services that do.

It has been going on in the arenas of science — peer reviewed literature and conferences — for decades, leading to an overwhelming consensus.

With the establishment of the scientific consensus on climate change, is it reasonable and sensible to ask of government officials who remain obstructive and in denial of such overwhelming scientific data if they are perfidiously engaged in a violation of public trust and, therefore, malfeasant in office?

For example, Saunders quotes William Gray's off - the - cuff criticism of a study by Naomi Oreskes that demonstrated the existence of an overwhelming consensus in the peer - reviewed scientific literature on the reality of anthropogenic climate change (see our previous discussion of that study).

Facts are that the overwhelming scientific consensus about climate change is being largely ignored, and more and more so, by the world's leaders and elites, who want us all to just go on producing, buying and consuming ever more and more — as if that was possible.

But sometimes consensus just means that there is a consensus of skeptics (e.g., Wegener's theory of continental drift was proposed in 1912 based on continent shapes but was not widely accepted until 50 years later because the smoking gun — deep sea rifts — hadn't been discovered) or there is consensus because the data is overwhelming (e.g., descent with modification).

Climate knowledge is growing rapidly now and while there still remain some interesting challenges to the status quo on certain points (for example, exactly how it is that CO ₂ and CH ₄ started rising some 5000 years ago, if not by human impacts, or how it is that humans overwhelmed expected gradual declines and added enough to achieve those rises that far back) that need further research... the very conservative consensus, which must be conservative by its nature since it takes time for consensus to develop as further research helps to close gaps and remove or improve assumptions, is always playing catch - up it seems.

As to Gov. Palin's thinly veiled ambiguous response regarding man's impact on the climate, she clearly tried to maintain her skeptical stance, which only served to reflect her ignorance of climate issues in the face of overwhelming scientific consensus.

The WV Gazette has more on the particular absurdity of McKinley's amendment, which basically requires the government to ignore the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists:

What gets my goat is when otherwise sensible people write stuff supportive of it like: «There had already been six previous studies finding an overwhelming scientific consensus», and strongly objecting to messaging on the basis that it was not effective, while apparently not caring that it was not true!

There had already been six previous studies finding an overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, the first of which was published in Science, a genuinely signficant event, in 2004.

I am perhaps more familiar with students who would have less of a consensus view on just about any subject because of their contrarian nature, but one could receive these comments as simply too consistently negative to accept as having constructive value or as typical of someone the blog needs and be, well, either crushed or overwhelmed about what to do to obtain their approval and go into a defensive frenzy.

The problem is the attack on climate science and the overwhelming consensus, not the research supporting it.

The «overwhelming consensus» might well be, on L&P's admission, nothing more than the product of so many self - deceived experts» over-estimation of themselves, except for their caveat that experts are «those who publish in the peer - reviewed literature in their area of expertise».

It came as no surprise to anyone working in climate research that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus on human - caused global warming.

Inevitably, Offit goes on to recite the Party slogan that «the overwhelming consensus among environmental scientists is that global warming is a real and present threat».

Also, Inside Climate News recently described a new study published in Science about how fossil - fuel funded climate - science deniers disingenuously shift their arguments and use normal scientific uncertainties to deflect attention from the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and argue for no action to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

The faux pause has nonetheless been used by political partisans like Senator Cruz to cast doubt on the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are causing rapid global warming, simply because they find the political implications of that scientific reality inconvenient â $» to their ideological views and the views of the special interests who fund their campaigns.

«In light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and its worsening impacts, and the related issue of air pollution from burning fossil fuels, the United States and China recognize the urgent need for action to meet these twin challenges,» the countries said in the statement.

Phil, from the conclusions: «Among papers expressing a position on AGW, an overwhelming percentage (97.2 % based on self - ratings, 97.1 % based on abstract ratings) endorses the scientific consensus on AGW.»

This clashes with the frequent media assertion that Americans readily trust the so - called overwhelming «consensus» on climate change.

Thus we can now say that there is some skill in the Sea Ice Outlook consensus for 2010 and 2011 based primarily on persistence, which is not overwhelmed by unknown individual summer weather events.

Anything of interest to the scientists whose field is dealt with by the particular journal may be published; for example Dr Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California in San Diego, published a study that she did showing that there is an overwhelming consensus in the scientific publications on the human cause for climate change.

We must so embed in public consciousness the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change that even such a well - funded disinformation industry, such incompetence and complicity from traditional media outlets, and what now has become boilerplate lunacy from Republicans can not dissipate it.

It was clearly intended by Congressman Lamar Smith, who is a climate change denier, he does not accept the overwhelming scientific consensus on human - caused climate change.

If there is a consilience of evidence and overwhelming agreement among climate scientists, how does one cast doubt on the consensus?

To bear primary responsibility means to have been exposed to the overwhelming scientific data and analysis on anthropogenic global warming and willfully and misleadingly denied or acted in ignorance of that consensus.

Second, the consensus on human caused climate change is not as overwhelming as you seem to think.

As this view contradicts the overwhelming scientific «consensus», on both sides of the CAGW issue, experimental proof would revolutionize science and snag a Nobel Prize, at least.

To express uncertainty over humans» influence on the climate, Foran points out, is to be out of line with 97 percent of scientists — those forming the overwhelming consensus — who agree that the planet is warming and that humans are the primary cause.

The very broad details (CO2 is a greenhouse gas, it has been rising) are only considered as «consensus» positions in the same way the existence of gravity is a «consensus» position, based on overwhelming explanatory and predictive ability.

While Burman didn't actually utter the words climate change in her comments this week, her insistence on the urgent need to ramp up conservation is in line with the overwhelming scientific consensus of how climate change is expected to worsen droughts in the Southwest in coming decades.