Sentences with phrase «public consensus at»

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«My view is that the public consensus has shifted, and politicians at the national level are lagging behind,» says Vancouver lawyer Geoff Plant, a former B.C. attorney - general.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

But when you ask what to do about it, that consensus quickly devolves into finger - pointing — at recycling companies like Waste Management for failing to innovate, at the American public for their lazy recycling habits, at producers for creating plastic packaging that is increasingly difficult to recycle, and even at the federal government for not passing strong legislation that encourages better practices.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

Whatever is distinctive about Judaism has been left out of account either because it does not accord with the liberal consensus or because Jews lack a public philosophy of adequate complexity to mediate the values of their tradition to the culture at large.

You'll get consensus public sports betting trends on the number and the percentage of bets and the percentage of money placed.Our data comes from real wagers placed at the industry's largest and most trusted sports books.

NFL bettors who take advantage of sportsbook shading should be able to find even more value employing this strategy at public books as they typically shade even further off the market consensus.

Sports Insights betting trends data is taken from real bets placed by the public at actual sportsbooks, unlike other sites who can only provide betting consensus data.

Look also at the commentators themselves — when was the last time you heard someone utter a phrase that seriously questioned the narrow consensus that passes for public discourse in this country?

The idea is to try and build consensus and get input from reformers before the governor goes public with his reform agenda at the State of the State / budget address on Jan. 13th.

«There was a strong consensus from the Meeting that it would be better to take some of the heat out of this public debate; this would entail taking forward a calmer internal party review of funding which would be more comprehensive and balanced (including importantly, addressing the Conservative multi-million pound donations at and between elections) and putting that forward as part of Labour's manifesto offer for party funding reforms.»

The chairman said that election would take place even where there is consensus among contestants, assuring the public of adequate security personnel at congress venues.

The Legislature also hasn't come to a consensus on mayoral control of New York City public schools, which expires at the end of the month.

In retrospect historians may look at the period before the economic crisis hit as one of consensus politics: where the Conservative opposition stuck to Labour's public spending plans.

That was the consensus from nearly 50 residents from East End communities who spoke at a packed public meeting Wednesday evening about a record number of aircraft — mostly helicopters — buzzing their homes this summer.

Legislative committees, specifically assigned to various areas, do the research, with assistance from the executive branch, debate often - conflicting points of view at public sessions, and typically offer consensus recommendations to the full body.

Supervisor Scott Russell said he believes the commission failed to come to a consensus and work with the Town Board before voicing their concerns at the first public hearing on Jan. 14.

This evening, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gave a big boost to the plan, endorsing CB3's guidelines: «I want to commend the leadership and members of the Community Board 3 Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee for their effort to achieve, at long last, a true consensus about the future of Seward Park.

«I want to commend the leadership and members of the Community Board 3 Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing Committee for their effort to achieve, at long last, a true consensus about the future of Seward Park.

«I must however say that, the public and Civil Society Organisations are disappointed in our inability to pass the Right to Information Bill and are still hopeful that before this Parliament is dissolved at midnight on the 6th of January, a consensus can be found to pass this Bill into law,» he expressed.

When the need arises we meet as frequent as we should be meeting and at such meetings issues of concerns are brought to the fore for discussions, consensus is built around a lot of issues before they are rolled out to the public,» said Dzakpasu.

The role of Speaker at one level is confined to chairing debates in the Commons, but in the current crisis caused by the expenses row, there is a consensus that the position is more public and will require driving a reform agenda that sees the executive brought under control.

There is consensus that if we could better predict who was at risk for suicide, then we could more effectively intervene to reduce this terrible burden on individuals, families and public health.

A consensus among researchers is emerging that these events occur in public places, include at least four people killed by gunshots within a 24 - hour period and are not part of a robbery or any other separate crime, Rocque and Duwe say.

And the White House opposes the measure because it «is contrary to the widely - accepted scientific consensus that GHGs are at increasingly dangerous concentrations... [and] would strip EPA of its authority to protect the public from GHG pollution.»

The idea was unusual, maybe even unwise: Bring together people and organizations sometimes at odds with each other — the teachers union, the School Board, reporters, business leaders — and wrangle them into consensus and cooperation on challenges facing Madison public schools.

The general consensus has been that the new Range Rover wouldn't get a public debut until the Paris Motor Show in September, but we've heard from a normally very reliable source that Land Rover are planning to make the new Range Rover a star at Geneva in just a few weeks.

(You would really then need to go on to explain that consensus does tend to determine correct scientific practice, but explaining the principles of scientific reasoning and research to the public at large would make science articles about 10 times as long as they currently are.)

Instead, we find the «net being an ever more polarizing influence, and having negative effects on public policy because it's so much harder to arrive at a consensus.

The scientific discussion is misframed in the press, in the public mind and in the policy sector, as being between the consensus position and the «skeptics» who are so confident that nothing of consequence is at stake in anthropogenic climate change that they feel comfortable advocating an essentially trivial policy repsonse to it.

It was aimed more at reinforcing the resolve of the majority in the public and the policy - making community who, betting on the scientific consensus, are ready to move forward with a serious approach to dealing with the problem but are being slowed down by the ill - founded skepticism of a minority.

«The reason «consensus» has not appeared to work in society at large to date isn't because it's ineffective — it's because there is a well - funded countermovement out there that takes every opportunity to mislead the public into thinking that there isn't a consensus,» Lewandowsky told me, in response to this argument.

The fact, for instance, that Nicolaus Copernicus failed to win a public consensus during his lifetime did not alter the reality of his postulations that the Earth was not at the centre of the universe.

This brief history, as well as some «on the street» interviews with the public about what percentage of climate scientists they think agree on the cause of climate change, are described by Cook in a short video while his post at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists also discusses some motives for attacking the consensus.

At a time when the U.S. and the world's nations are trying to put together an agreement to tackle climate change (for better or for worse), Steyn's book reminds everyone of Climategate, why the public doesn't trust climate scientists and aren't buying their «consensus»... I hope that everyone will learn that adversarial science as practiced in its pathological form by Michael Mann doesn't «pay» in the long run.

In the U.S. anyways, who (individual organization) has been most effective at challenging the IPCC consensus science in the public debate on climate change?

«who (individual organization) has been most effective at challenging the IPCC consensus science in the public debate on climate change?»

But that's I think because the public is uninformed about specifics, and even when an equally carefully worded phrase is used, where 98 % of scientists know it's not consensus, the same 50/50 split among the public will come up, and all that means is they don't know scientific language and the specifics of the issue well and otherwise it says a lot less than you might think at first glance it says.

To review: At first sight, Pope's article appears to be a refreshing call for intellectual honesty from the consensus climate - science camp: «Hey, why don't we try telling the public the truth, for a change, instead of all this exaggerated alarmism?»

For instance, my recent post at the Nottingham University's Making Science Public blog, drew attention from the 97 % - ers, not because they wanted to take issue with the argument, but because they wanted to sustain the notion of consensus according to their form of environmentalism.

They were at last willing to engage with the public about the scientific consensus that our rapid consumption of carbon is causing the world to heat up faster than is good for the human species.

... the individual specialist knows nothing (or nothing much) about most of it... to the extent that consensus exists at all, it is simply a public expression of faith in the profession.

So while there appears to be a robust political consensus around the importance of climate change, it is a silent consensus — which from the point of view of public engagement, may as well not be a consensus at all.

He is the person who got into bed with Mr. Littlemore's boss at a PR [public relations] company, a Mr. James Haugen (LOVELY IMAGERY HERE, VISCOUNT; JOHN AND JIM WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL TOGETHER), and they took up the DeSmog Blog, whose job of course is not to debate the science of climate, but to inaccurately misrepresent the alleged or supposed or imagined funding of anyone who dares to challenge the supposed consensus on the climate (INACCURATELY MISREPRESENT THE ALLEGED OR SUPPOSED OR IMAGINED FUNDING??? YET MONCKTON DOES N'T DENY HIS OWN CONNECTION TO A SPPINSTITUTE CREATED BY EXXON MOBIL.

Claims that a scientific consensus on climate doesn't exist despite multiple studies or even cursory looks at the literature, or that expert opinions are meaningless, are really just efforts in denial, and attempts to halt reality - driven public policies.

As explained in this piece, the graphics of the pie charts showing actual expert consensus or expert vs public consensus are great at showing these things.

Empirical studies aimed at trying to make sense of this phenomenon have concluded that the reason the public remains divided on «scientific consensus» isn't that they haven't been exposed to evidence on the matter but rather that when they are exposed to evidence of what experts believe they selectively credit or discredit it in patterns that reflect and reinforce their perception that scientific consensus is consistent with the position that predominates in their cultural or ideological group.

Typically, a theory either rises to the level of consensus or it is abandoned, though it may take considerable time for the scientific community to accept a theory, and even longer for the public at large.

Once the fat - is - bad theory became the consensus — and was being formally promoted in federal agencies» recommendations to the public — the officials handing out money were much more interested in finding evidence about the evils of fat than in looking at alternative hypotheses (like the carbs - are - bad theory discussed by Mr. Taubes).

The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).