Sentences with phrase «public understanding of»

The Association of Trial Lawyers of America claims to be on a mission to enhance public understanding of trial lawyers» contributions and to counter criticisms of trial lawyers leveled by big business.

Like the first event this year, the week will be devoted to raising public understanding of the importance of open government.

It is apparent that the government is sufficiently concerned with this phenomenon to set up a Select Committee (Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) to explore the concept of «fake news» and the potential impact it is having on the public understanding of the world,» expands Luke.

«Tom Harris» commentaries intended to impede, not advance, public understanding of climate science,» Scholars and Rogues, February 20, 2015.

Public Understanding of Science 5: 269 - 83.

Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2002, Dr. Schneider received the American Association for the Advancement of Science / Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology and a MacArthur Fellowship for integrating and interpreting the results of global climate research.

But, although there is a need for more «public understanding of science», it is demeaning for scientists to get too involved in brawls with lobby groups, some of whose mission seems to be an ideological one.

Might I suggest what is needed is not papers on the public understanding of science, but instead the academic understanding of science.

«Most recent polls... have indicated a clear drop in the public support for climate change and therefore, if Government wishes to retain its mandate for action it needs to improve public understanding of the scientific basis [sic] for climate change policy,» it reads.

Though about 97 percent of working scientists agree that the evidence shows a warming trend caused by humans, public understanding of climate change falls along political lines.

... the «Global Climate Science Team» formed by ExxonMobil at the American Petroleum Institute in 1998 which sought to undermine public understanding of and confidence in global warming science... This was the team executing the plan to «reposition global warming as theory not fact» according to leaked campaign strategy memos.

She evaluates energy resource - and climate change mitigation - options in the electricity sector and works to advance public understanding of renewable and conventional energy technologies, policies and markets.

The United States and China will develop and disseminate materials to improve public understanding of electric vehicle technologies.

For such reasons I was honored to receive, in 1991, the AAAS / Westinghouse Award for the Public Understanding of Science.»

The study's author, Robert Brulle, refers to these organizations as the climate change counter-movement, and concludes that their outsized influence «has not only played a major role in confounding public understanding of climate science, but also successfully delayed meaningful government policy actions to address the issue.»

«Grijalva wrote: «Companies with a direct financial interest in climate and air quality standards are funding environmental research that influences state and federal regulations and shapes public understanding of climate science.

Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University emeritus

The energy and climate scholar describes his work as «the public understanding of science,» which is apt given his commitment to make his book freely available to all audiences online.

Fischhoff said in a March telephone interview that climatologists and physicists central to the gradual evolution of public understanding of climate change science have faced a delicate balancing act in communicating with the public.

I thought public understanding of the AGW problem actually improved in 2006.

Ed's research currently focuses on public understanding of — and engagement in — climate change, including its risks and mitigation and adaptation options.

Since we announced our application, we have been contacted by more than a dozen students from all over the world, keen to work with us on software to improve public understanding of climate science.

Keep Winter Cool is a partnership between Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Ski Areas Association to raise visibility and public understanding of global warming and spotlight opportunities that exist to start fixing the problem.

In April 2012, Susan, along with Aaron Huertas of the Union of Concerned Scientists, led a webinar on «Bridging the Gap in Public Understanding of Climate Change: What Can Scientists Do?»

1) As citizens engaged in a profession that depends upon freedom for its health and integrity, professors have an articular obligation to promote conditions of free inquiry and to further public understanding of academic freedom.

Under Raymond, Exxon led a coalition of fossil fuel companies called the Global Climate Coalition, which sought to delay action on climate change and cloud public understanding of the issue.

Since 2008 — in partnership with the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication — we have conducted nationally representative surveys, twice most years, to explore and track public understanding of climate change.

Another argument against consensus messaging is that public understanding of the climate issue has moved on from fundamental issues such as the consensus.

Presenting such alternative figures confuses and undermines the public understanding of the actual science, which is an understanding about the driving mechanisms of sea level rise: thermal expansion of ocean water, melting of mountain glaciers and complex dynamics of large ice sheets — in correspondence again with projected temperature rise, that is in turn a product of projected rises of greenhouse gas concentrations using calculated estimates of climate sensitivity, together creating a net disturbance in Earth's energy balance, the very root cause of anthropogenic climate change.

But any doubt that the resistance to public understanding of the climate problem is to a large extent the result of deliberate obfuscation by a cynical oligarchy is put to rest by the revelations about Heartland.

This project: 1) investigates, explains, and tracks public understanding of the causes, consequences, and solutions to climate change, support for climate policies, and the current barriers to action, and 2) designs and tests new strategies to engage the public in climate science and solutions.

In summary, Monbiot believes that the reason that the masses have not risen up to demand action on climate change is because they have been hoodwinked by a conspiracy to subvert the public understanding of the issues, paid for by vast corporate interests.

Paula Garcia, an energy analyst in the Climate and Energy Program, evaluates energy resource and climate change mitigation options in the electricity sector and works to advance public understanding of renewable and conventional energy technologies, policies, and markets.

This goal aims to foster greater public understanding of global change and climate change science.

Goal 4: Advance communication and education to broaden public understanding of global change and develop the scientific workforce of the future

«Companies with a direct financial interest in climate and air - quality standards are funding environmental research that influences state and federal regulation and shapes public understanding of climate scientists,» Grijalva wrote to the presidents of seven universities housing supposedly skeptical scientists.

Not only is this bad for the public understanding of climate science but it makes the whole profession of applied geoscience appear biased and self - interested.

We believe it is vital to public understanding of climate science in particular.

The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»

Along this line there are several issues in particular about which greater awareness is needed including greater public understanding of the ethical implications of any nation's ghg emissions reduction commitment in regard to an atmospheric stabilization goal the commitment is seeking to achieve and the coherence or lack there of the national commitment to an acceptable equity framework.

He would seem to have all sorts of reasons for commenting, from a desire to defend the previous government's record, to enhancing his public profile and even, perhaps, contributing to public understanding of the issues and improving policy outcomes.

The politicization of climate change in the US has been a barrier to uniting public understanding of climate change.

I feel like there is a smidgen of hope for climate change journalism and public understanding of this issue again.

Results indicate that while all three approaches can significantly increase public understanding of the degree of scientific consensus, the pie chart and simple text have superior recall and are most effective across political party lines.

A new study published in the journal Public Understanding of Science (PDF available here) surveyed a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 Americans in 2008 and 2011 about their media consumption and beliefs about climate change.

All the consensus messages tested led to significant gains in public understanding of the scientific consensus compared to the control group.

In particular, it is sometimes argued that (a) despite past public communication efforts, public understanding of the scientific consensus has not changed much in the last decade and hence the approach must not be very effective (i.e., «the stasis argument»)[13] and (b) because people are predisposed to engage in protective motivated reasoning (i.e., people process information consistent with their ideological worldviews), consensus - messaging is likely to be unsuccessful or could even backfire [12, 14].

In sum, these findings provide the strongest evidence to date that public understanding of the scientific consensus is consequential.

That said, with this little tantrum, Mann has arranged humiliation for himself and a public discredit to climate science, at a time when public understanding of the same is not what it might be.

The NEX - GDDP dataset is provided to assist the science community in conducting studies of climate change impacts at local to regional scales, and to enhance public understanding of possible future global climate patterns at the spatial scale of individual towns, cities, and watersheds.»