Sentences with phrase «scientific certainty»

Waiting for an arbitrary standard of scientific certainty before changing any behavior is an option the world has, one option among many: the «continue as before» option.

They define «lack of full scientific certainty» and it becomes a conflict between genuine uncertainty and what is required to promote the political agenda.

Decision - makers should not wait for scientific certainty of harm before taking preventive action.

The study was one of most comprehensive studies of the health risks of any toxic chemical ever conducted and brings far more scientific certainty than it does doubts, he said.

I have put these in order from most scientific certainty to least.

Full scientific certainty is virtually impossible to achieve from a study.

We can say with scientific certainty that a survey sample of 1,000 Brits will give you a result within 3.1 per cent of the «true» figure in 19 out of 20 polls.

This 99 percent or better confidence estimate represents a further increase in scientific certainty over the previous IPCC reports released six years ago.

The whole point of the global warming scare is to take an uncertain and unproven scientific hypothesis and insist on it as an absolute scientific certainty requiring immediate action — which just so happens to be a very specific agenda that aligns perfectly with a certain political outlook.

Even there in the Rio conference 1992 was stated that there is lack of full scientific certainty concerning the believed anthropogenic warming.

Therefore, waiting for more scientific certainty before acting is a mistake, Roe says.

Second, attention to these dramatic threats then leads to a debate over scientific certainty as was the case through the 1990s on manmade causes generally or since 2006 on the connection to extreme weather, the overall severity of the climate change threat, or the timeline until society reaches human induced «dangerous interference» with the Earth's climate.

Miles Russell, an archaeologist in Bournemouth, U.K., who wrote the book The Piltdown Man Hoax: Case Closed in 2012, says the study adds scientific certainty to his and others» conclusions that Dawson alone committed the hoax.

I learnt to communicate in crisis situations within the limits of scientific certainty while working with the gelatin manufacturers during the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) affair.

For example, the NCFS found language such as «reasonable scientific certainty» to be meaningless and recommended that it not be used in court because it gives the false impression of scientific rigor.

The political divide comes with the question of how much additional peer review — and how much scientific certainty — is needed before IRIS assessments are ready for use in making regulations.

I'm convinced we're already into or on the brink of the 6TH MASS EXTINCTION, though we may not reach scientific certainty until itâ??

I think the reason that focus hasn't shifted to mitigation or other options is that skeptics (including the current administration) have set the bar impossibly high, requiring total scientific certainty on impacts in order to justify costly action.

Even if, for argument's sake, there were to emerge a broad consensus that the impacts of SRM could be accurately predicted (which seems highly unlikely and endlessly contestable), the social and political impacts of such an intervention are essentially un-knowable, meaning that whatever level of physical scientific certainty or engineering know - how we might gain in this area, the whole enterprise will remain radically unpredictable and risky.

The GCC position that there is inadequate scientific certainty regarding global warming to warrant decisive action is increasingly controversial in a political season where all of the major presidential candidates have recognized the importance of dealing with the issue.

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

The submission argued also that increasing the standard of proof to a restrictive scientific certainty would undermine the legislative goals of workers» compensation which are to shift the burden of occupational injury or disease off workers by compensation; promote health and safety; and aid rehabilitation into the workforce and community.

Notwithstanding the 2016 Supreme Court ruling (2016 SCC 25), demand for scientific certainty sets a high bar in cases of occupational cancer, the number one cause of workplace death, and other work - related disease — particularly «when only one per cent of the 100,000 chemicals used in the workplace have been thoroughly tested for health risks.»

In other words, reasonable people disagree, no one can say with scientific certainty that the market is overvalued, and none of us knows what will happen next to share prices.

It found that the field trials of Bt eggplants «could not be declared... safe to human health and to our ecology with full scientific certainty (my emphasis).»

But critics say that the report in some cases overstated the level of scientific certainty on the issue or simply got things wrong.