Sentences with phrase «scientific certainty concerning»

Something more than past patterns is indeed surely needed to justify the scientific certainty concerning predictability.

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What's prompted me is real concern that a recent opinion poll showed that half the population still don't think that there's scientific certainty about climate change; they still think there's a real debate to be had there.

Although there are legitimate questions about which scientific assertions are entitled to higher levels of support, lack of certainty is not a legitimate criterion for ignoring scientific concerns as a matter or ethics.

Concerning the uncertainty of assessments made by IPCC, already in The Environment Conference Rio de Janeiro 1992 there was agreed a principle according to which» lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent environmental degradation».

This strategy appears to have been conceived without any concern for what the truth actually is in regard to scientific certainty.

His concern that students will be mislead by the idea that there is no scientific certainty about the best way to proceed politically does not credit those students with the ability to understand that political direction has been achieved through the application of the precautionary principle.

All of this is against the backdrop of an increasing grassroots movement against coal, and scientific certainty and elite concerns about fossil fueled climate change.