Sentences with phrase «scientific theories of change»

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Besides, since the set of experiences changes (e.g. because of new scientific theories), and because it is difficult to check if, in fact, every experience confirms a given truth (system), it is better to say that adequacy and necessity (or apriority) are ideals.

Over the last decade, Davidson and his colleagues have produced scientific evidence for the theory that meditation - the ancient eastern practice of sitting, usually accompanied by focusing on certain objects - permanently changes the brain for the better.

The only changes you'll see to modern scientific theories are very detailed changes to very small pieces of the theory, not an entire paradigm shift.

The radical interpretation currently under discussion (Kuhn 1970a and 1970b) is that a change of theoretical framework entails a change of meaning for every term in a scientific theory.

In general, this school can be characterized by its acceptance of a logic of science; that is, its members maintain that there is a logic with respect to such scientific activities as the testing of theories, theoretical explanation, and conceptual change.

Meanwhile, most of our church leadership has failed to respond clearly to the challenges of new scientific theories, technological change, world leadership and increasing racial, ethnic and religious heterogeneity.

Eugene Parker, the discoverer of solar wind, writes in the foreword to Svensmark's new book, The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, «Global warming has become a political issue both in government and in the scientific community.

• We're missing an atom The periodic table remains one of the few markers of stability in the ever - changing world of scientific theory.

If all our scientific knowledge were really this flimsy and provisional, then of course science could continue forever, with theories changing as often as fads in clothing or music.

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.

«All of these Cassini mission measurements are changing our view of the Saturnian system, as it turns our old theories upside down,» said Radwan Tajeddine, Cornell University research associate in astronomy and a member of the European - based Encelade scientific team that pored over the Cassini data and published a paper in the astronomy journal Icarus (January 2017).

So there is a continuing traffic between some supporters of this theory and climate change denial — but no denial in the scientific papers we are considering in this show.

He explains how he once thought that climate change theory was based solely on computer models, where in fact it's based on scientific measurements of both modern and ancient climates.

His chief area of work is the philosophy of science, in particular, historical changes in science and scientific method, theory - ladenness and empirical testability, intertheoretic relations and reductionism, and presently the methodology of applied research.

So the focus of scientific thinking, I believe, should be on the content of the theory — the past theory, the previous theories — to try to see what they hold concretely and what they suggest to us for changing in our conceptual frame.

Scientific studies do not seem to back up the theory that soy is one of those foods that lower testosterone levels; though, of course, that can always change.

While some sociologists seem to perpetuate relationship stereotypes with their work (like the amount of trophy wife and sugar daddy pairings out there), spouting out scientific jargon and abstract theories, McClintock strives to change that.

At the point you see the title character change the length and color of her hair and add make - up just by thinking about it, you know this is a film not even trying to adhere to any legitimate scientific theory.

Change consistently comes with a price, however, and soon there's a grisly murder, a suicide, an illicit pregnancy, an alleged UFO abduction, and a troubling speech by slick lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub) that applies the scientific theory of uncertainty (i.e., the act of observing an object changes the nature of that object) to issues of juris prudence.

This strategy requires the continuous refinement of new theories of change that are grounded in a growing scientific understanding of the causal mechanisms that explain how early experiences are built into the body and influence lifelong outcomes in learning, behavior, and both physical and mental health.

This grant supports the ongoing work of the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child to communicate the growing knowledge base around child development linked to explicit, science - driven theories of change.

The treatment group read an article that laid out scientific evidence against the theory of a fixed intelligence that can not grow and change.

Suddenly, we seem to live in a time dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the science of climate change.

, set by a robust scientific theory of some sort, regarding the degree of change that we humans could bring about (given positive feedbacks) if we just continue «business as usual» for a long period of time.

This is exactly what Climate Change looks like as it's IMPACTS are happening in the real world (versus in the scientific theory papers)-- all kind sof unexpected unplanned for extreme events and a built infrastructure and building not up to the extreme demands of topdays extreme weather events across an entire Continent.

The coalition did, however, as the article reported, remove from an internal report by the scientific advisory committee a section that said that «contrarian» theories of why global temperatures appeared to be rising «do not offer convincing arguments against the conventional model of greenhouse gas emission - induced climate change.»

Thus, what is that theory, that upon objective examination, rigorous, scientific examination — not by climate change refuters seeking solely to fit everything into predetermined boxes while self reinforcing such notions by castigating everybody else, but by dispassionate, reasoned, analysis and objective scientific examination — says or reasonably suggests all this won't have, or doesn't even present a high risk of having, a major impact upon long term climate.

While those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory and evidence of human - induced climate change, mainstream media was, until very recently, covering the story (in more than half the cases, according to the academic researchers Boykoff and Boykoff) by quoting one scientist talking about the risks and one purported expert saying that climate change was not happening — or might actually be a good thing.

a new consensus will form for the next U.N. climate change report... but... lurking beneath it will remain, as always, the churning theories and rivalries, the questions, the grist of scientific life.

Then comes another big lie - «those who stand in denial of climate change have failed in the last 15 years to produce a single, peer - reviewed scientific journal article that challenges the theory ``.

His theory has been widely refuted by the scientific community, including the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Academy of Sciences.

Steven Weinberg is critical of Thomas Kuhn «s claim that a shift from one «paradigm» to another is like a religious conversion in which not only our scientific theories that change but the very standards by which scientific theories are judged change and so competing theories are incommensurable.

C - ARB illegally incorporated the controversial indirect land use change theory into their rules, without scientific proof or independent peer review, especially in the realm of agricultural economics.

Treating climate change as an absolute, unassailable fact, instead of what it is — an unproven, controversial scientific theory — a group of state attorneys general have announced that they will be targeting any companies that challenge the catastrophic climate change religion.

None of seven the topics are at all scientifically controversial within the scientific community: Global warning, often presented in the media as an inconclusive theory, is anything but, with 97 % or more of scientists agreeing that recent climate change is very likely due to human activity.

Surely, if you can falsify the scientific theory of anthropocentric climate change (ACC) then you have the knowledge to do that.

In other words, do you have a published peer reviewed scientific journal that has been accepted by the scientific community that falsifies scientific knowledge (the scientific theory of «dangerous» anthropogenic climate change and the scientific fact of a warming earth)?

TonyB, to answer seriously, it would be helpful to know what portions of The 2010 Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion and also Environmental Effects of Ozone Depletion and its Interactions with Climate Change: 2010 Assessment are accessible to your technical understanding, particularly in regard to physical chemistry and the quantum theory of radiation transport.

Former NASA administrator, M. Griffith, has always claimed its skepticism regarding AGW theory and recalled that the Agency's mission was to collect data for scientific community, not to promote policies for alleviating potential effects of climate change.

In terms of your request for something substantial, I responded to your original claim that «the theory relies on computer models» with a link to a RealClimate post that shows this claim is not correct — rather than computer models, the foundations of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change are built upon our understanding of how the atmosphere works and how we are changing it by emitting greenhouse gases.

For a discussion of the scientific consensus on global climate change, which is to say, the facts and theories reputable climate scientists agree on as a result of repeated experiment and study, see realclimate.org.

Andrew Marr: What's interesting — I mean, so, just to be absolutely clear for all those listening, um, of all those theories about the imminent end of the Earth, and the Earth's going to change on its axis and rotate in a different direction — there is no scientific evidence for any of this, as far as you're concerned, absolutely none.

How much does it effect the big scientific programs / unifying theories / wicked problems like climate change which includes so many subjective judgements and imprecise use of language (and complexity)?

If I created a think tank whose only purpose is to challenge climate change theories not because I don't think climate change doesn't exist, but because I want to improve the scientific field, would my think tank be considered part of CCCM?

Most theories develop slowly and all scientific theories are subject to rejection or modification in light of new evidence, including the theory of anthropogenic climate change.

Although many of the theories of catastrophic geological change were argued on fully scientific grounds, by the end of the nineteenth century scientists had come to lump all such theories with religious dogmatism.

Former UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs David Miliband presented a rebuttal of the main points of the film and stated «There will always be people with conspiracy theories trying to do down the scientific consensus, and that is part of scientific and democratic debate, but the science of climate change looks like fact to me.»

Together, these lines of evidence provide a conceptual and scientific backing to the theory of climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions that is simply absent for alternative theories, such as that there is no change or that the change is caused by something different.

Opening with a biographical sketch of Broecker — who, we learn, was born to an Evangelical suburban Chicago family, and initially drifted into his scientific vocation via a summer job in a radiocarbon dating lab — the book explains the currently - accepted Milankovitch theory of Ice Age glaciation; proceeds to an account of the Dr. David Keeling's measurements atmospheric CO2; continues with a summary of research work on glacial ice cores, sediments, and fossil pollen from around the world showing startlingly abrupt prehistoric climate changes; and moves on to the possible consequences of continued warming, closing with an account of the prospects of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

«Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded — from the theory that man - made climate change is warming our planet, to the safety of GM food, or that HIV causes AIDS.