I know there are studies saying breast is best, but not
all scientists agree on that point.
Respected scientific bodies including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, along with 97 % of climate
scientists agree on this point.
Not exact matches
All the climate
scientists I spoke to for this story
agreed on this
point.
I
agree with you
on one
point, that a man can believe in a higher being and be a great
scientist.
Perhaps the sole
point on which
scientists agree is that radiation damages DNA in ways that can cause cancer many years after exposure.
But while Judge Pham
agreed that the technique had been subject to testing and peer review, it flunked
on the other two
points suggested by the Supreme Court to weigh cases like this one: the test of proven accuracy and general acceptance by
scientists.
While at odds with
scientists over several issues, the public
agreed on the last
point, with most respondents
on both sides rating science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in the U.S. as merely average, according to the poll released
on Thursday.
Your piece makes the important
point that,
on vital questions, there's enduring deep uncertainty behind the «97 Percent of Climate
Scientists Agree» headlines and Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change report summary language.
I
agree your letter writing technique is excellent; it's instructive that you need to make assessments of the science at odds with the consensus of
scientists in order to make your
points on policy effectively.
No need to name names or
point fingers, just the
scientists said «Unequivocal», the negotiations produced «more likely than not» or the
scientists said «5 - 10 years», the governments
agreed on «by the middle of the century».
All these
scientists agree on the most fundamental premises but their views start deviate from the main stream at some
point.
Among people who have graduated from college, Democrats and Democratic - leaning independents are 43 percentage
points more likely than Americans who lean Republican to say
scientists agree on global warming.
Just over half in the survey, 51 percent, say there is «a lot of disagreement among
scientists» over the existence of global warming, down 11
points from 2009 but still higher than the share who say
scientists agree with one another
on the issue, 43 percent.
If you
agree on these
points, perhaps we can move
on to consider subsequent issues: e.g. whether climate
scientists should simultaneously assert intellectual property rights to prevent examination of data while IPCC simultaneously uses such data in policy - related studies.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of climate
scientists still
agree the data
on global warming is solid, despite the setback of «Climategate» — a set of highly controversial, private e-mails among climate researchers that were hacked from a university server that
point to possible cases of misconduct and that climate skeptics have touted as the «smoking gun» against climate change, though no scientific fraud was revealed.
To express uncertainty over humans» influence
on the climate, Foran
points out, is to be out of line with 97 percent of
scientists — those forming the overwhelming consensus — who
agree that the planet is warming and that humans are the primary cause.
Surveys of the climate science community since 1996 have found the percentage of climate
scientists agreeing on human - caused global warming has steadily increased to the
point where in the last few years, several independent surveys have found 97 % agreement among actively publishing climate
scientists.