Sentences with phrase «strong public consensus»
«While the independent expenditure spending aspect of the bill has been widely discussed across the nation and includes many recommendations that have been discussed for several years, including several provided to your administration by our organizations, little else in the bill addresses the strong public consensus that corruption is a serious problem in New York,» the letter states.
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But when you ask what to do about it, that consensus quickly devolves into finger - pointing — at recycling companies like Waste Management for failing to innovate, at the American public for their lazy recycling habits, at producers for creating plastic packaging that is increasingly difficult to recycle, and even at the federal government for not passing strong legislation that encourages better practices.
Regardless of the legal age, the consensus among medical experts is that the federal government must adopt a strong public education and awareness campaign to counter the myth that marijuana is safe.
While there were a variety of viewpoints expressed, the general consensus was that many of the styles of public engagement with the faith that our generation has inherited will not be our strongest options going forward.
Among strongest consensus bets of year on Ohio, though public loves low - profile weeknight favorites even more than Saturday games
«There was a strong consensus from the Meeting that it would be better to take some of the heat out of this public debate; this would entail taking forward a calmer internal party review of funding which would be more comprehensive and balanced (including importantly, addressing the Conservative multi-million pound donations at and between elections) and putting that forward as part of Labour's manifesto offer for party funding reforms.»
This plan is proof that there is now a strong cross-party political consensus that tough action to tackle smoking is the primary public health priority and a strong signal to council health and wellbeing boards that tackling smoking needs to be top of their agenda.
My public service experience allowed me to work cooperatively with diverse stakeholders from the local community, businesses, government and private sector, and left me with an even stronger understanding that public service and consensus building are critical to improving and supporting our communities.
So, despite the extraordinary political divisions in the country, and after the damaging failures of policies like NCLB, we finally reached a strong bipartisan consensus on a way forward to improve public education in America.
but, while the scientific consensus is getting stronger, the publics» opinion is wavering, due to the extremely effective PR campaign of the denialists.
By the 1950s, smoking's cause of disease had risen to strong scientific consensus, but Big Tobacco needed an illusion of scientific controversy to keep the public in doubt.
It is noteworthy that the consensus hardliners are strongest in the USA, particularly since public opinion there seems to be the most skeptical (an August 2011 Rasmussen poll showed that close to 70 % of respondents believed that climate scientists were fudging the data).
Now, as to the meaning of such a strong scientific consensus - that's important because laypeople (quite wisely) will take expert opinions into consideration when deciding public policy.
But I think the general public could reasonably still be confused by the fact that non-expert scientists aren't showing nearly as strong of a consensus based on the current surveys.
In sum, these findings provide the strongest evidence to date that public understanding of the scientific consensus is consequential.
On the other side of the coin, some actively engaged online «realists» exploit the ambiguity of the term «consensus» to translate a strong prevalence of shared opinions among climate science experts that continued and increasing aC02 emissions pose a potential risk, to give the public an impression that «CAGW» is «settled science.»
However, some academics have recently argued that communicators and educators should not inform the public about the strong scientific consensus on climate change.
The truth about Judith Curry, as I see it, is that she has a strong attraction for political dialogue, and refuses to see that the public debate over climate is fundamentally at odds with good science, as is the IPCC - sponsored «consensus» of climate alarmism, or in her case, of climate political - worryism (she seems deeply attached to helping bring about «reasonable» and «responsible» climate policies — whereas my view is that any and all such climate policies, now, are necessarily based upon incompetent, false science, are entirely the wrong thing to try to impose upon the people of the world, and need to be summarily thrown out, before one can even begin to have a dispassionate, competent scientific dialogue — as opposed to the political debate now being served up — on the state of climate science.).
This has resulted in the so - called «consensus gap»: the mismatch between perceptions of the degree of scientific consensus that exists among teachers and the public at large, and the very strong agreement within the expert community.