Sentences with phrase «support claims of a consensus»
The authors comprehensively and specifically rebut the surveys and studies used to support claims of a consensus.
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/ Not exact matches
The NAE and other evangelical elites, often speaking for churches, have pivoted into a larger menu of political issues, even though lacking unequivocal scriptural and church teaching, and, no less important for Protestants, lacking consensus or even majority support from their own claimed constituencies.
Another tactic frequently used by the climate change disinformation campaign that also constitutes reckless disregard for the truth are claims made about one controversy among the enormous body of scientific literature that supports the consensus view that assert that this controversy proves that the entire scientific basis for the consensus view has been undermined by this controversy.
For instance, US Senator James Imhofe of Kansas called climate change «the greatest hoax ever» (Johnson, 2011) To claim that climate change science is the greatest hoax ever is at minimum, if not a lie, reckless disregard for the truth given the number of prestigious scientific organizations that have publicly supported the consensus view, the undeniable science supporting the conclusion that if greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere some warming should be expected, the clear link between rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and increases in fossil fuel use around the world, as well undeniable increases in warming being that have been experienced at the global scale.
The consensus position is the mainstream scientific view --- not the hyperbolic claims of environmental groups or others that support climate change policies.
Under these criteria even an otherwise arch-sceptical paper conceding that, say, the methane from the farts of beef and dairy cattle might have a marginal influence on climate, could be claimed by Cook et al as being in support of the «consensus.»
The three lead NIPCC authors — Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer — reveal how no survey or study shows a «consensus» on the most important scientific issues in the climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In November, 2015, the three lead NIPCC authors — Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer — wrote a small book titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus revealing how no survey or study shows a «consensus» on the most important scientific issues in the climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
As the consensus of climatologists plus some of the world's most prestigious scientific institutions support this claim, a policy maker might well conclude that this claim conveys information to him or her about the outcomes from his / her policy decisions.
But such claims were made with the support of modeling that assumed rebound effects totaling only 9 percent on average (WEO 2012, page 316), far below levels identified by the academic consensus — a consensus that now includes the IEA itself.
In fact, virtually none of these claims are supported by a consensus of evidentiary science.
To claim that these abstracts support a consensus of «most warming being caused by humans» is outright false.
Sure there are feedbacks and thresholds, but to claim that we understand, and better, that we have a «quantitative» knowledge of how they work is just not supported by the scientific literature, and is the object of no consensus at all.
As an aside, the claim the MSM «supported» the IPCC consensus is a very dubious one (and of course completely undefined).
«[Bitcoin Unlimited] and [Bitcoin] Classic both claim to support the same consensus rules (BIP109), but are diverged and will not share the same testnet anymore — the whole point of a consensus system is to come to consensus and [Bitcoin Unlimited] and [Bitcoin] Classic will reliably fail to do so on testnet,» commented Maxwell.
However, the individual group raised eyebrows last year when it claimed that it would attempt to execute the controversial SegWit2x hard fork even after its main proponents issued a joint statement withdrawing support for the fork due to a lack of community consensus.