Sentences with phrase «than a scientific consensus»

Many teachers who responded said they «taught the controversy» of climate change, presenting it as a subject to be debated rather than a scientific consensus.

Clearly, the Rap News crew is making fun of the global warming deniers, but it presents their points much more than the scientific consensus.

It reproduced a preliminary graph from a non-physical sciences group showing lower than scientific consensus estimates for temperature increase through 2100 and conflated it with an entirely Economist - manufactured news item erroneously stating scientists are finding climate sensitivity is lower than previously expected (Hint: it's not).

But when some of those same know - nothings want something more than scientific consensus — namely, objective proof beyond a shadow of a doubt — the name calling and marginalization begin in earnest.

There is no other way to interpret what she has actually written than scientific consensus = dogma.

Not exact matches

= > There is knowledge other than what is current consensus of scientific facts (they change as we have a history of science).

More than 2,000 studies show a clear consensus among the world's leading scientific organizations that GMO ingredients are safe.

What the body of science supports is that adolescent girls are reaching puberty earlier than prior generations; however, there is no scientific consensus concerning the cause of this trend.»

«Similarly, a number of studies have found that telling people about the 97 % scientific consensus on human - caused global warming has a neutralizing rather than polarizing effect.»

I thought the closing session was very interesting, but I also thought that the scientists who spoke were clearer than the broader scientific community on things like the consensus on a 2 degree target.

The report defines «very likely» as a greater than 90 % probability and represents the consensus of the scientific community.

Since the CERP was launched, a scientific consensus has developed that the Everglades ecosystem contained much more water historically than previously thought, which means recreating that level of hydrology will require more new water and have different ecological outcomes than first anticipated in the planning.

We say, «Okay, these are the best guidelines that we have, but we're going to need to work with this and try to again collect some evidence so this is more based on scientific data rather than on particular consensus opinion, albeit from experts.»

These findings are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations group that defines the scientific and diplomatic consensus on global warming.

They confirmed an emerging scientific consensus that warming could be even worse than Black had warned five years earlier.

Though the APS statement about climate change is more nuanced than the AAAS letter, stating — for example — «scientific challenges remain in our abilities to observe, interpret, and project climate change,» it in no way disputes the scientific consensus on climate change or the risks it poses.

Perceptions of scientific consensus also tend to vary by age with younger generations (ages 18 to 49) more likely than older ones to see scientists as in agreement on these topics.

The cognitive principles of learning are based on reports from (a) the National Academy of Sciences, 1 (b) a practice guide for teachers by the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education on Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, 2 (c) and a joint initiative between the Association of Psychological Sciences and the American Psychological Association on Lifelong Learning at Work and at Home.3 The recommendations here reflect the wisdom of these reports, which are based on scientific evidence, rather than being consensus opinions of experts.

Her experience is varied and includes developing and implementing training programs for dog owners and veterinary professionals; working as a research assistant on several canine behavioral genetics projects at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; serving as editor for a scientific working group tasked with establishing consensus - based best practices for the use of canine / handler detection teams and setting standards for their certification; serving as the first editorial assistant for the Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research; co-authoring more than 10 peer - reviewed publications and owning and operating a home - based editing business.

All those scientist who think Hansen is being too alarmist have not put forward convincing arguments, as far as I know, why his reasoned suspicion of the risks of faster changes than the current scientific consensus allows for are not justified.

Are you seriously claiming that to be a better determination of a scientific consensus than the IPCC?

The differences are obvious — HIV denialists are a smaller and more derided group, human deaths are more directly attributable to HIV than to GHGs, the basis for the scientific consensus is different, lifestyle changes and simple fixes play different roles, etc..

i personally find the mainstream scientific consensus» arguments MUCH more convincing than the «skeptic» arguments.

But people don't really understand that, and we in the scientific community haven't helped much because we are focused on the consensus - prone medians rather than the tails.

The point I was making was that climate patterns are more linear / deterministic than weather patterns, which is AFAIK universally accepted scientific consensus.

In such a case it makes rather more sense to weight near - unanimous scientific consensus positions than the weight assigned to some uncredentialed fringe or another.

a Greenpeace research project highlighting the more than a decade - long campaign by Exxon - funded front groups — and the scientists they work with — to deny the urgency of the scientific consensus on global warming and delay action to fix the problem.

When ES&T (Environmental Science & Technology) contacted more than a dozen leading scientists to find out how these events affected the scientific consensus on climate change, many researchers began criticizing the Wall Street Journal and Barton.

While deniers can easily post something calling into question the scientific consensus on climate change, not a single refereed article in more than a decade has sought to refute it.

And second, this framing elevates the idea of solar geoengineering as a viable climate change abatement strategy vastly above the current scientific consensus on this topic, painting carbon removal solutions in a much more radical light than do most climate experts.

I certainly agree that scientific progress is better served by open debate than by consensus building.

It would be more related to the consensus on AGW being trusted than in SteveM's case where the trust, or lack thereof, appears to go to the individual scientist and is based on that individual's handling of the scientific evidence.

This consensus is expressed in more than 95 % of the scientific literature and it is shared by a similar fraction — 97 - 98 % — of publishing experts in the area.

From my own reading on the history of science, antagonism and skepticism are essential to good science and to scientific progress in general, and scientific consensuses are more frequently wrong than right especially when the experimental evidence is ambiguous, and impede scientific progress more often than not.

Straight from the horses mouth... the «consensus» has political, rather than practical utility: The public's perception of that scientific consensus is necessary to stimulate political debate about solutions.

One result is that in their efforts to provide «balanced coverage,» U.S. media have given disproportionate attention to the skeptics, creating the impression of less scientific consensus on global warming than exists within the mainstream scientific community.

Perceptions of scientific consensus also tend to vary by age with younger generations (ages 18 to 49) more likely than older ones to see scientists as in agreement on these topics.

If you stay, try asking and commenting on other than shallow circular analysis of what constitutes straw man, argument from authority and scientific consensus.

Overall, Democrats and liberals are more likely than Republicans and conservatives to say the Earth is warming, human activity is the cause of the change, the problem is serious and there is scientific consensus about the climate changes underway and the threat it poses to the planet.

That sounds pretty progressive, and is certainly greener than the position of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has explicitly denied the «broad scientific and policy consensus» on climate change.

In 1995, the scientific consensus, if that is what the IPCC represents, was little more than «we don't know».

Even over the past ten years or so, we've seen the best scientific predictions proved wrong — global warming is getting much worse, much faster, than the consensus belief in 1999.

Here is the relevance of carbon to investing: There is consensus within the scientific community that increasing the global temperature by more than 2 °C will likely cause devastating and irreversible damage to the planet.

The film examines the question of whether there is a genuine scientific consensus about alleged man - made global warming and features more than 30 scientists and experts.

The fact that, in this debate, the entertainer represents the «side» of the overwhelming scientific consensus is less important to the producers of «Meet the Press» than the fact that one «side» is also the consensus of the Democratic Party, while the view of a small fringe in the scientific community is the official position of the Republican Party.

Nevertheless, Americans remain less certain about the accuracy of global warming news coverage, about humankind's role in causing global warming, and about the scientific consensus on the issue than they were last decade.

One manifestation is modern - day conservatives are more difficult to persuade than non-conservatives using documented facts or reasonable inferences, particularly on issues where there's a partisan axis, even in the face of a robust scientific consensus or just plain common sense.

This post examines the ethical duty to act to reduce the threat of climate change even if one assumes there is more scientific uncertainty about the causes and impacts of climate change than those identified by the scientific consensus view as articulated most recently by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Where there maybe a scientific consensus which says little more than «humans are influencing the climate», environmentalism claims that an apocalypse hangs over us.

Scientific consensus is nothing more than a way to extend the longevity of a false hypothesis.