Sentences with phrase «unanimous scientific»

For example, regarding the validity of the evidence that the basic greenhouse gas mechanism is causing recent global warming, there is near - unanimous scientific consensus among the experts that have real climate credentials, are working in the field with a position in a recognized scientific department at a university or laboratory (not a right - wing think tank), and who publish in the peer - reviewed scientific literature (non-peer reviewed think tank papers don't count).

There is virtually unanimous scientific agreement about climate change.

This fragile and nebulous consensus is protected by a variety of myths about anybody who wishes and dares to challenge it: they have vested interests; they have prostituted themselves; they belong to an organised conspiracy; they stand lonely against a vast and entirely unanimous scientific body.

It is pointed out only on the basis of how strong the evidence is that it has reached a level of near unanimous scientific agreement (just as a consensus exists that gravity exists).

There will never be a unanimous scientific position on climate change, simply because there will never be a unanimous scientific position on anything.

Numerous studies have found near - unanimous scientific agreement on human - caused climate change, with perhaps the most well - known study on the matter finding that 97 percent of scientific papers taking a position on the cause of global warming agree that humans are behind it.

«Such surveys are often cited as demonstrating a near - unanimous scientific consensus in favor of a climate policy, when they never ask any question about whether and to what extent the anthropogenic component in recent warming might be dangerous or about whether a «climate policy» should be adopted in attempted mitigation of future warming.»

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.

The overwhelming consensus and the unanimous Scientific Advisory Committee's report indicate that television violence, indeed, does have an adverse effect on certain members of our society.

Not exact matches

When it comes to the question of whether homosexuality is a mental disorder, scientific research is unanimous — it is not.

The White House also discounted warnings of global climate change induced by greenhouse gases, contending — contrary to near - unanimous findings by U.S. research agencies and international scientific bodies — that climate change was an unproven hypothesis.

«It's pretty much unanimous in the scientific community that seaborgium is an excellent name.

«There is unanimous agreement in the scientific community that a temperature increase of this magnitude would bring about significant changes in the earth's climate, including rainfall distribution and alterations in the biosphere.»

«Members of the Fellowship Committee were unanimous in selecting Jan Lenaerts and the BENEMELT project for the Fellowship Award as this exciting project will bring new elements to the study of climate - ice shelf interaction», said president of the Fellowship Scientific Jury Prof. Jörn Thiede.

Much research has been done on the topic of post workout nutrition in recent years and the scientific literature is almost unanimous in its findings: At one time carbohydrates were emphasized after a workout.

The evidence, evidence that it has not happened in the case of physical climatology, is the unanimous support of (practically if not literally) all the various scientific professional groups, national honorary societies, and international panels... which constitutes «the great bulk of the scientific community»... which in turn speaks for «almost all scientists worldwide» in practice.

«The evidence, evidence that it has not happened in the case of physical climatology, is the unanimous support of (practically if not literally) all the various scientific professional groups, national honorary societies, and international panels...»

The requirement of unanimous line - by - line approval of the summary for policy makers by member states is very disruptive and can undermine the scientific process if special interests become involved.

Climate Consensus and «Misinformation»: a Rejoinder to «Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change» decisively rejects suggestions by Cook and others that those who say few scientists explicitly support the supposedly near - unanimous climate consensus are misinforming and misleading the public.

A scientific consensus doesn't imply unanimous agreement.

So, where did this notion that the scientific community is in unanimous agreement on global warming come from?

The world's scientific community agrees - although agreement is not unanimous - that greenhouse gases, produced by burning fossil fuels, are causing a warming of the Earth's climate.

MIT professor Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., one of 11 scientists who prepared the National Academy of Sciences 2001 report on global warming, has stated repeatedly that there were a wide variety of scientific views presented in that report, and that the full report made clear that there is no consensus, unanimous or otherwise, about long - term climate trends and what causes them.

«There is unanimous agreement in the scientific community that a temperature increase of this magnitude would bring about significant changes in the earth's climate,» he wrote, «including rainfall distribution and alterations in the biosphere.»

The scientific community is all but unanimous in its agreement that climate change is a serious threat.

Thus far, the study has gained unanimous favor in the scientific community, which was admittedly surprised in 2008 and 2009 at how quickly a defining issue that will undoubtedly affect everyone on the planet became so heavily politicized and took a backseat to health care reform, the housing bubble, and replacing Jay Leno on The Tonight Show.

Thus the idea that Will is right and the nearly unanimous opinion of the international scientific community is wrong, is false on its face.