Sentences with phrase «uncertainty in science»

I appreciate your points about the interplay between science and politics, and about the inherent uncertainties in all science, not only the science of global warming.
Unfortunately, denialism is less about refuting the science than creating the perception of uncertainty in the science in order to manipulate public perception.
One of the biggest pieces of uncertainty in science always revolves around funding — at any given time we are either applying for, waiting for, or feeling depressed / elated about the outcome of a given funding round.
In 2003, Judith Curry, a climate researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote the following passage in a submission to a federal effort aimed at charting how to reduce uncertainties in the science pointing to a growing human influence on climate:
«Skeptics» are approaching uncertainty in science with a massive bias.
As best we know, the global carbon budget for this century is between 1,320 and 2,200 gigatons (There are too many uncertainties in the science to be more precise than that.)
One on Greenhouse gases in the earth system: setting the agenda for 2030 and one on Handling uncertainty in science.
Spiegenthaler provided the following advice at the recent Workshop on Uncertainty in Science at the Royal Society:
Metzler encouraged scientists to provide a sense of the scientific process, including uncertainty in science.
Surely if we have to err in gauging uncertainty in science, it's better to err on the side of overestimating it.
The article and posted documents show how carefully Exxon's corporate and legal side, more than manufacturing doubt, exploited the real uncertainty in the science to frame an argument against moving to stronger instruments than the non-binding 1992 climate treaty:
Meanwhile, the good news (if further research bears it out) that the world's warming has been slowed, at least for a few years, needs to be leavened with the realisation, yet again, that there are significant uncertainties in science's understanding of the climate — and thus unquantifiable risks ahead.
Facts about a debate that's turned up more questions than answers,» includes a statement by then Exxon CEO Lee Raymond trumping up uncertainty in the science behind global warming as well as the cost of a carbon - restricted market.
Interesting strategy by Mr. Mann: first producing publications, achieving notoriety, obtaining funding, getting tenured professor position, and the last is the admission that there is large uncertainty in his science.
Uncertainty in science means there is a case for an uncertain, poorly defined AGW.
«Independent summary shows new UN climate change report refutes alarmism and reveals major uncertainties in the science,» CNW.
The states and industry groups had asked the appeals court to overturn the Endangerment Finding based on a host of arguments ranging from «there's too much uncertainty in the science» to «the EPA abused its authority» to «the EPA misread the Clean Air Act.»
On learning of the White House revisions, representatives of some environmental groups said the effort to amplify uncertainties in the science was clearly intended to delay consideration of curbs on the gases, which remain an unavoidable byproduct of burning oil and coal.
Boutrous reiterated multiple times that there was «a great deal of uncertainty in the science until about 2000.»
It was his caustic honesty about the complex nature of global warming, and the inherent uncertainties in the science, that kept me returning to him for input from 1988 onward.
Efforts by the Bush administration to highlight uncertainties in science pointing to human - caused warming have put the United States at odds with other nations and with scientific groups at home.
There are many uncertainties in the science and the occasional finding that pokes holes in details, but claims that warming stopped in year X, there is an ice age imminent, etc. are given undue prominence when there is no real evidence for this sort of position, just as there is no real evidence that tobacco isn't a health hazard, or HIV doesn't cause AIDS.
The biggest bludgeon the skeptics have is that there is uncertainty in the science.
The uncertainty in the science makes it difficult for policy - makers to see how much investment is justified, and what kind, says van Scheltinga.
«Uncertainty in science is a form of knowledge.
Despite the uncertainty in the science, hurricanes quickly became a potent icon in environmental campaigns, as well as in «An Inconvenient Truth,» the popular climate documentary featuring former Vice President Al Gore.
But the uncertainties in the science of climate impacts — and they are legion — make the future more perilous, not less.
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