Sentences with phrase «uncertainty of scientific»

Because NOAA deals largely in scientific information, that information reflects the inherent uncertainty of the scientific process.

There are many different actors with various levels of technical expertise, meaning that there is a lot of variation in the way they understand uncertainty of scientific data.

I don't see that Crichton's argument is any better — it uses the precise same tactic of arguing from the fundamental uncertainty of the scientific enterprise to try to undermine results that Crichton doesn't like.

First, she must fairly disclose the uncertainties of her scientific support.

Not exact matches

This is a familiar dodge - emphasizing uncertainty about the precise amount of humanity's contribution while ignoring the broad scientific consensus that human activities are largely responsible for dangerous warming of our planet and that action is urgently needed before it is too late.

Collaborating with the Bush - Cheney White House, Exxon turned ordinary scientific uncertainties into weapons of mass confusion.

To attempt to justify this by transforming the epistemological problem of «uncertainty» into an ontological fact is simply a way of mobilizing the present limits of scientific knowledge in order to assert an arbitrary philosophical thesis.

Oftentimes, however, scientific progress is laden with consumer perceptions of uncertainty and unintended consequences, in part due to the complexity of the agri - food supply chain.

Atty. Zelda Soriano, Legal Counsel for the Petitioners discussed the grounds on which the appellate court based their favorable decision, which includes the main argument of the petitioners that the field testing is characterized by «serious scientific uncertainty with regard to its health and environmental effects.»

The CRA claims that «a continuing series of inexact scientific reports and inaccurate media accounts about high fructose corn syrup and matters of health and nutrition have... increased consumer uncertainty.»

A systematic review of the scientific literature indicates that women who intend to breastfeed but who later feed their babies formula consistently report feelings of guilt, anger, worry, uncertainty, and a sense of failure despite the relief that introducing formula after experiencing difficulties with breastfeeding may bring (Lakshman, Ogilvie, & Ong, 2009).

This uncertainty is partially due to the well - known inability of international relations scholars to make assured predictions, but also to the fact that the dynamics of foreign policy shifts are still widely overlooked and generally misunderstood in the scientific literature.

There isn't a good scientific body of evidence that someone could pick up their blood PFOA level and say «OK, well this means my risk for some health outcome is x, y or z,» and scientists can't provide that and this is one of the places where we'll have to say we don't know and there is uncertainty about that.»

In the face of this scientific uncertainty, Governor Cuomo announced in February that regulators at the Department of Financial Services were ordering health plans to cover tomosynthesis «when medically necessary.»

Holt also wrote an editorial in Science on 17 November addressing the uncertainty of federal support for scientific research under the new administration and advocating for better integration of science into policymaking.

But the many scientific uncertainties, and the sheer complexity of climate, made room for limitless debate over what actions, if any, governments should take.

«White House officials and political appointees in the agencies censored congressional testimony on the causes and impacts of global warming, controlled media access to government climate scientists, and edited federal scientific reports to inject unwarranted uncertainty into discussions of climate change.»

That representation matches the public discourse around global warming, in which previous studies have shown that media characterize climate change as unsettled science with high levels of scientific uncertainty.

The interviews revealed that individual understandings of scientific concepts, uncertainties, and value - based attitudes towards invasive plants and their management diverged widely among these experts.

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

«This new USGS research complements ongoing initiatives to conserve the Bay - Delta by providing sound scientific understanding for managing this valuable system such that it continues to provide the services we need in the face of climate uncertainty.»

She also explores the value of scientific thinking in our everyday lives, including the importance of scale, scientific modeling, uncertainty, and risk assessment.

From the examples chosen a pattern emerges that requires a period of sober reflection by any minister or civil servant involved in the planning of major technological projects, for far from the comfort of scientific truth underpinning their decisions, the reality is that the degree of uncertainty involved would appear to reduce the process to a sophisticated form of gambling, with awesome consequences awaiting a wrong decision.

A review of health - related studies published last month inEnvironmental Science & Technology concluded that the current scientific literature puts forward «both substantial concerns and major uncertainties to address.»

Scientists are divided about the need to label GMOs: There is little scientific evidence of health or ecological threats, but many uncertainties remain.

In two companion papers, published today in Climatic Change, the researchers investigated the mathematics of uncertainty in the climate system and showed that increased scientific uncertainty necessitates even greater action to mitigate climate change.

However, uncertainty in the data exposing a lack of scientific «proof» of safety can equally well be used as a lack of «proof» of harm.

The AAAS Annual Meeting brings together more than 10,000 of the world's most talented and diverse scientists — yet this year select international participants who have made valuable contributions to the scientific community may not attend, due to ongoing uncertainty about the recent immigration and visa order implemented in the United States.

The debate in the media expresses far less uncertainty in this issue than is customary for this level of scientific inquiry.

A compelling example of the angst - provoking uncertainties involved has been raised by bioethicist and Scientific American advisory board member Arthur Caplan.

New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.

The IPCC [the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] took a shortcut on the actual scientific uncertainty analysis on a lot of the issues, particularly the temperature records.

Somewhere in this quagmire of scientific uncertainty, will lie the future for the magnificent Thorne Moors.

The injunction «has placed a cloud of uncertainty over this entire scientific field,» said Harkin.

In their paper, Fischhoff and Davis, a research scientist in engineering and public policy who received his Ph.D. from CMU in social and decision sciences, outline the challenges of explaining the uncertainty that is part of all scientific research findings.

But in most cases, abundance estimates have uncertainties of at least 20 percent, says mathematician Doug Butterworth of the University of Cape Town in South Africa and a member of the IWC scientific committee.

The strategy they most often deploy was pioneered by the tobacco industry, which learned to foment scientific uncertainty as a means of staving off regulation.

Rather they laid out a strategy to strengthen the scientific basis for the estimates, reduce their uncertainties, and increase transparency of the process.

So China chose to go it alone — just when the turbulence and uncertainty of the Cultural Revolution was damaging to all scientific and technical activities.

The NRC asked the committee to summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past two millennia, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

Giving statistically accurate and informative assessments of a model's uncertainty is a daunting task, and an expert's scientific training for such an estimation may not always be adequate.

Too many of the citizens of the US and Britain still believe there is substantive scientific uncertainty about climate change — even as George Bush lives in a «green,» off - grid home and now says climate change is real.

Yet the report also argued against a rapid shift to non-fossil fuel energy sources, noting that «making significant changes in energy consumption... amid all the scientific uncertainties would be premature in view of the severe impact such moves could have on the world's economies and societies.»

«In the face of natural variability and complexity, the consequences of change in any single factor, for example greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence of future change.»

While this leads to an elevation in the level of scientific understanding from very low in the TAR to low in this assessment, uncertainties remain large because of the lack of direct observations and incomplete understanding of solar variability mechanisms over long time scales.»

Because, despite having this breadth of knowledge within its walls, and for many years after these climate science programs were run at Exxon, the company has spent years and millings of dollars funding climate deniers and think tanks who attack the scientific consensus, spreading doubt and uncertainty.

As acknowledged in an Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics report on climate change scenarios, also released on Monday, there are still considerable scientific uncertainties surrounding the nature and extent of future climate change.

The next year, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was publishing its second major assessment of climate science, Shell found itself in a delicate balancing act between accepting the scientific consensus and arguing that there was still too much uncertainty to dictate aggressive action.

A judgment of each estimate's reliability is given as a level of scientific understanding based on uncertainties in the climate change agents and physical understanding of their radiative effects.

«It's time for U.S. policy - makers to reflect and decide whether the year - to - year uncertainty in National Institutes of Health budget and the proposed cuts are in our societal and national best interest,» says Bishr Omary, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the new data - supported opinion piece and chief scientific officer of Michigan Medicine, U-M's academic medical center.