Sentences with phrase «with scientific certainty»

Continued excessive greenhouse - gas emissions primarily from industrialized nations are — with scientific certainty — creating floods, droughts, hurricanes, sea - level rise, and seasonal unpredictability.

If the critical threshold for climate catastrophe could be identified with scientific certainty, their research suggests that countries very likely would propose a collective target certain to avoid catastrophe, would pledge to contribute their fair share to the global effort, and would act so as to fulfill their promises.

In other words, reasonable people disagree, no one can say with scientific certainty that the market is overvalued, and none of us knows what will happen next to share prices.

Modifying just 3 factors delivers 80 % of value in terms of disease risk and body composition (even if you are genetically programmed to not be lean) according to Dr. Peter Attia, M.D. (bio: mechanical engineer ⇒ Stanford MD ⇒ surgical oncology fellow ⇒ healthcare consultant ⇒ NUSI founder conducting best possible research without bias to answer with scientific certainty — what we need to eat to be healthy questioning current guidelines.)

We can say with scientific certainty that a survey sample of 1,000 Brits will give you a result within 3.1 per cent of the «true» figure in 19 out of 20 polls.

They longed to circumscribe all knowledge within the bookends of the noumenal «I» and the empirical «I.» Knowledge was equated with scientific certainty.

Not exact matches

A singular universe is a scientific lie brought about thru mixed and still yet young educated rationalisms... Our Cosmos is littered full of celestial universes... So much so it will take us practically forever to map out our universally contained cosmos with much certainty... Our Cosmos being filled with all manner of celestial universes is but one Cosmos within a vast sea of multifaceted cosmological universes...

The Pope assures his reader, nonetheless, that in communion with the Church's living Tradition and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit «we can serenely examine exegetical hypotheses that all too often make exaggerated claims to certainty, claims that are already undermined by the existence of diametrically opposed positions put forward with an equal claim to scientific certainty» (p. 105).

Thus, the popular theories of Urmonotheismus or high - god, interesting though they may be, can not be used as the basis of the religio - scientific study of religions with utmost certainty.

In a food additive petition filed with the FDA, GMA said the scientific evidence will enable FDA to find there is a «reasonable certainty of no harm» from consumption of PHOs from the uses and use levels specified in the submission.

It seems to me that the notion that man - made CO2 has a significant effect on climate change is being disproven with more certainty, as day by day more hard scientific evidence is showing that this hypothesis is a delusion.

According to reporting in Scientific American's sister publication Nature, minutes of the meeting show that the researchers were in fact much more circumspect, saying things such as «a major earthquake in the area is unlikely but can not be ruled out» and «because L'Aquila is in a high - risk zone it is impossible to say with certainty that there will be no large earthquake.»

Over the past 20 years, evidence that humans are affecting the climate has accumulated inexorably, and with it has come ever greater certainty across the scientific community in the reality of recent climate change and the potential for much greater change in the future.

Many letters take issue with individual points of climate science, but I am particularly intrigued by the ones that aim wider, targeting the very concept of scientific certainty.

I learnt to communicate in crisis situations within the limits of scientific certainty while working with the gelatin manufacturers during the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) affair.

The political divide comes with the question of how much additional peer review — and how much scientific certainty — is needed before IRIS assessments are ready for use in making regulations.

In response to the second point, the most authoritative international scientific investigation into global warming has recently concluded with 95 percent certainty that human - caused global warming is happening.

Scott started ViDA with a scientific approach because he wanted to know, with absolute certainty, what did and didn't work in online dating.

# 68 «Furthermore, the nature of the scientific evidence and corresponding burden of proof are not the same — these are completely different kinds of systems with different levels of noise and different levels of certainty of cause and effect.

To try and equate lack of scientific understanding with lack of statistical certainty is not what one expects from a «real» scientist.

I suspect lists of scientific questions like this will provoke further claims that too little is known with certainty to try to change course away from anthropogenic mass extinction.

The question there is simply this: Did Jones present the whole truth, the unvarnished truth with all the attendant uncertainties or did he present a story that «oversold» the scientific certainty -LSB-?]»

Why aren't more mainstream climatologists admitting that the certainty about climate change is much less than the public and policymakers were led to believe, and why aren't more of the pathetic cowards willing to admit the travesties that some of their colleagues took with the scientific method?

More interesting still, Oreskes seems to agree with the «deniers» that scientific certainty — rather than doubt — should drive action.

Thanks to a growing body of scientific evidence and improved computer models that can project climate changes more accurately and in much finer detail, each report has proclaimed with greater and greater certainty that human activity is the main cause of global warming.

I think part of this comes from scientists, both those working in that specific area of climate science and particularly those from outside that area, speaking not as scientists with their inherent tendency not to claim something conclusive without a good deal of statistically tested certainty, but speaking as someone who has been imposed upon or volunteered to give a scientific best guess without bothering the public with the details of uncertainties.

Mr and Mrs Climate Science, watching from the upper balcony, think there will be more happy Maydays to come, if only their scientific certainties can be «communicated» to the plebs and if all the rabble - rousers are dealt with sternly.

I can not see how any real scientist can possibly agree with this 95 % figure, since all the scientific evidence obtained since 2007 supports a reduction of previous high claims of certainty, not an increase.

Based on the evidence as it currently exists, it just is not a valid scientific position to assert with certainty that human emissions have caused recent changes to the climate, and therefore the policy implications that stem from that.

«it just is not a valid scientific position to assert with certainty that human emissions have caused recent changes to the climate, and therefore the policy implications that stem from that»

The former can be said with a great deal of certainty because it relies on and a reality of scientific measurement and the statistical analysis of error bounds.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason to postpone such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective in order to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost.

It is a scientific fact that Global Warming provides the means for the ignorant to declare with absolute certainty that they know the unknowable — Laika The Space Dog

The whole point of the global warming scare is to take an uncertain and unproven scientific hypothesis and insist on it as an absolute scientific certainty requiring immediate action — which just so happens to be a very specific agenda that aligns perfectly with a certain political outlook.

The GCC position that there is inadequate scientific certainty regarding global warming to warrant decisive action is increasingly controversial in a political season where all of the major presidential candidates have recognized the importance of dealing with the issue.

While the body of scientific knowledge about climate change and its impacts has grown tremendously, future conditions can not be predicted with absolute certainty.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost (UN 1992a: Art 3, emphasis added).

Climate action — meaning, a transformation away from carbon - intensive energy sources to cleaner, renewable sources of energy — should be proportional to scientific certainty and commensurate with the threat.

In this paper we tested four hypotheses: (1) perceived conflict about global warming will be negatively associated — and (2) climate expertise, (3) liberal political ideology, and (4) perceived scientific consensus will be positively associated — with (a) higher personal certainty that global warming is happening, (b) viewing the global warming observed over the past 150 years as mostly human - caused, and (c) perception of global warming as harmful.

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

As we can see, the Rio Declaration posits a prior relationship with nature before a scientific conception of that relationship, making an institution of the precautionary principle well in advance of putative certainty.

His concern that students will be mislead by the idea that there is no scientific certainty about the best way to proceed politically does not credit those students with the ability to understand that political direction has been achieved through the application of the precautionary principle.

Science deals with probabilities, not certainties, and there's always a small chance that what's currently considered to be caused by X is actually caused by Y. That's fundamental to the scientific method of «hypothesize, measure, compare measurements to hypothesis, update hypothesis, measure again» ad infinitum.

I've been thinking about the PRO-CON FORMAT the media use (which has been discussed earlier), and now think that the format itself is not as bad as the fact that the media have limited the debate between contrarians (who need 99 %, perhaps 101 % certainty on AGW) and scientists (who require 95 % certainty, and even with that, bring all their caveats on screen — as if the scientific devil's adocates were there with them on TV).

In 2011 API brought suit with other parties against the EPA over its authority to regulate greenhouse gases, stating that «EPA professes to be 90 to 99 % certain that «anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are primarily responsible for «unusually high planetary temperatures», but the record does not remotely support this level of certainty» (Goldman and Rogerson 2013), a statement that flew in the face of the prevailing scientific consensus (IPCC 2007).

Most of the deep details of any scientific theory are not known with perfect certainty and scientists spend a great deal of time and effort examining and attempting to understand these details.

The scientific consensus is clear — there is a 95 % certainty the climate is warming, albeit with there having been a temporary pause for the past 15 years and this warming is being caused by humans.