The scientific evidence does not support such arguments.

This synthesis report is based on a sound summary of scientific evidence, and states that desertification must imperatively be addressed to meet the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.

There is an increasing body of scientific evidence to support this idea.

(ii) To note the emerging scientific evidence on climate change and food production.

Global scientific processes like the IPCC are critical, because they offer our best hope of forging a consensus based on the scientific evidence.

First, they tried to deny the existence of any scientific evidence for global warming.

To start, governments should design targeted, evidence based policies and support the development of sound institutions.

But, as plausible as this line of reasoning may sound, the historical evidence repeatedly refutes it.

This hypothesis is not supported by scientific evidence, but has contributed to decreased vaccination rates.

Such opposition is not based on scientific evidence. Indeed, an increasing number of scientific publications show that PNV use is much safer than smoking tobacco.

Feminists understandably have often shied away from scientific evidence that challenges this critique of sex roles.

Exaggeration contradicts the key hallmarks of scientific reasoning critical thinking and careful appraisal of the evidence.

develop their own plans of action, be it at the national or regional level, based on sound scientific advice.

There is the wall between those who heed the scientific evidence and those who pander to vested interests.

Later, they fought the scientific evidence that sulfur oxides from coal fired power plants were causing acid rain.

President Barack Obama and his advisers do not deny the scientific evidence of what is happening to us all.

He approved oil exploration in closed nature reserves, and also systematically fought to suppress scientific evidence on climate change.

All of this intuitively makes sense, and there is a growing body of scientific evidence to back it up.

The scientific evidence suggests that carbon emissions from anywhere in the world have about the same impact on global warming.

By the 1980s, scientific evidence linking greenhouse gas emissions from human activities to global climate change began to arouse public concern.

Japan says that it wants the discussion of whaling to be carried out calmly, on the basis of scientific evidence, without emotion.

Last year, a scientific panel to the European Union concluded that the preponderance of the evidence indicates that fish do feel pain.

By anti intellectualism, I mean especially an aggressively anti scientific perspective, backed by disdain for those who adhere to science and evidence.

To the scientific community, the evidence on climate change has, of course, been overwhelming for more than a decade and a half.

Instead of taking scientific evidence as dogma, we should consider it as tentative information that should be ascribed a level of credibility.

This strategy is intended to guide UNICEF programming at the country level, drawing from the most recent scientific evidence and lessons learned.

Mounting scientific evidence has documented the extensive damage caused by high seas industrial longline fishing in the Pacific to the marine ecosystem.

The scientific evidence on climate change which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and others had compiled was more compelling than ever.

Of the party s dozen presidential candidates, only two (Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman) declined to reject scientific evidence concerning global warming and its human causes.

By contrast, suppressing the freedom of speech of Islam s critics merely gives rise to the suspicion that evidence and sound argument cannot show their arguments to be mistaken.

A sound mind in a sound body.

Sound familiar? Sound like anyone you know?

By anti intellectualism, I mean especially an aggressively anti scientific perspective, backed by disdain for those who adhere to science and evidence. The challenges faced by a major power like the US require rigorous analysis of information according to the best scientific principles.

The strongest critique has come from sugar associations, who claim that the upper limit of 10 on caloric intake from sugar is not based upon scientific evidence.

4. Stresses that data collection, analysis and evaluation of the results of ongoing national and international policies are essential tools for further developing sound, evidence based drug control strategies

Despite scientific evidence demonstrating that the increased intensity and frequency of hurricanes is related to climate change, the Bush administration systematically rejects participation in international climate protection regimes.

Malaria is spreading, and new scientific evidence indicates that people infected with HIV are more likely to transmit it to others when they are also infected with malaria.

Several delegations underlined that an improved understanding of the oceans was crucial to the improvement of the sustainable management of fisheries and highlighted the importance of sound scientific information for decision making.

In this regard, UNESCO promotes education at all levels and the dissemination of information on the rational use of natural resources based on sound scientific research as key elements to combat desertification.

For them, a sound economy requires a sound production structure.

We also need a regular scientific process to present the world with the evidence on species abundance and extinction, just as we now have such a process for climate change.

We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims and therefore we engaged in misleading conduct in breach of s52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974.

The 334 page book, containing 271 satellite images, 215 ground photos and 66 maps, clearly documents scientific evidence of global environmental change caused through natural processes and human induced activities.

As previously noted by the Panel, there is evidence in the scientific literature that the smoke plume from the oil well fires moved over some parts of Iran in 1991.

3. Stresses that, in order to be able to further develop sound, evidence based drug control policies, data collection and analysis and evaluation of the results of ongoing policies are essential tools