Citing the scientific consensus that global warming is disturbingly real, Francis left little doubt about who to blame.
Some states are actively supporting positions that run counter to the scientific consensus.
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But his answer offers a troubling false claim about a lack of scientific consensus: the consensus is rock solid.
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Instead of continuing to deny the scientific consensus, regulators should incorporate it into policy and educate the public about its rationale.
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Drastic short-term change could be hugely expensive and therefore politically unsustainable in the absence of a strong scientific consensus about its urgency.
After the Viking landers failed to find life on Mars in 1976, the scientific consensus was one of skepticism that bordered on ridicule.
There is a scientific consensus that global average surface temperatures will continue to rise as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases increase.
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It is becoming clear that not only do many scientists dispute the asserted global warming crisis, but these skeptical scientists may indeed form a scientific consensus.
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Though transparency on its own will not ensure scientific consensus, it will help companies explain to their stakeholders why they are taking the decisions they are.
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But five independent inquiries have since exonerated the researchers, and nothing was found in their e-mails or data to discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.
The National Academy of Science has criticized the EPA on similar grounds, and leading toxicologists have said that the agency is out of step with the scientific consensus.
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The note summarizes the broad scientific consensus on the potential impact of climate change on water resources and water users as well as helps us understand the environmental, social and economic implications.
The UN's regulatory policies, requirements and standards regularly defy scientific consensus and common sense: UN agencies' virtual ban on DDT for mosquito control and their stultifying regulation of agricultural biotechnology are lamentable examples.
However, the Republican presidential candidate's position now is more sceptical, saying he believes there is a lack of scientific consensus on the issue and that he supports more debate and investigation among scientists.
Like much else that transpires within its agencies and programs, the U.N. regularly defies scientific consensus and common sense, instead pandering to extremists and, not coincidentally, adopting policies that expand its own scope and responsibilities.
"Recognizing the international scientific consensus that BSE (Mad Cow Disease) is a disease that is not detected in young animals, there isn't any nation in the world that requires 100-percent testing for BSE, " the statement said.
Now that we have access to hard surveys of scientists themselves, it is becoming clear that not only do many scientists dispute the asserted global warming crisis, but these skeptical scientists may indeed form a scientific consensus.
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But the broad scientific consensus is that serious climate change is a danger, and this newspaper believes that, as an insurance policy against a catastrophe that may never happen, the world needs to adjust its behaviour to try to avert that threat.
As the author, Professor Bernard Stewart, an internationally-noted expert in cancer causation, points out, there is a remarkable scientific consensus on the causes of avoidable cancer, and they relate to lifestyle choices that people can actually do something about: smoking, poor diet, excessive drinking, obesity, physical inactivity, and exposure to the sun.
In spite of the scientific consensus that the new techniques of genetic engineering are essentially extensions, or refinements, of conventional (but less precise and less predictable) techniques of genetic modification, both U.N. entities have established requirements for the products of genetic engineering (whether plants or food derived from them) that no conventionally modified product could meet.
It brought this embarrassment on itself when William Kovacs, its senior vice president for environment, technology and regulatory affairs, told the Los Angeles Times that it might seek a full trial of the scientific consensus on man-made climate change to block the EPA's regulatory agenda, which it believed was illegal, unless there were Congressional hearings.
There are two main incentives for this, the first being the geological feature that natural gas is in finite supply and world production of it is thought might peak within the next few decades, and secondly that burning fossil carbon contributes to the atmospheric concentration of CO2, which scientific consensus accords will cause global warming and climate change.
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The agency treats genetically engineered products as though they pose some inherent, systematic, unique risks, when theoretical considerations, risk-assessment experiments and practical experience make it clear that they do not: A quarter-century-old scientific consensus holds that the molecular techniques of genetic engineering are an extension, or refinement, of less precise and predictable techniques for genetically improved products with which consumers and government regulators have long familiarity and comfort.
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He heads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, after announcing that scientific "consensus" had been reached on global warming.
No one mentioned that scientific "consensus" on global warming has not in truth been reached--and that hundreds of scientists, including some prominent figures advising the U.N. itself, have vigorously dissented from Pachauri's conclusions.
Dr Sherwood Rowland, who won a Nobel Prize for his studies of atmospheric ozone, said the consensus of scientific opinion on climate change was being ignored.
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On subjects like evolution, global warming, the biology of human conception, and even macroeconomics, conservatives have been increasingly bold about rejecting the consensus of scientific experts in favor of ideologically self-serving pronouncements.
Today, "consensus in the scientific community is virtually unprecedented" that global warming exists, Young said.
But the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Agriculture bought neither the consensus of the scientific community nor the directives from the White House.
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"There is a lack of consensus in the scientific and medical communities on the causes of MSDs (musculoskeletal disorders), " says Jennifer Krese, director of employment policy for the National Association of Manufacturers.
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