Authors concludes that — to the extent that we have simple plausible physical arguments that support the model consensus — we believe that one should have nearly as much confidence in these results as one has in the increase in temperature itself (climatesignals.org)
By the same physical argument, one expects minima in the response to external forcing in the subpolar oceans, since these are being held back by their strong coupling to the deeper layers. (gfdl.noaa.gov)
Alongside physical arguments that the great masses of ice, rock and water could not change quickly, paleontologists subscribed to a neo-Darwinian model of the evolution of species which argued that here too change must be continuous and gradual. (history.aip.org)