Sentences with phrase «about spurious»

I don't see the connection with Mann et al though — I am talking here about spurious correlations being trumpeted as proof of an effect.

We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the

She might be referring to a paper by Thompson et al. that appeared in Naturea couple of years ago about a spurious cooling in the 1940s that scientists couldn't quite understand.

Data are sometimes lost — even, as one researcher claimed when confronted about spurious results, eaten by termites.

it hardly seems worth getting worked up about spurious speculation.

There is no evidence of anyone worrying about spurious belief anywhere in the old testament.

It is nearly Halloween which does signify the coming hew and cry about the spurious war on Christmas.

Not exact matches

None seemed credible to me — all spurious talk about waking up all the cells in your body and boosting your immune system.

Jesus was also brought to court on spurious charges; do you believe what his detractors said about him?

There has been much spurious research and false conclusions drawn by those known as «anti-Mormons» to lead people to a bad impression of a man who was about as good a man who ever lived - save Jesus, of course.

Williams, who would go on to write a book about witchcraft, always had a weakness for mumbo jumbo, and he appears to have belonged not only to this spurious Rosicrucian Order but also to the Order of the Golden Dawn.

He came to feel that the «method and manner» of his apologetic works were «spurious,» and he turned to «make - believe» as «another way of talking about the reality of things.»

The Papal claims were backed by a collection of documents, some genuine and some spurious, which appeared about the middle of the ninth century: the Decretals of Isidore.

This argument the IDFA and the NMPF have issued about «protecting the children» is spurious and specious.

In my book, there is nothing terribly natural about deaths or injuries of healthy young women, or an attitude that puts the value of a spurious experience over the life of a child.

«But, I think it is also worth pointing out that we should be careful about the new trend that appears to be emerging, whereby any allegation, no matter how spurious, quickly gains the character of a «scandal» or «an act of corruption,»» even when it is shot down.

So is the argument about UKIP stealing core Labour voters spurious?

«It's all totally spurious but there's evidence that it's working because the average Scot is concerned about these things.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has refuted some spurious and grossly uninformed claims suggesting that about 20 per cent of the Naira currency notes in circulation are counterfeited.

«The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been drawn to certain spurious and grossly uninformed claims suggesting that about 20 percent of the naira currency notes in circulation are counterfeited,» it said.

But it is a pity that he feels the need to cloak that welcome reappraisal in some spurious rubbish about the Lib Dem approach to the same negotiations.

Mr. Adewale also made spurious allegations about the Turakin Adamawa nursing a presidential ambition for 2019.

«What I'm appalled about is that the ministry has already spent some # 85m of taxpayers» money, not on the Armed Forces or on new kit or equipment for the Armed Forces, but on London law firms who are bringing forward these fairly spurious cases.

A large gang of them congregated outside Downing Street in Whitehall last Thursday evening and handed out spurious and demagogic leaflets whilst waffling on about western imperialism.

«The Mail runs a spurious story about Nick Clegg making a supposed Nazi slur against Britain.»

«If they think making outrageous accusations and spurious comments about me, if they think that's going to stop me, they're absolutely wrong.»

A little earlier she had tried to derail the launch of Iain Duncan Smith's Breakdown Britain report with a spurious story about the former party leader's view of gay parenting.

The upshot, say Workman and others, is that many probes produce spurious results that can lead researchers to wrong conclusions about the proteins and drug molecules they are studying.

Dale's erroneous association with the spurious data came about circa 1970, when an unidentified person or persons superimposed retention figures onto the Cone.

I thought about commenting on all the terribly spurious and biased points, but figured my own blog post was better suited if anyone is interested.

The specious reasoning apart the claim is also spurious because as a matter of practice the current debate is less about «restricting» atmospheric CO2 — as has been noted many times here, even an aggressive program that cuts * growth * in emissions will take some time to stabilise atmospheric CO2.

So why are you publicly LYING about that or intentionally obnubilating the actual facts of the matter by presenting SPURIOUS FALSEHOODS?

Your spurious sarcasm language aside the increase in knowledge about climate science over the last 25 years has been truly impressive (for example our understanding of how the increased heat retention gets moved around the planetary system).

Because of a spurious complaint to the regulatory authority that she was «practising medicine whilst being unregistered» Dr Laurie voluntarily offered to AHPRA not to use the title «Dr» which retired or non-practising doctors are legally entitled to do in Australia, because she did not wish to mislead anyone about her current non registered status in her work with the Waubra Foundation.

For example: you write That is why the 364 W / m2 of potential heat transfer from air that is 10 °C will not warm you up but I know if I take an ice cube out of the freezer it will melt in the shade during your cool afternoon air... so it is all about the net balances... and the introduction of the word forcing seems to introduce a totally spurious concept that can only confuse.

The only reason volcanoes are talked about so often is that they provide and excuse to pump up CO2 with spurious feedback amplification.

I wasted almost an entire day confirming that nothing has changed about her, since I make it my business to answer some of these spurious claims on DotEarth, a waste of time most likely.

years, after reading a book about the role of the sun in climate, including the usuals like temperature, precipitation, hurricanes,... But also non-usuals like earthquackes (clustering in the upgoing flank of the solar cycle, as is the case now) and even the number of wars (probably spurious, but continuous bad weather, as in our «summer» now, influences one's mood, thus more fights, etc.).

Well, if you drop them all in the last say ten years and not in the rest of the Kathmandu dataset, you'll get spurious warming of about two thirds of a degree... not exactly sure what your point is here.

Your deep digging continues to demonstrate not only just how deep a hole Wegman et al dug, in their turn, for themselves in the production of their «report», it nicely summarises just how spurious the whole fuss about M&M was from the start.

The corrections, based on surface layer similarity theory, removed a spurious cooling of about 0.2 °C between the late nineteenth century and 1980.

2nd, your comments about one comment from a RJ Hendrickson are, well, spurious.

When you get to such small impacts, just about any approximation can lead to spurious results.

As the ice cores with a medium resolution (21 years for the Law Dome DSS core) still show a small influence of about 8 ppmv / °C between the MWP and LIA, the strong influence of temperature on CO2 levels is entirely spurious...

The concept of «standard of living» rarely enters the environmental debate except as frankly rather spurious claims about how much better our lives would be if we had greater access to more green space.

The most significant changes in the new D - series cloud datasets are: 1) revised radiance calibrations to remove spurious changes in the long - term record, 2) increased cirrus detection sensitivity over land, 3) increased low - level cloud detection sensitivity in polar regions, 4) reduced biases in cirrus cloud properties using an ice crystal microphysics model in place of a liquid droplet microphysics model, and 5) increased detail about the variations of cloud properties.

Another estimate using all data except the spurious float data (thick dashed line) suggests much less cooling, only about 25 zeta joules.»

One day all these suspect and ill advised and suspected as mainly spurious «adjustments» to the global and national temperature records and all the arguments going on about it will be looked upon as today's stupidity equivalent of the medieval thesis of «How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?».

Trying to theorize about why the regression equation (and the spurious sample correlation) makes sense is not a fruitful exercise.

But that's an entirely different issue from the very simple one about Mann's correlation of sediments from Finnish bridge building with global climate fields — something that may qualify as a classic example of spurious correlation, up with Yule's original alcoholism and C of E marriages.