Sentences with phrase «argued over the effects»

While some states took action, federal scientists and academics argued over the effects of low doses.

Though scientists are still arguing over the effects of soy on cancer and heart health, one thing is for certain: «Consuming too much soy - based vegan «meat» is arguably worse (than) consuming high - quality animal products,» says Henderson.

Not exact matches

While Mathew Ingram over at GigaOm has argued that people have always found ways to distract themselves and waste time, perhaps by watching television, the reality is they've never had this sort of fire hose effect before.

I think it was Barth who argued over and over that to be so confident of our plans, to be so sure of the effects of our causes is the ultimate in human arrogance.

DeSalvo, whose previous work includes an edition of an early version of one of Virginia Woolf's novels and a collection of letters from Vita Sackville - West to Woolf, argues that other biographers of Woolf (particularly Quentin Bell) have glossed over the formative traumas of her early life, dismissing them as unimportant and in effect blaming the victim for the abuse she suffered.

My guess is that it will be a difficult case to argue against the impact of the contraceptive coverage rule as anything but an «incidental effect» given it targets a market and there's no evidence that the rule is over or under inclusively fashioned as a pretext to target the religious beliefs of those opposed to contraception.

However the company argued that at a comparable operating level (ie without the effect of the volatile exchange rate) operating profit was up 15 % to # 851,000, but it was non-operating exchange losses on long term loans and new hedging contracts taken out shortly before the end year that had hit this figures, after resulting in charges of over # 450k.

They argued, for example, over the effects of agriculture and deforestation in adding or subtracting carbon dioxide from the air.

Whether we're talking about free speech on Usenet, the policy questions of legitimate marketing and com - mercial activity conducted over email, or the desirable but spam - ish mes - sages that trip the filters and disappear, there is always friction not around the most egregious case (no one argues for Leo Kuvayev's «\ / 1@gR / - \» messages) but at the blurry places where spam threatens to blend into acceptable use, and fighting one might have a deleterious effect on the other.

She believes this is the first study to follow people over time, noting, «I would argue that no first study is clear evidence of cause and effect.»

As such, he argues that, if our results are correct and school spending really does improve student outcomes (with larger effects for low - income children), outcomes should have improved over time and achievement gaps by income should have been eliminated over this time period.

In 1963, researchers argued that «the teaching of formal grammar has a negligible or, because it usually displaces some instruction and practice in actual composition, even a harmful effect on the improvement of writing,» and over 250 studies since that time, as well as a meta - analysis from the Carnegie Corporation in 2011, have widely supported that statement.

Maybe what is being argued and debated in Tennessee will have some carry over effects in Houston as well.

I would expect the albedo effect presented by clouds to be weak over the mostly snow / ice covered Antarctica, but Svensmark argues that the clouds here warm rather than cool the temperature.

So fine, one could argue that over population of humans increases the effect of global warming.

So not only is the effect greatly reduced, it's hard to argue that the discrepancy between expected and observed amplification is due to «bias» over land.

Then why do so - called climate scientists publish peer - reviewed papers in which they argue that the AMO, PDO, ENSO, have short term effects that must average to zero over the long run?

«This effect of natural variability will be averaged out over a period of 100 years,» he says, «and can not argue away the threat of persistent anthropogenic warming that is occurring now.»

Arguing over the details of the normal Gaussian statistics in the face of these huge natural dispersive effects therefore pales in terms of our comprehension of what may actually happen.

According to the Cato Institute's book summary, «Acknowledging that industrial emissions of greenhouse gasses have warmed the planet and will continue to do so over the next several decades, Michaels and Balling argue that future warming will be moderate, not catastrophic, and will have benign economic and ecological effects.»

Brazil's setting aside of more than 500,000 square miles (1.25 million square kilometers) of rainforest in protected areas over the past decade may effectively buffer the Amazon from the effects of climate change, preventing Earth's largest rainforest from tipping towards arid savanna in the face of ongoing deforestation and rising temperatures, argues a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Especially given the case was argued before the appeals court on February 28 and 29, 2012 — over a year after the Timing Rule went into effect.

Climate hard - liners in developing countries have long argued that keeping global temperatures to a 2 degree C rise over pre-industrial levels was simply too hot, and would risk unleashing many of the worst destabilizing impacts of global warming — including perhaps the triggering of cascading effects and warming amplifications within nature, such as the melting of Arctic permafrost, that could release more greenhouse gases and push temperatures even higher.

«Given this uncertainty [over the environmental and economic effects of CO2 emissions], and the historic failure of central planning to do anything other than undermine economic welfare, the editor, Colin Robinson, one of the country's leading energy economists, argues that it is prudent to proceed with caution.

But some scientists argue that the impact of methane gas should be calculated over a shorter time period, because methane degrades quickly, and because gas drilling releases large quantities of methane into the atmosphere all at once, likely concentrating and amplifying the effect.

No Solution To Traffic Problem Opponents of a controversial plan to build a third bridge over the Bosphorus have long argued that it would have a similar effect as the first two spans, destroying green areas, increasing sprawl, and doing little to ease the city's traffic woes.

Now there were two papers put out by a Swiss team (you should know who) on consideration of European warming where they argued that natural effects could be ruled out; the first paper argued for strong water vapour feedback causing the 1980 to 1998 temperature rise and the later paper, using exactly the same data, argued for a reduction in aerosols causing a recovery in temperatures over the same period.

I'll make one more comment on Nick's arguments, before I move on: It is unreasonable to extrapolate, as Nick implicitly does, from a single day's data, arguing that the net zero effect over one day applies to longer periods.

Detractors, on the other hand, argue that Bitcoin's network effect is too large, and altcoins do not provide nearly sufficient value over Bitcoin to ever take over to any significant extent.

Although the indirect effect was small, Abelson (1985) argued that a small indirect effect observed from cross-sectional data can be quite influential if it represents a phenomenon that occurs over time.

Although the indirect effect was small, Abelson (1985) argues that small effect can have a significant impact if the observed effect occurs over time.