Sentences with phrase «as justification for»

Now you cite his unsubstantiated assertion as justification for dismissing a contrary assertion?

I suspect that Messrs Nyquist and Shannon, after spending a few hours contemplating the endless plotting of «trends» by Climate Scientists and their pontificating on the dire consequences thereof — with 97 % certainty, no less, would consider the whole field to be comedy comparable to Abbot and Costello's «Who's on First», were it not for the fact that this «comedy» is being cited as justification for governments taxing and regulating every human activity that either produces or consumes energy.

Weren't Dr. James Hansen and THE GOREACLE recommending that recently as a justification for ideologically certified property crimes?

Is climate sensitivity a metric input into the computer models that have been used to predict future global average temperatures as a justification for CAGW policy initiatives.

Far too many news articles focus on changing / evolving weather patterns as justification for what we choose to call «Climate Change», and in that very narrowly defined arena we get countless counter-arguments of «simply changing weather patterns» and James Inhofe brings a snowball into the Senate chambers.

Only a fool will expect perfection and only a denier with anti-science motives would use the existence of specific errors as justification for doubting the whole endeavour.

Ironically, adverse impact on agriculture from a wind farm development has been used by at least one wind farm opposition group as justification for its activities, but climate change will have an incomparably greater adverse impact on agriculture than any wind farm.

That assumption is so unrealistic that any analysis based upon it is inappropriate and even fraudulent if used as a justification for maintaining or expanding government support for ethanol.

Energy and Environment: Repudiate the Paris Climate Agreement Defund the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Overturn or at Least Defund the EPA's Clean Power Plan Repeal the EPA's Purloined Power to Legislate Climate Policy Repeal the EPA's Carbon Dioxide Standards for New Fossil - Fuel Power Plants Oppose Carbon Taxes Prohibit Use of Social Cost of Carbon as a Justification for Regulating Emissions Freeze and Sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard Require all Agencies to Meet Rigorous Scientific Standards Address Unaccountable Environmental Research Programs

The letter also concludes that «the IPCC's conclusions are quite inadequate as justification for implementing policies that will markedly diminish future prosperity.»

Ezra Levant is a Canadian television and radio personality, conservative political activist, and author of Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the book that popularized the phrase «Ethical Oil,» which is now being used by the conservative government in Canada as justification for the expansion of the Athabasca tar sands.

So the piece repeats the same tired claims about lowered sensitivity, using the «pause» meme and her own study as justification for delaying action.

That is, in addition to the strong ethical reasons identified sbove, a nation may not break a promise made to other nations in the UNFCCC to not use scientific uncertainty as justification for non-action on climate change.

Notably, Stanford University earlier this year announced it will divest publicly listed coal mining companies from its $ 19bn endowment, citing, like other fiduciaries as of late, the substantial environmental and social injury caused by coal as the justification for its decision.

That is deontological, utilitarian, justice, ecocentric, biocentric, and relationship based ethics would not condone using scientific uncertainty as justification for not reducing high levels of greenhouse gas emissions given what is not in dispute among mainstream climate scientists (See Brown, 2002: 141 - 148).

Also several sections of Chapter 3 that can be interpreted as claims that policy makers are free to choose economic reasoning as justification for climate policies.

And so, when government officials with the power to enact climate change policies are on notice that respectable scientific evidence supports the conclusion that their constituents or governments are likely causing great harm, they may not appeal to their uninformed opinion on climate science as justification for not taking action.

I think they are an attempt to secure funding for climate research and as a justification for CO2 policies the model's authors favor.

The «hockey stick» graph was touted by global warming alarmists as evidence of rapidly rising temperatures and as justification for government action to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

Their research is featured prominently in the UNâ $ ™ s Assessment Reports (AR1, AR2, AR3 â $ «and AR4 is the latest) issued by the IPCC that are being used as justification for carbon trading schemes, higher energy taxes, tremendous new government regulation trillions of dollars in public investment and even plans for a new world government entity with the authority to supersede the sovereignty of the United States.

Because climate change is a profound problem of justice those causing the problem may not use self - interest alone as justification for their policy responses to human - induced warming, they must respond in ways consistent with their responsibilities and duties to others.

Thus the question is designed to bring attention to the ethical duty of those who are engaged in risky behavior to produce credible scientific evidence that demonstrates that their behavior is not causing harm if they choose to use uncertainty as justification for continuing the risky behavior.

The paper urges caution in using economic losses of tropical cyclones as justification for action on energy policies when far more potentially effective options are available.

Because climate change is a profound problem of ethics, morality and justice those causing the problem may not use self - interest alone as justification for their policy responses to human - induced warming, they must respond in ways consistent with their responsibilities and duties to others.

This question is designed to expose that those who seek to rely on scientific uncertainty as justification for non-action on climate change have a strong ethical duty to produce very credible scientific evidence that supports the conclusion that human activities releasing ghgs are not causing climate change and its impacts.

This should give everyone who touts scientific consensus as a justification for decision making reason to be concerned that the reported consensus does not truly represent what is known and what remains unknown.

That is what makes 50 mu - Sv / h on Brazil's Atlantic coast so different from 50 mu - Sv / h on Japan's east Pacific one: only one can be portrayed as a justification for a continuing fossil fuel revenue windfall for the presiding government.

Despite Elon Musk's showmanship during the unveiling of the «Solar Roof» as justification for Tesla shareholders to accept a huge dilution by merging with debt - ridden SolarCity, the hyped product already looks dead - on - arrival.

The science has however been co-opted, corrupted into advocacy and used deceptively as a justification for the policy.

To the extent the climate policy debate can be analogized to building a bridge, it is the «consensus» advocates who want to do the building, and have embraced uncertainty as a justification for building an even bigger untried bridge.

Not convinced of that, the concept of externalities is often used as a justification for government subsidies to R&D, industry studies have shown that R&D is most effective when the innovator works closely with the end user, and that they tend to capture the gains.

You'd be amazed at how many politicians (and I'm thinking of politicians specifically here) take the lack of certainty in the outcome of an event as a justification for doing whatever sounds really good to them at that particular moment in time.

And even historically illiterate people will recognize that your appropriation of the integrity and honor of military men who risked their lives serving their countries to use as justification for you to spew your defamation is cowardly and despicable.

Listening to the papers presented, the Family First senator became puzzled that the scientific analyses they provided directly contradicted the reasons the Australian government had been giving as the justification for its emissions trading legislation.

Over and over while presuming to speak for the entire environmental movement, Brown indicated its intention to focus on the environment as the justification for establishing controls over mankind.

The IPCC is a political — not a scientific — organisation that exists to provide politicians with scientific information which can be used to justify actions politicians may want to take by using as justification for the actions the excuse of man - made global climate change.

What is known for a certainty at this point is that the existing models are wrong — because they failed to accurately predict the data which have now been observed — and they are alarmist — because when globalist bureaucrats use faulty models as their justification for confiscating trillions of dollars from those who have earned them, and giving them to those who did not.

Many early advocates of climate engineering deliberately invoked the idea of an imminent or future climate emergency as a justification for developing a «rapid response» (typically through some form of solar radiation management).

He uses this as justification for his continuous attack on the IPCC, having called the panel «fundamentally corrupt,» and describing their scientific methods as «unsound.»

But do they hold up as justification for a bill capping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that would take decades to result in big emissions reductions?

More importantly, he points out a basic error in how they weighed costs and benefits and then examines their use of uncertainty as a justification for stasis on greenhouse gas emissions.

Addressing the overall threat thus appears to demand not the dismissal of the feedbacks as a minor secondary concern but their citing as justification for the urgent agreement of a protocol within the emissions control treaty for the stringent supervision of geo - engineering research by a mandated scientific agency.

Uncertainty is the reason for acting in the near term, and that uncertainty can not be used as a justification for doing nothing.

If global warming does slow down or partially reverse with a sunspot crash, industrial polluters and reluctant nations could use it as a justification for turning their backs on pollution controls altogether, makingmatters worse in the long run.

The danger in leaning too heavily on climate effects as a justification for soot / carbon mitigation is that doing so tends to obscure this fundamental truth.

re: 304: «Well global warming has been used as the justification for car mileage mandates, which produces smaller cars, and more expensive ones.»

Luntz explicitly emphasized uncertainty as a justification for inaction, perhaps we're seeing the further cultivation of uncertainty, in a greenhouse under skilled hands.

It seems the reader is meant to have faith that an increase in PDI represents an increase in destructive potential, as no justification for this connection is presented.

When it comes to energy efficiency, the rebound effect has often been used as a justification for doing nothing, since Jevons said greater efficiency would lead to greater consumption, not less.

He summons the spectre of Marx in programming the reading of all four volumes of Das Kapital — explicitly an analysis of historical and 19th century labour and market conditions that, some economists would argue (c.f. Thomas Piketty), no longer apply to today's intrisically networked structures of global capital — and in the show's accompanying statement, Enwezor invokes Walter Benjamin's hallucinatory description of Paul Klee's Angelus Novus, a painting Benjamin owned, as justification for his historical methodology as well as the lever to illuminate «both the current «state of things» and the «appearance of things»».