Sentences with phrase «as mediaeval»

The models heavily relied upon by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not projected this multidecadal stasis in «global warming»; nor (until trained ex post facto) the fall in TS from 1940 - 1975; nor 50 years» cooling in Antarctica (Doran et al., 2002) and the Arctic (Soon, 2005); nor the absence of ocean warming since 2003 (Lyman et al., 2006; Gouretski & Koltermann, 2007); nor the onset, duration, or intensity of the Madden - Julian intraseasonal oscillation, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the tropical stratosphere, El Nino / La Nina oscillations, the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation that has recently transited from its warming to its cooling phase (oceanic oscillations which, on their own, may account for all of the observed warmings and coolings over the past half - century: Tsoniset al., 2007); nor the magnitude nor duration of multi-century events such as the Mediaeval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age; nor the cessation since 2000 of the previously - observed growth in atmospheric methane concentration (IPCC, 2007); nor the active 2004 hurricane season; nor the inactive subsequent seasons; nor the UK flooding of 2007 (the Met Office had forecast a summer of prolonged droughts only six weeks previously); nor the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years, during which the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any similar period in the past 11,400 years (Hathaway, 2004; Solankiet al., 2005); nor the consequent surface «global warming» on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even distant Pluto; nor the eerily - continuing 2006 solar minimum; nor the consequent, precipitate decline of ~ 0.8 °C in TS from January 2007 to May 2008 that has canceled out almost all of the observed warming of the 20th century.

There is certainly empirical evidence suggests that warm weather is beneficial for humanity; culture has stagnated in cool climate and advanced when the Earth has been warmer such as the Mediaeval Warm Period and the Roman climate optimum.

Nicholas, Superstition I can accept but to SERIOUSLY believe there can ever be any TRUTH in a mere shirt number being the reason some players succeed and others don't, belongs with astrology, lucky charms, old wives tales and the like as mediaeval claptrap believed by flat earthers and other dimwitted folk.

We have here again the understanding of the Church as a mediaeval Christendom where all structures and levels of knowledge are determined and controlled by theology and tradition.

He brings out the tricky path that believing scientists did have to tread so carefully as the mediaeval Church gave way to the counter-Reformation Church, simultaneous with the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution.

Not exact matches

If I say, «Mediaeval documents attest certain miracles as much as they attest certain battles,» they answer, «But mediaevals were superstitious»; if I want to know in what they were superstitious, the only ultimate answer is that they believed in the miracles.

This approach assumes we can not learn from ancient or mediaeval dramas the way educated audiences of the 1600s and 1800s did, taking the particularity of the time straight, and as a key thematic element of the play.

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

For example, on the one hand, when St Thomas Aquinas in his great mediaeval theological works treats theology as the «queen of the sciences», yet «the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the study of nature» (p. 81)-- it «had not resulted in a sterile fusion» (p. 84).

Mark Elvins points out that in mediaeval times it was clear that almsgiving required compassion for the person in need as much as bodily help.

Many mediaeval speculations about the condition of Adam in Paradise, which must not be confused with the real doctrine of faith, show themselves for this reason to be false, as a projection of the condition of ideal perfection back into the beginning.

[3] By identifying, as Fr John Sivalon alleges, a «trilogy of the demonic: secularism, relativism and pluralism» Pope Benedict «dreams of a re-established, romanticised culture of Mediaeval Europe».

The subordinate group — such as the dhimmi in the Muslim world or Jews in those countries in mediaeval Europe where they were allowed to live — were tolerated under certain conditions.

Within that limited framework, it's justifiable, as the musical aspect of the quadrivium mediaeval academic norm wiped out almost everything earlier.

So the mediaeval age grew out of the ancient world by a complex succession of steps or minor events, just as the modem age, in turn, emerged from the mediaeval age.

To seriously suggest — as he does - a mere shirt number can be cursed is too mediaeval for words.

Ones that stuck in my mind included Roman mosaics (floors of ancient villas have been uncovered with barely a piece missing), the beautiful Winged Victory bronze, (cast in the first century but only rediscovered in the 19th so well had the locals hidden it from the Hungarian Lombard invaders) and a mediaeval cross covered not just with hundreds of semi-precious stones but with little cameos and miniature portraits too to give it a human dimension as well as a religious one.

On another subject, now that we know from Al Gore's researches, that our SUVs, which keep raising the CO2 levels at Mauna Loa, are the direct cause of the Mediaeval Warm Period (remember that was just 800 years before the present rising CO2 event); we can predict with near certainty, that when everybody who signed on to the Kyoto accords, meets their obligations, resulting in a coming dearth of atmospheric CO2, that is going to directly cause an event which will become known as the little ice age which happened in the 1600 to 1840 time range.

There is only one MWP [Medieval warming Period] as there is only one Medieval time period: «The Middle Ages (adjectival forms: medieval, mediaeval, and mediæval) is the period of European history.

The resolution of that plotting makes it impossible to determine whether there were any centennial (or less) temperature swings during periods such as the Minoan, Roman or Mediaeval warm periods.

«It is likely that the current powerful run of positive Pacific Decadal Oscillations is the pulse of warmth from the Mediaeval Warm Period returning to the surface with the consequent inevitable increase in atmospheric CO2 as that warmer water fails to take up as much CO2 by absorption.»

Boffins, journalists and pundits from the green - left end of the swamp worship wind and solar power as the beguiled from some mediaeval cult.

Christopher de Hamel is one of the world's leading experts on mediaeval manuscripts, as well as Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library.